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The album was certified platinum on the day it was released [11] and became the first album to be streamed over one billion times in its release week. [12] It sold 732,000 album-equivalent units, which included 160,000 pure album sales, making it the biggest first week of the year. In August 2019, Drake released a compilation album titled Care ...
This is a list of 1980s music albums that multiple music journalists, magazines, and professional music review websites have considered to be among the best of the 1980s and of all time, separated into the years of each album's release. The albums listed here are included on at least four separate "best/greatest of the 1980s/all time" lists ...
This is a list of the best-selling albums by year in the United States, published by American music magazine Billboard since 1956 as year-end rankings of album sales. Until 1991, the Billboard album chart was based on a survey of representative retail outlets that determined a ranking, not a tally of actual sales.
The best-selling musicians of all time include Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, and Whitney Houston. RIAA ranked the best-selling musicians of all time based on total album units sold in the US.
Timeline of the highest-selling album record Year record set Artist Album Record-setting sales (millions) Total sales (millions) Ref(s) 1945 Various Artists Oklahoma! (78 rpm album) 0.5 1.0 [217] [218] After 1946 Al Jolson: The Jolson Story: 1 [219] 1956 Various Artists Oklahoma! (LP album) 1.75 2.5 [220] 1956/1957 Various Artists My Fair Lady: 2 5
Kanye West's album The Life of Pablo achieved Platinum without selling a single copy and was only available for streaming. [ 8 ] Issued certifications for songs which have been recorded by multiple artists including featured artists are added to each artist's total amount of certified units, as all the artists would have played a significant ...
Since February 2016, album certifications include "on-demand audio and video streams and a track sale equivalent" units. [ 1 ] Groupings are based on different benchmarks; the highest being for at least 20 million units, and the lowest being for multi-disc albums certified at least 10 times platinum and single-disc albums that have been ...
The album became the top selling debut album for any artist in 2010 and had the highest sales week for any debut album in the 2010s [72] and featured Lil Wayne, Kanye West, [73] and Jay Z. [74] Drake began his Away from Home Tour on September 20, 2010, in Miami, Florida, performing at 78 shows over four different legs. [75]