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400 million songs sold: May 10, 2005 [76] On July 5, 2005, Apple announced a promotion counting down to half a billion songs sold. [77] 500 million songs sold: July 18, 2005 (Amy Greer of Lafayette, Indiana, bought the 500 millionth song, "Mississippi Girl" by Faith Hill.) [78] 850 million songs sold: January 10, 2006 [79]
The album-equivalent unit, or album equivalent, [1] is a measurement unit in music industry to define the consumption of music that equals the purchase of one album copy. [2] [3] This consumption includes streaming and song downloads in addition to traditional album sales. The album-equivalent unit was introduced in the mid-2010s as an answer ...
As of December 2024, American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars is the artist with the most monthly listeners. He is followed by Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd, who was the first artist in history to surpass 100 million monthly listeners, while American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift was the first female artist and second overall. [18]
Apple (APPL) sold 2 million Beatles songs -- and 450,000 Beatles albums -- in the first week that it made the songs available on iTunes. The bestselling Beatles album on iTunes, which launched the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — “Stay,” the smash hit by The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber topped Apple Music's global song chart in 2022 as the giant music streamer released its end-of-year lists and ...
Record sales or music sales are activities related to selling music recordings (albums, singles, or music videos) through physical record shops or digital music stores. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Record sales reached their peak in 1999, when 600 million people spent an average of $64 on records, achieving $40 billion in sales of recorded music.
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
The song was something of a premature victory lap: Obama appeared to be in a tight race against Mitt Romney, though he ended up beating the former Massachusetts governor decisively.