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Swift is also the only artist to have the annual top-selling album in three separate decades (2000s, 2010s and 2020s in her case). [1] 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.
The following is a list of the best-selling albums in the United States based on RIAA certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. The criteria are that the album must have been published (including self-publishing by the artist), and the album must have achieved at least a diamond certification from the RIAA. The albums released prior ...
Theoretically, if one song were streamed 1.5 billion times on YouTube, the single would receive Diamond and the whole album could be certified Platinum, [7] thus creating a combined total of 11 million certified units without any sales. Kanye West's album The Life of Pablo achieved Platinum without selling a single copy and was only available ...
The U.S. recorded-music business continues its upward swing, posting a near-record $15 billion in revenue for 2021, driven by a surge in streaming, solid vinyl and even CD sales, and the inclusion ...
Metallica's self-titled album is the highest selling record under Nielsen SoundScan, selling over 17 million copies. This is a list of best-selling albums in the United States of the Nielsen SoundScan era. SoundScan began tracking sales data for Billboard on March 1, 1991.
Recorded music sales in America plunged another 7% to about $6.2 billion last year as the sharp 16% drop in CD revenue more than offset gains in digital-media sales, according to a report released ...
Open content music database. 45,520,390 [19] 3,258,314 [19] 2,371,603 [19] GPL/LGPL/PD/CC BY-NC-SA. Free API [20] and XML data dumps. [21] MusicID: Official charts and indicative revenue data going back to 1900 [22] Aggregator of chart data from sources such as Billboard, OCC and more [23] Rate Your Music: Music database, community ratings ...
Mar. 2—Compact disc sales rose last year after declining for nearly two decades, partly the result of pandemic-related spending and their low cost compared with vinyl records. Bull Moose saw CD ...