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300 million songs sold: March 2, 2005 [75] 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]
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 ...
A Bar Song (Tipsy)" by American artist Shaboozey spent nineteen weeks atop the chart, tying Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" as the longest-running number-one song in the chart's history. The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States.
Hipgnosis to Sell Nearly $500 Million in Song Catalogs to Elevate Stock, Pay Down Debt. Jem Aswad. September 14, 2023 at 5:16 PM.
[75] Songs of Innocence was made available to more than 500 million iTunes customers in 119 countries, for what Cook marketed as "the largest album release of all time". [80] Apple CEO Tim Cook and the members of U2 on stage during the album's announcement. Bono rejected the notion that U2 had given the album away at no cost, saying: "We were paid.