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Sony DADC's first plant, in Terre Haute, Indiana, opened May 2, 1983, [1] and produced its first CD, Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A., in September 1984. [2] It was the first CD manufacturer in the United States, is the company's principal CD manufacturing facility, and is the company's research and development center. [1]
The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 192,000 copies in its first week. To date, Hilary Duff has sold 1,800,000 copies in the US, less than her debut album which sold 3.9 million copies in the country. [2] It became her second consecutive number one debut in Canada and produced two singles that were not major hits.
Sales accumulated during its first full week of availability, which went from Thursday to Wednesday, totaled 813,000 copies, which remains the most an album has sold in its first week on sale. [70] 25 sold 439,000 copies in its second week. [79] 25 sold 450,000 copies in its fifth week. [80]
Universal Music's sales manager, Marc Fayd’Herbe, has described Record Store Day as "the single best thing that has ever happened" for independent record shops. [5] The 2013 event was credited with the highest U.S. vinyl sales, [6] and the 2014 edition resulted in independent retailers recording the highest percentage of physical album sales, since the SoundScan system was introduced in 1991 ...
United States The Marshall Mathers LP 2: 242,000 [18] 2014 Taylor Swift: United States 1989: 314,000 [19] 2015 Adele: United Kingdom 25: 860,000 [20] 2016 Drake: Canada Views: 196,000 [21] 2017 Ed Sheeran: United Kingdom ÷: 200,000 [22] 2018 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper: United States A Star Is Born: 92,000 [23] 2019 Celine Dion: Canada Courage ...
Cinram opened its first CD plant in 1987, when records and cassettes were still dominant. In the 1990s, the company started investing in manufacturing operations in Europe, and in 1997, when video-store racks were still filled with VHS tapes, Cinram formed a joint venture with Pacific Ocean Post (POP) to form "Cinram DVD Center POP" and began ...
The first album in the SoundScan era to sell a million copies or more in a week is the soundtrack of The Bodyguard by Whitney Houston in 1992; the most recent album to do so is The Tortured Poets Department by Taylor Swift in 2024. The following is a list of all of the albums that sold at least one million copies in a single week: [60] [61] [62 ...
The Canadian Album Chart, also known as Billboard Canadian Albums, is the official record chart ranking the 100 most popular music albums and extended plays in Canada. It is compiled weekly (every Monday) by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Luminate, and published every Tuesday by American music and entertainment magazine Billboard.