Billboard: How Digital Album Sales Are Affecting the Race for No. 1 on the Charts

[stewie_e]

How Digital Album Sales Are Affecting the Race for No. 1 on the Charts https://t.co/Hf5F3cMDFN
- billboard (@billboard) September 6, 2024
Instead of doing anything, Billboard has instead chosen to write about artists releasing digital variants of an album to top the Billboard Charts

Comments

[hellcatshalala]

it's interesting that the industry is expressing their negative opinions about this practice only now. they reached for Travis and Sabrina's reps but not Taylor's when she was the biggest offender this year.

anyway, that was the lamest chart battle I have seen in the past year and I hope they put an end to it now, finally.

[asnindie]

It's a problem when a black man does it lol. When the white devil been doing it there was no peep from anyone.

[irajaxon]

and she's SO blatant about it! to the point it's a music fandom meme.

[nevermademe]

That drop from 100 million to 18 million in less than ten years is so crazy.

But at the same time I barely buy digital downloads of music and when I do it’s usually from bandcamp. I think Lil Nas X’s CMBYN single was the last iTunes purchase I made…

[anachan87]

"Reps for Sabrina Carpenter and Travis Scott did not respond for comment."

....were they too scared to ask Taylor's?

[irajaxon]

Billboard pointed out that digital album sales have plummeted from 103.3 million in 2015 to 18.3 million in 2023.

funny how that lines up pretty well with apple discontinuing the last of the ipods that weren't internet (and thus streaming) compatible.