Jun 7, 2018

I dunno how this surprises anyone. Counting first week "sales" is antiquated. The seven song album had 100 million streams in three days.

There were no singles to count for first week streams (which is also ridiculous). Artists can go platinum before they even release their album thanks to streaming rules for singles.

I'd have to stream the entirety of Ye 214 times to count for one "sale".

 

Jun 7, 2018

A) no physicals
b) everyone streams music these day
c) wait for the total for pure/stream

 

Jun 7, 2018

d--- you can chalk me up for three "sales" then

 

Jun 13, 2018

Someday this may be a thing, but it's probably cheaper (and easier) to just buy physical albums.

Let's say each song is on average 3 minutes (generous). 1000 Spotify accounts running 24 hours = 480,000 premium streams, which equals 384 album sales per day. If those ran all year, it'd be 140,160 in album sales. Artists used to do 1,000,000+ in a week.

To achieve 1 million premium sales in one week, you'd need 372,023 Spotify accounts streaming songs (3 min) all week. Spotify is $10/mo. That's $3,720,230 for a month, or $930,057 for the week.

 

Jun 7, 2018

yea f--- you Shawn Mendes