Sony Corporation has today confirmed the biggest revenue-generating albums worldwide in Sony’s first fiscal quarter of FY2016 – the three months to end of June this year.

Interestingly, Beyonce’s Lemonade – issued by Rob Stringer’s Columbia – is out in front despite appearing as a streaming exclusive on Tidal.

Columbia took the brave decision to sell the digital LP at a premium – $17.99 in the US and £13.99 in the UK – which certainly appears to have paid off.

Furthermore, Lemonade’s financial success rather flies in the face of the idea that agreeing to a platform exclusive on TIDAL is a fiscal risk for any blockbuster artist and a label.

SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT’S BIGGEST-EARNING ALBUMS IN Q1 (THREE MONTHS TO END OF JUNE)

Beyoncé – Lemonade (released: 4/25/2016)
Kazumasa Oda – Anohi Anotoki (released: 4/20/2016)
Nogizaka46 – Sorezore no Isu (5/25/2016)
Meghan Trainor – Thank You (5/13/2016)
Fifth Harmony – 7/27 (5/27/2016)
Sia – This Is Acting (released: 1/29/2016)
ZAYN- Mind Of Mine (released: 3/25/2016)
2PM – GALAXY OF 2PM (released: 6/15/2016)
G-Eazy – When It’s Dark Out (released: 12/4/2015)
Kygo – Cloud Nine (released: 5/13/2016)

http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.co...-past-quarter/

where´s 25 tho
it´s still the best Selling album of 2016 WW

Isn't Adele on Sony as well? Or it's only for albums released this year.

Hum...

Maybe that has something to do with Adele not appearing? But G-Eazy still does and his was released last year so idk

exactly

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Adele should be #1...

Whew along with her touring stats easily the biggest money maker at Sony along with the ps4.

no one drag me for this because i don't claim to know a lot about the charts

but bey premiered in this past quarter at a premium price and has sold 2.2m copies in the last three months.

so it's very conceivable that she's the #1 earner of this quarter. in fact it's more than probable.

I don't understand why Adele isn't on the list, though.

Yeah the list seems a bit off without adele!! But it could be because Sony serves as distributor and promoters for XL and are not really adele's label? Idk!

But Adele's album is cheap af maybe that's why its revenue wasn't big enough.

There's already a thread

http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1033731