UMG: Biggest acts in 2014 (Taylor, Lana, Lorde...)
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Universal Music Group might have made less money in 2014 than it did in 2013 – but its ten biggest ‘artists’ combined were more popular than they were the year before.
There is a reason for those inverted commas: according to new information revealed by the company, its biggest-selling release of last year wasn’t an artist at all, but the soundtrack to movie Frozen.
Across sales of physical and digital – taking into account albums, tracks, DVD and streaming – the Frozen OST sold 10m albums and ‘album equivalents’ across the world (ie. sales plus data from the weighting system that sees downloads and streams of single tracks clumped together as ‘albums’).
Taylor Swift was the second biggest artist of the year for UMG, with 8.8m album or album equivalent sales, followed by Sam Smith (4.6m), Katy Perry (4.2m), Maroon 5 (3.7m) and Ariana Grande (3.6m).
Eminem, Lana Del Rey, Helene Fischer and Lorde rounded out the list.
UMG: Biggest acts in 2014
Frozen (10m album or album equivalent sales)
Taylor Swift (8.8m)
Sam Smith (4.6m)
Katy Perry (4.2m)
Maroon 5 (3.7m)
Ariana Grande (3.6m)
Eminem (3.5m)
Lana Del Rey (3m)
Helene Fischer (2.9m)
Lorde (2.9m)
It literally says including streams in the OP. Y'all better start reading before it becomes warnable to question something that's in your face. This is ATRL after all.
BTD probably helped Lana the most thus year since its streams are still very healthy and has been outselling UV week by week for some time.
are umg reliable?
I remember when they said GS had sold over 20 million singles and was top selling single of 2012 and 2013 before ifpi proved them wrong