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Originally posted by Jay Fenty
#1 singles are without a doubt more impressive than a #1 album, some artists like adam lambert and selena gomez have gotten #1 albums with sales less than 100k, if album sales are slow, it is very easy to get a #1 album, a #1 album does not mean that 600,000 people went out and bought your album that week, it could be as little as 78,000 people.
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Exactly. You can play the market, and know when to release. I wouldn't put it passed some records executives to purposely release those albums during slow months just to gain the "#1 status" and use it as a plug (but I could see that as being counterproductive since they would want sales). There are countless albums that didn't reach number one, yet outside those that did reach number one in the same week or around the same time.
Albums used to reign supreme, since singles weren't all that popular in sales back in the day. Now singles are a measurement of quantifiable success. It's just the way times are changing. The shift is happening again with streaming really doing damage to the industry structure (which has long been in decay and in need of a serious boot up).