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Chart News: BB: Digital Songs #1 hits lowest point in 10 years
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BB: Digital Songs #1 hits lowest point in 10 years
Digital Song Sales Chart Shows Lowest No. 1 Total in 10 Years
The Chainsmokers' "Closer," featuring Halsey, crowns Billboard's Digital Song Sales chart (dated Nov. 12), but, with 84,000 downloads sold in the week ending Oct. 27, according to Nielsen Music, the total is the lowest for a No. 1 song on the tally in 10 years.
Granted, "Closer" is in its 12th week atop Digital Song Sales (and 11th week atop the Billboard Hot 100), sold as many as 208,000 slightly more than a month ago (as reflected on the Sept. 24-dated chart) and has sold 1.7 million to date, but its latest frame is significant in the overall context of declining digital song sales.
The last song to sell fewer downloads in a week than "Closer"? Hinder's "Lips of an Angel," which led the chart dated Oct. 28, 2006, with 75,000. Meanwhile, until the current week, no No. 1-selling song had moved fewer than 90,000 since Beyonce's "Irreplaceable" topped the Dec. 30, 2006-dated chart with 88,000.
The latest Digital Song Sales chart marks the fourth of 2016 to sport a No. 1 song with fewer than 100,000 in weekly sales. (It's the second a row, as "Closer" led the Nov. 5 list with 97,000.) In 2015, just one chart was topped by a song selling fewer than 100,000; on the Sept 12 tally, R. City's "Locked Away," featuring Adam Levine, ruled with 92,000. Until that week, such a frame had not been logged since Jan. 27, 2007, when "Irreplaceable" dominated with 98,000.
The new 10-year low for a Digital Song Sales No. 1 reflects the downward trend of the paid download, as digital song sales have fallen by 25 percent in 2016, according to Nielsen. That follows a 13 percent decline in 2015 (even as Adele's "Hello" scored a record debut week of 1.1 million in November 2015, becoming the first song to pass 1 million downloads sold in a week).
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The 90s is rolling in its grave with these sales
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Wait, despite 11 weeks at #1, it's sold only 1.7m? Sales really are the pits right now
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Digital Songs 2006-2016
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Poor them.
Thank god, my fav doesn´t need some quick lil itunes to sell their albums because at the end of the day, The gods of metal sell physicals much more >>>>
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"BUT TEH CHAINSMOKRZ & ASHLEY R COMING 4 MARIAH'S WIG!!!1!!!!1"
slay w/ those impressive 'records' i guess
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Sales do not matter anymore, what do are Closer's 493M and counting plays on Spotify.
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A 11 week monster smash has only sold 1.7
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Originally posted by qurl
"BUT TEH CHAINSMOKRZ & ASHLEY R COMING 4 MARIAH'S WIG!!!1!!!!1"
slay w/ those impressive 'records' i guess
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Not you completely ignoring the fact that it's been streamed over a billion times in 3 months
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Not a monster smash only selling 1.7m
Streaming WON
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oh well, looks like Call Me Maybe will forever remain the highest selling digital single worldwide.
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Originally posted by qurl
"BUT TEH CHAINSMOKRZ & ASHLEY R COMING 4 MARIAH'S WIG!!!1!!!!1"
slay w/ those impressive 'records' i guess
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One Sweet Day was the third best-selling single of 1995 in the US, with sales of over 1,300,000, with the second best-selling single being Carey's "Fantasy".[ To date the single sold 2,334,000 physical units.
Just checked its stats don't seem that much "impressive" either.
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One Sweet Day was the third best-selling single of 1995 in the US, with sales of over 1,300,000, with the second best-selling single being Carey's "Fantasy".[ To date the single sold 2,334,000 physical units.
Just checked its stats don't seem that much "impressive" either.
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Are these including the diamond certified Daydream album?
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Are these including the diamond certified Daydream album?
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I'm not a Mariah stan so I don't know about her album sales. I know it was a mega smash just trynna make a point to people who try to "shade" the stats when the state of the music industry is completely different than 20+ years ago when OSD was slaying and now that closer is slaying. I'm sure that was impressive back then and closer with its sales PLUS STREAMING which took over sales its impressive nowadays.
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Originally posted by Superbitch
One Sweet Day was the third best-selling single of 1995 in the US, with sales of over 1,300,000, with the second best-selling single being Carey's "Fantasy".[ To date the single sold 2,334,000 physical units.
Just checked its stats don't seem that much "impressive" either.
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The difference is those are physical units that people had to leave their house and buy, not digital songs which can be bought anywhere that has an internet connection and which cost a fraction of the price.
While we're at it, One Sweet Day was the third best-selling single of 1995 despite only being released in the last month of the year (during which it spent the entire 5 weeks of December at #1), having 5 weeks to achieve that feet.
At the same time that OSD was #1 and selling those 1.3M copies in 5 weeks, it's parent album Daydream moved 760,000 copies the week of Christmas 1995, after the album had spent 3 weeks from the beginning of October at #1 and had been selling consistently since, being certified 4x Platinum by the RIAA the week before OSD was released.
Fantasy, which sold 2.3M physical units in 1995, was released at the beginning of September, and spent 8 weeks atop the chart; the very first female song to ever debut at #1 and it sold over 200k copies week 1, continuing to sell physical copies while millions of people bought the parent album during the exact same time frame, and Mariah was only off of the top spot of the chart for one week in the last 14 weeks of the year, whilst two singles scanned Platinum in PHYSICAL SALES and an album scanned multi-Platinum too.
Now compare that to "Closer" and I think it's plain as day which one is actually impressive and which one is a quick lil streaming hit that probably won't beat more than 2.3M copies sold at the end of the day and will drop like a fly just like every other lil streaming hit does once it has it's 15-seconds of being the "in" song are over.
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Lips on an Angel is that bop tho.
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^ READ POST ABOVE. Different times 1995-2016. Both are impressive in their eras. I didn't even mean to shade Mariah just to make a point that if you just put numbers like that it might not seem impressive until you see how the music market used to be. Y'all try to discredit anyone regardless of it being a "quick lil streaming"(that not everyone can get btw) its numbers are impressive right now SALES ARE DEAD.
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Not you completely ignoring the fact that it's been streamed over a billion times in 3 months
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Streaming won.
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