I wonder how much copies the #1,#2and #3
album on itunes usually sells per week ?
Cuz It seems that ppl buy more and more digital albums and forget the physical one so i would like to know how much an album could sell digitally per week

I don't think you'll get a reply? I once asked if the digital sales went into the top 200 albums. I doubt they do because album sales have been terrible this year. 5 years ago albums that sold around 60,000 would be in the 15-25 positions and now those albums are in the top 5.

Itunes isn't the only place for digital downloads. People forget that a lot of the time. They do have a hot digital album sales list on Billboard. I'm positive that it's separate because Billboard has two types of album lists. People buy albums in the store and order from places like Amazon more than places like itunes or napster, etc.

Ok so noone knows how much an album an sold digitally
but i think that digital sales goes into the top 200 they are combined with the physical one

yeah but first Itunes got 80% of the digital market so since ppl hardly know numbers from itunes it will be hard to find numbers of sales in other website
Secund the digital album chart on billboard doesnt show the numbers of sales

I know that it doesn't show the # of sales. I'm not sure how that works. I'm making the point that an album bought in stores makes more of a differnce. There are 3 lists. Billboard 200, Top Internet albums, and Hot digital albums. I'm saying that how albums are doing online isn't necessarily reflective of how an album is doing on the Bill. 200 charts. So that means that albums bought in stores makes more of a difference.

Yeah everybody knows that physical sales have more impact but this wasnt my question i asked if someone knows how much an album which is #1 , #2 or #3 on itunes can sell in a week ?

Yeah see I don't think that it works like that. I think that it's separate. i.e. the Now 22 is #1 & I don't see it on the digital charts.

I think he's asking us if itunes releases sale figures for their digital albums.

a #1 album in itunes sells around 6k a week......... in other words hardly nothing

Yeah & I don't think that it does. I think they just tally up everything or something. I'm not entirely sure. They don't even have any like extensive info on Billboard to explain how it works.

By Geoff Mayfield

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Album sales -- including those sold via digital download -- amounted to 8.91 million copies for the week ended July 23.

That's the first time Nielsen SoundScan has tallied fewer than 9 million units since 1996, when the week that closed February 4 marked 8.94 million.

The numbers in The Billboard 200's top 10 echo this weak week. Were it not for the chart-leading "Now 22," no title on the list would surpass 70,000 copies.

The "Now" compilation registered 207,000 units. The runner-up, Los Lonely Boys' sophomore set, "Sacred," scanned 67,000, the lowest SoundScan total ever for a No. 2 album.

The previous low for an album in that spot since The Billboard 200 switched to SoundScan data in May 1991 had been 71,000 for Aerosmith's "Get a Grip" in May 1993 during that album's fourth chart week.

By the 29th sales week of 2005, 50 Cent's "The Massacre" had already rung 4.1 million copies, while 17 others had also sold 1 million or more in the calendar year. Besides "Massacre," three others had sold 2 million-plus copies.

This year, the soundtrack to "High School Musical" is top dog with 2.8 million. Only one other title -- Rascal Flatts' "Me and My Gang" -- has exceeded 2 million copies in 2006, while 15 others have surpassed 1 million.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsAr...Y-SALES-DC.XML

So it doesn't reflect the Bill. 200 chart at all?

Thanks but are you sure cuz its really nothin lol

OS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Physical album sales continued to decline in the U.S. during the first six months of 2006, down 4.2 percent in comparison to the same period last year.
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However, Nielsen SoundScan figures indicate that digital sales might boost the business as a whole. Sales of digital albums soared 126 percent during the first half of the year, while digital tracks rose 77 percent.

Looking at the entire sales picture—comprising physical albums, digital albums and digital tracks—overall sales to date this year have gained about one-tenth of a percentage point over the first six months of '05.

A total of 270.6 million physical albums were sold domestically through the end of June, representing a drop of 12 million units from last year's six-month total of 282.6 million.

Digital albums improved by 8.2 million units, with 14.7 million units sold since January versus just 6.4 million units in the first half of 2005. Digital tracks gained by 122 million units; 281 million tracks were sold in the first six months of the year versus 158 million in the same period last year.

The top-selling title of the year so far is Walt Disney Records' "High School Musical" soundtrack, which has shifted 2.6 million copies to date. Disney's Lyric Street imprint also accounts for the No. 2 release, Rascal Flatts' "Me and My Gang," which is just shy of 2 million units.

Three '05 holdovers round out the best-sellers of the first six months: U.K. troubadour James Blunt's "Back to Bedlam" (Custard/Atlantic), which sold nearly 1.7 million; R&B diva Mary J. Blige's "The Breakthrough" (Matriarch/Geffen), which moved 1.5 million; and "American Idol" Carrie Underwood's "Some Hearts" (Arista), at 1.4 million.

In market share, Universal Music Group led the field during the first six months of the year, taking a whopping 31.6 percent of overall album sales; that figure includes sales from Fontana Distribution, UMG's independent arm. Sony BMG Music Entertainment placed second with 23.9 percent of the market. The independent sector—which includes the indie distributors operated by Sony BMG (RED), Warner Music Group (Alternative Distribution Alliance and Ryko Distribution) and EMI (Caroline Distribution)—accounted for 19.3 percent of all albums sold.

Bringing up the rear are WMG, fourth with nearly 15.9 percent of the market, and EMI, which captured a slim 9 percent.

I think he's right. that would explain why the digital charts don't add up to the Bill. 200 chart. If you add itunes to all the other digital programs then it could add up to large #s.

most of the time a #1 physical album is the same as the #1 digital album but its not always that for exemple this week letoya will probably be #1 while her digital album is actually around #20

Yes I remember people saying that it shows that digital sales doesn't mean everything. But I think she also was doing well on Amazon.

lol it adds up to the billboard 200
billboard 200 works xactly like the hot 100
hot 100=physical sales + digital sales+airplay
Bill 200= physical sales + digital sales
they are both built by the cobinaison of physical and digital sales but since digital album sales are not as significant as digital song sales ppl dont really talk about it

I think that internet sales are included as well, (ordering an album). They must be. So they must add all the digital download places and the internet orders w/ physical sales. That's too much work for my taste.