In 2014 there has not been a one-artist album to reach 1 million units sales in the US
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(...) after nine months, not one artist-album has yet to hit the million-unit mark, although the Frozen soundtrack is the year’s best-seller so far with a robust 3.12 million units.
The best-selling artist title this year is Beyonce’s self titled album with 776,000 scans, followed by Lorde‘s Pure Heroine, with 754,000 units. But like Frozen, both of those albums came out last year, which means that so far the top three selling albums this year were released last year.
It's time that streaming gets incorporated into album certifications the way it was incorporated into single certifications. The market is nowhere near the same as it was when the RIAA was first established so it makes no sense for the certification standards to be the same.
