Like umich said...labels released songs to radio and then for digital...that's why so many songs had high jumps to #1 that era and also why Right Round held the digital record
2016: Top-selling weeks for downloads over 150k
(* = debut week)
Purple Rain 282,000
PILLOWTALK 267,000*
Summer Sixteen 215,000*
Piece by Piece 210,000
When Doves Cry 198,000
Formation 174,000*
Work 169,000
Love Yourself 164,000
Little Red Corvette 161,000
Work 156,000
Let's Go Crazy 156,000
7 Years 155,000
Work 154,000
2016: Top-selling weeks for downloads over 150k
(* = debut week)
Purple Rain 282,000
PILLOWTALK 267,000*
Summer Sixteen 215,000*
Piece by Piece 210,000
When Doves Cry 198,000
Formation 174,000*
Work 169,000
Love Yourself 164,000
Little Red Corvette 161,000
Work 156,000
Let's Go Crazy 156,000
7 Years 155,000
Work 154,000
I really hope Justin does +300k!
He has been selling over 4 times as much as Drake for over a day now.
65 Adele Hello
130 Adele When We Were Young
186 Adele Rolling in the Deep
201 Adele All I Ask
227 Adele Someone Like You
237 Adele Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
249 Adele Million Years Ago
301 Adele Water Under the Bridge
306 Adele Set Fire to the Rain
360 Adele Skyfall
473 Adele Make You Feel My Love
534 Adele Rumour Has It
542 Adele One and Only
770 Adele Chasing Pavements
1179 Adele Remedy
