There's no use in messing with album sales certifications, since sales will continue to die. Just incorporate streams w/ them in the future.
Soon albums will just be selling 100K or 200K and being top-sellers. That doesn't make them Platinum or 2x Platinum. It just means the traditional way (album sales) is over, and people are gravitating towards new ways to consume music. Just like the BB200 has transitioned into SEA, they should just add that with certifications of albums.
Hopefully NOT with the messy formula they're doing it with single certifications though.
People are done with buying albums. They can't keep lowering certifications and trying to attempt to make it look like album sales are staying and going to come back.
Certifications are to be adjusted to the market's situation. All countries do it as the sales volume grows or shrinks. What RIAA is doing is just stupid.
Top ten oldest songs on the Hot 100 (by chart week):
44 Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran) 39 Shut Up + Dance (Walk The Moon) | Uptown Funk! (Mark Ronson f/ Bruno Mars) 33 Earned It (The Weeknd) 32 Take Your Time (Sam Hunt) 31 Post To Be (Omarion f/ Chris Brown & Jhene Aiko) | Love Me Like You Do (Ellie Goulding) 30 Sugar (Maroon 5) 29 Trap Queen (Fetty Wap) 28 Talking Body (Tove Lo)
#1s this decade which had less than a month of selling 150k weekly (while in the sales t10):
Harlem Shake 4 150k+ weeks, 5 #1 weeks
Diamonds 4 150k+ weeks, 3 #1 weeks
Part of Me & Hold It Against Me 2 150k+ weeks, 1 #1 week
Cheerleader actually made it to 5, so I guess that isn't SO bad.
The current #1 is at 1. Can it match the solidly-selling run of Part of Me and Hold it Against Me, which were 1-week #1s and boast 400k+ debuts?
It's currently tied with Anaconda and Drunk in Love.
For #2s, strongest runs are Airplanes, Gangnam, Payphone, Thinking Out Loud, I Knew You Were Trouble, Dynamite, and maybe Church.
Only Gangnam and Trouble had bigger runs with bigger peaks than the song that blocked them. #Robbed.
#1s this decade which had less than a month of selling 150k weekly (while in the sales t10):
Diamonds 4 150k+ weeks, 3 #1 weeks
Part of Me & Hold It Against Me 2 150k+ weeks, 1 #1 week
Cheerleader actually made it to 5, so I guess that isn't SO bad.
The current #1 is at 1. Can it match the solidly-selling run of Part of Me and Hold it Against Me, which were 1-week #1s and boast 400k+ debuts?
(The most 150k+ weeks actually is the supreme winner by a 3-week margin: 20 for Call Me Maybe.)
Just incorporate streams w/ them in the future.
it deserved a top10 peak.
