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Chart Listings: 2015 Nielsen Sales Report
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2015 Nielsen Sales Report
2015’s Mid-Year Top 10 Albums (Based on Overall Equivalent Album Units)
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For the tracking period of Dec. 29, 2014 through June 28, 2015, Swift’s mega-selling 1989 is both the top selling album and the most consumed set (when considering equivalent album units). The effort has sold 1.33 million in pure album sales in 2015, while it has earned just over 2 million in overall equivalent album units (2.01 million).
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1. Taylor Swift, 1989 (2,011,000 units)
2. Drake, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (1,431,000)
3. Ed Sheeran, X (1,428,000)
4. Soundtrack, Fifty Shades of Grey (1,402,000)
5. Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour (1,296,000)
6. Meghan Trainor, Title (1,209,000)
7. Soundtrack, Furious 7 (971,000)
8. Maroon 5, V (966,000)
9. Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint (825,000)
10. Fall Out Boy, American Beauty / American Psycho (813,000)
2015’s Mid-Year Top 10 Selling Albums
1. Taylor Swift, 1989 (1,328,000 sold)
2. Drake, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (965,000)
3. Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour (788,000)
4. Ed Sheeran, X (763,000)
5. Soundtrack, Fifty Shades of Grey (763,000)
6. Meghan Trainor, Title (727,000)
7. Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly (627,000)
8. Fall Out Boy, American Beauty / American Psycho (478,000)
9. Various Artists, Now 53 (451,000)
10. Josh Groban, Stages (420,000)
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Overall album sales are down by 4 percent compared to a year ago (116.1 million versus 120.9 million)
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2015’s Mid-Year Top 10 Selling Digital Songs
1. Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, “Uptown Funk!” (4,883,000)
2. Ed Sheeran, “Thinking Out Loud” (3,450,000)
3. Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth, “See You Again” (3,073,000)
4. Maroon 5, “Sugar” (2,884,000)
5. Ellie Goulding, “Love Me Like You Do” (2,294,000)
6. Walk the Moon, “Shut Up and Dance” (2,155,000)
7. The Weeknd, “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)” (1,966,000)
8. Hozier, “Take Me To Church” (1,925,000)
9. Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney, “FourFiveSeconds” (1,868,000)
10. Fetty Wap, “Trap Queen” (1,864,000)
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Overall digital song sales slipped by 10.4 percent compared to a year ago (197 million versus 160 million).
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“Uptown Funk!” is also the year’s most streamed song, both in audio and video streams. It has garnered 368 million streams overall (109.9 million in audio on-demand streams, and 258.1 million in video on-demand streams). “Uptown” is also the most played song on the radio, with 646,000 plays across all U.S. radio, network and satellite stations monitored by Nielsen.
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http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...p-nielsens-mid
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1. Taylor Swift, 1989
6. Meghan Trainor, Title
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Wow, Meghan is doing wonders with this album  
Of course Taylor is absolutely impressive 
50SOG Soundtrack 
Wow with "Sugar" being the 4th best selling single of the year, so far, what a big hit for M5
The lovely Ellie Goulding with the biggest female hit
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Queen of Rap, Nicki
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Umich, don't forget to mention:
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“Uptown Funk!” is also the year’s most streamed song, both in audio and video streams. It has garnered 368 million streams overall (109.9 million in audio on-demand streams, and 258.1 million in video on-demand streams). “Uptown” is also the most played song on the radio, with 646,000 plays across all U.S. radio, network and satellite stations monitored by Nielsen.
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Taylor being the only person to have an album sell more than 1M copies in 2015 in pure sales
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6. Meghan Trainor, Title (1,209,000)
6. Meghan Trainor, Title (727,000)
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9. Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint (825,000)
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1. Taylor Swift, 1989 (1,328,000 sold)
She makes it look so easy. 
Now she's just 12k away from 5M sales!
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Maroon 5, the soundtrack to Furious 7 and Nicki totally boosted by the streams. 
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Taylor being the only person to have an album sell more than 1M copies in 2015 in pure sales |
And with an album that already sold 3.66 million copies in the final two months of 2014!
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Drake, king of streaming
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Drake.
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1. Taylor Swift, 1989 (1,328,000 sold)
2. Drake, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (965,000)
3. Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour (788,000)
4. Ed Sheeran, X (763,000)
6. Meghan Trainor, Title (727,000)
7. Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly (627,000)
8. Fall Out Boy, American Beauty / American Psycho (478,000)
1. Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, “Uptown Funk!” (4,883,000)
2. Ed Sheeran, “Thinking Out Loud” (3,450,000)
4. Maroon 5, “Sugar” (2,884,000)
5. Ellie Goulding, “Love Me Like You Do” (2,294,000)
6. Walk the Moon, “Shut Up and Dance” (2,155,000)
7. The Weeknd, “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)” (1,966,000)
8. Hozier, “Take Me To Church” (1,925,000)
9. Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney, “FourFiveSeconds” (1,868,000)
10. Fetty Wap, “Trap Queen” (1,864,000)
Yess 
FFS should end the year with +2.2M
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Hozier and Nicki top10
Drake 
Walk The Moon 
The 10% drop in digital sales 
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Taylor
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Is 7M still on lock for UF this year??
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Ellie & Rihanna are the only 2 female artists in the single chart
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Is 7M still on lock for UF this year??
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no
i don't see it selling 2M more copies in 6 months
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i don't see it selling 2M more copies in 6 months
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I meant, can Uptown Funk clear 7 Million copies by the end of the year?
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