[_bangerz]

Let's just state the obvious: People bought more albums in 1994.

You know this. You tossed your CD tower years ago. The Sam Goody at your shopping mall is a dim memory. And while downloads have taken the place of compact discs, the number of albums downloaded each year pales in comparison to the number of CDs people bought back in the day.

As much as that's common knowledge, you might be shocked how insanely different today's album-buying landscape is from the music industry in 1994. As part of our celebration of 1994, we compared the 10 best-selling albums of the first eight months of 1994 (period ending 9/4/1994) to the 10 best-selling albums of the first eight months of 2014 (period ending 9/7/2014). All data comes from Nielsen SoundScan.

Source: http://www.billboard.com/articles/62...ums-comparison

[Princedele21]

Frozen almost matching.

Sad, very sad those 2014 sales.

[Doogle]

This is sad

[Ice]

I expected worse

[Haribo]

BEYONCÉ selling almost 3 million copies this year alone.

[gagaskeletonway]

WW or in the US?

Btw, it's really sad

[KORDEI]

tragic
But Bey still has the best-selling solo album of 2014

[Rusty]

What sort of slayage by The Lion King, the greatest Disney film.

[Haribo]

Originally posted by Ice

I expected worse

1994 isn't the year album sales peaked. That's why.

[TrillUSA]

Wow. But it's been 20 years and a lot have change obviously

[Haribo]

Originally posted by gagaskeletonway

WW or in the US?

Btw, it's really sad

U.S. SoundScan does not track WW sales (no one actually does).

[QueenBLadyG]

Beyoncé!!!

[Adonis]

What does the TEA sales look like? And how would one quantify the streaming aspects? It just seems like the market has changed so much that it's probably not an accurate comparison.

[Orpheus]

The Ultimate Pop Star leading all solo females in 1994 and her weave still in tact one decade later!

[Idontcareaboutyou]

Thank god for Frozen delaying the inevitable when album sales will look even more ridiculous.

I wonder which year will be the first where not one album sells over a million units.

[Swim]

Music Box slaying

[Giliap]

Ace of Base

[Yarotska]

At least all 10 albums are above the Gold threshold.

[Rainsford]

My babes slaying

[slobro]

Originally posted by Haribo

1994 isn't the year album sales peaked. That's why.

Yeah, I think 2000 was when album sales peaked

Originally posted by oldbloke@UKMIX

2000
01 - 9,936,104 - NO STRINGS ATTACHED - 'NSync
02 - 7,921,107 - THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP - Eminem
03 - 7,893,544 - OOPS!...I DID IT AGAIN - Britney Spears
04 - 6,587,834 - HUMAN CLAY - Creed
05 - 5,857,824 - SUPERNATURAL - Santana
06 - 5,068,300 - 1 - Beatles
07 - 5,067,529 - COUNTRY GRAMMAR - Nelly
08 - 4,289,865 - BLACK & BLUE - Backstreet Boys
09 - 3,992,311 - 2001 - Dr Dre
10 - 3,802,165 - THE WRITING'S ON THE WALL - Destiny's Child