![]() ![]() These days, that counts as an unqualified blockbuster. Of those, 692,000 were sold as complete packages - as CDs or vinyl LPs, for example - and its songs racked up 185 million streams. ![]() This week, Adele tops the Billboard album chart with the equivalent of 839,000 sales in the United States of her latest release, “30,” according to the tracking service MRC Data. ![]() Licensing clearinghouses like ASCAP and BMI process trillions of plays each year to collect and pay royalties.īut one number increasingly looks lost to time: selling a million albums in a week. Investors are pouring billions of dollars into funds to buy up song copyrights. The music business is full of gigantic numbers.
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