1) “Fearless” Taylor Swift 3,216,988 2) “I Dreamed A Dream” Susan Boyle 3,103,828 3) “Number Ones” Michael Jackson 2,355,449 4) “Fame” Lady Gaga 2,237,750 5) “My Christmas” Andrea Bocelli 2,207,202 6) “Hannah Movie Soundtrack” Hanna Montana 1,823,435 7) “The E.N.D.” Black Eyed Peas 1,786,852 8) “Relapse” Enimen 1,735,358 9) “Blueprint 3” Jay-Z 1,514,758 10) “Only By the Night” Kings of Leon 1,397,693
2009 Top 10 Album Artists: 1) Michael Jackson - 8,286,000 2) Taylor Swift - 4,643,000 3) The Beatles - 3,282,000 4) Susan Boyle - 3,104,000 5) Lady Gaga - 2,813,000 6) Andrea Bocelli - 2,668,000 7) Michael Buble - 2,280,000 8) Eminem - 2,166,000 9) Carrie Underwood - 1,895,000 10) Black Eyed Peas - 1,881,000
2009 Top 10 Digital Albums: 1) The Fame Lady Gaga - 460,841 2) Only By The Night Kings of Leon - 428,000 3) Twilight Soundtrack - 350,000 4) Fearless Taylor Swift - 343,000 5) E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) Black Eyed Peas - 309,000 6) Blueprint 3 Jay-Z - 308,000 7) Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King Dave Mathews Band - 286,000 8) Relapse Eminem - 277,000 9) No Line On the Horizon U2 - 261,000 10) The Fray The Fray - 259,000
2009 Top 10 Internet Albums: 1) I Dreamed A Dream Susan Boyle - 405,000 2) My Christmas Andrea Bocelli - 151,000 3) Fearless Taylor Swift - 121,000 4) Thriller Michael Jackson - 110,000 5) Crazy Love Michael Buble - 106,000 6) Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King Dave Mathews Band - 98,000 7) Beatles In Stereo The Beatles - 95,000 8) No Line On the Horizon U2 - 79,000 9) Off the Wall Michael Jackson - 75,000 10) The Fame Lady Gaga - 74,000
2009 Top 10 Seasonal Albums: 1) My Christmas Andrea Bocelli - 2,207,000 2) If On A Winter's Night Sting - 521,000 3) The Holiday Collection Taylor Swift - 445,000 4) Noel Josh Groban - 393,000 5) Gold and Green Sugarland - 256,000 6) Christmas 25th Mannheim Steamroller - 233,000 7) Christmas From the Heart David Archuleta - 210,000 8) And Winter Came Enya - 201,000 9) Let It Snow EP Michael Buble - 192,000 10) Christmas Cheers Straight No Chaser - 183,000
2009 Top 10 Vinyl Albums: 1) Abbey Road The Beatles - 34,800 2) Thriller Michael Jackson - 29,800 3) Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective - 14,000 4) Wilco Wilco - 13,200 5) Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes - 12,700 6) Backspacer Pearl Jam - 12,500 7) Veckatimest Grizzly Bear - 11,600 8) Appetite for Destruction Guns N' Roses - 11,500 9) Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King Dave Mathews Band - 11,500 10) In Rainbows Radiohead - 11,400
2009 Top 10 Vinyl Artists: 1) Radiohead - 45,700 2) The Beatles - 38,800 3) Michael Jackson - 30,400 4) Metallica - 30,200 5) Wilco - 29,600 6) Bob Dylan - 24,500 7) Animal Collective - 20,600 8) Pearl Jam - 19,900 9) Bon Iver - 17,100 10) Iron & Wine - 16,600
2009 Top 10 Digital Track Artists: 1) Lady Gaga - 15,297,000 2) Black Eyed Peas - 12,988,000 3) Michael Jackson - 12,355,000 4) Taylor Swift - 12,302,000 5) Beyonce - 9,261,000 6) Flo Rida - 8,402,000 7) Miley Cyrus - 8,327,000 8) Britney Spears - 7,424,000 9) Eminem - 6,283,000 10) T.I. - 6,277,000
2009 Top 10 Digital Songs 1) Boom Boom Pow Black Eyed Peas - 4,762,382 2) I Gotta Feeling Black Eyed Peas - 4,425,940 3) Poker Face Lady Gaga - 4,381,310 4) Right Round Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha - 4,134,569 5) Just Dance Lady Gaga feat. Colby O’Donis - 3,200,376 6) Party In The U.S.A. Miley Cyrus - 3,157,419 7) Down Jan Sean feat. Lil Wayne - 3,052,355 8) Gives You Hell All-American Rejects - 2,880,000 9) Fireflies Owl City - 2,748,086 10) Whatcha Say Jason Derulo - 2,712,258
2009 Top 10 Digital Tracks 1) Boom Boom Pow Black Eyed Peas - 4,661,000 2) I Gotta Feeling Black Eyed Peas - 4,392,000 3) Poker Face Lady Gaga - 4,143,000 4) Right Round Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha - 4,112,000 5) Just Dance Lady Gaga feat. Colby O’Donis - 3,156,000 6) Party In The U.S.A. Miley Cyrus - 3,019,000 7) Down Jan Sean feat. Lil Wayne - 2,965,000 8) Gives You Hell All-American Rejects - 2,869,000 9) Fireflies Owl City - 2,748,000 10) Use Somebody Kings Of Leon - 2,679,000
2009 Top 10 Mastertones 1) Kiss Me Thru the Phone Soullja Boy Tell’em - 1,289,000 2) Blame It Jamie Foxx - 884,000 3) Dead and Gone feat. Justin Timberlake T.I. - 847,000 4) Day N Nite Kid Cudi - 757,000 5) Boom Boom Pow Black Eyed Peas - 740,000 6) All Summer Long Kid Rock - 672,000 7) Right Round Flo Rida - 671,000 8) Heartless Kanye West - 653,000 9) Birthday Sex Jeremih - 650,000 10) Big Green Tractor Jason Aldean - 611,000
2009 Top 10 Most Played Songs 1) You Belong to Me Taylor Swift - 465,100 2) Love Story Taylor Swift - 413,100 3) You Found Me The Fray - 412,900 4) Use Somebody Kings Of leon - 383,500 5) Boom Boom Pow Black Eyed Peas - 379,400 6) Blame It Jamie Foxx Feat. T-Pain - 376,100 7) I Gotta Feeling Black Eyed Peas - 375,100 8) Second Chance Shinedown - 374,600 9) Knock You Down Keri Hilson feat. Kanye West & Ne-Yo - 372,300 10) Poker Face Lady Gaga - 370,900
2009 Top 10 Most Played Holiday Songs 1) Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree Brenda Lee - 31,800 2) A Holy Jolly Christmas Burl Ives - 31,200 3) The Christmas Song Nat King Cole - 31,000 4) Jingle Bell Rock Bobby Helms - 30,300 5) Feliz Navidad Jose Feliciano - 29,700 6) All I Want for Christmas Is… Mariah Carey - 28,500 7) It’s the Most Wonderful… Andy Williams - 26,900 8) White Christmas Bing Crosby - 24,900 9) Happy X-Mas (War Is Over) John Lennon - 23,800 10) Wonderful Christmas Time Paul McCartney - 21,400
2009 Top 10 Most Played Artists 1) Taylor Swift - 1,291,000 2) Beyonce - 1,125,000 3) Black Eyed Peas - 923,000 4) Toby Keith - 888,000 5) Nickelback - 864,000 6) Pink - 862,000 7) Lady Gaga - 859,000 8) Kelly Clarkson - 850,000 9) Rascal Flatts - 768,000 10) Tim McGraw - 752,000
2009 Top 10 Internet Streamed Songs 1) You Belong to Me Taylor Swift - 10,651,000 2) You Found Me The Fray - 10,446,000 3) Use Somebody Kings Of leon - 9,390,000 4) Poker Face Lady Gaga - 9,271,000 5) Gives You Hell All-American Rejects - 9,242,000 6) Love Story Taylor Swift - 9,172,000 7) I'm Yours Jason Mraz - 8,456,000 8) Just Dance Lady Gaga feat. Colby O’Donis - 7,850,000 9) Halo Beyonce - 7,840,000 10) Second Chance Shinedown - 7,557,000
2009 Top 10 Internet Streamed Music Videos 1) Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) Beyonce - 3,272,000 2) Love Story Taylor Swift - 2,232,000 3) Circus Britney Spears - 1,771,000 4) Just Dance Lady Gaga feat. Colby O’Donis - 1,667,000 5) Poker Face Lady Gaga - 1,621,000 6) Live Your Life T.I. feat Rihanna - 1,575,000 7) Hot N Cold Katy Perry - 1,454,000 8) Heartless Kanye West - 1,433,000 9) Whatever You Like T.I. - 1,351,000 10) Womanizer Britney Spears - 1,350,000
2009 Top 10 Internet Streamed Artists 1) Taylor Swift - 46,135,000 2) Beyonce - 42,962,000 3) Michael Jackson - 39,358,000 4) Nickelback - 35,290,000 5) Mariah Carey - 33,696,000 6) Britney Spears - 32,381,000 7) Pink - 28,925,000 8) Lady Gaga - 27,580,000 9) Kelly Clarkson - 26,204,000 10) Ne-Yo - 24,624,000
Decade Top 10 Selling Albums 1) 1 The Beatles - 11,564,000 2) No Strings Attached N Sync - 11,113,000 3) Come Away With Me Nora Jones - 10,579,000 4) Marshall Mathers LP/Eminem Eminem - 10,216,000 5) Eminem Show Eminem - 9,818,000 6) Confessions Usher - 9,730,000 7) Hybrid Theory Linkin Park - 9,697,000 8) Human Clay Creed - 9,495,000 9) Oops!...I Did It Again Britney Spears - 9,185,000 10) Country Grammar Nelly - 8,464,000
Decade Top 10 Selling Artists 1) Eminem - 32,241,000 2) The Beatles - 30,182,000 3) Tim McGraw - 24,769,000 4) Toby Keith - 24,469,000 5) Britney Spears - 22,969,000 6) Kenny Chesney - 22,034,000 7) Linkin Park - 21,421,000 8) Nelly - 21,232,000 9) Creed - 20,594,000 10) Jay-Z - 20,424,000
Decade Top 10 Most Played Songs 1) How You Remind Me Nickelback - 1,218,000 2) Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me) Train - 1,141,000 3) Hanging By A Momen Lifehouse - 1,104,000 4) Breathe Faith Hill - 1,080,000 5) Kryptonite 3 Doors Down - 1,062,000 6) The Way You Love Me/Faith Hill Faith Hill - 1,046,000 7) I Hope You Dance Lee Ann Womack - 1,030,000 8) Wherever You Will Go The Calling - 996,000 9) Smooth Santana Feat. Rob Thomas - 985,000 10) The Reason Hoobastank - 982,000
Decade Top 10 Most Played Artists 1) Tim McGraw - 7,965,000 2) Toby Keith - 7,862,000 3) George Strait - 7,638,000 4) Alan Jackson - 6,885,000 5) Nickelback - 6,877,000 6) Kenny Chesney - 6,492,000 7) Rascal Flatts - 5,658,000 8) Brooks & Dunn - 5,567,000 9) Garth Brooks - 5,519,000 10) Green Day - 5,435,000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SoundScan Era
Top 10 Digital Artists of SoundScan Era 1) Taylor Swift - 24,329,000 2) Rihanna - 23,577,000 3) Black Eyed Peas - 22,493,000 4) Kanye West - 21,842,000 5) Beyonce - 21,637,000 6) Nickelback - 20,366,000 7) Michael Jackson - 19,225,000 8) Britney Spears - 18,961,000 9) T.I. - 18,153,000 10) Eminem - 17,941,000
Top 10 Digital Songs of SoundScan Era 1) Low Flo Rida Feat. T-Pain - 5,344,000 2) Just Dance Lady Gaga feat. Colby O’Donis - 4,943,288 3) I'm Yours Jason Mraz - 4,787,000 4) Boom Boom Pow Black Eyed Peas - 4,762,382 5) Poker Face Lady Gaga - 4,551,136 6) Apologize Timbaland Feat. One Republic - 4,513,000 7) I Gotta Feeling Black Eyed Peas - 4,425,940 8) Crank That Soulja Boy Tell'Em - 4,370,000 9) Viva La Vida Coldplay - 4,261,000 10) Love Story Taylor Swift - 4,254,000
Top 10 Album Artists of SoundScan Era 1) Garth Brooks - 68,363,000 2) Beatles - 60,370,000 3) Mariah Carey - 52,388,000 4) Metallica - 52,160,000 5) Celine Dion - 50,933,000 6) George Strait - 41,843,000 7) Tim McGraw - 38,677,000 8) Alan Jackson - 37,447,000 9) Pink Floyd - 35,867,000 10) Eminem - 35,326,000
Top 10 Albums of SoundScan Era 1) Metallica Metallica - 15,500,000 2) Come On Over Shania Twain - 15,487,000 3) Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette - 14,642,000 4) Millennium Backstreet Boys - 12,109,000 5) Soundtrack Bodyguard - 11,815,000 6) Supernatural Santana - 11,687,000 7) 1 The Beatles - 11,564,000 8) Human Clay Creed - 11,547,000 9) No Strings Attached N Sync - 11,113,000 10) Falling Into You Celine Dion - 10,781,000
Top 10 Digital Album of SoundScan Era 1) Viva La Vida Coldplay - 761,000 2) Fearless Taylor Swift - 568,000 3) Soundtrack Twilight - 564,000 4) Only By the Night Kings Of Leon - 533,000 5) The Fame Lady Gaga - 511,000 6) Continuum John Mayer - 442,000 7) Daughtry Daughtry - 387,000 8) Back To Black Amy Winehouse - 378,000 9) Sleep Through the Static Jack Johnson - 362,000 10) In Between Dreams Jack Johnson - 358,000
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Re: 2009 Nielsen SoundScan Report « Reply #3 on Jan 6, 2010, 3:02pm »
2008 top 10 SoundScan albums
1 Tha Carter III/ Lil Wayne 2,874,000 2 Viva La Vida/ Coldplay 2,144,000 3 Fearless/Taylor Swift 2,112,000 4 Rock N Roll Jesus/ Kid Rock 2,018,000 5 Black Ice/ AC/DC 1,915,000 6 Taylor Swift/Taylor Swift 1,597,000 7 Death Magnetic/ Metallica 1,565,000 8 Paper Trail/ T.I. 1,522,000 9 Sleep Through the Static/ Jack Johnson 1,492,000 10 I Am…Sasha Fierce/ Beyonce 1,459,000
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Re: 2009 Nielsen SoundScan Report « Reply #4 on Jan 6, 2010, 3:07pm »
2007:
1 Noel Josh Groban 3,699,000 2 Soundtrack High School Musical 2 2,957,000 3 Long Road Out of Eden Eagles 2,608,000 4 As I Am Alicia Keys 2,543,000 5 Daughtry Daughtry 2,497,000 6 Soundtrack Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley 2,489,000 7 Minutes To Midnight Linkin Park 2,099,000 8 Dutchess Fergie 2,064,000 9 Taylor Swift Taylor Swift 1,951,000 10. Graduation Kanye West 1,892,000
2006:
1. High School Musical: 3.72 million 2. Rascal Flatts Me and My Gang: 3.48 million 3. Carrie Underwood Some Hearts: 3.02 million 4. Nickelback All the Right Reasons: 2.69 million 5. Justin Timberlake Futuresex/Lovesounds: 2.38 million 6. James Blunt Back to Bedlam: 2.14 million 7. Beyonce B'day: 2.01 million 8. Hannah Montana: 1.99 million 9. Dixie Chicks Taking the Long Way: 1.86 million 10. Hinder Extreme Behavior: 1.82 million
2005:
1. CAREY*MARIAH EMANCIPATION OF MIMI 4,968,606 2. 50 CENT MASSACRE 4,852,744 3. CLARKSON*KELLY BREAKAWAY 3,496,192 4. GREEN DAY AMERICAN IDIOT 3,360,394 5. BLACK EYED PEAS MONKEY BUSINESS 3,037,251 6. COLDPLAY X&Y 2,615,280 7. RASCAL FLATTS FEELS LIKE TODAY 2,511,209 8. STEFANI*GWEN LOVE.ANGEL.MUSIC.BABY 2,505,390 9. WEST*KANYE LATE REGISTRATION 2,413,580 10. GAME DOCUMENTARY 2,275,646
2004:
1. "Confessions," Usher: 7,978,594 2. "Feels Like Home," Norah Jones: 3,842,920 3. "Encore," Eminem: 3,517,097 4. "When The Sun Goes Down," Kenny Chesney: 3,072,224 5. "Here for the Party," Gretchen Wilson: 2,931,097 6. "Live Like You Were Dying," Tim McGraw: 2,786,840 7. "Songs About Jane," Maroon 5: 2,708,415 8. "Fallen," Evanesence: 2,614,226 9. "Autobiography," Ashlee Simpson: 2,576,945 10. "Now 16: Now That's What I Call Music!": 2,560,316
2003:
1. 50 Cent Get Rich Or Die Tryin' 6,535,809 2. Jones Norah Come Away With Me 5,137,468 3. Linkin Park Meteora 3,478,361 4. Evanescence Fallen 3,364,738 5. Outkast Speakerboxx-Love 3,089,849 6. Beyonce Dangerously In Love 2,527,485 7. Kelly R. Chocolate Factory 2,439,536 8. Duff Hilary Metamorphosis 2,405,544 9. Keith Toby Shock N Y'all 2,324,437 10. Coldplay Rush Of Blood To The Head 2,183,997
2002:
1. 7.607.925 Eminem - Eminem Show 2. 4.916.073 Nelly - Nellyville 3. 4.121.396 Avril Lavigne - Let Go 4. 3.690.413 Dixie Chicks - Home 5. 3.498.497 Soundtrack - 8 Mile 6. 3.144.947 Pink - M!ssundaztood 7. 3.099.216 Ashanti - Ashanti 8. 3.054.736 Alan Jackson - Drive 9. 2.909.499 Shania Twain - Up 10. 2.736.049 Soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2001:
1. Hybrid Theory Linkin Park 4,812,852 2. Hotshot Shaggy 4,507,568 3. Celebrity N Sync 4,421,231 4. Day Without Rain Enya 4,410,053 5. Break the Cycle Staind 4,242,507 6. Songs In A Minor Alicia Keys 4,102,482 7. Survivor Destiny's Child 3,718,446 8. Weathered Creed 3,581,344 9. Soundtrack O Brother Where Art Thou? 3,460,852 10. Vol.6-Now That's What I Call Va-Now 3,133,462
2000:
1. N Sync- No Strings Attached- 9.936.104 2. Eminem- The Marshall Mathers LP- 7.921.107 3. Britney Spears- Oops!...I Did it Again- 7.893.544 4. Creed- Human Clay- 6.587.834 5. Santana- Supernatural- 5.857.824 6. The Beatles- 1- 5.068.300 7. Nelly- Country Grammar- 5.067.529 8. Backstreet Boys- Black and Blue- 4.289.865 9. Dr Dre- 2001- 3.992.311 10. Destiny's Child- The Writing's on the Wall- 3.802.165
1999:
1. MILLENNIUM Backstreet Boys 9,440,000 2. ...BABY ONE MORE TIME Britney Spears 8,360,000 3. RICKY MARTIN Ricky Martin 5,980,000 4. COME ON OVER Shania Twain 5,620,000 5. SIGNIFICANT OTHER Limp Bizkit 4,950,000 6. SUPERNATURAL Santana 4,730,000 7. DEVIL WITHOUT A CAUSE Kid Rock 4,260,000 8. FANMAIL TLC 4,190,000 9. CHRISTINA AGUILERA Christina Aguilera 3,700,000 10. WIDE OPEN SPACES Dixie Chicks 3,460,000
1998
1. Titanic Soundtrack: 9,300,000 2. Let's Talk About Love Celine Dion: 5,900,000 3. Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys: 5,700,000 4. Come On Over Shania Twain: 4,900,000 5. 'N Sync 'N Sync: 4,400,000 6. City of Angels Soundtrack: 4,100,000 7. Double Live Garth Brooks: 3,900,000 8. Big Willie Style Will Smith: 3,700,000 9. Savage Garden Savage Garden: 3,200,000 10. Armageddon Soundtrack: 3,200,000
1997
1. Spice Spice Girls: 5,300,000 2. Pieces of You Jewel: 4,300,000 3. No Way Out Puff Daddy & The Family: 3,400,000 4. Sevens Garth Brooks: 3,300,000 5. Middle of Nowhere Hanson: 3,200,000 6. Life After Death The Notorious B.I.G.: 3,100,000 7. Bringing Down The House The Wallflowers: 3,100,000 8. Falling Into You Celine Dion: 3,000,000 9. Space Jam Soundtrack: 2,900,000 10.You Light Up My Life LeAnn Rimes: 2,900,000
1996
1. Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette: 7,400,000 2. Falling Into You Celine Dion: 6,000,000 3. The Score The Fugees: 4,500,000 4. Tragic Kingdom No Doubt: 4,400,000 5. Daydream Mariah Carey: 3,000,000 6. All Eyez On Me 2Pac: 3,000,000 7. Load Metallica: 3,000,000 8. Secrets Toni Braxton: 2,900,000 9. The Woman In Me Shania Twain: 2,800,000 10. What's The Story Morning Glory? Oasis: 2,600,000
Re: 2009 Nielsen SoundScan Report « Reply #8 on Jan 6, 2010, 4:14pm »
Especially impressive for Swift is the fact her albums not only appeared twice but they improved positions from the first year to the second, and in the case of Fearless improved in units sold as well. Twain did it as well, maintaining same position from 98 to 99 but moved more units in 99.
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Re: 2009 Nielsen SoundScan Report « Reply #10 on Jan 6, 2010, 5:41pm »
From oldbloke at UKMix:
The official Soundscan top 40 of 2009 - hopefully we'll get sales later…
1) Taylor Swift “Fearless” 2) Susan Boyle “I Dreamed a Dream” 3) Michael Jackson “Number Ones” 4) Lady GaGa “The Fame” 5) Andrea Bocelli “My Christmas” 6) Soundtrack “Hannah Montana: The Movie” 7) The Black Eyed Peas “The E.N.D.” 8) Eminem “Relapse” 9) Jay-Z “Blueprint 3? 10) Kings of Leon “Only by the Night” 11) Nickelback “Dark Horse” 12) Michael Jackson “This is It” 13) Soundtrack “Twilight” 14) Michael Jackson “Thriller” 15) Zac Brown Band “Foundation” 16) Michael Buble “Crazy Love” 17) Miley Cyrus “Time of Our Lives EP” 18) Beyonce “I Am…Sasha Fierce” 19) Carrie Underwood “Play On” 20) Michael Jackson “The Essential Michael Jackson” 21) Rascal Flatts “Unstoppable” 22) U2 “No Line on the Horizon” 23) Dave Matthews Band “Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King” 24) Lady Antebellum “Lady Antebellum” 25) Soundtrack “Twilight: New Moon” 26) Jason Aldean “Wide Open” 27) Maxwell “BLACKsummersnight” 28) Whitney Houston “I Look to You” 29) Green Day “21st Century Breakdown” 30) Darius Rucker “Learn to Live” 31) Daughtry “Leave This Town” 32) Various “Now That’s What I Call Music 32? 33) Kelly Clarkson “All I Ever Wanted” 34) P!nk “Funhouse” 35) Taylor Swift “Taylor Swift” 36) The Fray “The Fray” 37) Alicia Keys “The Element of Freedom” 38) Various “Now That’s What I Call Music 30? 39) Justin Bieber “My World” 40) Keith Urban “Defying Gravity”
5 albums selling over 2 million copies - surely an increase from 2008!
An increase? Hardly. I hope you took a good look at areyoureadytojump's list, going back to 1996. There was a time, back in the 1990s, when TWENTY albums sold 2M and/or went 2xP in a single calendar year.
Take a good look, boys and girls...Ten years ago (at the very least), you needed to go 3xP and then some to finish the year in the top 10. Now, all that is required may be platnium.
The average of the top 10 in 1999 was 5.469 million. In 2000, it was 6.042M, probably the highest since the introduction of the SoundScan tracking system.
The average of the top 10 in 2009 was 2.138M, which is a 60.9 percent drop from 1999 (a 64.6% drop from 2000).
If the rate of decline continues, by 2019 we will see an industry where the average of the top 10 albums of that year will be just under 836,000. To make the top 10 in 2019, you would simply need to go gold.
Looks simple; but unfortunately we are already in an age where even some artists, who were once multi-platinum, maybe as little as 2 years ago, are having trouble trying to sell 500,000. By 2015, going 2xP could very well be a thing of the past.
In the last decade, we witnessed the death of the full-scale music and movie superstore/megastore in the U.S. (Virgin, Tower and HMV). In this decade, we are likely to witness the death of the major music industry, as more and more artists will be inclined to bypass or reject the major labels altogether, and use the Web and the independent companies to reach their audience.
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5 albums selling over 2 million copies - surely an increase from 2008!
An increase? Hardly. I hope you took a good look at areyoureadytojump's list, going back to 1996. There was a time, back in the 1990s, when TWENTY albums sold 2M and/or went 2xP in a single calendar year.
Take a good look, boys and girls...Ten years ago (at the very least), you needed to go 3xP and then some to finish the year in the top 10. Now, all that is required may be platnium.
The average of the top 10 in 1999 was 5.469 million. In 2000, it was 6.042M, probably the highest since the introduction of the SoundScan tracking system.
The average of the top 10 in 2009 was 2.138M, which is a 60.9 percent drop from 1999 (a 64.6% drop from 2000).
If the rate of decline continues, by 2019 we will see an industry where the average of the top 10 albums of that year will be just under 836,000. To make the top 10 in 2019, you would simply need to go gold.
Looks simple; but unfortunately we are already in an age where even some artists, who were once multi-platinum, maybe as little as 2 years ago, are having trouble trying to sell 500,000. By 2015, going 2xP could very well be a thing of the past.
In the last decade, we witnessed the death of the full-scale music and movie superstore/megastore in the U.S. (Virgin, Tower and HMV). In this decade, we are likely to witness the death of the major music industry, as more and more artists will be inclined to bypass or reject the major labels altogether, and use the Web and the independent companies to reach their audience.
It was an increase over the previous year, which is what they said.
The top 9 albums of 2009 all sold more than the comparable top 9 albums of 2008. 5 albums sold 2m+ in 2009, 4 in 2008. That's an increase.
Everyone is already aware of all the rest of what you said. The industry is doing poorly on the albums side, and digital album sales are not growing fast enough to offset the physical losses (and thus overall sales are down 13% this year).
Re: 2009 / Decade Nielsen SoundScan Report « Reply #20 on Jan 6, 2010, 11:08pm »
RE the second category in the SoundScan part of the first post- it should be digital songs, not artists- and why does it say Jason DeRulo and Owl City for #s 9 and 10?
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RE the second category in the SoundScan part of the first post- it should be digital songs, not artists- and why does it say Jason DeRulo and Owl City for #s 9 and 10?
Thanks for posting the info.
You're right. It was wrong. I'm updating little by little.
Re: 2009 / Decade Nielsen SoundScan Report « Reply #22 on Jan 6, 2010, 11:13pm »
Ho about vinyl albums continuing to inch up? Would be funny if vinyl eventually overtakes CDs and the physical format comes full circle. (of course, it would take years and years of continued growth for vinyl and continued loss for CD for that to happen).
Have digital singles sales kinda reached their zenith? The increase was not all that much from 2008.
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