HITS: Kodak #1 with 93k, Spider-Man 53k, Springsteen 40k

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^ Perhaps and well Buble's Christmas renditions are more casual-listener friendly which malls/stores/office parties can use as background music while Noel is more solemn, church type renditions

[pnobelysk]

Dec 20, 2018 14:13:46 GMT -5 Naos said:

Dec 20, 2018 10:09:11 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Who still buys CD's anymore? No one is walking around with CD players and shuffling cases of 100+ cd's anymore. It's more of a burden.

The US and Japan are still pretty big markets for buying music. It's not just about CDs, but music, digital or physical. But last I heard, digital sales are having a worse decline than CDs. And vinyl have seen a rise. Good job, hipsters.

By your own logic, why do people still buy physical copies of games when they have Playstation Network, Xbox Live, and Steam? I mean, I bought 'Christmas is Here!' on Black Friday. I also buy some Japanese music since they're only available on CD a lot of the time. And really, unless you have a super devoted fanbase willing to stream your music on mass, you're really paid much of nothing from streaming. Especially if you're a group and your contract is super restrictive. Streaming mostly only benefits A-listers and those who are lucky enough (or their label pays), to get their music on playlists. Whereas a B-lister (or legacy acts who are past their time), will get nothing from streaming and have to rely on album sales, if they can do decently enough. I will say songwriters probably get the worst of it when it comes to streaming payouts, though. Sure, there have been improvements, but not too much.

Dec 20, 2018 12:37:03 GMT -5 Linnethia Monique said:

27 tracks and Zayn is still doing plastic...

Now imagine if he had 12 or 13.

Video games wise, physical copies take up significantly less memory than digital copies. The more digital games you download the more $$$$$ You have to spend getting memory for you console

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

The Hits Top 50 has been posted and probably the most amazing thing I see is that Christmas is predicted got more SPS from streams than Scorpion and Astroworld this week. In most cases, holiday albums are getting more SPS from streaming than from album sales, with the two most recent Pentatonix's album being the exceptions to this.

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SPS

hitsdailydouble.com/sales_plus_streaming

LW TW ARTIST | TITLE |
LABEL
TOTAL CHANGE ALBUMS TEA SEA

-- 1 KODAK BLACK | DYING TO LIVE
ATLANTIC
93,785 -- 4,398 1,943 87,444

2 2 MEEK MILL | CHAMPIONSHIPS
ATLANTIC
77,787 -14% 2,581 2,697 72,509
3 3 MICHAEL BUBLE | CHRISTMAS
REPRISE
65,296 27% 15,819 1,157 48,320
4 4 LADY GAGA & BRADLEY COOPER | A STAR IS BORN SOUNDTRACK
INTERSCOPE
58,791 16% 42,071 3,037 13,683
-- 5 SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE | VARIOUS ARTISTS
REPUBLIC
53,396 -- 13,353 4,953 35,091
7 6 TRAVIS SCOTT | ASTROWORLD
CACTUS JACK/GRAND HUSTLE/EPIC
49,973 14% 2,902 1,708 45,364
8 7 DRAKE | SCORPION
YMCMB/REPUBLIC
45,519 10% 2,146 1,224 42,150
1 8 XXXTENTACION | SKINS
BAD VIBES FOREVER/EMPIRE
44,450 -68% 3,444 623 40,383
11 9 PENTATONIX | CHRISTMAS IS HERE!
RCA
44,271 17% 30,325 844 13,102
12 10 POST MALONE | BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS
REPUBLIC
44,058 19% 4,174 1,635 38,249

9 11 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN | SOUNDTRACK
ATLANTIC
43,846 8% 25,373 1,948 16,525
14 12 QUEEN | BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)
HOLLYWOOD
43,237 26% 21,124 2,611 19,502
18 13 MARIAH CAREY | MERRY CHRISTMAS
COLUMBIA
40,472 43% 5,657 1,932 32,882
-- 14 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN | SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY
COLUMBIA
40,177 -- 38,219 383 1,576
-- 15 NAT KING COLE | CHRISTMAS SONG
CAPITOL
40,148 -- 3,583 573 35,992
6 16 6IX9INE | DUMMY BOY
SCUMGANG/CREATE
39,153 -14% 672 654 39,826
17 17 PENTATONIX | PENTATONIX CHRISTMAS
RCA
38,523 23% 21,055 1,341 16,127
16 18 MICHAEL BUBLE | LOVE
REPRISE
37,002 14% 35,324 194 1,483
23 19 VINCE GUARALDI TRIO | CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
CONCORD
35,955 52% 10,696 594 24,665
5 20 GUCCI MANE | EVIL GENIUS
ATLANTIC
34,806 -27% 719 974 28,113
13 21 LIL BABY | STREET GOSSIP
QUALITY CONTROL/MOTOWN/CAPITOL
33,975 -2% 372 205 33,398
19 22 JUICE WRLD | GOODBYE & GOOD RIDDANCE
GRADE A/INTERSCOPE
32,647 16% 366 897 31,384
20 23 XXXTENTACION | ?
BAD VIBES FOREVER
32,022 23% 711 793 30,518
21 24 LIL BABY & GUNNA | DRIP HARDER
QUALITY CONTROL/MOTOWN/CAPITOL
31,274 22% 204 836 30,234
24 25 ARIANA GRANDE | SWEETENER
REPUBLIC
30,531 11% 5,894 1,398 23,238
37 26 FRANK SINATRA | ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS
CAPITOL
30,505 82% 3,184 537 26,784
-- 27 BING CROSBY | CHRISTMAS CLASSICS
CAPITOL
29,001 -- 2,422 770 25,809
-- 28 PERRY COMO | CLASSIC CHRISTMAS ALBUM
RCA/LEGACY
27,598 -- 1,413 205 25,981
31 29 CARDI B | INVASION OF PRIVACY
ATLANTIC
27,184 41% 1,442 1,604 24,139
22 30 SKI MASK THE SLUMP GOD | STOKELEY
VICTOR VICTOR/REPUBLIC
26,946 9% 606 247 26,094
46 31 QUEEN | PLATINUM COLLECTION
HOLLYWOOD
26,859 83% 12,399 2,140 12,319
-- 32 ANDY WILLIAMS | CLASSIC CHRISTMAS ALBUM
COLUMBIA/LEGACY
26,798 -- 1,077 483 25,239
28 33 LUKE COMBS | THIS ONE'S FOR YOU
RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE
26,655 37% 7,095 1,905 17,655
27 34 LIL WAYNE | THA CARTER V
YOUNG MONEY
25,925 32% 2,072 939 22,914
-- 35 GENE AUTRY | RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER
VARESE SARABANDE
25,830 -- 845 320 24,666
33 36 LAUREN DAIGLE | LOOK UP CHILD
CENTRICITY
25,763 43% 18,157 1,541 6,065
26 37 IMAGINE DRAGONS | ORIGINS
KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE
25,752 26% 12,738 1,379 11,636
34 38 EMINEM | KAMIKAZE
SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE
25,564 47% 9,500 752 15,313
30 39 TRIPPIE REDD | A LOVE LETTER TO YOU 3
TENTHOUSAND
25,180 30% 548 173 24,459
32 40 METRO BOOMIN | NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES
BOOMINATI/REPUBLIC
24,809 31% 172 219 24,419
25 41 JOHN LEGEND | A LEGENDARY CHRISTMAS
COLUMBIA
24,768 20% 11,467 380 12,921
29 42 BILLIE EILISH | DONT SMILE AT ME
DARKROOM/INTERSCOPE
24,521 26% 1,344 840 22,337
-- 43 HAMILTON | ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST
UPTOWN/ATLANTIC
24,479 -- 11,314 297 12,867
35 44 PENTATONIX | THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME
RCA
23,382 37% 8,604 1,465 13,313
38 45 PANIC! AT THE DISCO | PRAY FOR THE WICKED
FUELED BY RAMEN/ATLANTIC
22,713 37% 8,327 2,474 11,913
40 46 POST MALONE | STONEY
REPUBLIC
22,490 39% 1,126 536 20,828
-- 47 JOSH GROBAN | NOEL
REPRISE
22,316 -- 9,716 705 11,895
39 48 ED SHEERAN | DIVIDE
ATLANTIC
22,231 35% 6,798 1,110 14,324
-- 49 BURL IVES | RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER
GEFFEN
21,927 -- 1,882 515 19,531
-- 50 MITCHELL TENPENNY | TELLING ALL MY SECRETS
RISER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE
21,879 -- 13,150 1,146 6,536

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No sales chart:

hitsdailydouble.com/building_album_chart

[iHype.]

Many streaming-centered albums have been getting notable boosts (due largely to stream increases) these past 2 weeks. I guess there's still a slight Q4 boost in the streaming era?

Drake up 10%, Travis up 14%, Post Malone up 19%, Lil Baby & Gunna up 22%. 

On the other extreme hand:
Cardi's up 41%, Lil Wayne up 32%, and Post Malone's 2016 album is up 39%. All of them are only selling 1-2k pure. I wonder what is causing their album streams to increase so hard?

[willapted33]

i may be wrong but in my case there's a lot more time to listen to music when i'm on holidays, and since these artists main fanbase are in school they are on holidays and are listening to more music

[Enigma.]

I wonder if they have new ways of counting? For example that increase of Metro Boomin (31%) week-on-week is gigantic and there's no real explanation to that (new hit, new version available etc).

There was a remarkable difference between Billboard and HITS last week in Meek's and Xxx's numbers.