![]() Even with the boom in streaming, the audience for the biggest albums is shrinking. These platforms now host bottomless catalogs of music, allowing users to access songs from more artists than they could listen to in a lifetime. Platforms like Spotify and YouTube reduced the barrier to entry for any aspiring artist, which has led to a surge in new music (as well as podcasts, videos and all manner of media). Streaming has created an era of abundance. While music fans are streaming the equivalent of millions of albums, online listening doesn’t pay musicians as much as a vinyl record, CD or digital purchase from Apple Music.īut streaming has also reduced the impact and audience for an individual artist’s work. This collapse in traditional sales means the biggest artists aren’t making as much money from their recorded music. The Kid Laroi’s “F*ck Love” was the seventh biggest album of the year, even though he sold just 13,000 copies. Listeners streamed “Dangerous” 3.65 billion times in the U.S. Morgan Wallen’s “Dangerous” was last year’s biggest release, even though the country singer sold fewer than 300,000 albums. As more people stream, traditional sales have declined. That includes album sales, song sales, on-demand audio streams and video streams. ![]() Sales refers to an individual purchase of an album (CD, vinyl or digital), data provider MRC also ranks the year’s biggest albums based on overall consumption.
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