Factoring for all genres, approximately 5.7 million vinyl records were sold in 2015, 7 million were sold in 2016, 8.6 million were sold in 2017, and over 10 million were sold in 2018. Please continue to check back as Billboard works to bring. While physical sales of the former two genres are rapidly dwindling, and in many cases, major labels are opting to not issue any physical version at all, physical sales in the vinyl format have been rising for punk and metal over the past few years. The Top Jazz Albums chart displays in full through 1967 and the Billboard 200 chart displays only the top 10 positions back to 1965. You need to sell, on average, 450 to 500 albums in the first week to get on a Billboard chart. This raises an interesting contrast between pop and Hip Hop, and punk and metal. The record displaced 21 Savage’s I Am > I Was album, which sold 3,481 physical and digital copies and had 84 million streams. Through that method, Hoodie SZN was determined to have "sold" 58,000 units. Stick Figure’s album World on Fire sits at number four, Set in Stone is at number five, and Burial Ground claims the number 10 slot. Billboard now uses an equation that factors in physical sales, legal downloads, and streams to determine the "highest selling" album of the week. In addition to grabbing the top spot on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart, Wisdom is number one on iTunes Reggae Albums chart, and the group has all of four albums in that top 10. The reason the album topped the chart was because the album racked up an impressive 83 million streams through services like Spotify. No physical albums were sold as the release is streaming and download only, at this point. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting. In its 114th year, Billboard remains the worlds premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. As evidence of how radically and quickly music consumption is changing, this week rapper A Boogie wit Da Hoodie topped the Billboard 200 top albums chart with his album Hoodie SZN by selling a mere scant 823 downloads. Published by Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
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