Sia reaches #1 on the Billboard 200 with only 52,000 copies sold

[Michael 533]

I'm happy for her :)

[SonOfAphrodite 1,816]

Yessssssssssssss I love the new album  :)

[7Days 7]

Listening to her album right now. My favorite album of 2014 so far.

[Whispering 18,865]

Doing bad ? Coldplay open week was more than 1 million, same for Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran more than 550K, Lana almost 400K

she's just unknown

 

You are comparing WW sales to US sales...but Sia's would still be significantly lower.

 

The music industry is at an all time low.

 

7/26 Billboard charts:

 

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6157709/sia-1000-forms-of-fear-billboard-200-soundscan-chandelier

 

The week's 4.1 million haul is the smallest weekly sum for album sales since SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. Weekly album sales volume has been below 5 million for the past 12 consecutive weeks. The 5 million mark has only been surpassed in five weeks this year. To compare, a year ago at this point, there were 21 weeks where sales exceeded 5 million.

 

Weekly volume didn't fall below 5 million in the SoundScan era until 2010, when, in the week ending May 30, album sales dropped to 4.9 million.

[ShezG 0]

Love Sia and her album 1000 forms of fear!

[Computer 10,966]

Music industry, ha decay. I blame this on Hillary Duff tweeting out the wrong album name.

Slay though :applause:

[Houdini 103]

You are comparing WW sales to US sales...but Sia's would still be significantly lower.

 

The music industry is at an all time low.

 

7/26 Billboard charts:

 

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6157709/sia-1000-forms-of-fear-billboard-200-soundscan-chandelier

 

The week's 4.1 million haul is the smallest weekly sum for album sales since SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. Weekly album sales volume has been below 5 million for the past 12 consecutive weeks. The 5 million mark has only been surpassed in five weeks this year. To compare, a year ago at this point, there were 21 weeks where sales exceeded 5 million.

 

Weekly volume didn't fall below 5 million in the SoundScan era until 2010, when, in the week ending May 30, album sales dropped to 4.9 million.

sales are still very significant. who knows, maybe next year we will broke records. there's no really interesting album for the GP right now

[Whispering 18,865]

sales are still very significant. who knows, maybe next year we will broke records. there's no really interesting album for the GP right now

 

Probably not, as overall sales have been declining for years now.

[Houdini 103]

Probably not, as overall sales have been declining for years now.

i looked and 2013 was bigger than 2012 in overall sales

[Whispering 18,865]

i looked and 2013 was bigger than 2012 in overall sales

 

From the Nielsen Soundscan year-end 2013 music sales numbers:

 

2013 digital track sales fell 5.7% from 1.34 billion units to 1.26 billion.

 

Perhaps a larger problem is that the album, the cash cow of the industry (although less so than ever), has seen its sales decline for yet another year. Album sales for 2014 dipped to 289.4 million units, an 8.4% reduction from the prior year.

[monsterdreams 1,529]

Yay!!!

Chandelier got top 10 here already!

[Houdini 103]

From the Nielsen Soundscan year-end 2013 music sales numbers:

 

2013 digital track sales fell 5.7% from 1.34 billion units to 1.26 billion.

 

Perhaps a larger problem is that the album, the cash cow of the industry (although less so than ever), has seen its sales decline for yet another year. Album sales for 2014 dipped to 289.4 million units, an 8.4% reduction from the prior year.

i looked WW

US is the most important musical market but not the only big one

[SIRE 75]

Album sales are so terrible :smh:

[Whispering 18,865]

i looked WW

US is the most important musical market but not the only big one

 

Worldwide numbers:

 

After a brief respite in 2012, music sales are once again on the decline. A new report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry shows that recorded music revenues slipped 3.9 percent last year (2013) to $15 billion globally.

 

Another yearly declineâ€â€the 13th in the last 14 yearsâ€â€is not the step the industry wants to take as it tries to claw its way back to the heyday of the ‘90s, when global industry revenue was close to $30 billion.

[Jjang 2,262]

Just wait till Adele, Taylor and Eminem release their albums.

In a different week she might have debuted out of the top 10, she just got lucky.