Mid-year U.S. Sales and Streaming Stats

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

Mid-year Billboard U.S. Sales and Streaming Stats

Tracking period of Jan. 1 through June 30, 2016

Mid-Year Top 10 Albums (Based on Overall Equivalent Album Units)

(Equivalent album units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums [TEA] and streaming equivalent albums [SEA].)

1. Drake, Views (2,609,000 units)
2. Adele, 25 (1,747,000 units)
3. Beyonce, Lemonade (1,687,000 units)
4. Justin Bieber, Purpose (1,332,000 units)
5. Rihanna, Anti (1,272,000 units) (It's billboard. They don't include the Samsung deal.)
6. Chris Stapleton, Traveller (931,000 units)
7. Prince, The Very Best Of Prince (905,000 units)
8. Twenty One Pilots, Blurryface (905,000 units)
9. The Weeknd, Beauty Behind The Madness (708,000 units)
10. Kevin Gates, Islah (690,000 units)

Mid-Year Top 10 Selling Albums

1. Adele, 25 (1,403,000)
2. Drake, Views (1,313,000)
3. Beyonce, Lemonade (1,202,000)
4. Chris Stapleton, Traveller (746,000)
5. Prince, The Very Best of Prince (575,000)
6. Rihanna, Anti (480,000)
7. Justin Bieber, Purpose (479,000)
8. David Bowie, Blackstar (428,000)
9. Prince And The Revolution, Purple Rain (413,000)
10. Panic! At The Disco, Death Of A Bachelor (397,000)

Mid-Year Top 10 Selling Digital Songs

1. Flo Rida, “My House” (1,947,000)
2. Lukas Graham, “7 Years” (1,831,000)
3. Justin Bieber, “Love Yourself” (1,653,000)
4. Rihanna featuring Drake, “Work” (1,610,000)
5. Twenty One Pilots, “Stressed Out” (1,586,000)
6. Drake featuring WizKid & Kyla, “One Dance” (1,442,000)
7. Justin Timberlake, Can’t Stop the Feeling!” (1,400,000)
8. Zayn, “Pillowtalk” (1,288,000)
9. Mike Posner, “I Took a Pill In Ibiza” (1,273,000)
10. Desiigner, “Panda” (1,211,000)

Mid-Year Top 10 On-Demand Song Streams (Audio and Video Combined)

1. Rihanna featuring Drake, “Work” (511,454,000)
2. Desiigner, “Panda” (467,379,000)
3. Justin Bieber, “Sorry” (325,235,000)
4. Drake featuring WizKid & Kyla, “One Dance” (308,826,000)
5. Justin Bieber, “Love Yourself” (296,890,000)
6. Zayn, “Pillowtalk” (289,509,000)
7. G-Eazy x BeBe Rexha, “Me, Myself & I” (287,242,000)
8. Lukas Graham, “7 Years” (284,251,000)
9. Twenty One Pilots, “Stressed Out” (277,195,000)
10. Fifth Harmony feat. Ty Dolla $ign, “Work From Home” (255,697,000)

Only Drake, Rihanna and Justin Bieber are on all four lists.

Overall album sales are down 14 percent compared to the mid-year point in 2015 (100.3 million albums sold versus 116.1 million). While album sales keep on sliding, total on-demand audio and video streams maintain their growth. Combined on-demand audio and video streams rose 58.7 percent in the first half of 2016 to 208.9 billion (up from 131.6 billion at mid-year in 2015). Of that sum, on-demand audio streams comprised 113.6 billion in 2016 – up 97.4 percent compared to 54.5 billion at the mid-year point in 2015. On-demand video streams totaled 95.3 billion so far in 2016 – up 28.6 percent compared to 74.1 billion in the first six months of 2015.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7438052/drake-adele-rihanna-nielsen-mid-year-2016

 

There is also a list of 2016’s Mid-Year Top 10 Selling Vinyl Albums
1. David Bowie, Blackstar (57,000)
2. Adele, 25 (36,000)
3. Twenty One Pilots, Blurryface (31,000)
4. Amy Winehouse, Back to Black (27,000)
5. Bob Marley & The Wailers, Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers(23,000)
6. Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly (22,000)
7. The Beatles, Abbey Road (21,000)
8. Twenty One Pilots, Vessel (20,000)
9. Miles Davis, Kind of Blue (19,000)
10. The Lumineers, Cleopatra (19,000)

[Yuuri 21,636]

Am I the only one that feels that Drake is very overrated?

[Nino 12]

Drake is the new queen of pop  Our faves aren't safe

[VersaceKing 419]

5 minutes ago, Misaki said:

Am I the only one that feels that Drake is very overrated?

No, you're not the only one 

[ALGAYDO 26,531]

YAASS at Drake slaying so hard  

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

That list is a travesty...

 

[Loyalty 3,904]

Amy is a living legend. Ten years later and the album is still in top 5 best selling mid year vinyls 

[LanasNerfGun 4,679]

Who keeps buying Flo Rida's music lmao?? I'm honestly shook

[Fiona Apple 13,006]

1. Flo Rida, “My House” (1,947,000) wtf

[danwasd 2,444]

Streaming

[SamJ 8,008]

Rihanna and Drake have owned 2016 , and now Britney!

[Harry 26,836]

I didn't realise how big that Flo Rida song was in the US  I think I've only heard it once lol

Awesome that three albums have sold a million copies this year. Historically that would be quite tragic but for today's climate it's pretty good.

[fede ARTPOP 5,815]

Drake

Straight public gotta love Drake 

[nativenewyorker 1,190]

Never been a fan of Drake. His voice and attitude just bother the **** out of me and his music never connects with me. 

That being said, besides Beyoncé, Rihanna, Adele and "Sorry" by Justin, pop music has been a joke this year. 

[ThisGuyTony 23,686]

Ewww @ Flo Rida being #1 on digital.