Billboard: “Midnights” sold more than 800k copies in its first day in USA

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@Mr Mendes Thanks for your answer. It makes me realize this : I don't collect merch or various physical edition of the same book, album or whatever. Never. Even the unavoidable nth album reissue of my favorite band, with amazing and unreleased songs... If own one physical copy, it's mostly an original, cause I bought my first vinyls in the late 60's and I kept them. Since 20 years, I very rarely bought any CD's. My music is on a 10TB NAS in lossless format. Change of media support with enhanced quality of the sound in today dematerialized music is perfect with the appropriate sound system. So now I tend to get rid of the old formats. Waste of space.

However, I can relate on collecting, cause I'm a total packrat. Movies, TV Series, videogames... Terabytes of them. But I never bought various packages and formats of the same album. What I'm interested in is the music. I grab the bonus songs elsewhere and store them together with the original tracklist.

In the end I think only the content is important.

I remember picture disks or colored vinyls we had in those days. They were hard to find and only released in few copies. Hence the collector value. But todays multiformat release are collectors only by name : they bear no rare money value since they're sold by millions everywhere ! To boosts sales, impact presence and charts results, I think today standard business idea to push physical media so hard is an ecological and social aberration, a shameless fans exploitation cashgrab.