1. Florida Georgia Line “Anything Goes”
197,000 copies
2. Jason Alden “Old Boots, New Dirt” 91,000
3. Bob Seger “Ride Out” 59,000
4. “You+Me” 50,000
5. Barbra Streisand “Partners” 40,000
6. Sam Smith “In The Lonely Hour” 37,000
7. The Game “Blood Moon: Year of the Wolf” 33,000
8. Hoodie Allen “People Keep Talking” 30,000
9. U2 “Songs Of Innocence” 28,000
What does this teach us? That album sales mirrors streams, when Bob Lefsetz (who I took the numbers from) fails to mention this he is being a putz… they are the same thing, they look similar. And that is hardly surprising right? Slim, yeah, what’s news about that, but let’s be straight, 30K is the new 150K… numbers have toppled and I still contend that ITunes will not be killed by streaming it will be killed by price. What Lefsetz skips out on is that people who are not music fans will not shell out ten bucks a month. If a CD cost as much as a Mocha Grande, sales would return and fast.
In the end, there might well be room for more than one form of music distribution, it might not be either or no matter your contention or faith. Oh, and U2 made 100K and sold 2*K… I would say their manager earned his keep,
