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Eminem becomes first artist to sell one million digital albums in the US
« on: July 06, 2011, 03:01:33 AM »
Eminem's 2010 album 'Recovery' has become the first LP in the US to sell over one million downloads.

According to figures published by Nielsen SoundScan the rapper's total digital haul now stands at 1,001,000. His overall total including physical sales currently stands at 3.9 million.

Adele is also likely to surpass the rapper next week with her recent album '21', making her the first British artist to score one million album downloads in the US, reports, Billboard.com.

This comes despite the fact that she recently cancelled a series of tour dates in the States after failing to recover from laryngitis.

Adele's album has also sold more copies than any other in the UK this year, according to Official Charts Company figures while her Number One single 'Someone Like You' has sold more than any other single so far.

Since SoundScan began tracking digital album sales in 2005, a total of 12 titles have moved at least 500,000 downloads. But none have reached the one million mark.
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Re: Eminem becomes first artist to sell one million digital albums in the US
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2011, 03:04:45 AM »
Congrats to Em, that's a great achievement
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Re: Eminem becomes first artist to sell one million digital albums in the US
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2011, 03:48:26 AM »
damn...who woulda thought a million people would pay 2 download an album back in the og napster/kazaa days? crazy shit.
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« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2011, 08:02:26 AM »
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Re: Eminem becomes first artist to sell one million digital albums in the US
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2011, 01:31:38 PM »
Album sales, may go a bit higher in near future maybe. I see the old trends of buying albums coming back. I just hope people will leave digital albums. If I had to buy an album, It cant be anything but a hard copy. Im surprised people pay to get a music file.
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« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2011, 01:37:47 PM »
it's because last week they did a special offer and made Recovery available for $5 on Amazon, probably made the sales pass the 1 mill mark

while I'm not a fan of the album, props to Em
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Re: Eminem becomes first artist to sell one million digital albums in the US
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2011, 02:34:36 PM »
The first & probably the last artist to do so lol.
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« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2011, 06:59:27 PM »
worldwide its probably alot more
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Re: Eminem becomes first artist to sell one million digital albums in the US
« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2011, 11:21:31 PM »
recovery is a sick album
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Re: Eminem becomes first artist to sell one million digital albums in the US
« Reply #9 on: July 07, 2011, 12:53:16 AM »
Quote from: EL on July 06, 2011, 03:01:33 AM
Eminem's 2010 album 'Recovery' has become the first LP in the US to sell over one million downloads.

According to figures published by Nielsen SoundScan the rapper's total digital haul now stands at 1,001,000. His overall total including physical sales currently stands at 3.9 million.

Adele is also likely to surpass the rapper next week with her recent album '21', making her the first British artist to score one million album downloads in the US, reports, Billboard.com.

This comes despite the fact that she recently cancelled a series of tour dates in the States after failing to recover from laryngitis.

Adele's album has also sold more copies than any other in the UK this year, according to Official Charts Company figures while her Number One single 'Someone Like You' has sold more than any other single so far.

Since SoundScan began tracking digital album sales in 2005, a total of 12 titles have moved at least 500,000 downloads. But none have reached the one million mark.

wow, that's crazy.
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then again, it was more mainstream friendly than relapse

Quote from: HighEyeCue on July 06, 2011, 06:59:27 PM
worldwide its probably alot more
yeah
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Re: Eminem becomes first artist to sell one million digital albums in the US
« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2011, 02:13:52 AM »
Quote from: BloodMoney on July 06, 2011, 01:37:47 PM
it's because last week they did a special offer and made Recovery available for $5 on Amazon, probably made the sales pass the 1 mill mark


........its funny how NO ONE herd about it going for $5 until after the fact. 8)
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Re: Eminem becomes first artist to sell one million digital albums in the US
« Reply #11 on: July 07, 2011, 10:56:22 PM »
Quote from: Chamillitary Click, literally. on July 06, 2011, 02:34:36 PM
The first & probably the last artist to do so lol.

Did you read the article? Adeles about to do the same
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Re: Eminem becomes first artist to sell one million digital albums in the US
« Reply #12 on: July 07, 2011, 11:03:49 PM »
Quote from: dubsmith_nz on July 07, 2011, 10:56:22 PM
Quote from: Chamillitary Click, literally. on July 06, 2011, 02:34:36 PM
The first & probably the last artist to do so lol.

Did you read the article? Adeles about to do the same

No lol.

But props to her too.
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Re: Eminem becomes first artist to sell one million digital albums in the US
« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2011, 11:22:05 AM »
Quote from: NIKCC on July 06, 2011, 03:48:26 AM
damn...who woulda thought a million people would pay 2 download an album back in the og napster/kazaa days? crazy shit.

I buy some albums digitally every now and then.  Either out of respect for the artist or because I'm too lazy to search for the link, or both.    Like I bought Tyler the Creators album digitally.  And I bought Sticman of Dead Prez album digitally, cause I knew it was a workout album and would be listened to on the ipod anyway.   I bought Gyptian albums digitally.   Also, some singles here and there I've paid for from Amazon.
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« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2011, 11:44:12 AM »
Quote from: Check yaself, before you rep yaself! on July 06, 2011, 01:31:38 PM
Album sales, may go a bit higher in near future maybe. I see the old trends of buying albums coming back. I just hope people will leave digital albums. If I had to buy an album, It cant be anything but a hard copy. Im surprised people pay to get a music file.
I just don't see it happening. I love CD's and love buying the hard copy in the store but as a format, it's dying. The more times go by, the more indebted future generations will become to technology. Remember when we used to go into video stores and look through tons of covers with different artwork and synoposises and then pick out a movie? That's been replaced by the "convience" of just grabbing it off instant cable or going to a Redbox kiosk and paying $1 for a selection of less than 50 movies. It's the same with music. People don't want full albums they can listen to for months, they want to load as much music as they can into their I-Pods, give it a few listens and trash the "filler". That's just how it goes.
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