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Media traffic has new figures for global album sales. U2 has dropped out of the Top 10, which is annoying. Esp. on this site since the rest of the Top 50 aren’t listed in chart order, they’re listed in alphabetical order and smushed together in paragraph format. U2 sold 32,000 for a total of 957,000. If I scanned this mess of data correctly they are at #12.
And man, the record business really has collapsed. You can be a Top 50 album in the world with sales of only 4000.
Where did you see those numbers in the MediaTraffic web?
I can’t find it.
They're on the homepage. They're hard to notice because, like I said, it's all smushed together into a paragraph. At the top of the page it discusses the Top 10 albums. Then, beneath the video, it gives the information for the next 40. And then it says a few things about some of the other charts.
WORLD TOP 50 ALBUMS - WORLD CHARTS
Chart run:
1 (460,800) - 2 (207,500) - 5 (188,300) - 9 (122,400) - 13 (57,400) - Tot.: 1.036,400
MEDIATRAFFIC - Global Chart Track Top 40
Chart run:
1 (441,000) - 4 (164,000) - 7 (145,000) - 9 (115,00) - 9 (60,000) - Tot.: 925,000
The thing about mediatraffic is that I think they have a new formula which counts digital tracks and streaming with album sales. So a 1 million sales figure for an album is not 1 million albums sold, but some combination of album sales, digital track sales, and streaming.
Well, in U2’s case that is still a million albums sold!!
Are you saying that because U2 does not do a lot of streaming or digital track sales, so the total must be all pure album sales or nearly that?
But, if they were still using the old formula to determine the Billboard 200 like they were 3 years ago, just album sales, on that chart Songs Of Experience is at #39.
U2|SONGS OF EXPERIENCE ( 39) 3549
It is kind of disturbing though that you can now make the top 40 of the album sales only chart with just 3,000 copies sold.
Did the album have a Grammy effect on the billboard chart ?
I honestly thought it would bump up a lot more then that. What's the chart placing with streaming included?