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Jay-Z's album '4:44' has already been certified platinum, less than a week after its release
Complex has speculated that Sprint, Tidal's partner in the release of "4:44," may have purchased a …
John Lynch
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Here Is What A Record Label Sees When It Looks At Chris Brown
They'll be putting out his new album, "X," sometime this summer (some reports say it's coming out t…
Rob Wile
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It Looks Like Pandora Has Actually Stolen Business From iTunes
Streaming music services are responsible for the increase in digital sales, which saw revenues of $…
Megan Rose Dickey
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The music industry has made more money in 2015 from a century-old technology than ad-supported streaming
Paid digital subscriptions, on the other hand, dominated both vinyl and ad-supported streaming in t…
Dan Turkel
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The 25 best-selling music singles of all time
Among the RIAA's (Recording Industry Association of America) biggest singles ever, Eminem and Katy …
Travis Clark
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The 50 best-selling music artists of all time
CORRECTION: A previous version of this article ranked artists by "total certified units" of worldwi…
John Lynch
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The history of disruption in the recording industry in one chart
Print publications, books, movies, and television all face the same kind of disruption. The outcome…
Matt Rosoff
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Why File-Sharing Could Save The Entertainment Industry, Not Destroy It
…[Traditional media companies would have charged you about $20 for the video. They would have given…
Harrison Jacobs
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Adele's album '25' was just certified diamond for selling more than 10 million copies in less than a year
It took 45 weeks for "25" to become certified diamond. The only albums that have sold as …
John Lynch
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The 50 best-selling albums of all time
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of Linkin Park's debut studio album, "Hybrid Theory," in October, the…
Travis Clark
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Vinyl sales surpassed CDs for the first time in 35 years as records make 'remarkable resurgence'
Vinyl made up a total of 70% of physical music sales in 2022, bringing in $1.2 billion in revenue, …
Bethany Biron
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The organizers of a January 6 awards gala claim Trump's song with riot defendants' prison choir 'went Platinum.' It didn't.
Donald Trump's song with the J6 Prison Choir has modest success, but it never achieved RIAA platinu…
Jacob Shamsian
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Americans are spending more on vinyl records than CDs for the first time since the 1980s
Revenue from LP and EP record sales was nearly 80% higher than for CD sales, data shows, while stre…
Grace Dean
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Nicki Minaj just won a major fight for streaming that will change the music industry
Nicki Minaj has been one of the most vocal proponents of counting streaming toward an artist's sale…
Paul Schrodt
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The 50 best-selling albums of all time
We compiled the RIAA's data for the best-selling albums in history - measured in "certified units" …
John Lynch
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Ed Sheeran sued for $100 million for allegedly copying Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On'
"Thinking Out Loud" peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2014 and has been certified "…
John Lynch
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The 50 best-selling albums of all time
We compiled the RIAA's data for the best-selling albums in history (measured in "certified units" s…
John Lynch
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Watch The American Music Industry Splinter Into Bits Over 30 Years In 30 Seconds
Not only is it unrecognizable from what it looked like in the '80s and '90s, its unrecognizable fro…
Rob Wile
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LimeWire is coming back as an NFT marketplace a decade after shutting down following battle with music industry group
Austrian entrepreneurs and brothers Julian and Paul Zehetmayr purchased the rights to the defunct f…
Carla Mozée
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YouTube has paid over $1 billion to the music industry from advertising alone in the last year
"In 2015, fans listened to hundreds of billions of audio and video music streams through on-demand …