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The Greatest Showman (Original + Reimagined) :: Era
^^ I hope that the album gets certifications from the GAS countries soon. It is eligible for at least gold in each of them. I currently have its German sales estimated at ~ 165k.
Drake's 'Scorpion' Is Nielsen Music's Top Album Of 2018 in U.S., 'God's Plan' Most-Streamed Song
1/8/2019 by Keith Caulfield
TOP 10 SELLING DIGITAL ALBUMS OF 2018 IN U.S.
Rank Artist, Title Sales
1 Soundtrack, The Greatest Showman 883,000
2 Travis Scott, Astroworld 435,000
3 Eminem, Kamikaze 381,000
4 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born (Soundtrack) 299,000
5 Drake, Scorpion 256,000
6 Post Malone, beerbongs & bentleys 222,000
7 Cardi B, Invasion of Privacy 218,000
8 Justin Timberlake, Man of the Woods 183,000
9 J. Cole, KOD 180,000
10 Lil Wayne, Tha Carter V 173,000
Source: Nielsen Music, for the tracking period Dec. 29, 2017 through Jan. 3, 2019.
For the first midweek of 2019, two holdovers are fighting it out for #1. 21 Savage and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, each in its third week, are in a race for the Top. Taylor Swift re-enters the Top 20 thanks to her Reputation concert which debuted on Netflix on New Year’s Eve.
1. 21 Savage (Slaughter Gang/Epic) 52-57k Total Activity, 1-2k Albums
2. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie (Atlantic) 52-57k, <1k
3. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (Republic) 45-50k, 6-8k
4. Meek Mill (Atlantic) 43-47k, 1-2k
5. Post Malone (Republic) 42-46k, 5-6k
6. Drake (YMCMB/Republic) 39-42k, 3-4k
7. Travis Scott (Cactus Jack/Grand Hustle/Epic) 36-39k, 2-3k
8. Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (Interscope) 35-38k, 17-20k 9. The Greatest Showman (Atlantic) 34-37k, 16-18k
10. Kodak Black (Atlantic) 33-36k, <1k
Biggest soundtracks this decade 2010-2019 (Spotify)
1. Suicide Squad (2016): 2,951,400,000
2. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018): 2,578,500,000
3. Fifty Shades of Grey (2015): 1,846,700,000
4. Black Panther (2018): 1,790,900,000 5. The Greatest Showman (2018): 1,779,300,000
6. Furious 7 (2015): 1,663,300,000
7. Trolls (2017): 1,323,100,000
8. Fifty Shades Darker (2017): 1,285,700,000
9. A Star Is Born (2018): 829,300,000
10. Fifty Shades Freed (2018): 825,800,000
11. Moana (2017): 716,000,000
12. La La Land (2017): 712,000,000
13. Beauty and the Beast (2017): 521,300,000
14. Frozen (2014): 365,000,000
15. Mamma Mia! (2018): 362,000,000
16. Pitch Perfect (2013): 323,700,000
Soundtracks like “Suice Squad” has previous hits like Eminem’s “Without Me”, a song that has 399M streams on its own. The same with “Bohemian Rhapsody” which is more like another greatest hits of songs that already had hundreds of streams. So, how we can calculate the ranking? I guess that we should exclude all of these tracks/albums.
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13. The Greatest Showman (Atlantic) 24-27k, 13-16k
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I’m shook, the UK carries 30-40% of the total worldwide sales.
The UK's music industry consistitutes 7.6% of the worldwide retail value. The fact that it goes up to 30-40% in the case of the soundtrack 'The Greatest Showman' has to do with it having been extremely popular in that country. The German and the UK music markets almost have got the same size, but the 'Showman' has spent 61 (!) weeks in the UK top 5 and one week in the German top 5.
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