Drake's Views sold 1.2 Mil in 6 days & has been streamed 250 Mil times

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By RIAA standards, it is included. That's for certification purposes. It's irrelevant to Soundscan though, which is why if Neilsen reports him selling X amount of copies, then that's what it actually did.

Aight, so are we safe to assume that Republic's figures are based on Nielsen and not RIAA?

I just read the article and it doesn't specify...it doesn't even specify whether the sales are US or worldwide:

Drake's VIEWS Streamed Over 250 Million Times, Sells Over 1 Million Albums In First Week! - Republic Records

Drake’s highly anticipated fourth studio album VIEWS dropped last Thursday, exclusively on iTunes and Apple Music, and has already amassed over 250 million streams!

In addition, VIEWS claimed the NO. 1 spot on iTunes (replacing Beyonce’s Lemonade) and has sold more than 1.2 million albums in less than six days.
 

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Also it's not a double disc, I just bought the physical
CD's can usually do about 75 minutes before sound quality begins to suffer so that makes sense as my iTunes had this checked in at 1:10. Vinylwise (these days I am sure they will do a horrible mastered cash grab re: records) I am sure this would be a 5xLP or something equally stupid :comeon:
 

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1.07 m first week in the US alone. :whoo:
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Friday, May 6, 2016
DRAKE’S EXPLOSIVE DEBUT
Drake’s Views (YMCMB/Republic) has just become the first album to top a million on one digital service in a big win not only for Apple Musicbut for all the players involved. The final tally has it at 1.07m SPS with nearly 300m+ U.S.
 

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Pure sales is albums sold and albums sold only, I don't know why nikkas finding this so hard to understand :mindblown:


Hotline Bling streams will factor into certification I think (not 100% on this) but they have nothing to do with and aren't factored into these first week numbers. 850k albums sold, with streams he's over 1m, it's really not that difficult.


:deadrose: I don't get why they aren't understanding this. shyt is funny tho
 

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Im calling :duck:

No way this shyt sold 1.2 mill strictly through itunes but the sheep will believe anything these companies tell them
 
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