why are the numbers combined? they kept radio plays and cd/vinyl sales separate for decades, why combine now? are they afraid for people to see that the products they're pushing on to the public are trash?
stream numbers can and have been manipulated, I've seen kpop stans have 6-7 devices playing a music video on loop for 24 hrs, sales figures are fugazi.
nobody buys this trash called pop music
this is a big fat illusion
And physical album sales aren’t/weren’t?
You never heard those stories about labels buying their artist albums just to have them sitting in a warehouse? It’s pretty much open knowledge at this point and why all sales numbers and numbers in general are fugazi.