![]() Ed Sheeran, Thinking Out Loud (351 million)ĩ. Charlie Puth, See You Again (472 million)Ħ. Kendrick Lamar, Bad Blood (2.6 million)ġ0 most-streamed songs in the USA (audio and video combined):ģ. Walk the Moon, Shut Up and Dance (3 million)ġ0. Charlie Puth, See You Again (3.8 million)Ħ. Ed Sheeran, Thinking Out Loud (4 million)ģ. Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack (861,000)ġ0. The Weeknd, Beauty Behind the Madness (862,000)ĩ. ![]() Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour (1 million)Ĩ. Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late (1.1 million)Ħ. It's the 10th straight year of growth for the format, which saw 45% of its sales come from independent record stores.ĥ. The resurgence of vinyl also continued through 2015 with nearly 12 million records sold. That's a jump of 93% from 2014, when 165 billion streams were tallied. Still, music streaming saw huge growth in 2015, amassing 317 billion streams across platforms such as YouTube, Vevo, Spotify, Google Play, and Rhapsody. Digital song sales were also down nearly 13% from the year before (1.1 billion in 2014, compared to 965 million total in 2015). In 2015, 241 million albums were sold: 126 million of which were CDs and 103 million digital. Overall, album sales were down 6% from 2014, when year-end sales reached 257 million. It's the third time that Adele has had the biggest-selling album of the year: she topped the year-end charts in 20 with sophomore effort 21, which moved 5.8 million and 4.4 million copies, respectively. 25 was bolstered by record-setting first-week sales of 3.4 million and is the only album to ever sell more than 1 million copies in three separate weeks. To put that in perspective, 25 has accounted for 16% of all album sales since its late November release and 3% of overall sales for 2015. In six weeks, the British singer has sold 7.4 million copies of her blockbuster third album, 25, according to Nielsen Music. You can sum up 2015 in music using just one word: Adele. ![]()
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