Streaming hits dominate the top of the Billboard chart this week, with the North Carolina rapper DaBaby taking No. Yet with each click of a streaming track worth just a fraction of a penny, the real money is in old-fashioned album sales. A 50th-anniversary reissue of the band’s “Abbey Road” landed at No. 3 — the album’s first time in the Top 10 since 1970 — with the equivalent of 81,000 sales, 70,000 of which were for copies of the full album. DaBaby, Post Malone and the Beatles’ albums were all released by divisions of the Universal Music Group.

Source: New York Times October 07, 2019 16:18 UTC