Once upon a time, music fans bought hundreds of millions of CDs each year, fueling lavish industry profits. Over the last couple of months, the chart has been a showcase of some ingenious tactics. SuperM’s debut, “The 1st Mini Album ‘SuperM’,” opened at No. 1 with 164,000 album sales and a modest 4.9 million streams, according to Nielsen. Of those album sales, 113,000 were CDs and 51,000 were digital downloads.

Source: New York Times October 14, 2019 17:15 UTC