CBC MUSIC | How Drake became 2016's stream king.'It just goes up, up, up': vinyl resurgence continues.His catalog was tightly controlled on streaming services. The day after he died, Prince sold over 1 million digital songs and more than 200,000 digital albums. Prince became the best-selling artist in terms of album sales, selling more than 2.2 million units following his death in April at age 57 of an accidental painkiller overdose. according to Nielsen Music reportĪdele's 2015 release 25 was the best-selling album of 2016 for the second straight calendar year with total sales of 1.7 million units. The singer had the most digital song sales, the most streams - more than 5.4 billion - by a huge margin, and the most heavily consumed album of the year with Views.īut the rapper had competition from Adele and the late rock star Prince. Adele had best-selling album for 2nd yearĭrake was by far the biggest beneficiary. "The music industry continues to grow at a healthy rate, and 2016 showed us that the landscape is evolving even more quickly than we have seen with other format shifts," said David Bakula, senior vice president of industry insights at Nielsen Music. The growth in streaming was more than enough to offset declines in other formats, particularly digital sales, leading to an overall three percent increase in music consumption compared with 2015, the report said. The tune was one of six that surpassed 500 million total on-demand streams in 2016. A scene from the Rihanna and Drake music video for Work shot in Toronto's The Real Jerk restaurant.
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