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The Weeknd Made Over $1 Million Last Week from Streaming, Same Songs Earned $50K from Downloads

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As streaming has become the province of hip hop, rap and urban artists, it’s also the only place anyone’s making any money in pop.

Last week, according to Buzz Angle, The Weeknd scored just over $1 million in revenue streaming the six different songs from his EP, “My Dear Melancholy.”

The same songs earned just a total of $50,000 from all their paid downloads. Streaming won, hands down.

The Weeknd was smart. Pop is all about singles these days, not albums. So he made half an album, with six hit singles, no filler. Why bother making the rest of the songs?

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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