If you’re looking at real revenue, congratulate Green Day.
The punk rock band’s exceptional new album. “Saviors,” sold 40,000 copies of CDs and paid downloads.
The album swamped all the competition in hard sales per individual album. But overall, with streaming, it finished fourth behind the new 21 Savages album, “American Dream.”
Curiously Green Day, fare more insightful, has a new song called “The Death of the American Dream.” 21 Savage should listen to it.
“Saviors” sold a total of 51,000 copies including specious streaming. 21 Savage sold 74,000 streaming equivalent copies, but only 1.500 CDs or downloads.
I’d say “Saviors” was number 1.
The total sales for the whole top 50 was very low and Christmas is over and the Taylor Swift onslaught has cooled finally. Now we’re waiting for new albums from Justin Timberlake and Ariana Grande, and made a bump from the Grammy Awards for a couple of winners.
As for Taylor, she sold around 160,000 copies in the top 50. Some “cooling off”! Her album, “Midnights,” is the likely Album of the Year winner, too, unless SZA can stop her.
