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streams of the album's individual tracks, reports Billboard. The Life of Pablo's 66,000 SEA units represents over 99 million U.S. The remainder of the 94,000 is attributed to streaming equivalent albums (SEA). 1 spot with a majority of its sales (70 percent) credited to streaming, and not to pure album sales.Īccording to Nielsen Music, The Life of Pablo was credited with 94,000 in sales, of which 28,000 were pure album sales, as the album has been available to purchase on Kanye's website since its release. Its placement atop this week's chart (ending April 7) makes The Life of Pablo the first album to ever attain the No. The album was put back up on the site when it moved to Apple Music and Spotify, and for the current charting week, Kanye's site accounted for 28,000 pure album sales.Īs predicted, Kanye West's The Life of Pablo has made its debut at No. It had been there for a few hours but was removed as Kanye decided to keep the album solely on Tidal so that he could make changes as he pleased. Lastly, as was incorrectly reported below, Pablo has not been available for purchase on Kanye's website since its release. There is no difference between how Nielsen Music tracks the streams on Tidal compared to how it operates with the other two leading streaming platforms. Instead, the 99 million in streams that Pablo is credited with for this week's chart are a total of the streams accumulated on Apple Music, Spotify, and Tidal for the week of April 1 to April 7. However, as Billboard only counts the numbers from the past week for its new chart, next to none of those 400 million Tidal streams contributed to The Life of Pablo attaining this week's No. According to the NYT, The Life of Pablo was streamed 400 million times in the six weeks it was exclusively available on Tidal. As noted below, the album was streamed 250 million times in its first 10 days of availability, whilst it was exclusively on Tidal, where it remained until April 1.
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Firstly, all streams before that increment are not counted toward this week's sales, which are equivalent to 94,000.
KANYE LIFE OF PABLO STREAMS UPDATE
UPDATE ( | 3:04pm EST): There are a few minor errors in the below text with regard to how Billboard gauged The Life of Pablo's streaming numbers for the week of April 1 to April 7.