A report over at Billboard has word that not one artist has earned a platinum album (1 million copies sold) this year for sales in the US. Only 60 songs have sold over 1 million units as well—down from 83 last year. This years best selling album that did attain platinum status is the soundtrack to the animated film, “Frozen“, with 3.12 million units scanned.
Amidst the doom and gloom of declining sales across the board is the rise of vinyl however. Sales of the format are up 47.5% with 6.074 million units sold this year as opposed to 4.12 million last year.