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So will 1989 actually be the last platinum album of all time? It certainly seems possible. It was a logical next step for an artist who already had a foot firmly planted in pop. And though some songs on 1989 smacked of other pop songstresses like Lana Del Rey (“Wildest Dreams”) and Katy Perry (“Welcome To New York”), the album-especially the lead single “Shake It Off”-felt like pure Swift. Swift’s departure from country, an increasingly viable commercial genre, was certainly something of a risk. Like any good innovator, she hasn’t been afraid to tweak a working model in hopes of improving it. That sort of connection has been at the core of Swift’s incredible success over the past five years, which have seen her annual earnings rise to an all-time high of $64 million in 2014. In addition to the requisite late night talk show appearances, there were unusual tricks like hosting private listening sessions for fans (and making Rice Krispies treats for them) and including Polaroids with hand-written lyrics in each physical copy of 1989. Swift, however, was able to energize her largely Millennial fan base by shrewdly using a range of promotional tactics. 'Without the support of the most important segment of the customer base, it becomes extremely difficult to sell enough units to qualify for gold or platinum sales awards.”

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“Since streaming sites and rogue torrent sites make it easy for any teenager to access millions of songs for free, it comes as no surprise that young people, who are the music industry's core consumer, are not paying for physical or digital singles or albums,' says veteran music lawyer Bernie Resnick. That went hand-in-hand with a 42% increase in streaming. And they’re just as easy, if not easier, to use-which is why streaming is well on its way to replacing the digital download.Īccording to Nielsen’s midyear music report, digital sales dipped 13% in this year’s first six months as album sales dropped 14.3%. Pandora are far better for musicians than Napster. While rates leave much to be desired, services like Spotify and The latter, of course, is an improvement over the former: artists and songwriters do get paid for streams. Recorded music sales have been on a steep decline over the past decade or so, first because of piracy, and more recently due to the rise of streaming. This year is a different story, and the reasons are fairly straightforward.

Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience led the way, moving over 2 million units by the start of the fourth quarter. As my colleague Hugh McIntyre pointed out, five albums had gone platinum by this time last year.