I guess this is going to be a thing now. Two weeks ago, Mitski’s Laurel Hell debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200, Billboard’s all-encompassing album chart, which factors in album sales, individual track sales, and, crucially, streaming. But on the Top Album Sales chart, which goes by the more traditional metric of actual albums sold, Laurel Hell entered at #1. Now her fellow indie luminaries Beach House, fresh off their studio time with Kanye West, have pulled off the same feat (with an even ...
I guess this is going to be a thing now. Two weeks ago, Mitski’s Laurel Hell debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200, Billboard’s all-encompassing album chart, which factors in album sales, individual track sales, and, crucially, streaming. But on the Top Album Sales chart, which goes by the more traditional metric of actual albums sold, Laurel Hell entered at #1. Now her fellow indie luminaries Beach House, fresh off their studio time with Kanye West, have pulled off the same feat (with an even ...
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