Album Sales Bottom Out

Billboard reports that this week’s 3.97-million album sales total is the smallest weekly sum since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. It’s also the first time since then that weekly sales have fallen below four million. Last week’s top-selling album, Wiz Khalifa’s ‘Blacc Hollywood,’ debuted with 90,000 units sold — well below the first-week sales of many other top debuts this year and while three other albums debuted in the top 10, they but averaged only 31,000 units moved each. The same week last year, 4.88 million albums were sold. This year, there have only been five weeks with more than 5 million sales and they each happened more than 18 weeks ago.