Does having a No.1 selling album really matter anymore?

While music streaming numbers rise to new heights globally and vinyl has been reinvigorated as a must-have format, there seems to be mounting concern about the long term fate of the album, as physical sales hit new lows. All of this is happening at the same time that the world’s top-selling performe

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