Hector Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Quote Thanks to such acts as Britney Spears, Twenty One Pilots and Guns N’ Roses, along with soundtracks from the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise -- which boasts the year’s top two sellers -- and Netflix’s Stranger Things series, cassette tape album sales in the U.S. grew by 23 percent in 2018. According to Nielsen Music, cassette album sales climbed from 178,000 in 2017 to 219,000 copies in 2018. While that’s a small number compared to the overall album market (141 million copies sold in 2018), that’s a sizable number for a once-dead format. In 2014, for example, cassette album sales numbered just 50,000. But, 20 years before that, back in 1994, when cassettes were still very much a hot-selling format, there were 246 million cassette albums sold that year, of an overall 615 million albums. Cassette album releases in 2018 are still a very niche offering, with most significant titles limited to specialty reissues and unique projects. Among the top 10 selling cassette albums (see list, below) were Twenty One Pilots’ new studio album, Trench, and a reissue of Britney Spears’ debut album, …Baby One More Time. Spears’ …Baby One More Time sold 4,000 cassette copies and was the No. 5 biggest seller. It was reissued on cassette for its 20th anniversary, exclusive to Target stores, as a pink-colored cassette. Spears’ …Baby One More Time was originally released in January of 1999 on CD and cassette. Of the album’s 10.6 million copies sold to date, 1.49 million are on cassette. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and the set's title track became Spears' first No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100. TOP 10 SELLING CASSETTE ALBUMS OF 2018 IN U.S. Rank Artist, Title Sales 1 Soundtrack, Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 24,000 2 Soundtrack, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 19,000 3 Twenty One Pilots, Trench 7,000 4 Soundtrack, Stranger Things: Music From the Netflix Original Series 5,000 5 Britney Spears, …Baby One More Time 4,000 6 Soundtrack, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Mix, Vol. 1 3,000 7 Guns N' Roses, Appetite for Destruction 3,000 8 Metallica, The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited 3,000 9 Elvis Presley, Where No One Stands Alone 2,000 10 Wu-Tang Clan, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) 2,000 Source: Nielsen Music, for the tracking period Dec. 29, 2017 through Jan. 3, 2019. (Titles listed with the same sales total are not tied, as their exact sales are rounded to the nearest thousand.) https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8493927/us-cassette-album-sales-2018-britney-spears-guardians-twenty-one-pilots Only a legend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesleywalrus Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 4K copies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slw84 Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 legend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnusualBoy Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 The impact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan_brit Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Baby One More Time keeps winning after 20 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry I Shot Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 When will your faves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupid Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 1 minute ago, Gerry I Shot said: When will your faves? Right now 2018 was the biggest year for cassette sales in over a decade, Kylie Minogue was the biggest seller on the vintage platform, shifting an impressive 6,262 tapes of her Number 1 album Golden We love cassette queens! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempo Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Cassette legend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DancingShoes Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 queen of cassettes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucyyyyyyyyy Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Queen. Can’t believe the old skool music formats are becoming popular again. Love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev8 Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Whew! What a legend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghiles Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Reviving the pure sales industry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proseductice Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Only an artist with actual impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadius Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 The fact it wasn’t released until the end of the year at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberto Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Not even top 3 and it's in the title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Kardashian Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Almost as impressive as Kylie shifting 6.2k cassettes of her new album in a country with a 1/5th of the population! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghiles Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 3 minutes ago, Roberto said: Not even top 3 and it's in the title. Quote U.S. Cassette Album Sales Grew 23% in 2018, Aided by Britney Spears, 'Guardians,' Twenty One Pilots & More ? The OP is only reporting Billboard's claims. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eternium Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 9 minutes ago, Roberto said: Not even top 3 and it's in the title. It was a limited release at select Target stores at the end of the year and still made the top 5. It would’ve sold much more if it was available online or more readily stocked - it took me weeks to find it and I was actively looking for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev8 Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 34 minutes ago, Roberto said: Not even top 3 and it's in the title. It's the oldest album in the top 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkNeighbourhood Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 37 minutes ago, Kim Kardashian said: Almost as impressive as Kylie shifting 6.2k cassettes of her new album in a country with a 1/5th of the population! Cassette legend (wish i'd have all three versions and not only the standard cassette) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smgupdated Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 4 hours ago, Kim Kardashian said: Almost as impressive as Kylie shifting 6.2k cassettes of her new album in a country with a 1/5th of the population! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorNation Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Kylie outsold! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slw84 Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 iconic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geddymonster Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 I still have my original ...Baby One More Time cassette. An iconic format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradySpears Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Wish they would release more BOMT cassettes. Could easily sell more than what the #1 sold! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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