Album-equivalent unit: Difference between revisions

The term ''album-equivalent unit'' had been used by the [[International Federation of the Phonographic Industry]] (IFPI) long before the streaming era began. Between 1994 and 2005, the IFPI counted three [[single (music)|physical singles]] as an equivalent of one album unit in their annual ''Recording Industry in Numbers'' (RIN) report.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r5YMEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT76|title=Music by Numbers: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Music Industries|first1=Richard|last1=Osborne|first2=Dave|last2=Laing|date=December 2, 2020|publisher=Intellect Books|via=Google Books}}</ref> The term was reintroduced by the IFPI in 2013 to measure their [[Global Recording Artist of the Year]].<ref name="auto"/> By this point, the album-equivalent units had already included music downloads and streams.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305093920/http://www.ifpi.org/news/One-Direction-are-officially-the-biggest-global-recording-artists-of-2013|title=One Direction are officially the biggest global recording artists of 2013|date=March 5, 2014|website=web.archive.org}}</ref> Alternative term of album equivalent unit is ''sales plus streaming'' (SPS) unit, which was introduced by ''[[Hits (magazine)|Hits]]'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=301625&title+SALES-PLUS-STREAMING-(SPS):-THE-TOP-25--ALBUMS-YTD|title=Rumor Mill - SALES PLUS STREAMING (SPS): THE TOP 25 ALBUMS YTD|website=HITS Daily Double}}</ref>