No single artist’s album has gone platinum in 2014
From the visionary researchers who first discovered that water is wet and bears poop in the woods comes another shocking announcement: People don’t buy albums as much as they used to. Obviously, album sales have been going downhill ever since the breakout year when music was first invented, but the headline-friendly information this time around is that no one artist’s album has gone platinum this year. This actually comes from Forbes, which notes that only one album has sold the requisite million copies in 2014, and that’s the Frozen soundtrack. Also, Forbes says the Frozen soundtrack has sold about 3.2 million, and believes “with winter coming, that number is sure to rise,” which is something we only wanted to bring up so everybody could picture Ned Stark hyping album sales.