R. City’s “Locked Away,” featuring Adam Levine, has the lowest sales for the week’s top-selling digital song since 2006.
With 15.66 million digital songs sold in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 27, according to Nielsen Music, the industry saw its lowest weekly song volume in nearly eight years.
It’s the smallest weekly sum for song downloads since the week ending Dec. 9, 2007, when 15.64 million were sold.
Conversely — and unsurprisingly — as sales plummet, streaming continues its ascent, with the same frame marking the highest week of total U.S. on-demand audio and v