In reply to Brent Christopher.

HitsDailyDouble still measures in pure sales and they're an industry institution ??‍♂️
First-week streaming numbers don't really say anything about success, only about the interest (hype) a project manages to garner upon release. In this day and age, pure sales numbers are more telling than ever.
That said, if it were up to me, we could completely stop talking about numbers at all, it's so incredibly depressing what the music industry has become. Fighting for scraps.