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An alternative term of album equivalent unit is sales plus streaming (SPS) unit, which was introduced by Hits magazine. By this point, the album-equivalent units had already included music downloads and streams. The term was reintroduced by the IFPI in 2013 to measure their Global Recording Artist of the Year. Between 19, the IFPI counted three physical singles as an equivalent of one album unit in their annual Recording Industry in Numbers (RIN) report. The term album-equivalent unit had been used by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) long before the streaming era began. Prior to digital era, the IFPI counted three physical singles ( pictured) as an equivalent of one album. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) have used album-equivalent unit to measure their Global Recording Artist of the Year since 2013. The usage of the album-equivalent units revolutionized the charts from the "best-selling albums" ranking into the "most popular albums" ranking. For instance, the only albums that went platinum in the United States in 2014 were the Frozen soundtrack and Taylor Swift's 1989, whereas several artists' works had in 2013. Album sales more than halved from 1999 to 2009, declining from a $14.6 to $6.3 billion industry. The album-equivalent unit was introduced in the mid- 2010s as an answer to the drop of album sales in the 21st century. This consumption includes streaming and song downloads in addition to traditional album sales. The album-equivalent unit, or album equivalent, is a measurement unit in music industry to define the consumption of music that equals the purchase of one album copy. The standard of an album-equivalent unit in the United States, according to the RIAA
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