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Writing Task 1: The album sales in the USA in 2020

The chart show the album sales in the USA in 2020 and data on BTS top hits streams worldwide in March 2020

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words.

Sample Answer : Band 9

The bar chart provides information about the number of albums that artists were able to sell in the US in the year 2020. Meanwhile, the table presents the total streams from various platforms recorded for BTS top hits in March of the same year.

Overall, BTS was seen to have the greatest number of album sales in the US in 2020, while Lil Nas X had the lowest sales figure among the seven artists in the report. It is also clear that BTS top hits were mostly streamed on YouTube and played the least on Apple Music.

In detail, with 573,000 album sales, BTS was on top of the US charts, followed by Billie Eilish and Jonas Brothers, selling more than 400,000 albums each. It can also be noted that Ariana Grande was able to record a total of 297,000 album sales, almost three times as much as that of Taylor Swift. The artists with the lowest documented figures were 21 Savage and Lil Nas X at 17,000 and 7,000, respectively.

In terms of the number of streams for BTS top hits in various platforms, YouTube was observed to have the greatest number at 2.36 billion in March 2020. Spotify was also able to register a moderately high figure of 960 million, less than half that for YouTube, whereas QQ and Apple Music had significantly lower numbers, with the total streams not exceeding 80 million.

WORD COUNT: 234.

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