Here’s How Many Streams It Takes to Equal an Album Sale. One album sale equals 10 song downloads or 1,500 song streams. So, the next time you watch a music video for an artist on YouTube, you “bought” 1/3,750 of an album for them. When you stream a track on Apple Music, that’s 1/1,250 or 1/1,500 album units Catch this and many other articles on our global music business at fuse our Music Alliance Digital Music ‘Zine