According to industry estimates, “Compton” - which is being offered only through Apple for its first two weeks - had about 11 million streams in the United States. When Billboard’s latest album chart is released on Monday, “Compton” is expected to open in second place, beaten by “Kill the Lights,” from the country star Luke Bryan. Still, the album’s performance was not quite enough to send it to No. “We’re beginning to show what we can do in terms of communicating music to a worldwide audience and helping artists at the same time,” said Jimmy Iovine, the former record executive who helped build the new service after Apple paid $3 billion last year for Beats, the electronics company and music brand he started with Dr. Dre’s album “Compton: A Soundtrack” - a loose tie-in to the film “Straight Outta Compton” - had 25 million streams around the world in its first week, and also sold nearly half a million downloads through Apple’s iTunes store, Apple executives said on Sunday. In Apple Music’s first major test, the answer is a qualified yes. When Apple introduced its new streaming service, Apple Music, at the end of June, one of the big questions hanging over it was whether it could compete with outlets like Spotify to deliver blockbuster results for big new albums.
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