Trump And J6 Prison Choir Track Sells An Amazing 22,500 Digital Downloads

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President Donald Trump then sang the national anthem at a “Celebration of America” ​​event on the south lawn of the White House in June 2018. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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A musical collaboration between Donald Trump and a choir of individuals jailed for their alleged involvement in the January 6 riot has sold 22,500 digital downloads in the 11 days since its release, according to a music analytics firm.

Justice for All by Trump and the J6 Prison Choir debuted on March 3. The track interpolates the former president reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to The Star-Spangled Banner, which was sung by inmates at the Washington, DC. Trump is personally involved in the project.

The following Friday, the track reached the top spot on the iTunes Store, which measures how many times a song has been sold. By that day, the song had sold 4,800 digital downloads on iTunes and other retailers, according to tracking service Luminate (formerly known as Nielsen). The track remained in the top spot with digital downloads totaling 22,500 as of Monday. I noticed that as a huge amount of downloads, said an executive in the music technology business not associated with the release, who asked not to be named because of the nature of the song.

The music executive noted that consumers have moved away from downloading songs, opting to stream them instead. Justice for All was streamed on-demand 600,000 times across audio and video between March 3 and March 13, according to Luminate. That’s not a ton, said the music executive. You’ll often see a song that really flows get millions of streams in the first few days. That’s less impressive than downloads. That play count wasn’t enough to land Justice for All on Apple Music’s or Spotify’s streaming charts.

The song also did not reach the Billboards chart. But Erica Knight, a spokeswoman for Kash Patel, a former Trump administration staffer involved in the recording, said she expects to see the song on multiple charts when they are released next week.

Sales of a $100 vinyl version are significant, Knight said, declining to provide actual sales numbers.

Justice for All costs $1.29 in the iTunes Store. The proceeds are slated to benefit the families of people imprisoned for their alleged role in the Capitol riots.

“Justice for All” by Donald J. Trump and the J6 Prison Choir went to No. 1 spot on the iTunes Store chart on Friday. The chart tracks sales, not streams.

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