Digital Singles Sales – George Michael
In spite of releasing many more albums and singles as a solo artist, the total of digital sales achieved by George Michael barely beats the Wham! figure with 9,55 million units sold due to a lack of widely remembered hits.
As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 1,5 ratio between one album and one digital single.
Faith (1987) – 480,000 equivalent albums
Faith – 1,000,000
Father Figure – 750,000
I Want Your Sex (Parts I & II) – 400,000
One More Try – 600,000
Kissing a Fool – 300,000
Remaining tracks – 150,000
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 (1990) – 195,000 equivalent albums
Praying for Time – 150,000
Freedom! ’90 – 750,000
Cowboys and Angels – 100,000
Waiting for That Day – 100,000
Heal the Pain – 100,000
Remaining tracks – 100,000
Older (1996) – 203,000 equivalent albums
Jesus to a Child – 350,000
Fastlove – 500,000
Spinning the Wheel – 100,000
You Have Been Loved – 100,000
Remaining tracks – 300,000
Songs from the Last Century (1999) – 60,000 equivalent albums
Remaining tracks – 400,000
Patience (2004) – 83,000 equivalent albums
Amazing – 150,000
Flawless (Go to the City) – 100,000
Remaining tracks – 300,000
Orphan – 413,000 equivalent albums
I Knew You Were Waiting – 250,000
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me – 700,000
I Can’t Make You Love Me – 250,000
Outside – 250,000
As – 250,000
Too Funky – 250,000
Killer/Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone – 100,000
Somebody to Love – 150,000
December Song (I Dream Of Christmas) – 150,000
Remaining tracks – 400,000
Oh umm I remember listen without prejudice being at 2,475,000 not 2,415,000 did MJD Update it?
In Switzerland, the total should be 950,000 not 95,000, right?
hello! i have 2 questions:
1. is the total aes of “don’t let the sun go down on me” including sales generated from duets by elton john and other elton compilations or just sales generated exclusively by michael’s work? if so what is it’s total
2. are physical, digital and streaming sales from the elton john tracks “wrap her up” and “nikita” included into george michael’s total, because i THINK wrap her up officially credits michael, but i don’t think nikita does despite michaels major contribution to the song, like stings contribution to money for nothing ?
i’m suprised “i knew you were waiting (for me)” with aretha franklin didnt reach 1m aes i always thought it was one of his biggest hits
Faith sales was around 20-25 million and Song from the last century was around 4 million.
Yes I thought this too
Coming back to this analysis, I’m still very confused as to why George Michael and Wham’s numbers are combined. This isn’t done for any other artists that can be seen as the face of the group. Saying that “Wham is George Michael” doesn’t prove anything. They’re two separate artists whose sales and charting counts as two separate positions. Just look at their respective discography pages and chart histories on Billboard, OCC, etc…