Linkin Park Comprehensive Update (03/06/2017)
The CSPC article related to Linkin Park has been fully updated with the new methodologies which includes YouTube integration and streaming to sales ratio. Figures of streaming and sales were also updated to newly available data.
Major updates are listed below.
Format-Record – Before – After
Cumulative Physical Singles Sales – 4,000,000 – 3,210,000
Album Sales Hybrid Theory – 20,000,000 – 20,800,000
Album Sales Meteora – 13,100,000 – 13,300,000
Album Sales Minutes To Midnight – 7,900,000 – 7,800,000
Album Sales A Thousand Suns – 2,800,000 – 2,700,000
Album Sales Living Things – 2,400,000 – 2,250,000
Album Sales The Hunting Party – 1,250,000 – 1,100,000
Final CSPC Total – 74,119,000 – 74,470,000
Hello, when you calculate the loss of album sales 2004-2006 in order to measure digital sales, shouldn’t the loss of physical single sales also be counted?
hello where do i get “Comprehensive Audio Stream”
Hi MJD, I have a question, The “Comprehensive Audio Stream” includes Spotify??
[…] The main source of data for each avenue is respectively Spotify and YouTube. As detailed in the Fixing Log article, Spotify represents 157 million of the 272 million users of streaming platforms, […]
Shouldn’t streams for older songs be worth more than streams for newer ones tho?
At this point Ed Sheeran will probably pass MJ with CSPC
Just like how tour grosses are adjusted for inflation?
Hi snsd!
That doesn’t make sense really. Streams are weighted to be as worthy as albums, the point is not to get a linear market through time: sales themselves strongly evolved through the years!
Hello! Any news on Streaming formula (Equivalent Albums Sales (EAS) = 272/157* Spotify streams / 1500 + YouTube views / 11750)? Infos about size markets of Japan, China, Korea (and others out Spotify)?
Hi Luca! We should definitely update the article with the last formula. I’m still holding it off for now since I haven’t got time to take a few examples and check how new streaming formula balances out with SK downloads. The latter have been used since a few years to account for Asian popularity of international artists, now that we already reflect it thanks to streaming numbers of local platforms we feel like double-counting it. We may discontinue the accounting of these downloads from a certain date, likely end of 2017, but I need to put figures on a spread… Read more »