George Michael Comprehensive Update (06/05/2017)
The article of George Michael has been fully adjusted with new methodology for both physical singles and streaming. The former updates are listed below:
Year Song Before After
Bad Boys – 950,000 – 1,010,000
Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) – 600,000 – 350,000
Club Tropicana – 900,000 – 500,000
Young Guns (Go for It!) – 800,000 – 630,000
Club Fantastic Megamix – 300,000 – 220,000
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go – 3,750,000 – 3,650,000
Everything She Wants – 1,750,000 – 1,520,000
Freedom – 2,400,000 – 2,430,000
Careless Whisper – 6,500,000 – 6,290,000
The Edge of Heaven – 1,500,000 – 1,400,000
I’m Your Man – 1,400,000 – 1,450,000
A Different Corner – 2,200,000 – 2,050,000
Where Did Your Heart Go? – 300,000 – 270,000
Last Christmas – 5,200,000 – 4,980,000
Faith – 2,400,000 – 2,220,000
Father Figure – 1,400,000 – 1,250,000
I Want Your Sex (Parts I & II) – 2,200,000 – 2,010,000
One More Try – 1,800,000 – 1,720,000
Monkey – 1,250,000 – 1,100,000
Kissing a Fool – 900,000 – 760,000
Praying for Time – 1,500,000 – 1,360,000
Freedom! ’90 – 1,150,000 – 1,060,000
Cowboys and Angels – 125,000 – 70,000
Waiting for That Day – 350,000 – 290,000
Mother’s Pride – 200,000 – 180,000
Heal the Pain – 125,000 – 50,000
Jesus to a Child – 1,600,000 – 1,360,000
Fastlove – 1,650,000 – 1,410,000
Older – 225,000 – 180,000
Spinning the Wheel – 500,000 – 410,000
Star People – 325,000 – 270,000
You Have Been Loved – 300,000 – 210,000
Amazing – 200,000 – 150,000
Round Here – 50,000 – 30,000
Shoot the Dog – 100,000 – 50,000
Flawless (Go to the City) – 100,000 – 80,000
Freeek! – 325,000 – 160,000
I Knew You Were Waiting – 1,900,000 – 1,510,000
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me – 2,500,000 – 2,240,000
Too Funky – 1,200,000 – 970,000
Killer/Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone – 125,000 – 120,000
If I Told You That – 200,000 – 130,000
Waltz Away Dreaming – 100,000 – 80,000
Outside – 500,000 – 330,000
As – 400,000 – 240,000
Somebody to Love – 450,000 – 380,000
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 »