CSPC: Lorde Popularity Analysis
Full Length related record Sales
It sounds fairly logical to add together weighted sales of one era – studio album, physical singles, downloads, streams – to get the full picture of an album’s popularity. For older releases though, they also generate sales of various live, music videos and compilation albums.
All those packaging-only records do not create value, they exploit the value originating from the parent studio album of each of its tracks instead. Inevitably, when such compilations are issued, this downgrades catalog sales of the original LP. Thus, to perfectly gauge the worth of these releases, we need to re-assign sales proportionally to its contribution of all the compilations which feature its songs. The following table explains this method.
Remaining Long Format
All songs from the EP The Love Club have been issued on the Pure Heroine album. Consequently, all its sales are reversed into the parent album. As a reminder, EPs with less than 6 songs are counted as one half of an album, which explains the last figure.
I feel like Lorde deserves a full article on her album and song sales tbh. It’s time guys!
Could you update her albums pure sales, please?
Pure Heroine (IFPI)
2013: 1.4M (pure sales)
2014: 2M (pure sales)
Will lorde get an update?
Hi Fanofpop!
The auto-album update is now set on all articles 🙂
Wow thank you
According to ifpi year end chart,her debut album shipped 3.4 million copies worldwide in the year 13,14.