Streaming Part 3
Download sales of catalog songs of Madonna are not that good, but at least they benefited from positive years for her from 2005 to 2008 plus boosts like the Superbowl. Since streaming exploded, she has not been getting hits anymore, so her old records had no boost of this kind.
As a result, less successful albums like Erotica and Bedtime Stories register no song with 10 million Spotify streams nor 20 million Youtube views. This absence of notable songs impacts strongly the equivalent album sales from streams of those albums, under 30,000 units each.
“Into The Groove” was released in Canada in 2 formats: Cass-single and 12″. Sold 100k copies there as RPM clearly states on their 1986-07-26 issue (at the time had 40k from “Into The Groove” cassette singles made it the best selling cassette single in Canada so far). You can read the original issue PDF scaning that also have other interesting info about other artists here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210124041521/https://worldradiohistory.com/CANADA/RPM/80s/1986/RPM-1986-07-26.pdf I’m sure it must be hard to find info about sales on most countries previous to the 00’s decade as most was only printed on weekly magazines or internal industry reports and still aren’t… Read more »
Hello MJD, I have been following your page for a couple of years now and I have always wondered what were your exact estimations of Madonna’s album sales in Asia, outside of Japan, like how much did each of her albums sell in Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Hong Kong etc.
Do you guys have a link to the claim of her Italian sales of “the first album” (1983)?
Please. Madame x?
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