BONUS: Compilation Albums Sales
Celebration (2009)
- America
- US – 450,000
- Canada – 110,000
- Argentina – 25,000
- Brazil – 90,000
- Mexico – 100,000
- Asia – 475,000
- Japan – 300,000
- Oceania
- Australia – 70,000
- New Zealand – 10,000
- Europe – 1,660,000
- UK – 600,000
- France – 180,000
- Germany – 225,000
- Italy – 180,000
- Spain – 50,000
- Sweden – 50,000
- Netherlands – 30,000
- Switzerland – 30,000
- Austria – 15,000
- Finland – 30,000
- World – 3,100,000
NB: N/A means no specific number is available. Sales from the country are still accounted for in the Worldwide estimate by using figure patterns of both the artist and the country market. Countries not displayed in this fixed panel are factored in also.
“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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