The best selling digital tracks by the Beatles
It’s no news that the Beatles dominated the 60s, but which of their tracks, solo or group, were the top sellers in digital formats?
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The best selling singles by the Beatles
During more than 25 years, the Beatles dominated singles charts like nobody else. We ranked their best selling physical singles, one by one.
BTS dominance is the only unflawed bit of IFPI annual list
As they have been doing since 2001, the IFPI published this week the top selling albums of the year. Unlike the previous edition, when they got the #1 wrong, this time they properly reported the global domination of Korean superstars …
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7 by BTS debuts with over 5 million sales
Korean music behemoth BTS continue to make history. The boy band from Seoul sold over 5 million units with their new effort Map of the Soul: 7. This is the second fastest selling album of all-time.
New BTS album is 32nd top Spotify debut ever with only 7 songs
Map of the Soul: Persona, the new bomb from K-Pop masters BTS, records an absolutely impressive first week on Spotify at 98 million streams with a mere 7 songs. How does that compete against the top performers ever?
What to expect of Adele’s next album?
If all albums are strongly anticipated by fans of its singer, the fourth album of Adele is eagerly awaited by virtually everybody, even more now that we know she is working on it. Many want to listen to her new …
Prediction Lab: Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty
There is always excitement around the release of an album. Fans are eagerly waiting to hear new music, media are curious about what will happen, and chart geeks can’t wait to see the first results come in from iTunes, Spotify, …
Spotlight on Elvis Presley’s hidden sales
Charts-excluded budget releases, CDs issued thanks to loopholes, direct marketing series, albums from state-owned labels, etc… the number of Elvis Presley‘s records that remained out of the spotlight was huge. The revolution brought by Discogs means their sales to consumers …
Elvis Presley’s EP sales
It’s hard to not forget about Elvis Presley’s EP sales. Not that they are weak, but this format disappeared so long ago that when talking about records sales we tend to think about singles and albums only. Introduced to the …
Elvis Presley’s physical singles sales
If his album sales are subject to various utopic myths, Elvis Presley‘s singles sales aren’t a mystery at all. Fact is, he sold an insane number of them. More than anyone who debuted after him, that means more than the …