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It seems to me like this most recent project is already losing steam.
For example, at the same time USVT still held 9/10 of the top 10 on Spotify daily charts in Mexico, and all 23 tracks in the top 50.
Nadie Sabe has 2/10 of the top tracks in Mexico, and charts only 6 in the top 50, with some tracks even being out of the top 200.
The results are similar across LATAM and Western Europe.
It could be entirely due to the different sound of the album compared to USVT, but the ticket price backlash he is currently receiving won't help.
There's one more ratio that isn't mentioned here because it's kinda technical so I make it simple by mentioning the "Artist Ratio" but that one is indeed the combination of 2 internal ratios.
The first one is related to the artist, it's 1.31442 for Bad Bunny. That one means "based on the distribution of listeners through his top 50 cities, Spotify represents 76.07918% of his streams", which is equal to multiplying Spotify streams by 1.31442.
Then, there's a genre-related ratio, to adjust the fact that cities may not be reflecting exactly the streams distribution. I'll take an example easy to understand: Indian artists. Indian cities are so big that in general almost all cities from the top 50 of their artists are from India alone. Yet, Indian artists have some reach overseas thanks to the diaspora. As the market share of Spotify in India is relatively weak, streams are strongly extrapolated, yet that misses out streams these artists are getting from the UK, US, Canada, etc.
For that, I took an empirical approach and looked at the % of non-Indian streams from various examples of songs which charted on global charts, and valued where these streams were coming from, and applied the market ratio to the ones effectively coming from the UK, Canada, etc, even if no UK or Canadian cities made the top 50.
That's why for Hindi artists I apply a second ratio that is 0.973918, to offset the fact that non-Indian cities are under represented among their artists' top 50.
In the same way, Latin artists are massive in Latin America but still get streams from many markets, where Spotify is usually not as strong. That means we apply a small extrapolation ratio for the top 50 (as Spotify is strong in Mexico, Argentina, etc), yet the artists are getting solid streams in countries less represented on that top 50 (most notably from Europe). That concludes on top 50s lowering the extrapolation for Latin acts, hence an adjustment ratio of 1.04367 for them.
The exact ratio of Bad Bunny, that is showing in the streaming tool results for example, is thus 1.31442 * 1.04367.
By the way, it may come as a surprise that he climbs compared to former numbers when Latin artists underperform the Spotify ratio based on global users. Myself I had forgotten that for his previous update I already used what I called a "Latin ratio", considering Spotify accounted for 72% of streams in the region. As he is actually more global than the "average" latin act, he actually slightly overperforms that ratio which was previously used for him.
PS: it's all good for CSPCs, but as you can understand between the lines, the All DSP list misses out on applying that genre-related ratio, I'll fix that.
Bad Bunny sells nothing outside of streaming, in the case of UVST 157k (album + digital singles). So audio streaming (12.9m) + video streaming (2.6m) = 15.5m. And again, the total was 15.6m a few days ago.
It has over 30m daily streams two weeks in which is still very strong. Monaco and Perro Negro are demonstrating potential for longevity. It's clear this won't be as big as UVST which is expected as it isn't as commercial friendly, but I thinks absurd to expect that he would maintain that level forever. UVST is one of the biggest albums ever.
Site has serious flaws according to whoever created this site. In one artist he’ll have his metrics favorable for one than the other artist doesn’t seem it gets the same numbers. According to streaming stats 1500 streams is considered one album sale but some artists are not getting the same stats so I’m confused. Many negative comments on this site and I know why. Plus drake never gone diamonds in an album, but some how they have him certified diamond on this site smh it’s too inaccurate for me.
Yes ! It was before update (October 24 , 2023) . Read MJD (Author) a few comments before . He explained !
What "update" are you talking about? After I said UVST mysteriously went from 15.6m to 16.4m MJD talked to you about a "genre-related ratio" and BB's ratio being actually "1.31442 * 1.04367"... Is that it?
In any case it's beyond confusing, at minimum these kind of changes (like adding 1 million units to an album) probably deserve an article to explain them?
There’s no way I am going to believe that post Malone “Hollywood Reporter s bleeding” sold more than bad bunny UVST. I’m sorry this site is extremely so inaccurate it’s insane. Post malone spent a total of five weeks at number one but bad bunny UVST spent 13 weeks at number 1 and has become the first album in Billboard history to never fall below No. 2 in its first 18 weeks on the chart. many artist here it seems that they are combining views on YouTube and singles from feat on another persons album n previous album streams they had in the past but they are still consuming those albums n they tally it up as that the current album is receiving all those streams. Which is way so many artist album numbers are inflated.
"Ticket backlash" got nothing to do and he's still selling them out. As soon as it was confirmed it would be a trap album most people anticipated it wasn't going to beat UVST in the chart department, in fact that album is an anomaly, period.
Bad bunny himself stated it was for his long time fans, not yonaguni/uvst casual fans. He's still doing very high numbers but as I said uvst is the biggest album ever streaming wise so it's hard to defeat per se
There’s no way that outside of USA that post Malone album sold over 13 million off of Hollywood reporter is bleeding. I’m sorry but there’s no way he’s that global of an artist. I lived in Europe for over 8 yrs n I’m telling you no one was hearing that album. This site is completely inflating some of these artist album stats.
Hollywood’s Bleeding is 4 years old. UVST is barely a year. If you’re bothered by the numbers, consider how close they are in sales *despite* HB having a 3 year headstart.
If a pop girl fails to sell at all in Japan and Germany, she would definitely be immediately called local.
