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I think 90M is safe...My estimates are:
36-37M studio albums
6M eps/live/dvd/OST/remix/mvs
5M physical songs
180M digital songs
20M EAS
Hey MJD, will you include The Dream Girls OST on Beyoncé’s next update in the Orphan section? hopefully soon 🙂
Hi WV/A&E!
90 million isn't realistic at all right now. No number is "stuck on the first few years of certifications" either, all numbers were up to date estimates by the date of the article.
Where can i see Dreamgirls, Cadillac records and those side projecst sales and spotify numbers?
I meant a lot of her albums are uncertified in many countries. Have you adjusted your estimation model or is it the same as 2016? Because i don’t see a ROW section for Bey’s albums on her “total album types sold” hopefully we get an update soon 🙂
Beyoncé is the artist in the race to 100m article that hasn’t been updated for the longest. I understand after the string of updates that you’re probably focusing on new artists like Deep Purple. But is there a plan to update her this year? Or is it unlikely.
I originally thought her numbers wouldn’t change much as streaming is updated but now I’m not sure after seeing the 8m jump for Drake and the 2m jump for Rihanna because of changes in sales tracking.
what kind of increase would you expect?
I‘m really curious to find out how her next solo album and its singles will perform on the charts. More mainstream oriented music or is she really over this? Surprise drop again (maybe in partnership with Netflix/Disney) or a traditional promo run with an upbeat lead single? Hopefully the Tidal exclusive drop is a thing of the past.
With Lemonade on Spotify and new side-releases, I think an update for her would be quite interesting right now.
You're talking a lot of smack for someone who hasn't had a hit in almost a decade.
No. Britney wins on tours and single sales records:
Destiny’s Child opened for Britney on her 2000 tour; even though she debuted after they did.
Britney’s 1/3 done & canceled 2004 tour outgrossed both of Beyoncé’s 2003 + 2004 tours.
In 2009, Britney’s Circus Tour outgrossed Beyoncé’s 2009-2010 I Am Tour.
Britney was ranked #21 on Billboards 2000’s artists tours while Beyoncé and DC didn’t make that list.
Britney had set records with her singles sales like highest selling digital single opening week when she released Womanizer, beating Mariah Carey’s Touch My Body from 2005, and keeping the record thru the end of the decade.
Britney, in 2009 released only the 15th single ever to debut at #1 with 3, which was never even promoted.
Circus closed out the decade-end IFPI reports for global sales as the #10 highest selling single of 2009, even though it was released in 2008.
Britney’s 1st 6 studio albums were from 1999-2008, not 2007…
A Greatest Hits album is a compilation album. Let’s focus on studio albums.
Also, if you are referring to her 8th as keeping its average, that’s unpredictable, and would still be below Britney, based on your own estimates.
Britney won fair and square, and Destiny’s Child released a 1999 album and didn’t sell well. So if peak selling years, as you put it, include 1999, then why didn’t DC sell well? The fact you suggest 1999 secured strong sales for Britney undermines her success, as DC proves that not all 1999 albums from popular artists did well…
DC even had the advantage of it being their 2nd album, so they already had a built in fanbase from 1998, but still underperformed.
TLC had gone Diamond a few years earlier, so blaming lesser sales strictly on the year is unfair.
I think Gaga only has 6 albums and outsold Beyoncé, and I bring her up since Adele also came out in 2008. Taylor, from her first 6 albums did better than Beyoncé’s 6.
Beyoncé still released mainstream pop songs in 2011, like Run The World, and featured heavily on commercial pop music like Telephone from Gaga from 2010, and even later in the decade such as on Ed Sheeran’s Perfect Duet. Sorry, but your argument isn’t honest.
She also collabs with many artists to capitalize on the increased Latin music market, hence Mi Gente.
Britney’s 1st 6 did better than Beyoncé’s
1st 6, so we don’t have to blame it on more albums.
You do know though, that The Writing’s On The Wall was their 2nd album, you’re referring to. It was a massive success, how the hell did this album underperform?
Did Gaga really outsell her? I don’t think so with her last few albums selling poorly with no longevity on streaming platforms beside Shallow and its soundtrack.
In which timeline is RTW mainstream pop in 2011?
Yes, her side projects were often Remixes of popular tunes during the 10s, but her own material didn’t cater to the masses, intentionally.
