Thank you for the answer I love your analysis

Interesting that IASF units decreased from last update

I had bet between 85-87M on this update. Exceeded my expectations. In the next few weeks it will reach 90M. The 100M barrier will take a long time.

You're welcome. Thank you for the work in it!

Wow an update for the Queen.

So Dangerously In Love stands near 10.2 million. wow (I guess she can be removed from the fake 10 million sellers page)
B'Day near 6.5 million

I thought self-titled would have been well over 4 million but I guess not.

Good update. She's not much of a big seller. By the grace of the Gods maybe Renaissance could pass 4M

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't she in the the top ten best selling female artists in this chart? It's not like she's far away other people the other two female artists above her are 100 while she's at 90 lol.

Hi Music Fan!

For the last 2-3 years, there have been no major adjustment to the downloads methodology. Beyonce's numbers pre-dated some of the big 2018-2019 changes though, for example the first inclusion of Asian streams, when we accounted for SK downloads up to date rather than stopping them by the end of 2017. We removed these. There have been also formula changes that were done to account for the fact that outside of the big western markets, downloads collapsed earlier, this was applied for the first time to her.

As for physical singles, it's mostly due to Discogs which reflects better where each song has been issued, and with which proportion, rather than assuming that singles were available in all available markets.

There have been a few fixes at albums' end too, although as they go both sides it's not as visible. The two relevant changes is the addition of plenty of small releases (like these early DC compilations available on some retailers only, hence excluded from charts back then), and club sales, which happen to be significant for DIL, B'Day and Dreamgirls.

Thanks!

It has over 800 million streams I think

So, with Halo, Beyonce is one of those artists whose tracks don't have the same popularity over time in relation to the rest of their discography. I guess Eminem is another, with Till I Collapse. Which artists might also be eligible for this?

I've mentioned a few here (2Pac especially).

AHH Finally an update! Just have a question regarding her sales in Brazil. On the best sellers since 2003 list that you compiled, I believe she sold 1.5M there? But on All Album Types it only shows 900k? Is that a mistake or a matter of video/eps being separated from studio albums? Thanks for replying 🙂

Thanks!

Hi A&E!

It's the latter, the total sales listed by country are indeed albums only while the Brazil article include DVDs etc too.