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honestly, you are embarassing yourself here, according to the latest update, Beyonce sold 17 mln pure albums in the US, so Beyonce's 75 mln figure for her first 4 albums is inaccurate(18.5 mln pure per her album), even IFPI denies that, you can see the best selling albums byIFPI for each year too. Everyonce can make an article, only music distributors statistics are accurate
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7400402/beyonce-lemonade-sixth-million-selling-album?utm_source=twitter
Also notice the time difference. Your first screenshot was from 2011, before her fourth album, and then the article came out in 2013, before her 5th album.
Even if it was 75 million back in 2011, as it claims, that would mean no one bought her fourth album at all between 2011 to when the 2013 second article was published...
“Beyonce is the only solo female artist from the last 20 years with 3 albums as high as B’Day in equivalent album sales.“
What about Adele?
19 hasn’t sold as much as B’Day. Definitely not at the time the article was written.
Billbord doesn’t track album sales and that’s from 2016. RIAA hasn’t updated any of Bey’s albums since the bush administration lmao
Firstly, thank you so much for all the time and effort all the staff put into these articles. Really informative!
I am hoping we could get an update for Beyonce soon! Since this article, she has released 2 projects (HOMECOMING & TG) and 1 collab album (EIL, not sure if you will count it towards her total). The latter two underperformed, but the first former has strong streaming numbers for a live album, and should boost her catalog. Not to mention Lemonade getting a wide streaming release, and Halo remaining consistently the most streamed female 00s song.
IASF must be past 19M now all things considered, no?
Sorry, but you need education, Billboard gets its data from Nielsen 💀which updates an artist's discography after she releases a new album, look and take notes, Beyonce sold 17.2 mln pure in the US
Omg yes! I’m pretty sure DIL sold 12M + pure ww.
Bday should be at 10M pure by now.
IASF 11M+ pure.
4- 5M
ST 5-6M, (never left the top 50 ww itunes best selling albums)
Lemonade 3-4M.
Totals 45-46M pure studio albums
Video albums: 5M+ pure
Comprehensive sales: 50M pure albums
Hey MJD! When will you be doing another analysis or updating Bey’s pure sales on the banner. Has IASF already crossed 20M CSPC? I’m curious to know how much Lemonade has sold thus far aswell after the streaming release. Hope to hear from you 🙂
It should be Diamond there it was number 1 for weeks and is probably the best selling foreign song and IASF is 3x diamond
Bey’s pure sales have been the same since Jan 2017, that’s 4 years😩 pls update her CSPC ASAP thx 🙂
Beyoncé has one of the most enduring careers ever. 23 years long career, reaching her pop culture peak AFTER her commercial peak, who else did that? And I‘m sure the 2020s will be massive as well for her.
Britney Spears sure does, since this was written in 2018 and Britney premiered in 1998.
Would Homecoming be counted as equivalent streaming points for the original albums the tracks were featured on? It’s basically a greatest hits album.
B'day achieved 1 billion streams. Three more projects since Lemonade. Some new collabs. It's time to update this PLEAAAAASE
I‘m sure they‘re waiting for her next major project of her 40th birthday later this year.
Dangerously In Love, despite not SMAHSING the world with sales, did pretty impressive numbers in all markets (Asia, Europe, Oceania, Latin America, Africa, and North America)
I‘m wondering how big Lemonade would‘ve been on Spotify and Apple Music if she hadn’t gone the Tidal-exclusive route. Probably around 2.5B on Spotify alone!
