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BTW, do you know how many sales did 1xP equal to in Saudi Arabia?Spice is 2xP there by Nov. 1997
They were but that level was already a 'new' one, at some point in early 00s it changed from 50k to 40k! There are various references on Billboard of Gold/Platinum albums in Thailand for 25/50k shipped from the 90s.
There have never been an official award in Saudi Arabia, when it was created that was in 2008 and it encapsulated various gulf countries named GCC with 3k/6k levels. Thus it was up to labels to use whatever criteria they wanted on their in-house receipts!
https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=mw8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA88-IA5&dq=backstreet+boys+multi+platinum+malaysia&hl=en&ei=35S8TPadCcKlcOC3-bIM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=backstreet%20boys%20&f=false
Why Billboard reported that M was 4xP in SK but with 250k sales?Wasn't 4xP=400k?
An overall comment on all these awards dudj: you seem to be using the thread "Certifications Levels Around The Globe" in UKmix. AutomaticBR did a great job there, but recaps miss some levels for multiple countries. In SK, there has been a 30/60k level in-between 50/100k and 15/30k periods.
But 4xP seems like official award so can only be equal to 400.000 since M released in 1999
It's unclear as to when exactly the award changed its criteria and also the release date doesn't matter but instead the certification date, same as in the Netherlands. It's safe that it hasn't been certified for 400k units since by the end of 11/1999 it had shipped exactly 215,255 copies and then dropped out in December 1999 when the cut was under 10k!
What countries still used critetia based on the certification date except SK and Netherlands then?
This number was manually added by Nelson back in 2004 at UKmix, using certifications as displayed on Billboard in 3/18/1999. Checking them back, he got a few criterias wrong, which isn't surprising considering the huge mess the internet still was back then. It was very hard to retrieve accurate / official information online 15 years ago. Realistically, it was certified for 180k sold. The figure I posted here (215k) was published by MIAK which used to provide official monthly shipments for South Korea back in the day. I feel old thinking of me retrieving them so long ago!
About countries using certification date, actually it's the majority of them. The US, France, Austria, Italy, Sweden, etc., they all use the contemporary level of the award. A few countries like Brazil, Mexico, and Germany certify based on the release date still.
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Billboard-Magazine.htm
There was no 1999/03/18 on Billboard...
http://www.cctv.com/news/entertainment/20010328/307.html
Backstreet Boys' first album is 6xPlatinum in Taiwan, yes 300k.
For their sale figures in Thailand, I found that as in 2006, they've sold around 594,000 copies. The information I got was from the promotional website for their first concert here in Thailand 13 years ago ( http://www.thaiticketmajor.com/concert/backstreetboys06.php). And that only includes 4 studio albums during their peak & greatest hits.
I don't know how other international acts perform in my country, but over half a million sales from BSB is massively huge for foreign acts, that numbers could even surpassed some popular local acts in my country too, I'm not sure.
