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Fantastic job MJD!
I was wondering though. Didn't you make a slight mistake for Greatest Hits in Australia? You have it at 420,000 units but it was certified 9 x Platinum in 2009 (630,000 units). Given it's been a solid catalog seller Down Under, I would expect it to be very close to 770,000 units.
What do you think?
Hi Innocent Eyes!
I was expecting this exact question precisely from you 😉
I voluntarily downgraded that certification, the very first time I do so for Australia!
IIRC (I have ARIA blocked by my proxy right now), GH went 1xP in 1995, 2xP in 1997 and 4xP in 2008 before jumping to 9xP in 2009. If we check Year End Charts, they are perfectly in line with the 1-2-4 Platinum certifications. The one from 2009 makes really no sense at all. I can see two possible explanations - 1) a simple typo and the album should have been shown as 5xP instead, 2) a Jay-Z / Ariana / Lorde / Lady Gaga-like offer of a popular site / company buying the album and giving it away to consumers. For this reason I decided to go from the 4xP award only, ignoring the one from 2009!
You know me too well haha 😉
Well, I must admit that I found that 9xP cert. a bit fishy at first, particularly since it came so soon after the 4xP. I thought though that it may have been due to unaudited sales (a bit like how John Farnham's Whispering Jack jumped from 17 to 24x Plat. from 1997 to 2006).
But your explanation does make sense and would perhaps explain why Greatest Hits has never been re-certified in the 2017 audit when Sony even updated his singles certs.
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