Hi Jazmine!

Unlike in the US, European charts never combined airplay plus CDs were cheap at the time, so when an artist had even a small amount of artistic credibility, (s)he was able to sell albums. As a result, one-hit wonders were the ones performing the best on European singles charts since they were the ones selling physical singles. If you check Top 10s from that era, you will see mostly dance / europop acts that most of us forgot about since then!

Ic. But how is it possible that some singers such as Madonna, Eminem, Britney Spears, etc. They managed to chart pretty well on the European charts and also did well on the album front. Are they more of an overall sellers across several formats?

Madonna used to have a large European fanbase which collected her singles, also she performed very well in the UK. But even for her, if you take off her leads, you will notice her results are as good as it seems. Leads still sold well, because they weren't eaten but album. Europop was dead in early late 90s and Eminem / Britney were young artists, their releases were also well structured with singles getting out at the same time everywhere which was perfect for European points system.

171 million albums are the reward of hard-work. Thank you Celine.

Yeah! Indonesia recently awarded Celine Dion for 172 million units sold.

Can anybody tell me which page can i see total pure album sales of Celine per applicable country? or just give me the total album sales in Europe.

Is it safe to say that Ashes is already inside Celine Dion's top 20 best selling singles?

Where is Celine’s biggest tracks / songs section? Cannot be found.

Sony Music Entertainment Philippines awarded Celine Dion a special commemorative plaque for sales of 216 million units in the Philippines! 🙂

216 MILLION? is that even possible there?

Hi RLAAMJR!

172 million in Indonesia and now 216 million in the Philippines, what's next? 😉

You may notice the the 216:172 ratio is similar to 22:17 ratio which is the number of YouTube views in millions she got in both countries since the start of the year. I suppose that lets little doubts to how they built that number!

Hi MJD,

I actually don't believe on those numbers so I was actually waiting for you to reply dand explain how they have come up with those numbers.

Maybe I should have been more formal and just directly address my comment to you.

I'm sorry.

And hurray, there is an edit option already!

But I wonder though how Celine shares those figures to hermost trusted persons, if Celine is telling those numbers and laughing at the same time because it doesn't really really make sense or will Celine just not make a comment about it and forget those awards/plaques she got from Asia.

Absolutely not. The population of the Philippines this year is only more or less 117 million.

Also, they used the term "units" and I will tweet Sony Music Entertainment Philippines how they have come up with those figures, later.

Usually in wiki, album sales is referring to pure and digital album sales. If record sales is used, it refers to total album sales plus total singles sales. For units sales, maybe it's total album sales plus total singles sales plus ringtones sales plus EAS on music streaming services. Just a guess.

https://books.google.com/books?id=9w0EAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=pl&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=Le t's%20Talk%20About%20Love&f=false
Let's Talk About Love sold 2 million units in Latin America by Decemeber 1999.

By the end of August, 2018, Ashes should be Celine's 10th most streamed song on Spotify. 🙂