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They have "bigger purchasing power in terms of the music industry" ? What ? I honestly have no idea what you're saying...
Definition of purchasing power :
1 : the amount of money that a person or group has available to spend
Inflation decreases consumer purchasing power.
2 : the value of money thought of as how much it can buy
a decline in the purchasing power of the dollar
Maybe what he meant is that people in the bigger music markets tend to buy more music compared to others
What is it that u dont get? I already said that Americans purchase more albums than the French per person and that your argument that simply dividing the populations should represents that Deux is not as big as Thriller is in the US are false. Americans have bigger music consumption then the French per person when it comes to music consumption, a.k.a bigger purchasing power when it comes to the music industry. So your claim that because American population is only 5 times bigger than the French we should simply multiply Deux sales by 5 to have an equivalence to Thriller sales in the US are not accurate. No need to drag over this conversation anymore. U know what I mean. And Americans themselves have bigger GDP percapita anyways. So why even bother.
OK, let me try to understand... You're saying that "Americans purchase more albums than the French per person", and for some reason you're calling this "purchasing power".
So here's a simple question : why do you think Americans purchase more albums than the French ? Just to remind you, the original post was saying it's because "music is more popular in the US than in France".
Well it is true. According to GDP Purchasing Power Parity Americans have bigger spending power. Its like saying, an xx race have bigger spending/purchasing/buying power than yy race. What is so wrong with that statement? And since u said Americans are more into music, it means Americans have bigger spending power over music consumption. So whats the big deal? I dont get it. I cant believe u r dragging some ridiculous stuff and try to twist my words. Over something as silly as this. You already got my point. No need to long prolong this conersation.
I'm sorry but you're not making any sense... As I said above, the UK has (and always had) a bigger music market than France and their GDP is the same. How do you explain that ?
Thats why I said the British have bigger spending power when it comes to music consumption despite their similar GDP. And its not as simple as, to quote u
"France’s population is about 1/5 of the US population, so 4 million in France would be more like 20 million in the US. "
The only person that doesnt make sense here is you. You know your original statement was wrong and you purposely try to twist my word just because u want to have the last word.
"Thats why I said the British have bigger spending power when it comes to music consumption despite their similar GDP."
What ?? You never mentioned the British or their similar GDP 😆
OK I think I'm done here, let's just end this boring and frustrating discussion...
By the way, you don't understand what "GDP per capita" and "Purchasing Power Parity" mean, they have nothing to do with the purchasing power of individuals, they're just tools to compare national economies. I mean, surely you don't believe that the average Chinese person has eight times more purchasing power than the average French person ? I hope not...
Hope you can add atleast the pure sales for Courage album. Interesting it got 113k from streaming alone.
Hey Martin. I was just wondering why there is no Asian non - Japan sales listed on here. I'm pretty sure her sales figure can be estimated more precisely than other artists because I believe back in the 90s, Asian sales info are much more available to the public than before. I also added her totals for Falling Into You and Lets Talk About Love. It seems like both albums need to sold at least 2.5 million albums in Asia non Japan market in order for her worldwide total to reach that figure. 2.5 million sounds a little too high for her sales on both album to me, but I could be wrong, maybe she really was that big in Asia back then. Anyway, would be nice if you or anybody from chartmasters could break down her Asian sales. Been looking for that info for years.
S'il suffisait d'aimer finally reached 5 million eas, her eight record to do so 👑
Hey is it possible to see Celine Dion's sales per country, just like the others? Itll be interesting 😉
