How many units has Witness sold In the US (Pure+SPS+TEA+SEA... All the things that are counted by RIAA together)
And Is TEA based off certified units, pure sales alone or pure sales+SPS (certified units and non certified ones)?

Do you know how to get ringtone sales numbers?Please!

Hi Shaki!

There is 3 main sources:
- obviously, RIAA certifications!
- the most reliable one, Billboard Year End Charts that included ringtones from 2007 to 2013
- Billboard Ringtones chart history

There's no ringtones sales numbers on Billboard...Only downloads

There's no ringtones sales numbers on Billboard...Only downloads sales numbers

Are you sure? 😉

Hey MJD-

What was the basis you used for calculating Witness' streaming figures? If you're looking at Spotify and YouTube, Witness has more streams than Joanne (I just saw that you updated Gaga's numbers).

You say that Witness sold 962K albums from streams but that is only 1.4 billion streams? Witness has more streams than that on YouTube alone.

How is Joanne at 709K albums by streams, or 1 billion?

Witness has so much more streaming success. It has over 750 million streams on Spotify alone. When you account for YouTube official music videos, audio, and lyric videos, PLUS other streaming platforms, you get over 2.5 billion streams.

Hi E,

Witness has over 750m streams on Spotify... and Joanne has over 600m, the gap is nowhere near as big as you suggest. The basis is explained in full inside the article already and the same one is applied to all artists.

But Katy's YouTube numbers blow Gaga's out of the park. Arent those accounted for? I'm not only talking about Spotify

Witness' Spotify+Comprehensible Audio+ YouTube streams = 3.7B???

3.7B/ 1,500

Shouldnt the formula be:

Equivalent Albums Sales (EAS) = 212/132 * Spotify streams / 1500 + Comprehensive Audio Streams / 1500 + YouTube views / 11750

Hi E,

No, you are double-counting audio streams. Spotify multiplied by 212/132 already reflects comprehensive audio streams.

Katy perry in brasil much higher? Why?
Look the shipments cods:

One of these boys
AA5000
AB2500
AC1000
AD5000
AE1000
AF5000
AG1000
AH1000
AI1000
AJ
AK1500
AL1000
…
??
A01000
AP6000
AS2000
…
AW500

Katy Perry – Teenage Dream
AA15000
AB2000
AC4000
AD3000
AE5000
AF1500
AG2000
AH5000
AI10000
AJ5000
AK10000
AL3000
AM
AN10000
AO2000?
AP1500
AQ500

Katy perry – teenage dream the confect collection
AA15000
AB5000/25000
AC5000
AD5000
…
AG3000
AH11000

Katy perry prism
AA40000
AB10000
AC5000
…
AF2000

Witness
AA10000
AB2000
AC
AD2000

Hi Marcelo!

Don't forget that codes refer only to CD sales. Perry's albums sell well digitally, Prism went Platinum on downloads.

Btw, a few more codes that are missing on your list:
One Of The Boys Standard CD AJ 1000
Teenage Dream Complete Confection CD AF 25000
Teenage Dream Complete Confection CD AK 1000
Prism Standard CD AD 2000
Prism Standard CD AE 16000
Prism Standard CD AG 5000
Prism Standard CD AH 2000
Prism Standard CD AI 3000
Witness Standard CD AC 2000

Hi, I don’t know if I get it but did Katy sell 135M singles in total?