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That's utterly incorrect.
First, when speaking about "records sold", all majors quote sales of all products on which artists got involved, this doesn't mean a thing. Second, as previously mentioned, no official organization ever considered it as a Whitney Houston album. Third, your comments about sales coming from her only is not only powerless as this is irrevelant in a credits discussion, it is plain wrong. The album is fully written and produced by Babyface who was turning everything into gold - most notably the Boyz II Men. Not only that, most artists in that soundtrack releasded 3+ million selling albums like Brandy, Toni Braxton, Mary J Blige and SWV.
It isn't a Whitney Houston - that's quite clearly an Arista compilation. Whitney features on it, which is a very different thing that being her album.
No official organisation counts sales like you do either (for example by not counting Greatest hits and accrediting the songs for their albums, etc.). So what's your point by using this argument?
Look, Whitney started her career by releasing 3 studio albums (WH, W, IYBT) and following them with 3 movies/soundtracks (TBG, WTE, TPW). To completely erase WTE from her career is ridiculous. Every Whitney fan went out and bought it because it's her movie, multiple songs, on the cover, follow up to TBG, etc. but a Mary J Blige or Brandy fan needed to only buy their 1 single Whitney headlined all these projects that I mentionned. The impact and sales of WTE cannot just be completely ignored from her career.
If you want to at least count half of its sales towards her it's one thing and more logical than to count it for ZERO. If she had even more songs on it it would have sold more and if she had no songs on it it would have sold less. She was the biggest star in the world after TBG and the fact that she headlined her movie WTE with multiple songs is what made it the event it was.
I understand that you are trying to set and follow rules for yourself, but to *completely* ignore Whitney's selling power for the WTE project when she both headlined the movie & soundtrack is not fair. It doesn't have to be a 0 or 100 thing, leave that to a robot calculating sales not a human being that can use a brain.
Which human with a brain would consider Waiting To Exhale a Whitney album though?
The logic adopted by the RIAA has pretty much the same basics as mine. Within' a few years it will be the industry standard as we won't be talking about studio albums or compilations anymore but playlists only. Billboard Top Artist ranking is quite on par with CSPC system too. The comparison is pointless anyway since objectives are different for the formula, while assigning credits now that's something all organizations do. And when they did, they never gave WTE credit to Whitney, a fact you can't deny.
The contribution of Whitney into WTE got considered - she received sales of all her physical singles, their downloads, their streams and sales of greatest hits they generated. There is no reason why she would be getting sales of a physical CD made by Babyface for Arista, no matter her popularity. Once again, would you include sales of Uptown Special album by Mark Ronson into Bruno Mars tally? Should sales of Pipes of Peace by McCartney be given to Michael Jackson too? I don't think so.
Impressive sales for Whitney especially considering how few studio albums she has.
I do trust all of the concepts you've offered to your post. They're really convincing and will definitely work. Still, the posts are very brief for newbies. May you please lengthen them a little from next time? Thanks for the post.
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Hi NicoleJen!
Lately I have been reading various messages on boards showing a strong misunderstanding of presented figures. It now appears quite clear to me that explanations are not good enough and no doubt I'll try to improve it within' the next CSPC article which is almost ready 🙂
Hey MJD,
would you be so nice to give us the breakdown for "The Ultimate Collection", too ?
(It sold in the same range as Mariah's Greatest Hits, for which you were so kind to give us a breakdown for).
Thanks!
Great Analysis! Do you include all the Divas's idol Barbra in your next plans to study? She is the top2 choice in vote, and now the only “miss” one of the Biggest Five Divas in your site.
Hi Luminator,
As soon as I'm back home and have my files again I'll add it!
Hi Vivian!
I fully updated Whitney article with the two new methodologies, for physical singles as well as for streaming, both less favorable than previous ones. She lost only 1% of her overall total which really isn't much! 🙂
