Don't think that I'm being picky , but why do you use it for physical sales ratio 4/10 instead of 3/10 ?

Well, if we look at albums sales alone only 10% of their european sales come from their homeland. Not a stellar performance for a band who sold almost 100 million records. Not saying they are unknown in thei homeland, but, as happend with other artists mentioned, they performed much better in continental Europe than in their native country. Which is weird, but not unheard of

Thanks for this. Wondering where the Australian sales data is from? That’s usually hard to track down. Obviously the band not touring there for 30 years made an impact.

Thanks for the great work! I wasn't expecting the physical singles or compilation sales to be quite that high. Pleasantly surprised!

Hi Denysanatol!

Singles are valued at 3/10 and EPs at 5/10. From time to time, we use 3.5, 4 or 4.5 as weightings when a 'single' effectively had EP-like versions, this happened a lot in the 80s with the maxi singles. Depeche Mode released some 'singles' with 40+ minutes of music. When you see a weighting of 0.4, it means that roughly half of the singles' units came from general public mainstream 2-track versions, and half from heavier maxi/EP formats.

Hi Tim!

Incredibly they never got even a Gold cert in Australia, even if they do have some of their top sellers eligible for this award. We have internal tools which convert historical chart runs into sales, as well as various KPIs (Discogs owners for Australian versions, Amazon ratings and rankings, Spotify top cities, YouTube charts by country, etc) which enable us to know if catalog sales were relatively speaking below, on par or higher than elsewhere, where we may have more information. We apply these methods to every release one by one, and more often than not we quickly identify similar patterns to other markets to fill in every hole. It may not sound very precise but it ends up being incredibly efficient!

It's clear . It was hard without 'ratio' weight for some singles like .

The sales in Italy are more impressive than the poor ones in the UK.

Hello, Chartmasters admins. Just wanted to bring to your attention that there seems to be an issue with Depeche Mode's last-day streams. Some of their albums are showing some anomalously high figures.

I wonder why they didn't sell an impressive amount of albums in the UK, compared to Continental Europe or even Latin America.

Australian sales are also quite modest.

Ultra wasn't the first album recorded as a trio. A Broken Frame was. Alan was a touring member then. DM wanted to record as a trio to show they could continue without Vince.

DM were not played on the radio here in America. It wasn't until their fans started calling the stations and requested them.