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Hi Fanofpop!
His current Soundscan total is more like 49.2 million up to date. Part of the gap is explained by club sales is about 4.5 million. The thing with the Soundscan figure, is that it doesn't include the 8 Mile Soundtrack, the pair of D12 albums, Bad Meet Evils project, Eminem Presents: The Re-Up and Shady XV. Combined these records sold well over 12 million. Then you need to add over 1 million video sales.
Hi Ameer suhail!
All numbers are always entirely reviewed thanks to new information, which can lead to increases as well as decreases. I would say a 10k gap on a 10m seller means numbers are accurate enough 😉
Thank you for the clarification. I didn’t realise his catalog sold so well.
Also I didn’t know about the soundtrack stuff.
I love M&M he is a brilliant and unique artist but you can’t say who will enter or be in the top 10 general #SinatraIsDoneMostEnduringArtistEver especially when acknowledging Tony Bennett on his 70 th anniversary. Sinatra is 83 years on the charts 400 times between singles ( #2) and albums #2 in total number 249/ and 100! On the jazz billboard chart now at number 1 for 93 weeks !! Please do the most important single figure ever music and films combined ( career triple the length of Presley and more relevant now then ever). Everyone from Rock and hip hop are doing homages and tribute albums , Dylan and Stewart built new careers on Frank and Bublé as well! Sinatra should be on any list to be seriously respected , thank you ( you have been postponing it for 5 years but after Elvis you should be ready ( 3 years ago !!Great web site and work
What insane stat is, his catalog is more valuable than any main pop girls , who debuted in 80s to current. Stood test of time. And they keep hating him on music forums. He keeps making ifpi top 10 on basis of his catalog every year.
He debuted in physical era. Despite this he sold over 200 million downloads
And has successfully crossed over to streaming era. Biggest act of last 30 years easily
His album sales are even more amazing considering half of them came after peak of sales.
I'm sorry if this is already stated elsewhere on the site but I'm curious as to what you guys count for his youtube numbers (and for all artists really). Is it music video, official audio, live performances. Anything else?
Hi noct1!
The videos considered on YouTube are:
- video clip
- audio
- lyrics video
- live performances
- compilations of the given artist
- remixes of the song
Are excluded:
- covers
- karaoke
- videos where something else is the real "target" (movies, video games...)
Rolling stones'n guitarist Keith Richard said, rap is music of non-musical types of syntchs, or something like that.
There hasn't been anything very interesting going on in her career (sales-wise) for a long time, so there's no need for it. Drake's last update was before he dropped his 1st/2nd biggest project till date, so it makes sense.
Eminem's more global than I thought honestly. I knew he was big but not this big. Kinda makes me really proud tbh
Do do understand that these are globaland not U.S. sales?
And all the achivments that you are talking about are CHART achivments not sales related
In addition to only being US sales, RIAA is also CERTIFICATIONS only, and they are NOT kept updated automatically - the artist must pay for updates. Most of Eminem's certifications are around 10-20 years old. He/Interscope only pay for milestone updates these days....which in his case is when something goes diamond (sells 10M in US alone).
His next incoming diamond albums will be Curtain Call and Recovery, so I doubt he'll update anything with RIAA until then.
