Can you please update this article? 🙏

hii, why were changes and justice's china sales excluded here?

hi there, changes and justice both did over 1m pure sales ww, why were their pure sales deflated?

about the puresales, is the figure correct? cause ifpi named it as 3rd best selling pop album in pure sales of 2022 and just from china he has nearly 1m sales

it has 1 m sale, Chinese downloads are in 'other lps' section

they did and it's 6.8 m

6.8 million is not bad but if he's moving on with new era with new singles i think it will slow down as single's promotion will slowdown but let's see

hi MJD, thanks for this analysis!
I want to ask what's the new formula of incorporating Chinese Sales from the pre-new rules era.

updates for Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars Please??

why bruno /??

his 970k sales got turned to 720k so ...

nope, its over 7m+ now, literally 6 months back his agency revealed that JUSTICE sold over 6m units there is no way it sold only 6.8 considering how its 3rd best selling album of the year and best selling male pop album in pure sales too

Hi navya!

This is not how it works, there aren't a definitive, absolute value that an album is up to. All figures announced nowadays are equivalent album sales, so they always depend on the formula you use. Our point here is to set up figures for all artists using always the same formula, so that everyone is on the same scale, rather than using claims from labels that can use whatever formula they want to. In most of these communications, they use YouTube views at full ratio to inflate numbers, we don't do that at our end.

Agency can inflate the sales of its clients. And 6,8mil is A LOT. I think Chartmasters did a great job.
btw when can we expact Madonna's sales? 😛

Hi Padilla!

Yes, the new formula has been used.

Up to now, it was sales * price / 50, so that an album at 25Y was counted at 50% of its sales.
From now on, the formula is:
- pre-regulation releases: sales * price /50 * (1 + NI*0.5) where NI = 1 for non-idols acts, 0 for idols.
- post-regulation releases: 1 sale = 1 CSPC unit

For example, take 3 albums, an album from BTS from 2019, an album from Justin Bieber from 2020, and an album from Taylor Swift from 2022 each sell 1 million, each sold at 25Y.
BTS: 500k CSPC ( 1m * 25 / 50 * (1+ 0*0.5) which equals to 1m * 0.5 * 1 )
JB: 750k CSPC ( 1m * 25 / 50 * (1+ 1*0.5) which equals to 1m * 0.5 * 1.5 )
TS: 1m CSPC (1 sales = 1 CSPC)