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Hi RLAAMJR!
No disrespect at all towards Nicki, but since when top female rapper is a real thing? What's next, top female metal singer? Limiting charts by genre or gender is already a messy way to inflate ranking of many artists, let alone merging two criterias that close to zero popular artist met.
Also, no doubt Missy highly disagrees with your claim stating that Nicki has a longevity no other female rapper ever had.
Hi djdj!
David Kronmeyer posted old Warner and EMI reports, they can be retrieved with Wayback machine IIRC although I don't have the URL saved on the computer I'm using right now. I have all IFPI top 50 lists saved from 2001 to date. About market sizes, the closest you can get is Zobbel lists for 1994, 1995, 1997, and 1998.
The last section seems to not be updated. Poker Face and Bad Romance EAS totals are their old figures, unsure if the 80.05M total singles for TF(M) era is also old?
Hi Ryan!
Thanks for pointing that out, it's now fixed 🙂 the 80.05m total is the good one!
Hi Gustavo!
Sure but once again the query may be more specific. I can provide explanations / data behind every number, but explaining all numbers at once of a CSPC would take dozens of hours!
No worries. So with 80.05M singles + 19.89M albums is The Fame era the first to sell 100M pure record sales? Not sure if Thriller managed to get 33M single sales to bolster its total over that?
Hi Ryan!
Thriller singles did sell over 33m as physicals stand on 17m and downloads on 27m, there is also over 2m sales for the making of Thrillre video!
therefore: you are pressed that she turned things around.. Gaga contributed a LOT and did more songs than Whitney in the Body Guard but BG is generally accepted as Whitney's peak album and all.
Ok but one question... When IFPI provides us the year-end chart, do yall verify if it matches with your numbers?
Not sure if most stans know this but the majority of people here in the world are actually not stans, and I also don't think any reasonable person would make numbers more inaccurate because of something as irrelevant as music preference.
I don't think you can say that an album that sold more than 4 million units 'bombed so much', especially when you have other articles in here where you praise some artists for selling only 3M with their records. You can say that it's not a success when you compare it with her two previous albums, but it's not a flop.
Considering her name at that point and considering shes been in the industry less than 5 years by then. It is a bomb. Im pretty sure her labels were putting in big money for the album promotions but turns out its not really giving the return they needed. Its not like she is in the league of Selena Gomez or Miley Cyrus where labels probably wouldnt waste too much money on them bcoz they know its not going to produce a 10 million album sales. She was much bigger just a couple of years ago. MJD also have said that Taylor Swift Reputation was a bomb, despite it selling much more copies than Lady Gaga.
