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Hi, I would like to know how much total records (albums + singles sales) Katy has managed to score in pure sales (digital+ physical copies, also counting the remixes...) I don’t find it :/
Hey, I got 31,63M calculating all the albums from Gaga and also the Full Length Records Sales , while in the page ‘All types albums’ it shows that she shold 30,87M.
Can you answer please?
Hi Mary!
Music videos are excluded from the album sales total, which is probably why you came to a figure of 31,63m. If you don't count the sales of the last 3 column of page 15, you will reach a total of 30,87m, the same as the figure in page 16!
Can you update Bad Romance to the right sales, cause we all know it has way more than 12.3M. In US alone it is 11x platinum so it is 11M, in UK it is 2x platinum so it is 1.3M. It's already 12.3M from these two counties and I won't believe it some only 50k in the rest of the world xDD Why are these sales wrong? Last time I checked it was 10,000,000 also wrong. I saw on two other sites that also shows sales of singles that it had 16.4M and they had exactly the same sales of the rest singles as you, so pls update it to the real sales.
Hi Pkuc01!
You are mixing pure sales with SPS (Sales Plus Streaming) data. The figure 12,3 million refers to pure downloads/ringtones, with no streaming converted into sales. Streams are added in a stand-alone section. Downloads of Bad Romance are 5,8m in the US and 1,06m in the UK, the remaining "sales" from certifications are these two countries come from streaming.
Hello MJD!
You have TF/M sales in Finland at 60,000, but here at this source only in 2009 we have 78,294 copies sold combined. I believe that this almost 80,000 sold data is correct, because in the source it is evident that The Fame Monster (ep) has sales separated from the reprint of The Fame (Monster), which appears twice.
Hi Goliath!
It can't be 78,294 actually. The IFPI mixed data on their entries, there is no 3 versions of The Fame that have been issued in Finland but instead only 2, The Fame and The Fame Monster. That's why on Gaga personal page of the site there is only 2 certified albums. Only 2 charted on weekly rankings too. Both versions scanned 20,014 (1CD) and 32,922 (2CD) as per the IFPI.
You should read:
- The Fame sold 20,014 copies before the release of The Fame Monster.
- The Fame Monster sold 11,069 copies from its release and up to the end of 2009.
- both versions combined sold 23,147 copies from the release of the latter, that's 12,078 (1CD) + 11,069 (2CD)
Basically, they stopped the initial count (20,014, that's why it never changed anymore) and started a new one at some point. It's all very confusing, but we must focus on figures of the two real versions.
MJD, I have a question, in the digital singles, will you update them next time with the new Gaga certifications? EX: In Germany, Poker Face is 3x Platinum with 900,000 today, until the day of your article, it was 2x Platinum with 600,000 copies. And many others songs who have also been certified. Thank u.
Hi Goliath!
All official information is used when compiling sales. They would require adjustments only if former estimates were incorrect though. For example, in this article Poker Face has been allocated 150,000 physical and 625,000 downloads for Germany, so 775,000 in total. It's consistent with 900,000 SPS units, so that new cert doesn't imply an update of (sales) figures.
Is ARTPOP (the original album, not the entire era) considered as a failure/flop?
Hi Anton!
The whole point of the CSPC is to avoid this kind of incorrect comparisons. For example, if you are paid $3000 at your job and pay a rent of $1000 and tomorrow someone offers you $2500 and to pay your rent on top of that, would you consider that you would be earning less? Of course not, you can't ignore they are paying your rent too. In the same way, when you compare albums from different eras, you can't ignore formats which replaced in part former ones.
ARTPOP hasn't done well in any case (divided EAS of its predecessor by 3), but it isn't as bad as suggested by album sales only. You can check the newly posted article about Shakira: El Dorado sold 4 times less than the previous album in terms of pure sales, but its EAS total is more than 25% higher and still increasing fast. It would make truly no sense to say the studio album is a failure because of its pure sales!
We're all so grateful for this amazing job! Keep going! I hope you update this maybe by the end of the year.. thank you!
Hey, Billboard reported 7.5M digital copies for Poker Face, did they include the ringstones? And the IFPI reported the songs sales with streams since 2013 but what's the ratio they use to convert the YouTube views on sales please?
wow elle a vraiment eu des ventes impressionnates durant the fame the fame monster, born this way reste toujours un succès, et après c'est la chute libre... est-ce que gaga peut-être considéré comme un effet de mode ? ou alors une légende
