Good point, Plan9fan

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Found information that (I believe from Billboard annual report):
Top 5 Albums 2019 In U.S.
Source: Nielsen Music, for the tracking period Jan. 4, 2019 through Jan. 2, 2020

Rank Artist Title Album+TEA+On-Demand Audio SEA
1 Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Soundtrack 1,162,000
3 Queen Greatest Hits Vol. 1 732,000

So what does that number 1,162,000 mean (just for 2019), if chartmaster number for Bohemian Rhapsody (from its release in 2019) - just 570 000 copies?
Nielsen music gives this data as representing TOP albums of 2019 in USA...

Jake , I think your living in fantasy if you really believe that.

Lawyeris - that figure you quote is ‘equivalent sales’. It includes all the other sales (Spotify streams, streams from other platforms like Apple, YouTube, etc and digital single sales).

Bohemian Rhapsody sold 570,000 pure albums sales in the US up to the date of the analysis -physical, vinyl and digital sales. The remaining sales you quoted are made up by the above - streaming, etc. So 1,162,000 - 570,000 = 592.000.

592,000 sales are not pure album sales but streaming equivalent and digital singles sales equivalent sales.

MJD has to take these sales off otherwise there would be double-counting - streaming would be counted twice as it is already accounted for in the Streaming section of the analysis.

Jake: "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Oh wait..." :)))

Thank you, plan9fan

Hmmm. I would say I agree with you. Just to add/specify:

- Madonna has more worldwide hit songs than Queen so most people know/recognize more Madonna songs than Queen's.

- Madonna is Madonna, a solo music artist, so we pretty much know her voice and face so she gets all the credits/fame/money/awards/achievements , while Queen is a band and I only know the name of their vocalist.

- Madonna, is the best-selling female music artist so she is highly regarded especially in music and among women and while Queen may have outsold her in total EAS but The Beatles will always be regarded more as they are not just the best selling band but the best-selling musicians of all time.

Madonna was more popular because she was much more in the spotlight than Queen ever was. Even MJ admits this.

Madonna was the biggest music star except Michael Jackson. She was global. Queen was very limited in the US. She outsold them by nearly 2 to 1 in the US.

Madonna had the charts, money and fame. She still has the money.

Yeah, and the United States is the only country on earth.

Your point? This website is called chartmasters not influencemasters in case you didn't notice. 🙂
And what's the point to start a discussion just for the sake of it under a post about Queen where probably there are a lot of Queen fans?
There's no need for this, everyone knows that sales doesn't necessarily indicate greatness, they just indicate what people bought, not the quality of it, relax. To each their own.

With your statement about cultural impact I can agree, with music influences I strongly DISAGREE.
Why don't we just comment on data instead?

Btw, if Queen were not so unlucky/snobbed/invisible in the US they would have already sell more than Madonna prior to the movie (since the US market is the biggest market and it sorta deicides the worldwide sales); Madanna has also more decades of career.

Ps. I was a big fan of Madonna in my teens (I'm 40) and I own every Madonna album 'till Music, but I prefer Queen over Madonna. That said I'm glad she is the best selling female artist of all time and propably no other female artist will ever top her.
I'm saying this just so you know I'm not an hater, I don't want to start a discussion, I just don't get why people get so salty about data.

Have a nice day.

Madonna is irrelevant now and she will never be relevant again. Even when she dies, no one cares anymore lol. That’s what happens when you base your career off shock value.

Queen debuted a decade before Madonna, they released similar amount of albums too, so it's pretty equal. Queen had tons of compilations despite not being active.

"Queen are one of only two acts in history to crack 100 million EAS with material from two distinct decades."

Is the other one MJ or Beatles?

Actually, it's Elvis

1950s
1. Elvis Presley – 127,149,000

1960s
1. Beatles – 376,924,000
2. Elvis Presley – 131,658,000
3. Rolling Stones – 110,801,000
4. Simon & Garfunkel – 89,796,000
5. Bob Dylan – 72,934,000
6. The Doors – 72,455,000
7. Led Zeppelin – 57,592,000
8. Creedence Clearwater Revival – 52,246,000
9. Barbra Streisand – 31,384,000
10. Johnny Hallyday – 29,793,000
11. Bee Gees – 27,358,000
12. Pink Floyd – 21,773,000
13. Cher – 14,854,000
14. Fleetwood Mac – 14,807,000
15. Jackson 5 & The Jacksons – 13,281,000

1970s
1. Pink Floyd – 171,695,000
2. Eagles – 163,422,000
3. Led Zeppelin – 138,828,000
4. Queen – 129,721,000
5. Elton John – 129,344,000
6. Abba – 125,972,000
7. Rod Stewart & Faces – 108,674,000
8. Bob Marley – 107,997,000
9. Bee Gees – 104,914,000
10. Fleetwood Mac – 95,398,000
11. Rolling Stones – 73,368,000
12. Billy Joel – 72,103,000
13. David Bowie – 68,914,000
14. AC/DC – 67,824,000
15. Paul McCartney – 65,482,000
16. Aerosmith – 60,765,000
17. Supertramp – 58,979,000
18. Barbra Streisand – 57,359,000
19. Elvis Presley – 54,499,000
20. John Lennon – 47,679,000

1980s
1. Michael Jackson – 181,681,000
2. Madonna – 131,613,000
3. Phil Collins – 119,105,000
4. U2 – 111,861,000
5. Queen – 107,549,000
6. Prince – 93,149,000
7. AC/DC – 84,857,000
8. Bruce Springsteen – 82,382,000
9. Bon Jovi – 79,146,000
10. George Michael & Wham! – 69,617,000
11. Dire Straits – 67,720,000
12. Metallica – 64,948,000
13. Billy Joel – 62,280,000
14. Journey – 61,102,000
15. Guns N’ Roses – 58,419,000
16. Whitney Houston – 56,494,000
17. Bryan Adams – 46,495,000
18. Barbra Streisand – 43,186,000
19. Rolling Stones – 37,912,000
20. Elton John – 37,330,000

1990s
1. Celine Dion – 160,090,000
2. Mariah Carey – 144,462,000
3. Garth Brooks – 108,309,000
4. Whitney Houston – 88,381,000
5. Nirvana – 80,179,000
6. Michael Jackson – 78,755,000
7. Metallica – 75,261,000
8. Backstreet Boys – 74,905,000
9. Madonna – 66,562,000
10. Shania Twain – 65,863,000
11. Guns N’ Roses – 56,524,000
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers – 55,552,000
13. Alanis Morissette – 50,237,000
14. Oasis – 47,347,000
15. Spice Girls – 47,339,000
16. Green Day – 44,616,000
17. Cranberries – 42,810,000
18. U2 – 42,021,000
19. TLC – 38,447,000
20. Bon Jovi – 37,185,000

2000s
1. Eminem – 123,624,000
2. Linkin Park – 67,608,000
3. Coldplay – 66,326,000
4. Britney Spears – 62,135,000
5. Beyoncé – 50,503,000
6. Pink – 48,326,000
7. Norah Jones – 48,153,000
8. Robbie Williams – 47,775,000
9. Nickelback – 46,375,000
10. Black Eyed Peas – 45,631,000
11. Alicia Keys – 43,142,000
12. Michael Bublé – 42,346,000
13. Ayumi Hamasaki – 40,263,000
14. U2 – 38,338,000
15. Madonna – 37,931,000
16. Avril Lavigne – 36,931,000
17. Rihanna – 36,818,000
18. Lady Gaga – 34,991,000
19. Usher – 34,775,000
20. Shakira – 34,227,000

2010s
1. Adele – 73,356,000
2. Ed Sheeran – 61,066,000
3. Justin Bieber – 60,072,000
4. Taylor Swift – 55,950,000
5. Rihanna – 55,886,000
6. Bruno Mars – 52,339,000
7. Drake – 52,256,000
8. One Direction – 44,466,000
9. BTS – 40,695,000
10. Eminem – 38,691,000
11. Maroon 5 – 37,803,000
12. Katy Perry – 35,012,000
13. Ariana Grande – 33,108,000
14. Coldplay – 28,500,000
15. Lady Gaga – 27,496,000
16. Kendrick Lamar – 26,660,000
17. Imagine Dragons – 24,676,000
18. Beyoncé – 23,194,000
19. Michael Bublé – 19,821,000
20. Post Malone – 18,529,000