Hi,

Have fearless broken the 10 million barrier yet? And how close is 1989 to 11 million?

Everywhere? She is one of the biggest artist in Asia, North America and Oceania. 3/4 of biggest music markets. How diamond album in Australia, 9 platinum Philippines, half diamond in canada, 4 platinum in UK etc. disappointing?

Did Lover really sell 1 million in China? How trsutable this info is? Where can we search these sales and certifications?

Keep Going,those Atrl members are so silly !

Hey,MJD!Since you mentioned 2018s BTSs Albums Sales,you said that china digital album sales were included now.

How About the 4.5M For Reputation
It Sold 0.8m digital albums in china in the year 2017.
Now it comes to 1.5m in China.
I think the Sales for Reputation should be 3.5m + 1.5m Digital album in china.it comes to 5 million.

About 500k copies were shipped back
instead of 1.2m shipped back,Thats horrible!

He even tweeted it

Hi, MJD
Russian album sales and Turkey album sales worth the same as Chinese digital album copies, at over $2. And South Korean single downloads are much cheaper, however you didn't adjust it. For example, Halo sold nearly 3 million there, at 13 million worldwide, that representa a lot of it, you can't say because Chinese numbers are so huge but cheap that affect CSPC sales volume, because the same situation is happening for Korea. Since IFPI counted Chinese digital copies as 1:1 as in other territories, now you do have to cancel the adjustment,or you do the same adjustment for countries like Korea and Southeast Asia(albums sold in SEA are much cheaper too).Reputation now should be at 5 million (around 3.5 million plus 1.5 million), and 1989 at 12 million (around 10.5 million plus 1.5 million).

http://y.saoju.net/szzj/album/238/
Lover sold 935k digital pure copies in China.Plus streaming, that would be over 1 million.

I agree with u. I feel like its unfair to adjust her China sales, meanwhile in other country the formula is still the same. Kind of unfair.

Right, it is odd how China - and only China - gets a different treatment here. I also think it is wrong to subjectively apply the exact same formula Chartmaster uses for YouTube for China's streams. Is there a math behind this use that justifies using the exact same ratio? Overall, although I'm glad Chartmasters finally decided to include China's stats, it's undeniable that they are still extremely underweighted.

I also want to mention that using Xiami really disadvantages Taylor considering her past 3 albums were delayed on that streaming service. ME! was quickly taken off the service for weeks/months while it was available for streaming on both QQ Music and NetEase, which we all know to be way bigger than Xiami. Using a simple extrapolation formula based on Xiami undermines its streams bigly.

It sound possible, but it's definitely not for pure album sales only

Weighing the streams as audio streams blows her streaming units from 650,000 to 6.9m and the album DLs from 740,000 to 2m, does that really sound logical for a market that just recently hit a size 2 times smaller than France and was smaller than markets like Switzerland and Norway just a few years ago? And I'm not even talking about severall local acts that would be way past 10m with this formula.

What was her increase in sales from the last update?

The market being "the size of Switzerland and Norway a few years ago" is quite frankly irrelevant. It is the fastest-developping music market in the world and in a couple of years, it has a very good chance of entering the top 3 worldwide. I don't find it illogical at all that the biggest western artist in China can manage to sell more than a million albums in a market with huge potential where well over a billion people live.

At the end of the day, reputation was donwloaded 1.54M times on China's 4 biggest music platforms, 1989 was downloaded 1.5M times and Lover was already downloaded almost 1M times and the numbers can easily be found. You act as if this is a common occurence when there's only 8 studio albums (not EPs or single albums) who managed to reach 1M digital downloads in China.

So yes, it is extremely subjective and odd to only single out China as if it is the only country in the world where there's disparity with the average album price compared to America's prices and I'm yet to see a good explanation to justify it.

A huge market and a maket with huge potential are two different things. The market is currently booming and it will definitely reach levels where the biggest western acts will move units in the millions but we're simply not at that point yet.