I feel the need to correct the "by ifpi way" there. There are no "ifpi way", they never ruled anything on the matter. They simply print what labels provide to them, without verifying the data, and some labels used to provide Chinese sales, others never did.

Oh thnx for answering. I donthink if u can put in orphan. Then it will be better. Because it makes it look like a flop album for casual viewer.. when it is just limited sales ep which sold the right amount.

"Speak Now" her 5th album to reach 20 million units

only The Beatles and Queen have more albums +20 million cspc

Taylor achievement is amazing but I think if we separate best of hits albums from actual album, there will be more artists with five plus albums. That being said taylor all first 11 albums will reach there anyways. ! And future releases too. The consistent success in unparalleled since beatles

Cruel summer peak in France 52. Cruel summer just went diamond there. Which is opposite of that. I guess people streamed it after discovering week after week instead of becoming a mega smash fast.

Congrats taylor swift reaching 12 million copies considering most of its success has been local. I guess sold 10-11 million units in north america. With rerecording in 2025, it will reach 20 million in five six years and also get the global appreciation it deserves

Well if you exclude "other LPs" from album totals, a lot of artists will have studio albums fall under the 20m+ unit threshold. If you do that for The Beatles and count "best of" albums separate from studio sets, they fall from 11 albums to 7 albums that have crossed the mark. If you do the same for Queen they fall from 6 to 2. The redistribution of units from the greatest hits really push up the studio album units for a lot of older acts.

Yes, I agree. Removing "Other LPs" from overall EAS, will in most cases decrease the number of studio albums an artist has over 20m, not increase it. Even Swift goes from 5 to 3, doing this.