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This is my estimates as for now:
I Kissed A Girl 10m-11m
Hot N Cold 11m-12m
California Gurls 11m-12m
Firework 13m-14m
Roar 10m-14m
Dark Horse 10m-13m
Hi LMAO,
This is your 21st comment about Katy Perry download sales under Taylor Swift article. Don't you think it makes sense to simply wait for the said update? 😉
I was just reading the Wikipedia page "List of best-selling music artists", and to my surprise it says Taylor Swift sold in total 158.7 millions certified units (albums) !? I know the Wikipedia is not very reliable source....... but still it's such big difference from your data (68,538,000) MJD.
Thank you so much for this article. All the updates with the new formula are so interesting.
Looking forward to your next updates of old artists as well as the new artists you post. Hopefully it'll be my fave artists rih/bey but honestly anything is interesting.
Thanks for still doing this.
The wikipedia page include certified units for every artist ( albums + singles + streaming in some artists cases) the 68 million in this article is CSPC. You need to read page 2 of the article to understand. If you go for records sales this article says she has sold around 150 million singles + 41 million albums = around 191 million records.
Rihanna CSPC is looking really good, and has been updated.
http://chartmasters.org/2017/11/cspc-rihanna-popularity-analysis-2/
@JRVV
As requested on Gaga's article, here are estimated / calculated US ringtones for the main Taylor singles:
1 Love Story - 1500k
2 Our Song - 600k
3 You Belong with Me - 500k
4 Teardrops on My Guitar - 450k
5 Mine - 250k
Then she has quite a few songs over 100k, all her million selling downloads up to Fearless era, Mean, Ours, etc. It happened obviously much less in later years: I Knew You Were Trouble is the leading song from Red at 150k, the rest is under 100k, while all songs from 1989 are under that mark.
Agree. Taylor sold amazing amount of albums in the US, but her results elsewhere are somewhat disappointing.
You have out of the woods as 850,000 ww but kworb has it as 860,000 just in the US
Hi Morales!
Figures from Kworb can be very useful but they miss on pre-album release singles. They do not take off "Complete My Album" downloads, which may be significant. On its first week alone, the track was discounted nearly half of its sales because of that which is why it got 195,000 downloads on Soundscan against 331,000 from Kworb!
Sadly how Taylor Swift held back herself from the Streaming Era which highly benefited most artists today.
Hi d_b!
It's always hazardous to look at only one part of the picture. While many artists enjoy large figures on streams, Swift enjoyed larger pure sales precisely thanks to the held back from streaming services. If her label didn't thougt the benefits on one side would be bigger than the damage on the other, they wouldn't have plan her releases that way!
Hi! In asian, you can include that China and India certifieds
China 5x platinum ( 
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India 3x platinum ( https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/english/music/news/Taylor-Swifts-1989-is-certified-triple-platinum-in-India/articleshow/49737487.cms)
Here a list of certifications, I believe that all are correct.
