Will Midnights pass Un Verano Sin Ti for best selling album 2022? And if so any idea when?

I think globally will not ! But in the US market "Midnights" already surpass "Un Verano Sin Ti" . 4.6 million equivalent album units  vs. 4.2 millons equivalent album units .

It’s not out of the question but would be a very hard feat, won’t happen soon.

Thanks for the answers. Will be interesting to follow how the two compare sales wise over time.

I think it already did. Un Verano Sin Ti has low pure album sales. Midnights must be nearing 5 million only pure with China included along with crazy streaming.

I seriously think you need to separate the re-recordings. They are charting separately and are not meant to be re-issues that add value to the original copyright---they are meant to REPLACE it, being under an entirely different copyright holder. It is a unique situation in music business history that is not reflective of other 'reissues' (because it's not a reissue) and combining them does a disservice to the transparency and accuracy that this website has worked so hard to provide.

What is this percentage source?

I seriously disagree. It's the same songs. Basically new remixes or deluxe editions which have always counted towards the OG eras numbers. This site wants to showcase popularity and separating them does the exact opposite. It will dilute the actual size and popularity of the albums which goes against the entire purpose of the site. The reality is these songs are getting bigger and getting exposed to new audiences. There’s no reason they shouldn’t be added together especially when we know how much they affect the OG versions numbers

They're basically remasters, which is a very common thing meant to, indeed, replace the originals. It happens all the time.

This is a tired and stupid argument because 1) remasters happen all the time, and 2) albums are meant to measure consumption of their songs, re-recordings are 80% just the older albums essentially remastered. You say it's not a 'reissue' but in essence it is, just with a different title. That doesn't make it a different thing.

Also, adding new songs to an album despite what you claim is not a unique situation. Dua Lipa, Bebe Rexha, The Weeknd, Liam Payne have all piled random hits or released songs on deluxe versions of albums. The issue people find with Taylor is that when she does something like this she is too successful, so there must be something wrong with the methodology, but she's just seeing one of the biggest sales years of any artist in history, perhaps the biggest ever. She has stated that the rerecording's are meant to be replacements of her previous albums, but if Chartmasters were to uncombine versions, they'd have to uncombine all reissues and remasters, which is nonsensical because reissues are essentially measuring the same consumption of the OG album.

Holiday Collection it shouldn't be among the original albums. Can you please move it out of that table?

She also had deluxe editions with additional songs of many of these albums already. This isn't the first time she has reissued an album with additional songs. Then it would get tricky if you count the Taylor's Version albums separate but not the deluxe versions. Keeping everything combined seems to be the most uniform way to approach it when compared to other artists.

They are not remasters, they are re-recordings, entirely different thing. Like I said this is literally a unique situation in music history. NO major artist has ever re-recorded their entire back catalogue like this.

Re-recordings might be a unique thing, they still aren't new songs, so they are right to not separate them. Can we please move on?