Hi Brian!

Surely you can understand that nobody demands an analysis. It's not like you are the boss of people working on them. The Beatles won the vote for the next update, and The Traveling Wilburys are part of it. In all fairness, I should have done them already when studying Bob Dylan back in the day, the same way Cream, Buffalo Springfield, or Blind Faith were done along with Neil Young or Eric Clapton.

Also, while I can perfectly understand that you are unfamiliar with them, suggesting that "no one knows about" a band who's members moved a combined 800 million equivalent album sales won't give you much credit.

By the way, your comments suggest that every study take the exact same amount of time to compile. The Traveling Wilburys have 2 studio albums, and 1 compilation, no EP, no music video, no local releases or whatever. Pound for pound, this was likely the most valuable analysis of all - it took me at best a couple of hours to estimate all formats, for a result of 16m. One could do 50 Traveling Wilburys analysis for the time of one for Marvin Gaye!

Thank you so much, glad I was able to bring it to your attention. btw Crosby, Stills and Nash still have their data from May 2021, lol

It is cool knowing that I am responsible for about 200 thousand Jay-Z album sales on this chart, lmao

Well It's Alright....
Even most of the people don't know them, This surely is a treat and really unexpected. And I am happy.
The End of the Line is just a smashing hit for me.
Though I didn't really expected that they will be studied coz I know about the 50m rules. But thank you ( forgot that they can be a bonus study for those individual artist's catalogs). But still thanks as always.

PS:Not sure if eligible and how to be studied, but I think it will also be a big bonus for music lovers if we can have some of the Broadway/West end musicals original recording be studied also. POTO 1st recording is allegedly 40M, so I think it's really a contender. Just my opinion.

That's an excellent idea. Since Broadway/West end musical recordings are not generally specifically artist driven, this is an often ignored part of the analyses of music consumption. That would be a really interesting article.

Shifting to a different topic I think worthy of a stand alone article would be the history of the physical singles market. Occasionally in the various comment sections, one of the Chartmasters' editors will mention something about the singles market of the 1970s or 1980s or how five countries dominated the singles market - USA, Japan, UK, Germany and France. I'm curious about how the singles market evolved and how some markets that were once big on singles transitioned to mostly albums. Just a thought.

As usual, great work from the team at Chartmasters for their comprehensive work to bring this level of professionalism and dedication to music consumption analyses from around the world.

Hi Guillaume, no anyway, I meant "no one" knows them as a group, individually some of them can even be considered legends, I know all the members.

but speaking objectively it's true that Traveling Wilburys are little known and over time they have become been almost forgotten? I'm not taking away anyone's freedom to create artists who have been forgotten for years now, I would never allow myself to do so, in fact it's a way to get to know more artists, but in my opinion there are others who have precedence, and I hope we are all on this I agree, there are still too many legends left to analyse, some fans of those legends may be upset to see unknown people being analyzed and their myth still unworked, and then I didn't talk about times in the studies of each compilation, I don't think so.

anyway I wanted to congratulate you for perhaps being the only company specialized in such detail on sales, streaming and more, you can't find them like this.

I think the Wilburys did have a few videos for the likes of Handle with Care and End of the Line

Hello again. Just wondering. Are the the releases of the compilation albums NOW THATS WHAT I CALL MUSIC as well as THE HITS can create a significant impact on the EAS of those songs included on each albums especially those that were released on cassettes, cds, vinyls and now even streaming. Is there any existing real data aside from WIKIpedia proving that the albums had really sold multiplatinum and gold records all throughout their releases? I think, when all data from NOW and THE HITS series are added to the computation, there will be an impact, if not on all, but for some well known artists. Just saying.