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This top songs ranking is about the most successful songs of all time (understand “which have generated the most sales”), taking all formats into account thanks to our CSPC concept.
Top-selling singles are often the field of one-hit wonders or caritative releases because truly successful songs generally convince customers to buy the studio album they are part of. Our methodology takes that into account and allows us to get down to their intrinsic success, and compile this top.
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Please keep in mind that some artists are missing, because their analysis has not been done yet. Here is the complete list of covered artists. All figures reflect the value as collected at the time of the artist’s respective articles.
Top songs - Equivalent album sales (EAS)
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Hello,
I've got a question related to songs and their respective EAS. For example, Michael Jackson's album Thriller has generated 120M EAS, because the sum of each of its nine songs has generated 120M EAS in total. ("Wanna Be Startin' Somethin" (6.1M EAS), "Baby Be Mine"... and so on.) Does it mean that the entirety of the album's buyers can be split to a certain favorite song, because each Thriller-buyer has a main incentive in form of a song from the album? If yes, then what is with those who bought the album not because of one certain song, but because of the intensity of great music the album has, without picking out a favorite song from it?
Thank you in advance for the answer.
Does this list update daily with the spotify count? Because I see some songs here have a much lower EAS than the EAS provided in the streaming tool...
You Broke Me First has over 1.2 BILLION streams from Spotify alone but it's being "outsold" by songs with <350M ? It needs to be added
How is layla at 37m just curious ik its iconic but i cant see how its higher than say thriller or teen spirit
Tate McRae has not yet been studied by ChartMasters. The top songs ranking takes into account physical sales, digital sales and streaming. This is why there are older songs high up on the list, even though they have less streams than newer songs.
Basically because Layla is the only big hit from its parent album, while Thriller is not the only big hit from its parent album thus it has internal competition from other big hits from the same album (Billie Jean, Beat It etc)
This is laughable if anyone ever see this ranking seriously as All I want for xmas is you is certified 14 million in us with another 5 million in the uk but Chartmaster grossly ranked it 16M globally
Hi Damian!
Maybe even more laughable would be saying that something is laughable without taking even a minute to understand what we are talking about. Just a thought!
It's about "equivalent album sales" ( EAS ) ! NOT about "single sales units" .
The EAS formula is highly flawed and doesn't represent what the industry uses, like IFPI. Album sales should not be the main driver of singles rankings.
I do agree that album sales, especially for pre streaming era songs, make sense to add given that's how many singles were listened to in the past. Modern songs in the streaming era are "inflated" (like we see now with RIAA) which disadvantages old songs. But the album sales should only be worth the same a single/track sale.
Subscription Streams Equivalents:
(Album + Track Sales)*200 + Premium Streams + Ad-Supported Streams/4.5.
The list needs to be updated for sure. Especially in the case of Selena Gomez. Lose You To Love Me and People You Know got a lot of sales now, and Calm Down basically is not on the list, which is one of the best selling songs of 2023...
Why does has 6.9M and Crazy in love has 9.7M if halo has 12.3M pure sales and 1.7M EAS from streaming while crazy in love has way less pure and less streams
Why crazy in love has more units than halo even though halo has more digital sales and streams?
