CSPC: Christina Aguilera Popularity Analysis

Christina Aguilera Career CSPC Results

So, after checking all figures, how many overall album sales equivalent each Christina Aguilera album achieved? Well, at this point we barely need to do the addition of all figures defined all over this article!

In the following results table, all categories display figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.

artist_spotify_id	#	Cover	Album	Studio albums (EAS)	sales_update_date	Other LPs (EAS)	Physical singles (units sold)	Digital singles (units sold)	Streams	Streams increase	Total EAS	valid_as_of	streams_updated_value	album_id
1l7ZsJRRS8wlW3WfJfPfNS	1		Christina Aguilera	12,800,000	18.03.17	1,400,000	2,020,000 (6,575,000)	538,000 (3,590,000)	706,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 260 LD: 410	17,464,000	20,230,526	706,000	1,336
1l7ZsJRRS8wlW3WfJfPfNS	2		My Kind of Christmas	1,400,000	18.03.17	64,000	106,000 (250,000)	38,000 (250,000)	260,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 90 LD: 0	1,867,000	20,230,526	260,000	1,337
1l7ZsJRRS8wlW3WfJfPfNS	3		Stripped	9,550,000	18.03.17	931,000	818,000 (2,275,000)	1,050,000 (7,000,000)	1,011,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 360 LD: 430	13,360,000	20,230,526	1,011,000	1,338
1l7ZsJRRS8wlW3WfJfPfNS	4		Back to Basics	4,000,000	18.03.17	469,000	423,000 (800,000)	1,275,000 (8,500,000)	544,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 180 LD: 230	6,711,000	20,230,526	544,000	1,339
1l7ZsJRRS8wlW3WfJfPfNS	5		Bionic	750,000	18.03.17	0	0 (0)	570,000 (3,800,000)	163,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 40 LD: 40	1,483,000	20,230,526	163,000	1,340
1l7ZsJRRS8wlW3WfJfPfNS	6		Burlesque	1,375,000	30.08.17	0	0 (0)	360,000 (2,400,000)	583,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 200 LD: 210	2,318,000	20,230,526	583,000	1,604
1l7ZsJRRS8wlW3WfJfPfNS	7		Lotus	525,000	18.03.17	0	0 (0)	375,000 (2,500,000)	224,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 60 LD: 50	1,124,000	20,230,526	224,000	1,341
1l7ZsJRRS8wlW3WfJfPfNS	8		AGUILERA	0		0	0 (0)	0 (0)	116,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 0 LD: 0	116,000	20,230,526	116,000	0
1l7ZsJRRS8wlW3WfJfPfNS	9		Liberation	0		0	0 (0)	0 (0)	204,000 (05/26/23)	Av.: 0 LD: 0	204,000	20,230,526	204,000	0
1l7ZsJRRS8wlW3WfJfPfNS	10		Orphan	0	18.03.17	1,511,000	1,778,000 (1,497,000)	4,965,000 (33,100,000)	874,000 (03/18/17)	N/A	9,128,000	20,230,526	874,000	1,644

As a reminder:

• Studio Album: sales of the original album
• Other Releases: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album
• Physical Singles: sales of physical singles from the album (ratio 3/10)
• Download Singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1,5/10)
• Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)

See where the artist ranks among remaining singers

One could have expect download sales and streaming to push Stripped closer to Christina Aguilera. The lack of compilation sales prevent it from challenging the debut album more though. This latter record thus remains quite easily the biggest one at 16,9 million equivalent album sales overall while Stripped is a solid runner up at 12,55 million.

If the 6,3 million sales of Back to Basics are someway disappointing and undoubtedly down from its predecessors, it is really Bionic that destroyed the singer status of global superstar. This album plus Lotus barely top 2 million combined once factoring in every possible format. Burlesque shoot ahead of them by now at 1,85 million, a total poised to reach 2 million copies in a not so far future.

Thanks to a few massively successful collaborations, most notably Moves Like Jagger, the Orphan album is very strong at 9,1 million units.

This extra push brings Christina Aguilera to 50,7 million equivalent album sales. This is less than half the 97 million managed by Britney Spears, putting them in fairly different leagues even if some chart statistics feed the debate. Norah Jones or Alicia Keys, both with similar totals to Christina, are better comparison scales for the former Disney star. The following page lists the most successful songs of the artist.

Do not forget to check our amazing lists posted inside the CSPC: Data Collector which includes the full listing of all CSPC results compiled so far to better gauge her position in the history of the music industry.

As usual, feel free to comment and / or ask a question!

Sources: IFPI, Spotify, Chartmasters.org.