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In theory it should be very possible to do well in most places without doing well in the US. In practice though I think it's rarer, especially when we...

So many people seem to misunderstand what global really is and think if an artist has big % of sales outside the US they're global and vice versa. Thi...

Markets there are already growing really fast, revenues in Asia (outside Japan) have more then doubled the past 4 years.

Seeing Drake so high it has to include streaming and probably downloads as well.

I don't think your Soundscan number for Taylor is correct. She's far from the 57m mark, or is it an EAS figure?

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Possibly, although Jay-Z might have a shot too

I'd say Linkin Park most likely

4 is 90m+, 3 is 65m+, 2 is 50m+ and 1 is 30-50m roughly. Some artists might over or underperform once we study them, these are just ballparks.

Hi Molly! I would think their career total is around 20m. A huge number for a metal band, but far from the 50m requirement we have for the voting lis...

Hi! I don't think it sold well for very long as it's sales were very frontloaded as shown by its 1-10-30-35 run. It also failed to hit IFPI Norway's ...

We have to take market sizes into consideration here though, the UK held on to albums for a bit longer into the late 00's & early 10's than the US...

Obvoiously they have a much bigger share of "stan streams" than your average western artist as shown by their monthly listener count and the huge redu...

The requirement for 2021 albums to be added is 200m streams. It hasn't reached that yet so it won't be listed as of now at least.

The soundtrack has an unoriginal track by the Proclaimers on it, but it doesn't add for much so maybe. What do you think MJD?

The title of this page is Spotify most streamed studio albums so compilations are obviously not included

Hard to tell, she had like 90m charted Gaon DLs so that's like 14m+ from them alone, not to mention uncharted sales. But we need to subtract a good sh...

You are not wrong. A good chunk of SK DLs were not paid for or achieved through subscription like services etc. In the case of International artists t...

For albums we use sales*(price in Yuan/50). Singles are treated the same way from now on I think With this formula they have 682,000 CSPC from album...

It's down to their insane download sales really. Their streams are really strong too, especially in China. The requirement for the list is about 30m ...

From what I've seen old artists and songs can get resurges out of nowhere these days due to TikTok and such so you never know really.

The US only represents about 20% of Spotify users now, so even if she did terrible there it wouldn't affect overall totals as much as you want to beli...

They're pretty great for a western artist to be honest. Pure sales simply aren't that big there anymore.

Cause it's "a repackage of BTS’s 2016 album WINGS"

Most of his major releases seem covered by codes. I just wasn't in the mood for checking all for him entirely until his eventual CSPC article, we're t...