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RE: Whitney Houston albums and songs sales

They're just now shown in the breakdown but they are taken into account. Africa + Middle Eastern sales should be around 1.6m

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RE: Whitney Houston albums and songs sales

Where is it stated she sold nothing in Africa exactly? 😉

4 years ago
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RE: Justin Bieber albums and songs sales

Our weighting isn't necessarily the same as what labels use. I'm sure most label claims are based on some legit data. Hard data from their financial r...

4 years ago
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RE: BTS albums and songs sales

Sadly no. But if you give me a specific year can I give you a list of the top releases we've studied + some rough estimates for the ones we haven't ye...

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RE: Michael Jackson albums and songs sales

It's not that they're weak there, he's among the very top international sellers in Japan. It's just that his sales in places like China, India, Taiwan...

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RE: BTS albums and songs sales

First of all, the Japanese market unlike the Korean one is so massive on it's own. This doesn't really give the labels there much of a reason to try t...

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RE: The Weeknd albums and songs sales

After Hours is only 2nd to the new BTS album when it comes to 2020 releases.

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RE: Michael Jackson albums and songs sales

Can't say too much about MJ since we haven't updated his sales. Digital single sales are definitely not as big as they used to be with the exception...

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RE: Michael Jackson albums and songs sales

You need to consider these releases sell so well cause they're download exclusives there for a long time. They get close to 0 streams in China due to ...

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RE: Queen albums and songs sales

One problem with point systems is that they don't account for market size. Way more albums were sold at Queen's peak than Dylan's. A big part of Queen...

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RE: BTS albums and songs sales

Although I do agree BTS boundaries probably are bigger it's wrong to say the Beatles didn't have any. British acts never really did too well in the US...

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RE: Elvis Presley albums and songs sales

Hello, nice to see fellow Norwegians here 🙂 The figure for Sweden might refer to the old "single equivalent units" which were commonly used back the...

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RE: Usher albums and songs sales

Maybe 274 million streams there haha

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RE: Bob Marley albums and songs sales

That might be true tbh, but I don't think it's the case when it comes to their music

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RE: Lady Gaga albums and songs sales

They exist in the web archive actually, here you go:

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RE: Ozzy Osbourne albums and songs sales

Even if his overall sales are weak cause he sold terribly in France, Spain etc. are his sales quite solid in places like Scandinavia and Russia. Sinc...

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RE: Queen albums and songs sales

It seems to me like many view her more as an icon than a musican, and that's not meant in any negative way. I know more people would jam out to Bohem...

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RE: BTS albums and songs sales

We have Chinese physical sales included in their Asian pure sales since they are included in Gaon totals because they are imports from South Korea.

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RE: Queen albums and songs sales

You know Queen outsold and outstreamed Madonna on a daily basis long before that movie even was announced right?

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RE: Queen albums and songs sales

Rolling Stone is an American magazine, it never claimed to be a international one there's a reason it got local versions for other countries. And if t...

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RE: BTS albums and songs sales

It's funny how much false information this comment contains.

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RE: Queen albums and songs sales

The 1991 version sold 150k copies there in recent years thanks to a CD and DL release in 2011 plus a vinyl release in 2017.

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RE: Queen albums and songs sales

Mediatraffic is as far from a credible source for album sales as you get, first of all does these figures include a lot of streaming which is why they...

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RE: Aerosmith albums and songs sales

You get about 160m if you add all album and single sales together unweighted.

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