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Hi alex! All numbers here are global

It might be down to Metallica's heavier sound. Which seem much more popular in general in places like Germany, Scandinavia and such, where genres like...

It takes time to break into Japanese and Korean markets. Considering how recent she is and that's she's still growing there it's not too bad. She's hu...

You can find many figures in the articles of the artists, although not all: 1 The Beatles 23,030,000 2 Mariah Carey 21,000,000~ 3 Carpenters 10,160,0...

The Beatles are on top with 23m as of 2017. They're followed by Mariah at 20m+, the Carpenters and Michael Jackson are at 10m+. Others above Purple in...

We won't count it like an album cause no matter how you look at it it's still a physical single containing 2 tracks only. The sales are still mindblow...

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...

She had 28.8m at the date of this article. As of now she's up to 34.1m

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...