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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...

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

Doesn't really mean much since all acts you mentioned are still outselling her with or without a new album.

Not sure if most stans know this but the majority of people here in the world are actually not stans, and I also don't think any reasonable person wou...

That seems to fit pretty well with the US sales estimate since the certification likely also include streams and downloads.

I don't really see any other male artist outselling Rod except Sinatra maybe.

That's in equivalent single sales and their weighting is not clear really.

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First Love is likely above any of Hamasaki's albums but the follow ups really didn't hit as well, although still massive albums for Japanese standards...

There's no way Utada is bigger than Hamasaki really, in overall CSPC Hamasaki might be over Utada and Amuro combined actually, but in terms of popular...

The thing that's even more amazing is how much Sgt. Pepper's UK Sales have been overestimated by OCC, it was at actually at 3.3m when we did the artic...

A huge market and a maket with huge potential are two different things. The market is currently booming and it will definitely reach levels where the ...

Weighing the streams as audio streams blows her streaming units from 650,000 to 6.9m and the album DLs from 740,000 to 2m, does that really sound log...

It sound possible, but it's definitely not for pure album sales only

They still have no albums over 500k pure in the US. The two albums mentioned are certified gold there for 500k units, but that includes streaming and ...

I think both Ozzy and Sabbath needs to be studied before we can say that for sure. Some others to throw in are Vangelis and Demis Roussos, both from ...

Their album lists are based on only pure sales, only their song ranking is SPS based.

Yes, although sales there are really low now streams have shot through the roof.

Only 3.5k physical copies have been shipped to stores in Brazil according to shipment codes and Mexican certs come mostly from streams these days. Pu...

Hell: The Sequel is included in the compilation section