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It never came out on CD from what I've seen. Do you have any source for this claim?

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?

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...