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Can you explain why songs like Shake The Disease or Only When I Lose Myself aren't in the "orphan" category? They were released to promote compilation...
What is wrong with you? Martin and MJD already explained how nonsensical this is, Metallica had a new album one year ago so of course their monthly li...
I wouldn't say selling 5m albums in the UK is "lukewarm", they basically had as much success there as in the US or most of Europe. The most notable ma...
While 1989 TV beat the first week of Britney's OIDIA Fearless also just passed it in total sales (25m). It will likely pass the Eagles' debut album (2...
"Without digging into exact details (most notably video sales, Motown material etc), his biggest year is most likely 2009 over 1983." I assumed aro...
And please change your username, it's like you're asking to get banned or something...
Chartmasters has an article about it: 10 million by Jun 21, 1983. 12 million by Sep 17, 1983. 13 million by Nov 11, 1983. 14 million by Dec 4, 1...
MJ's biggest calendar year is 1983, during which Thriller sold 20m. His EAS total during that year would be 30m or so.
OMG... 6th biggest pure sales week ever: Adele - 25 3.4m Nsync - No Strings Attached 2.4m Nsync - Celebrity 1.9m Eminem - The Marshall Mathers L...
For comparison I believe Madonna was selling about 1.5m albums per year of her catalog (not including new albums) 20 years into her career. Soundscan ...
"I don’t think any female artist ever has such catalog where every album keeps selling even after all these years." That's a great point, I can't t...
Wait the article says "well over 300k/week", so more like 17m each year organically.
India is an absolutely gigantic music market although it's largely dominated by local music as you probably know, western artists can't compete with t...
And it overtook South Korea 2 years ago, as opposed to what Jake was saying ("Japan and South Korea the two biggest markets in Asia"). But most imp...
"Just saying so much without offending anyone, I’m Generation Y and I’ve consciously never heard a Taylor Swift recording. That’s all I’ll say about i...