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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...

So she did 260m, beating her own record of 228m from last year. No other artist has ever done 200m. And all of this thanks to a re-recording 💀

Bad Bunny sells nothing outside of streaming, in the case of UVST 157k (album + digital singles). So audio streaming (12.9m) + video streaming (2.6m) ...

16.1 * 1.1 / 6750 = 2.62 million, not 3.37? Also I'm pretty sure the total for UVST was 15.6m or so just a few days ago, and now it's 16.4m...

About 60 million of Americans speak Spanish actually, which explains Bad Bunny's success there.

Pink Floyd and the Stones were legacy acts with decades of success, actually the biggest tours of all-time are mostly from legacy acts (U2, AC/DC...et...

Unnecessary imo, he wasn't even the leader in these bands and as you said they sold almost nothing.

So you're talking about "how popular Taylor is within those age categories overall" but not how popular Madonna was? I'm honestly confused...

"My point wasn’t how popular she is against other contemporary artists but how popular she is within those age categories overall." I literally jus...

Incidentally, Madonna's popularity with Boomers is at 43% so maybe she wasn't as popular as you remember at the time?

"popularity would probably be a better figure to look at and she is the 87th most popular all time music artist, with 55%." And Madonna is at 44%.....

Yeah he's basically in the Madonna/Rolling Stones range, with similar streaming numbers as well. His EAS total with Genesis is bigger than theirs but ...

Billie only has two albums (Don't Smile At Me was an EP), and the 2nd one isn't even a flop actually, it did almost half of the previous one. Ed Sheer...

Reputation now in the top 50 most streamed albums ever on Spotify, meaning she has more albums (4) than any other artist (Drake, Post Malone and The W...

Midnights now top 50 most streamed albums ever on Spotify, she joins 4 other artists (Post Malone, Weeknd, Drake and Ariana) who also have 3 albums, a...

Oh interesting, thanks. I figured he may have been disadvantaged by being in a developing country like Brazil. This makes his success even crazier,...

She's more famous than MJ in the US according to polls (98% vs 97%), in the UK it's the opposite (97% vs 98%).

The EAS concept will always be controversial I guess, but similarly comparing 60s artists with 90s artists doesn't really make sense since the music i...

Actually, thinking about it digital piracy was probably irrelevant here since the share of internet users in Brazil was still very low in the 2000s, a...

And from what I understand the Brazilian market decreased dramatically starting in 1998 because of CD piracy, with an 80% drop in 10 years I believe. ...