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No, Elvis sold more albums and more singles than MJ.

"At least it will break even and even if it doesn’t it’s going to get very close." So you're not even sure it will break even but you think it's do...

Well they're not listed alphabetically are they 😉 If you want more precise figures a lot of them are listed here.

No one said it was a flop in Europe.

I'd have to look it up but 5-6-7 are quite far from each other, Load must be close to Limp Bizkit but its catalog sales are obviously not that great.....

Of course, to be historical something has to be unique or exceptional, that's why it's remembered... I think MJD has a taste for hyperbole, I remember...

Oh, and I don't have a "vendetta" against you 😆 “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contr...

I definitely don't think ABBA's studio albums would've become major classics without their compilations, and for the same reason I think a lot of peop...

Let's read it again... "The most surprising fact for an act that registered out-of-this-world smashes, as well as hard core bombs, is to see that e...

Guns 'N Roses have a 34m average if you don't include Lies, which is basically an EP released in the middle of their first album's era, with half of i...

What a strange career... Only 34% of her sales come from the US, which is extremely low for an American artist (even lower than MJ and Madonna), de...

Really ? I see no mention of the media : "The most surprising fact for an act that registered out-of-this-world smashes, as well as hard core bombs...

No, Metallica is much closer to Pink Floyd, a band who sold 200m albums including about 14m compilations...

"what's safe to say is that we can't say nor believe that One added 3.3m+ sales in the UK (or 30m+ globally) to their sales." Just to be clear, no ...

Top 10 most streamed songs from 1 (EAS) : Let It Be [Let It Be] – 569,000 Hey Jude [Orphan] – 555,000 Come Together [Abbey Road] – 520,000 Yest...

No it's not a "well known thing" that Load and Reload aren't metal, it's a well known thing that they are a mix of metal and hard rock. Your main argu...

No it's pretty far behind (16.2m vs 17m), Justice must be selling like 100k a year but Fallen is also selling maybe 65k a year.

Youtube isn't just music though, for example the Thriller video has much more views than Beat It even though it's clearly a less popular song. I can s...

Enter Sandman was always bigger than Nothing Else Matters, physical and digital sales for both : ES : 1.39m NEM : 1.01m ES : 6.05m NEM : 3.98m

Does the mention of "hardcore bombs" in the article refers to Flash Gordon and Hot Space ? Flash Gordon was a largely instrumental soundtrack released...

Yeah, an opposite case would be Eminem's Till I Collapse, it wasn't even released as a single but now it's credited for a third of The Eminem Show's s...

I'd say 28.5m for SWW and 16m for New Jersey. Note that Cross Road must've sold like 12m in its first year, thanks to the massive hit Always (#1 in Eu...

Top pre-2000 songs, credit to Thomas Christiansen : (#) indicates ranking as of Jan 2nd 2021. As of Jan 1st 2022: 1 (1) QUEEN – Bohemian Rhaps...

Don't Stop Me Now 1.4b, Another One Bites The Dust 1.3b, Don't Stop Believin 1.3b, Take On Me maybe 1.3b, I've no search credit left 🙁

Oh I know about the CSPC method 😆 It's totally irrelevant to this discussion though, the question was "how much more AFD would've sold without the...