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Bruce Springsteen's tour revenue is currently estimated at $2.4 billion, he's the boss.

Technically maybe. There are artists who haven't been updated in almost a decade and who haven't even counted their collections. I think the Eagles an...

So let's assume that Swift sells the album 1989 25k per week, or 100k per month WW. You didn't explain further. Is this how the sales of all pure albu...

Yeah, that 3/8 answer you gave was confusing, please explain what you mean a little more clearly.

@mjd What did this answer really mean??

Taylor Swift has sold 5 million albums in the US this year, 2025, according to Nielsen and is also the best-selling artist of this Nielsen era.

@mjd I hadn't read it in detail, I know Discogs is a good source for many purposes, I'll check it out myself.

@lucianosempre Initially the result was something like 410m EAS. But Chartmasters found maybe about 80 million collections that were not known about. ...

These are the best, but I tried to express something else.

So someone believes that these results are absolutely accurate. It's getting a bit neurotic now. Not a good day.

MJD has been doing artist sales research for twenty years, so I find it surprising that he has not previously noticed the almost one hundred million u...

Taylor Swift is a reliable artist, she doesn't cancel her shows and shows up on time. She performs, even if she has to throw up sometimes, takes oxyge...

If we think about pop artists like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Beyonce, Adele, Ed Sheeran, I would put Taylor Swift at number one. Swift's fan base is o...

A year ago I wrote that Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan will continue to tour. Nelson 92 years and Dylan 84 years are the oldest rock musicians who are ac...

I knew that, I also expanded the answer to Spotify streams. When you look at the results critically and I urge you to use media literacy. The answer w...

@kipperMcCartney's solo Spotify numbers are also quite low, less than Lennon or Harrison. McCartney's result has included numbers that did not belong ...

Spotify's financial significance may not be that great for older artists. A couple of years ago, Michael Jackson's manager said that radio is clearly ...

This is one of the best sources. You can even infer artists' income at different times, and specifically streams, which are the source of all kinds of...

Carpenters has sold more than expected. USA 33m albums + Canada 3m + Latin America 4m albums. UK 10m albums and all of Europe over 25m albums. Japan 1...

Chartmasters haven't yet grasped Taylor's greatness. She's already beaten Michael Jackson and Madonna's numbers. Her firepower is so great that there ...

Today, e.g. The New York Times reported Eras-tour 149/149 revenue of 2.077 billion dollars. Is 2x bigger than the just ended Coldplay tour ($1.1 BILLI...

Taylor Swift's sales in the USA this year were one of the biggest records that ever happened in the music world. 20.09 million units. When Michael Jac...

Superstars from previous decades and years rarely release new music, which is what fans hope for. Sales have stagnated to a few hundred thousand copie...

True, but Johnny Cash and say, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton are close. 2006 Cash sold 4,8 million albums in US and 1,2 million in UK (pure). In addit...

Is this why RIAA created certification system? Who is the best at manipulating system. The question is probably that the record company is trying to m...