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Hi Fanofpop! There are 2 elements to consider there. The first is the update date, to be 100% transparent, I first updated Taylor's numbers this summ...

My bad, thanks for noticing guys, the final table is now updated!

Hi Michael! You've been involved in a lot of tedious exchanges lately, I'm sure your comment can be written with less agressivity and still be underst...

Hi Giannis! All sales figures mentioned inside the article were estimated as of the date of the article ; there aren't figures not updated since 2008...

Hi Frank! What if her sales were inflated on September 11? 😉 The process being the updates of EAS from streams is entirely automated and based on S...

Hi Alisson! There are 2 key elements there. The first is the period of release. Joanne came out in Q4, Witness in summertime. It takes much more char...

Hi Michael! To be honest they aren't in the pipe right now. There is one teen pop act we considered from time to time that hasn't been studied so far...

Hi Lucy! Estimates for it were 150k in Taiwan, her largest market in Asia after Japan, as well as over 30k in Singapore. The rest is calculated thank...

Hi Jake! The Stones too released albums in the 90s / early 00s, it isn't that much relevant when we look at the sales environment they had. Invincibl...

Hi Tokio! I hope you realize that: - the article was last updated in 09/2019, results would be different by now - back then, Dangerous Woman was ahea...

Hi D.P! There will still be B'z ahead of them for now.

Hi ojd! Currently we are completing a large batch of updates for recent & popular artists who got new albums out recently (Post Malone, Gaga, Tay...

Hi Beytingz! Maybe it's your interpretation of Sony's claim that is way off? Seriously, 75m pure sales for Beyonce's first 3 albums? Come on 😉 Son...

Yes Tom, Santana is coming 🙂 Hopefully in the next days, but it's a heavy one!

Hi Mika! You're giving way too much importance to charts. When we talk about artists like Queen or Bob Dylan, their interest is clearly limited, it's...

Hi Kjell Arne! It's page 79. Although it was titled The King in some markets, it is the same compilation as The Essential Elvis Presley and is added ...

Hi Raul! Artpop shipped 2.3 million in 2013, as shown by the IFPI data. It isn't inconsistent with figures presented here. Instead, it means retail s...

Hi Amber! The IFPI do not count sales for the BTS, nor for anyone else. Nor they look or partner with SK charts or charts for anyone else. It's a mis...

Hi Amber! It's not about identifying downloads out of the points total, it's about the fact these "downloads" shown by Gaon aren't really downloads. ...

Hi Breno! All sales, from LPs to CDs, were considered. Numbers displayed here are already absolute great results for Brazil, the band was heavily pop...

Hi Robinson! As western chart followers we have the bad habit of looking at western download charts only when it comes to digital sales. For album sa...

Hi David! I never went deep into his discography but at first glance I don't see him going as high as 80m. He sold a lot of singles, but not that man...

Don't waste your breath Chika, I moved his comments to trash. One can be very naive and believe nonsense, but someone creating 4 accounts to agree wit...