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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 Joanna! Our optimization process excludes records that bring no new streams, so if an artist is scanned when a new song has 0 stream and there are ...

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...

Hi Dan! Next artist may start with 'Sa' but we are still deciding which one 😉

Hi Jsak! Without going into details for these 2 artists, yes, we adapt the formula for the rest of Europe with the success of each artist. For exampl...

Hi Charles J Cook / beast44 / jeremy! You have been posting again and again (and through different accounts) insanely delusional claims about Usher (...

Hi Jorge! To be honest I don't see why women should be discriminated positively. I'm sure if we look at the average CSPC of female artists studied it...

Hi Nathan! A lot of his records include Police songs on top of The Very Best Of Sting & the Police, like Symphonicities, My Songs, Live In Berlin...