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Hi Pierre! As I mentioned I surely messed the ASR calculation, that will be verified! About ASIB, the thing is that streaming adds a lot but throug...

Hi Kant Clark! Considering it shipped 6.8 million by the end of 2011 and 900,000 units of them got returned, it no doubt underperformed in regards to...

Hi Eric! It's all explained in the initial phase of the article, orphan stands for songs issued outside of studio albums, these are stand-alone singl...

Hi kid1111! Pure sales in Latin America are really in life support phase now. There it is all about streaming already. Joanne for example was #52 of ...

Hi Mariandtime! Yes, that's correct 🙂

Hi Marta! Anthony who handles it is on vacations at the moment so I took over filling in the information to get the ASR. I was myself surprised by th...

Hi Anik! There is some adjustments in these numbers, but yes streams were already counted so most of the increase comes from new sales/streams!

Hi Brit! We work with net shipment to date. At times, albums fail to sell their initial shipment and many copies are returned to the label. If the ce...

Hi djdj, thanks for this new information, very helpful as usual!

Hi djdj! Well there is no reason to expect the promo book to follow Billboard, and Billboard themselves happened to change what they meant by Asia-Pa...

Hi Christoffer! RIAJ certs are very, very rarely updated. Dookie has been a tremendous catalog seller for many years. Even albums like Insomniac, Nim...

Hi Anik! This doesn't consider the fact that remaining artists too must be updated. Whitney Houston is safe at over 61m if entirely updated, Van Hale...

Your supposition doesn't work. Firstly, they don't write 9 Plat countries, they say 4 Plat and 5 3xP or more for BOMT, and 4 and 5 2xP or more for Oop...

Hi Michael! I wasn't mentioning flop singles but indeed true hits. Both Yeah and Crazy In Love come from an era where "feature" wasn't meaning the sa...

Oops, I missed that one, done! There was also someone asking which album from 1999 was ahead, it's Santana's Supernatural that should come on top.

Hi Rey! Everything is Love will be included in her solo total once updated, we consider it as something very different than the Destiny's Childs. Tha...

Hi Nathan! We will not got back to the original format, it requires just so so much writting time, we prefer focusing on researches / data analysis t...

Hi but! Thanks for noticing, it has been fixed 🙂 About TSC, I only moved to automatic formulas for each region and it appears TSC was too high for...

Hi djdj! The album moved 1.68 million in Asia-Pacific, that's very different from Southeast Asia! It includes not only Japan but also Australia / New...

Hi Anik! He is currently #30 and would likely jump to spots 20-22 if entirely updated!

Hi DTM! Yes, albums pre-TVR are deflated by the OCC. The current panel used in the UK started in week 5 of 1994. At first a good share of the market...

Hi djdj! As i stated on my previous message for old songs RIAA digital certs are rare. Here are some stats from the Jazz Digital Songs Sales since th...

Hi djdj! I know both are from same subscriptions, that's why we used to count downloads from SK and why I commented that we will discontinue them for...

Hi Geo! We updated the way we treat images so that they can be compressed, and page load time is strongly reduced. In the process we glitched pics of...