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Hi Yanick! Your data barely shows what I have been saying for years: she is the top international performer, but she is still on the same scale as th...

Hi Chris! I'm deleting messages with insults from fanatics. Saying something is "completely inaccurate" is not "stating actual facts", it seems your ...

Hi Ash! Data is used when it exists. It's not these 5 main apps releases streams of every song. It's like Apple Music, that would be nice to have the...

Hi Samsas! Are you sure it is me ignoring most of the comment of the other? You completely failed to address the fact there is no YouTube in China wh...

Hi Music! Rather than me being clueless about China it seems you are clueless about statistics. Do you know how many people are needed to accurately ...

Hi Enrique! May you read back my comment accurately and read what's stated rather than what you wrongly extrapolated?

Hi Chris! You are once again completely off the mark, a pair of you are so centered into Taylor that you completely miss the real meaning of the data...

Hi Samsas! I'm sorry to see that you are getting into fanatical comments even though hardly surprised considering the tremendous lack of objectivity ...

Hi Tommy! Yes, we are testing what's the best way to come with realistic data for all strong emerging markets without getting into a bottleneck of hu...

Hi Maria! Gaon charts are about units manufactured in South Korea, no matter where they are sold. BTS' label produces all their copies in the SK itse...

Hi Erdos! Ain't you bored of that cheap Metallica stanning? I have been off for quite some time and it seems half of the messages I missed is you sta...

Hi Xavier! I know that some fanatics will again call me biased for saying that, but Taylor isn't that much bigger than remaining international stars ...

Hi Ash! Both figures cover the same, simply updated at different moments. In most countries Kendrick Lamar was shown as featured and that's difficult...

Hi Chris! they are very different situations. That was an outlier, and the full price was actually paid by Amazon. Also, the average price of the alb...

Hi again Samsas! The huge thing you are missing here is that popularity and price aren't independent notions. With the exact same popularity, the che...

Hi Karla! Yes, they are all included under the compilation section 🙂

Hi Dan! Our plans are to treat some missing blockbusters albums. There isn't that many we haven't treat already, but the likes Boston, Evanescence, C...

Hi Orange! That's indeed calculations, usually we put the Round method on formulas but here numbers were so low that rounding 6k or 14k to the same 1...

Hi Bucky! Actually it did, it was under 7 million Soundscan sales when it was awarded 11xPlatinum. Some 3 years later by 11/2002 it was still on 7.1 ...

Why would it need to be on an album? It's an orphan song just like many others for many artists 😉 In this case, the Demo version which sold very wel...

Hi Nathan! It was indeed an incredible seller, scanning over 1.7 million units in its first week alone in the US. Here, it scanned 2.78 million DVDs ...

Hi guys! Can I disagree with all of you? 😉 Tre is right that as a true rapper he naturally does better in the US than elsewhere. And the "race issu...

Hi Jsak! Led Zeppelin would be contenders for this list based on global popularity, except that they are from London 😉

Hi Xavier! Well, it's not about South America 🙂 the article will be online tomorrow and must be of truly high interest for all regular readers!

Hi John! Yes, my concern is to be fair for all artists, but I don't doubt that Taylor will be the one scoring the best EAS total out of all internati...