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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...

Hi again Rey! As you know I'm personally from France, a country typical for not welcoming easily teen pop groups. It's also a good scale to see group...

Hi Rey! Well as pointed out before, although it wasn't automatic there is some R&B artists who did very well in Asia. No Scrubs was definitely hu...

Hi John! It's always the same issue when it comes to China. Some people are obsessed with adding Chinese sales to the model so that Taylor's numbers ...

Hi George! I'm not going to answer to each and every award since there is a lot of them, just going to say that they were all accounted for. You shou...

Right button! There is various R&B artists that got a lot of love from Japan, including very long ago like Stevie Wonder, then Lionel Richie, etc.

Hi Xavier! In most developed markets, physical sales are tracked using the bar code for many years. That is a very reliable system. It had some flaws...

Hi KantClark! While I would agree on this example (that Janet isn't local), that argument doesn't work out. You can't say someone is global by rankin...

Hi Wayne! What's inaccurate is all these good old claims coming out of nowhere and repeated online by lazy journalists who just pick the first thing ...

Hi Colosoul! It seems accuracy isn't your thing. Your message basically says that Janet's albums are undercertified because of non-Soundscan sales (w...

Hi Colosoul! Surely you should care more about certifications and accurate receipts than wild claims posted on sites which have nothing to do with ...

Hi Jane! The figure listed here is up to date as of the date of the article. The OCC figure is inaccurate. This case has been treated in our article ...

My bad Dhhd, I'm completely flooded with work lately and this question got out of my mind. I just checked, the real total is 25.69 million, and the fi...

Hi Dhhd! Indeed no Gaon chart back then so we are down to estimates based on former IFPI numbers, popularity metrics from the likes YT plus ongoing c...

Hi Minerva! It seems a nerve was hit since you get into childish comments. Can't you speak as an adult, without getting into nonsense, putting fake c...

Hi Lucy! You need to consider that downloads market in 2007 was still fairly weak, so most big hits from that time still got most of their downloads ...

Hi Minerva! It's very wrong to apply old comments to a situation that is now getting sorted but that was previously a huge mess. To exclude the first...

Hi Xavier! When there is a large gap between retail sales and shipments it's only logical that some copies are shipped back. It happens very frequent...

Hi Kris! Haven't noticed it was still on auto mode, gonna change it from now on 🙂

Hi Jsak! Iron Maiden did extremelly well in many countries, and I wouldn't rule out the possibility that they outsold Metallica in one market or anot...

Hi DHdhhp! Just like for MJ, I'll give you the details once I access my files tonight. As a general remark yet the RIAA certifications for legacy son...

True Michael! At the end of the day, 50 million EAS is 50 million persons giving you $12 to listen to your work. It's incredibly amazing. People are ...