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Hi Max! The RIAA has been messing with various records in their recent database. When artist name and song name is the same, awards have been often d...

Hi Jsak! I'm not sure to understand your message. Figures by market are the same as always: for individual markets, they add only albums which detail...

Hi Jsak! As you can see on albums breakdowns, no figure has been set for Brazil / Mexico / Argentina. These 863k units only includes sales of a few c...

Hi Jules! One of your wishes will be realized today itself 😉

Hi Michael! Well, the gap with older figures are certainly lower than we think it is, for several reasons. 1) For "the past", we tend to check about ...

Hi Tre! Wikipedia list is based on OCC figures which, while being official, are hugely flawed as far as historical data is concerned. Music clubs are...

Hi Michael! Updates of old articles take nearly as much time as new articles, that's why they are fairly rare. To change that though we are going to ...

It was on IFPI's own site, although they removed these lists of Platinum albums for very long. I have all them saved in a Word document. A typo in my ...

Hi Jack! Well actually no. IFPI displayed it wrongly in a late PDF, just like D'Eux at 8xP, but these supposed awards never appeared in their monthly...

Hi Geraldine! These 20 million sales for Confessions are fanciful, 100% contradicted by official IFPI data. We can't just copy / paste what is writte...

Hi Rey! You mention singles formats (physical singles, digital singles, streams), but the overall songs ranking also involves how many albums / compi...

Hi again Timber! The act naming isn't the be all and end all of it, elseway the Jackson 5 and the Jacksons would be 2 distinct groups for example, an...

Hi Timber! I must say I agree with Kris here! About the DCs: the only member people knew doesn't mean much honestly, until her solo breakthrough 95% ...

Hi Chris! No, the formula definitely does not claim 1989 got zero streams from Apple music in any given period. That's the whole meaning of an averag...

Hi dhhd! I do not focus on the main 8 markets for Asia, I always check what's available in every country. Obviously, not that long ago, without Disco...

Yes Jsak, that's only albums (studio / live), no video / EP / Single included!

Well, the metric that takes into account the most people is YouTube and there Nothing Else Matters gets viewed 3 times more every day than Livin' On A...

Smells Like Teen Spirit is obviously not a metal song. Just sayin' ^^

Hi guys! Just to clarify the increase of 17 million, it includes a lot of 'new' sales but also several major adjustments on former numbers. Back the...

No doubt higher than 150k then! On their communication listing all her sales awards, it was shown as Platinum in SK, so anything from 100k to 200k, wh...

Hi dhhd! It takes really a lot of time to get into all the details needed to set up new estimates, I always avoid doing that in comments elseway I ha...

Hi Michael! In Spotify their top 2 songs are old hits, hotter right now than their new songs. They got to the top thanks to a ticket bundle and dropp...