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Hi again Gorge! As I said, no formula is perfect. The point is to not enter into biased / manually manipulated data that would be way more flawed sti...

Hi Gorge! You say that her music was taken off Spotify during her peak, but Apple Music wasn't even existing during 1989's big months. The platform s...

Hi Emre! HDD figures used a 1500 to 1 ratio for video streams which we don't. Her numbers won't be nearly as high once we update them.

Hi CookieKwanRealEstate! It's always to see people who feed themselves with cheap online articles without ever reading official data who claim others...

Hi Donald! Yes, that will be done 😉

Hi archieduc! Thanks for the nice words 🙂 as for the top singles EAS page, it was added to the template at some point, so articles which pre-date th...

Hi again Randomname! Video streams are way, way less relevant than audio streams. They gross much less to the industry. They are also poorly tracked,...

Hi Randomname! Various articles from Chinadaily for example use figures in Yuan. And then again, the main concern is out of people who downloaded the...

Hi Corvus-albus! The Fame shipped 4,9 million units in the US (the EP is certified on its own) and its singles sold over 35 million downloads. The al...

Hi KantClark! The only official info we can truly rely on at the end of the day is the IFPI. These supposed super seller in China are never present a...

Hi Max! The Beatles sold 72-73m albums in the US up to 1980. It is harder to tell for Elvis, his albums up to 1980 included add for 105 million in th...

Hi TaylorSwiftLover! HDD figures do not use the same methodology as we do. Notably, they weight video streams at the same level as audio streams, whi...

Hi KantClark! These Chinese stats are pointless, as stated in the past they aren't sales but instead downloads on subscription services. HDD stats ...

Hi Rell! Reba is there hands down, she has 41 million album sales with RIAA certifications only. She actually sold more than Shania in the US and is ...

Hi Che1967! That page has been added 😉

Hi Kris! That's very true. We tend to link the technology (here streaming) with the evolution of music formats, but in truth albums would be dying ri...

Hi Steven! There is no bias against Christina and many people here can confirm you I'm certainly no fan of Britney. Who someone listens to or not doe...

Hi Nathan! I'm reluctant at studiying Nicki because her downloads / ringtones will be a nightmare to compile. That being said, the worst remaining is...

Hi Cass! Yes, it favors album era artists... that's why the top 3 debuted in 1969 or earlier 😉 You refered multiple times to the word "fact", isn'...

Cass, your claims are just false as I already stated. It's pointless to look at the population without factoring in the competition and promotion chan...

Cass, you are completely missing the point. Arguying that more people implies automatically more sales is nonsense. Afro Americans was just one obviou...

Hi Cass! The population is a fact, that Presley (or Bing or anyone else) would have sell to proportionally as many people if the country was bigger i...