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Why should there be an explicit references to them? They obviously fit to the "bunch of magazine editors [who] feel legitimate to call the greatest al...

The point Johnny is that they already know! From outside we tend to see playlists individually, check where an artist is / isn't. Spotify have algoryt...

To be honest, I'm not sure Spice was available at Britannia Music Club. Then there is issues between OCC's DUS figures (restricted to some panel) for ...

You would be surprised! Markets fans of teen pop are markets with a few casual buyers / a lot of hard fans. In them, artists sell a lot with various r...

An overall comment on all these awards dudj: you seem to be using the thread "Certifications Levels Around The Globe" in UKmix. AutomaticBR did a grea...

Right!

There have never been an official award in Saudi Arabia, when it was created that was in 2008 and it encapsulated various gulf countries named GCC wit...

They were but that level was already a 'new' one, at some point in early 00s it changed from 50k to 40k! There are various references on Billboard of ...

The question djddj isn't how much it sold but how much it shipped from November 1997. When an album reaches the end of its promotional campaign (remem...

In-house awards are often very useful, the point is to make sure they refer to what you would expect. Here, it isn't related to sales of Spice, but in...

Hi Michael! I have to disagree here, while from a pop eye singers like Pink / Avril can be seen as more rock than the likes Spears / Aguilera, there ...

Hi Djddj! Again it's very important to be very precise with these articles. It does not tell that Spice sold 2 million by May 1997, instead that it i...

It's indeed typical Donald! Once your "argument" appears to be weak you get into personal stuff since you can't back it up with reasonable, consistent...

Hi Djddj! While these links are often useful, it's key to truly understand what they stand for. Here, it is an ad of EMI music listing sales of Spice...

Hi Johnny! These conspiracy theories bring nowhere. Spotify aren't dictators purposedly going after singer X or Y. Their decisions are taken on the b...

Hi djdj! From their creation to 2002, Gold / Platinum awards levels for international artists were 25,000 / 50,000 in Taiwan.

That's it! Critics are always so easy in calling something the greatest without even defining it. What's the greatest? The finest piece of art? The m...

Hi Orange! As you can expect, it's really difficult to know precisely which album made it past to 1 million first. Arguably, Koori No Sekay is the mo...

Hi Orange! Beatles' Let It Be sold 747k according to Oricon on its 310 weeks charted during the 70s. There is still 7 years missing up to Flashdance ...

How convenient it is to compare her 90s stats to a band who's singer is dead since 1994, right? Surely albums that "won't ever outsell" the ones of Ce...

RLAAMJR, It looks like in your parallel World Kurt Cobain is still alive. Big news for you, Nirvana's singer is dead since 1994. That's why comparin...

Hi Edward! Have you ever been to Africa? I was living there until last summer and NO, albums/singles are not sold in these countries. There is no mus...

Nick, are you seriously saying that tracks "stood the test of the time" as well as Thriller songs, and that sales during the Erotica era are a proof o...

Hi Nick! TIC is definitely nowhere near Thriller. It sold well during the 90s, but that decade was wild and she was still very popular back then, con...