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Hi Rey! 1) Lists are based mostly on acts rather than persons. If we start looking at persons, it becomes way too complex. Take Eric Clapton, he cont...

Hi Donald! Anthony and I had the exact same though when we saw final results. Interestingly, there is tiny indicators which still point out that 'Roc...

Hi Jules! We could have added it to Nine Lives if it had sold most of its copies as a catalog item thanks to the song. Say an album is released in 19...

Hi XM! People tend to extrapolate way too much Japan into Asian sales. There is several markets in Asia which follow trends of the UK rather than Jap...

Hi Pkuc01! You are mixing pure sales with SPS (Sales Plus Streaming) data. The figure 12,3 million refers to pure downloads/ringtones, with no stream...

Hi XM! It's a list of figures completely made up that surfaced on online forums nearly 15 years ago. They are all massively inaccurate.

Hi Temporal! Please find below relevant markets for both songs. Most missing ones are calculated with formulas as per the market share / weight of ri...

Hi X! I have to contradict that: it isn't according to IFPI, but according to the writer of the article. Platinum awards mentioned there are official...

Hi Vitor! A good share of her total comes from Because of You which stands at 2,9 million in SK. Mr. Know It All, What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) an...

Hi RLAAMJR! The article pre-dates Biggest Tracks lists! I have put the post Sticky for today as it's Dylan's 77th Birthday 🙂

Hi Roberto! Well, if I'm wrong, then SG's label is too since all figures fit with official data 😉 You mention that "there are a lot more countries"...

Hi ILFMUSIC! Unless significant issue, we go with track list of versions available on Spotify. It isn't technically possible to apply calculations wi...

Hi Jean! Undoubtedly, yes! The article detailed with MJ's US sales is 8 months old. By then, Bad was on 9,85m pure units sold. Since then, it already...

Hi Stephen! Seems 100% legit to me, and yes Witness is unsurprisingly overshipped so far!

Yes, all fanatics have great friends on labels who provide them fanciful numbers. The funny part is that Enrique has released albums for FonoVisa, Uni...

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Hi Sara, Or maybe you should update your sources 😉 All numbers you claim are ridiculously inflated. Accurate and official data is known, there is n...

Hi Dan! No worries, it is all being set up, just a little bit of patience 🙂

Hi Winston! Cher's Believe is slightly ahead while the still unstudied Santana with Supernatural will be the #1 on that 'old guns' category 😉

Hi Isaiah! Yes, Simon & Garfunkel is coming tonight 😉

Hi Jean! All your answers (and more) are detailed on this article 😉