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Hi Mat! Indeed, Ray of Light was never awarded a Diamond cert in France. It broke the million mark in recent years, after the change of criteria whic...

Hi Rell! Johnny is the clear #1 with Sardou at 2 and Goldman at 3. Cabrel and Michael Jackson should be slightly ahead of Renaud in terms of CSPC in ...

Hi IE! Yes, I was myself expecting Mistral Gagnant at #1, so much that I put inside the top tracks page the pic of this bench due to the lyrics at ...

Hi Karalady! Other songs managed to chart high in foreign countries, Gainsbourg had international hits, then Joe Le Taxi or the Soeurs Sourire were b...

Hi Dan! It's very good to know that you discovered him thanks to our website, various of his songs / albums are really brillant 😉

Hi Rjhay, Spotify streams are just that, Spotify streams. This platform has 132 million users against 212 million users combined for all streaming pl...

Hi Joel! Mediatraffic figures are strongly inaccurate, and already include streaming for 2017 figures anyway, so this addition is wrong!

Hi Mauricio! I decided to exclude preloaded sales as they aren't legitimate, they don't reflect the success of an album / artist. Those awards refer ...

Hi Martin, Some views: - you just want to see the best selling artists, that's fine and everyone respect that. I'm sure you can respect then that ot...

Hi Jacob! It is really hard to tell. At the time though the Bee Gees were coming from multiple albums that failed to chart so they had truly no follo...

Martin, Do you really think it is needed to call names when nobody went after you? Please slow down your useless attacks or I'll move your comments t...

You said it yourself, they were "Top 20 in 1983", e.g. they were band that was still selling their albums to the Rock fans only. Pre-1987, their highe...

Hi Pat! Anthony is keeping the results updated regularly inside the article itself 🙂

Hi Liz, It's pure sales (downloads + ringtones) with no streaming, they are treated apart.

Hi Dan! Certainly not 😉 As mentioned, we can see the IPs of requests. The message of Luana has voted 13 times for Selena Gomez for example, I valid...

Hi Colin! Hope you are doing well 😉 Yes, the major of Sam has been using this figure while starting the promotion of his new album. It is a full c...

Hi Raffi! The totals were correct, 'Omen' was incorrectly displayed under the album rather than Orphan which translated 90,000 equivalent album sales...

Hi LMAO, This is your 21st comment about Katy Perry download sales under Taylor Swift article. Don't you think it makes sense to simply wait for t...

Hi Erdos! The US isn't like the UK. In the UK, an act can get various super-sellers quickly (Robbie, Coldplay, Oasis, Adele, Ed, Beatles, MJ, etc)....

Hi LMAO! The thing is that your ratios are valid in the US but the IFPI has been very secretive about the ratio they use. It may be 750=1 just like i...

Hi Al! Only figures backed by enough information are explicitely mentioned but all countries are estimated in order to build the Asian and Worldwide...

Hi Gildo! Well, if we talk about the "truth", then we can't say Michael Jackson, nor anyone, sold in the billions 😉

Hi LMAO! The case of Love Story was raised on the first version of the article. It sold 6,5 million units from Dec 2008 to Nov 2009 as per the IFPI ...