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Hi Patrik! I have absolutely no idea why, but the number Spotify retrieved for On The Floor yesterday was 124,683,326 while it was 414,713,001 the da...

It has been added to the database along with some catalog albums from Luis Miguel, Europe, Mumford & Sons, etc. They will appear from tonight!

You're correct Jonasl91! Our batch is scheduled after 10pm French time to make sure new daily numbers are in, but Spotify updated it much later still ...

Exactly Fanofpop, + Drake!

Hi Dan! As stated in the voting page, the requests are related to new studies only. We won't let popular artists of today outdated for years though. ...

Work, do you understand that: 1) no matter if there are 5 or 15 or 50 countries listed on pictures, it changes nothing to global estimates 2) the fac...

Hi Work! There is a very simple explanation: you are comparing a 1987 album with a 2000 album. I hope you understand that while markets like the US, ...

Hi again cass! I would say that both Stephen Stills and Manassas are safely well past Platinum by now. When I apply my formulas to convert runs into ...

Hi Rc! You sound very frustrated, your feelings are up to you so I'll focus on the concrete points. Firstly, Neil Young was picked before the votin...

Hi everyone! As Deep Purple were the leaders when Neil Young was published, I've now removed their votes among everyone's votes. I also capped votes ...

Hi cass! To be honest, it took us so much time to remove songs from individual singers from their merged releases and to search for group songs into ...

Thanks to you for taking the time to read it! 🙂

Hi Smiley! This wouldn't be the correct score as a good part of CSNY's total is down to records on which Young wasn't involved.

Hi Luan! The version you mention is purposedly excluded since it increases to 1.5b thanks to songs from her previous album (Moment 4 Life, Roman’s Re...

Hi Budada! What about wondering how numbers are compiled to avoid comparing apples with oranges instead of suggesting there are bias here and there?

Hello Jiyede! The list is based on lead streams, Moira dela Torre is up to 877 million up to date. The billion is achieved thanks to features, which ...

Hi Janet! The IFPI simply merges yearly top shipped albums from reporting labels. In Gaga's case, numbers were reported by Universal Vivendi. You ca...

Yep, that's correct ojd! Album sales of Buffalo Springfield, CSN-CSNY and Neil Young are near complete, I still need to build his singles sales. It's ...

Hi all! All 3 artists are now most likely over 100m. It requires a lot of work update them together, and it's near impossible to claim one or another...

Hi Fanofpop! It's more like 90m+ for tier 1, 65m+ for tier 2, 50-65m for tier 3, and then artists with 1 are or artists with 1 album over 15m or over...

Hi both! We are actually going to add the new Fearless version to the 2008 list. Even if songs are re-recorded, if we stick to the real meaning of th...

Hi Monika015! Artists are ranked according to lead streams only, features are shown as an additional information but do not impact the ranking.

Hi Patrik! I suppose it's down to the fact that the list and these statistics are completed automatically, there are no manual input. The data is ba...

Hi trey! It's part of the Japanese version of the album which is available on Spotify.