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Hi Sonique! Because of a wrong exclusion, the BTS count was frozen for 2 weeks, from Dec 12 to Dec 26, when it got updated and thus the total jumped.

Hi justiceforglory! I hope you understand everything is automated, there are no 'sabotage' or whatever nonsense there. As we mentioned very often, w...

Hi Analord! While the soundtrack isn't credited to him, I 100% agree that CYFTLT should get its relative share from the OST sales in this ranking. It...

Hi Padilla! Yes, the reissue has been adding stunning numbers to the original. As we stated on Twitter, she is already ahead of Britney Spears had we...

Hi rayman! You're correct, our Spotify system uses a user, which is based in France where I live. Here, Discipline isn't available on Spotify! Hopefu...

Hi Jorge Neto! Although no CSPC article has been posted a lot has been going on lately, with the notable addition of top streaming debuts by country ...

Hi EdSheeranIsTheBest! When you are down to 'doubt heavily' an automated process directly plugged on Spotify API, you may start questioning yourself....

Hi iilumight! It's part of the plan, we started working on it already but it's a lot of time to put together all IDs of all songs to know what the to...

Thank you Jerome for your nice words! We do put a lot of work into it, for many years, so it's always rewarding to see that this work does serve the p...

Hi Brightest_blue, thank you for noticing, it's now fixed!

Hi staneloode! These specific merges require a manual input inside our database, it has now been done 🙂

Hi ead666! Their early albums changed of label very often in the UK which is why we never got a comprehensive certification. The album TNOTB was reis...

Agree, also thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal anyway, so that still belongs to this category!

Hi Jazz! Yeah, I was in the tank lately first developping several backend pages to administrate our data, so that I don't have to do it alone anymore...

Hi Rodolfo! There are many reasons leading to undercertified releases, and both Deep Purple and Iron Maiden check most of them. In incomplete list wo...

Hi Analord! It's about the whole package, significant following, critical acclaim and ongoing sales. It's mainly the classic rock acts or related whi...

Hi Padilla! As we list net shipment units, we had the album on 240k US sales up to that point. After that were the UK at 20k, Japan at 15k, Canada at...

Hi all! With Iron Maiden posted, here is the screen shot of the situation by this point. It was a close battle between Jimi Hendrix and 2Pac with the...

And why don't both of you don't quit this pointless argument? The discussion is full of absurd claims, tainted with hate, and brings nothing interesti...

Hi Binderella! The auto updates do use exclusively the new Spotify streams, but they weight them according to the streaming ratios verified during th...

There are little point in separating 'singles' and 'tracks' in digital statistics, that is something from the physicals era. Why would you take 50% f...

Trumru, You need to be more careful / precise when you deal with the numbers. - 4.342 + 588 = 4.93 million rather than 5.104 million - 300m streams ...