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Hi Joost! We currently have artist totals for 29,326 artists including exactly 5,900 with more than 100 million lead streams.

Hi WV/A&E! 90 million isn't realistic at all right now. No number is "stuck on the first few years of certifications" either, all numbers were up...

Hi Jazz! The number of dates isn't a very good indicator actually to know how much a tool was 'milked'. The number of cities would be more relevant. ...

Hi temporary! These stats are based on lead songs only, features aren't included.

Hi Bill! South Korean downloads are factored in up to the end of 2017. After that, the market was near 0 there (to be exact, 9 million tracks were so...

Hi Samuel! The key thing is are ringtones. The song sold about 1.5m of them, and nearly all during IFPI's 2010 period as they collapsed in early 00s....

Then let me say that no, you don't understand what the article is saying. Taylor is 300k ahead, which is 0.3%, according to our estimates and accordi...

Unless new information comes out revealing a leak on former data, which is unlikely at this stage since so much is well covered, I do expect numbers t...

Hi Fanofpop! As always with updates from older articles they also involve some fixes. As it has been mentioned Diamonds is down for example. This is ...

Hi Clockingbell! I take it that you refer to sales of digital tracks? If yes, indeed when I first completed Taylor's article, I didn't knew where sh...

Hi Fanofpop! I'm definitely hoping the pace will be faster. Without getting into too many personal details, at the moment I'm in the front line drivi...

Hi comuna65! For now we are valuing at our end the most interesting artists to update based on how much they went up since the last article and the w...

Hello Lucas! None of these artists meet the criteria of 50 million equivalent album sales for international acts and 30 million for local ones. For B...

Hello Henrygb! I would say there are from 400 to 500 artists worth a study. There are 144 done, 1 ongoing, 135 in the voting list, that's 280 in tota...

Hi Jazz! Something often underrated in these all-time top selling lists is the productivity. We often think it's a reflection of who's the most popul...

Hi Kalmanta! They will be added once they cross 500m, they are all close!

Hi Donchano! In China there are next to no physical products, only downloads, and they are usually sold at 20 yuan for standard releases, 25 yuan for...

Hi Gustavo! We are working on them right now 🙂

Hi Fanofpop! Back then I posted this comment to one of your question that explains it 🙂 To be entirely transparent, to me it sold a bit more than 1...

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. ...