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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.

Hi Iris! TVR is Plat in Japan, you check search for ジャネット・ジャクソン on cell アーティスト atand then press the left button.

Hi Firdaus! It is a bit in-between: we automatically detect albums over 500 million streams thanks to user searches, but then we need to add them man...

Oh indeed, I misunderstood what you meant! It would be possible to cherry-pick songs to exclude rather than entire releases (like removing Patience f...

Well I don't really agree with this. When an album that barely came out has a deluxe reissue, we count it (see the last Demi or Bieber albums, they al...

This "The Beatles are on top hands down" rengaine doesn't work for everything. They sold more records than anyone else, this is as safe as it can be. ...

Hi Martin! Here I'm fine adding deluxe editions which add outtakes and the likes. Since contemporary releases always add several tracks after some mo...

Thanks for spotting it, fixed now!

Nice one Al! This is a very tricky case - if I go to Spotify web player, on Bob Marley & the Wailers page, the album Burnin' is indeed missing, a...

This is fixed for Songs..., about Make It Big this is the version that belongs to it, the one with 17m streams. Some artists suffer from these multi-v...

Thanks Martin for pointing them out! I tried to avoid these kind of releases, but irocanically for albums I know well I end up scrolling to fast and m...

Hi Sebensu! The billion total include features, without them she stands at 850 million. The all-time list is ordered based on lead streams alone!

Hi Hanswurst! This is an interesting case. Our tracker identified 2 IDs with 700m+ streams: - Pink Friday (Complete Edition) at 908,302,254 (id 7aADd...

Hi JaMSpam! It is indeed considered a compilation, House Of Balloons does chart on its own at #14 of 2011!

Hi Kalmanta! I can't answer instead of others and I don't vote comments myself, but I disagree with the idea of not counting averages per track being...

Already answered, compilation albums aren't listed!