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Hi Petersap! Not sure where you are at since all her songs from Burlesque as well as Lady Marmalade are counted on her streaming numbers / listed on ...

Hi Tobi! Taylor has an insanely successful discography in the US, but we can't talk about a domination while mentioning only pure sales in our day an...

Hi Tre! There is still a 8 million gap, it depends on how the album held in the long run, giving that Bodyguard too keeps climbing!

Hi TVL20! I already answered this point in the past: the issue with features is that they are not equivalent. For example we often blame Rihanna for ...

Hi djdj! You know that I know these numbers, I accounted for them all on our articles. When I say that there is near no physical market in China, it'...

Hi Musiic! It's just that the popularity of artists like Justin Bieber, Alan Walker and Maroon 5 are underestimated. The song Faded alone got 3 billi...

Hi Elias! We apply weightings to Chinese downloads as we do for various compilations so it's just more convenient to put there here as our macros can...

I was referring to the number of 10+ million sellers. Mariah has 7, then one album at 9m+, but then everything else is at 3 million or less. Celine ha...

Hi Michael! 10 million is a truly big number, but I wouldn't rule Lover out of the race just now. So far, it hasn't one truly big single, but I can s...

Hi Meat Is Murder! Like A G6 returned to the top one week in-between the two Rihanna songs!

Hi Chrysalynne Ling-Ling! They have been added under the old singles on Discogs so I completely overlooked them, thanks for pointing that out, this w...

Hi Mister Silver! As explained when they were added to the formula, Chinese downloads are included using the Price in Yuan / 50 formula to put them o...

Hi Miss Archer! Surely you should read my comment to Samsas to avoid fooling yourself with the value of Chinese market. Surely too, you should point ...

Hi Nathan! She was on 76 million before the update!

Hi Samsas! I see that as soon as the name of Taylor Swift returns, you are back with the same broken record! 😉 Manipulating data won't make your cl...

Hi Nuno! Not contradicting your numbers at all, but adding a point that is important: we refined a lot our formulas since we started CSPC articles. T...

Hi again Nuno! Actually, I was answering on the formula used for Madonna's article, since then maxi-singles ratio has been changed to 0.5. Also, when...

Hi Gustavo! Sure but once again the query may be more specific. I can provide explanations / data behind every number, but explaining all numbers at ...

Hi Ryan! Thanks for pointing that out, it's now fixed 🙂 the 80.05m total is the good one!

Thanks for the link, now I'm back at it! Yes, back when I wanted to compare 21 to previous blockbusters, to do it correctly I re-checked its main comp...

Hi Orange, Yes, that's completely true! He is hands down the biggest artist to emerge in the last few years!

Hi djdj! I'm struggling to see where I confirmed COO has now sold 35 million pure units, can you refresh my memory somehow?

Hi djdj! David Kronmeyer posted old Warner and EMI reports, they can be retrieved with Wayback machine IIRC although I don't have the URL saved on th...