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Hi RLAAMJR! No disrespect at all towards Nicki, but since when top female rapper is a real thing? What's next, top female metal singer? Limiting char...

Hi Matrix! In absolute terms, Bowie indeed had a lot of "average" sellers, but getting multi-million sellers over 30 years is likely more difficult t...

Hi Eternium! Vinyl sales are obviously counted - all pre-90s albums which sold tens of millions would be nowhere near as high without this format!

Hi Wonderer! The case of Garth Brooks is really fascinating for these reasons - his catalog was handled like no other one. Data can be very tricky fo...

Hi headshot! There is difference sources or methods for each country, you need to be more specific in your request! Which figures interest you?

Hi but! Vivendi used to publish the top 10 selling albums for the year plus the previous year up to 2013 in their annual financial reports. In the ...

Hi Messiah! There is 2 mistakes in your message. The first is your Soundscan data. You claim 760k sales to date while the album was on 775k in Feb 20...

Hi again Marta! Anthony cross-checked the ASR file and in fact the dynamic table was messed up! The true ASR score of Gaga is 213, it has been fixed!

Hi Nico! Now that's wrong numbers 😉 Her management team dropped the 8 million figure very quickly after the release of BTW. My bet is that they did...

Hi Michael! I'm not worried about the future of the album, it is going to keep rising at fast pace for quite some time, look at how The Greatest Sh...

Yes! What I like with ATRL-type fanatics is that at least they are creative! If only they would use this creativity to more relevant works than making...

Hi "That's the Tea"! What about: let's not pretend that the entire world is filled with childish people who want "tea" day in day out and can't get t...

Hi Michael! Once again, both records are already included, just like Genie Gets Her Wish, Just To Be Free, Stripped Live, etc. They are all inside th...

Hi but! I'll answer to a larger question about which sources are reliable or not, since it's clear that a lot of people is highly misinterpreting the...

Hi but! I can't read the content as I'm not an ATRL member. Anyway, that board is a monstrous flow of delusion, it's filled with fanatics who feed th...

Hi Marta! We constantly review every figure, the point is not to look at new sales and add to former estimates while in-between new data emerges show...

Hi djdj! Columns have been mixed, LA column here points to sales in other Latin American countries, outside of Brazil / Mexico! That's only visual ...

Hi RLAAMJR! Please, not that dumb Celine-fanatical argument of "if you don't count Titanic for her, you should exclude all soundtracks to all singers...

Hi Michael! I suppose that before getting into childish fanatical comments you would better read the article correctly! All her releases up to the da...

Hi Luke! Not sure which figures you refer to for Shallow, also for old BTW / Artpop figures. They are both in the rise actually, although locally som...

Hi Pierre! As I mentioned I surely messed the ASR calculation, that will be verified! About ASIB, the thing is that streaming adds a lot but throug...

Hi Kant Clark! Considering it shipped 6.8 million by the end of 2011 and 900,000 units of them got returned, it no doubt underperformed in regards to...

Hi Eric! It's all explained in the initial phase of the article, orphan stands for songs issued outside of studio albums, these are stand-alone singl...

Hi kid1111! Pure sales in Latin America are really in life support phase now. There it is all about streaming already. Joanne for example was #52 of ...

Hi Mariandtime! Yes, that's correct 🙂