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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...

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...