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Hi Jack! Well actually no. IFPI displayed it wrongly in a late PDF, just like D'Eux at 8xP, but these supposed awards never appeared in their monthly...

Hi Geraldine! These 20 million sales for Confessions are fanciful, 100% contradicted by official IFPI data. We can't just copy / paste what is writte...

Hi Rey! You mention singles formats (physical singles, digital singles, streams), but the overall songs ranking also involves how many albums / compi...

Hi again Timber! The act naming isn't the be all and end all of it, elseway the Jackson 5 and the Jacksons would be 2 distinct groups for example, an...

Hi Timber! I must say I agree with Kris here! About the DCs: the only member people knew doesn't mean much honestly, until her solo breakthrough 95% ...

Hi Chris! No, the formula definitely does not claim 1989 got zero streams from Apple music in any given period. That's the whole meaning of an averag...

Hi dhhd! I do not focus on the main 8 markets for Asia, I always check what's available in every country. Obviously, not that long ago, without Disco...

Yes Jsak, that's only albums (studio / live), no video / EP / Single included!

Well, the metric that takes into account the most people is YouTube and there Nothing Else Matters gets viewed 3 times more every day than Livin' On A...

Smells Like Teen Spirit is obviously not a metal song. Just sayin' ^^

Hi guys! Just to clarify the increase of 17 million, it includes a lot of 'new' sales but also several major adjustments on former numbers. Back the...

No doubt higher than 150k then! On their communication listing all her sales awards, it was shown as Platinum in SK, so anything from 100k to 200k, wh...

Hi dhhd! It takes really a lot of time to get into all the details needed to set up new estimates, I always avoid doing that in comments elseway I ha...

Hi Michael! In Spotify their top 2 songs are old hits, hotter right now than their new songs. They got to the top thanks to a ticket bundle and dropp...

Hi again! I saved these all awards myself back in the day. They were available for sale at EIL website. LAP award was given in 1992, ROL in 1999, and...

Well I don't keep track of all the details, I always do multiple calculations in this kind of situations (extrapolations on the back of remaining albu...

Hi dhhd! I agree that the article is in all likelihood about TIC. I doubt its catalog sales there topped the ones from Japan though. If it multiplied...

Hi plan9fan! Definitely not Cliff, his album sales aren't that good and single sales without several key markets is way too limited! Santana are defi...

Hi Orange! Basically divas who started big did it very fast, Madonna, Mariah, Whitney. Also Eminem more recently!

It's indeed logical, but one has to get that information first 😉 Dangerous shipped 200k upon release, that's the only data we had by the time the ar...

Hi dhhd! You are good at finding improbable links! 😉 About Taiwan, let's not forget about Billboard's post-death article stating 1.2 million Sony s...

Hi dhhd! If they were issued by the China National Publications Import and Export Corp, then it's logical that no version appears in Discogs! It mean...

Hi dhhd! It's important to always check why an album was certified. True Blue wasn't certified on the back of continuous catalog sales. It went 7xP b...