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Hi XSWL! It's a patchwork of various official data and calculation methods to fill in the holes. We know that: - it topped the million mark during th...

Hi Lorrane! It's the main contributor to the "Remaining songs" (total of 460k) of the Orphan section at 80k! I only wrote down orphan songs with at l...

Hi Mauricio! The record was aimed to be US-only. In the world, MJ himself sold well over 2,5 million. Not sure why I had 2,2 million for him in the U...

Hi Kim! Technically speaking, yes, it's only one song. We decided to allocate these streams to the full album though since functionally there is the ...

Hi Albus! 1989 was on 445,000 units in Asia (minus Japan) as of the date of the article! 🙂

Hi Luca! I already started checking the first stats of Macca / Lennon! We will post the update of Demi Lovato first since that will be fast, then we ...

Hi Nathan! I'm afraid results of the White Stripes would be decent but unimpressive. I saw them live back in the day and really got my White Stripes ...

Hi Orange! We do have an Excel file with this data and I admit to check it myself quite often. Some results are absurd and I love it: for example, 19...

Hi again Gorge! As I said, no formula is perfect. The point is to not enter into biased / manually manipulated data that would be way more flawed sti...

Hi Gorge! You say that her music was taken off Spotify during her peak, but Apple Music wasn't even existing during 1989's big months. The platform s...

Hi Emre! HDD figures used a 1500 to 1 ratio for video streams which we don't. Her numbers won't be nearly as high once we update them.

Hi CookieKwanRealEstate! It's always to see people who feed themselves with cheap online articles without ever reading official data who claim others...

Hi Donald! Yes, that will be done 😉

Hi archieduc! Thanks for the nice words 🙂 as for the top singles EAS page, it was added to the template at some point, so articles which pre-date th...

Hi again Randomname! Video streams are way, way less relevant than audio streams. They gross much less to the industry. They are also poorly tracked,...

Hi Randomname! Various articles from Chinadaily for example use figures in Yuan. And then again, the main concern is out of people who downloaded the...

Hi Corvus-albus! The Fame shipped 4,9 million units in the US (the EP is certified on its own) and its singles sold over 35 million downloads. The al...

Hi KantClark! The only official info we can truly rely on at the end of the day is the IFPI. These supposed super seller in China are never present a...

Hi Max! The Beatles sold 72-73m albums in the US up to 1980. It is harder to tell for Elvis, his albums up to 1980 included add for 105 million in th...

Hi TaylorSwiftLover! HDD figures do not use the same methodology as we do. Notably, they weight video streams at the same level as audio streams, whi...

Hi KantClark! These Chinese stats are pointless, as stated in the past they aren't sales but instead downloads on subscription services. HDD stats ...

Hi Rell! Reba is there hands down, she has 41 million album sales with RIAA certifications only. She actually sold more than Shania in the US and is ...

Hi Che1967! That page has been added 😉