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Hi Goliath! All official information is used when compiling sales. They would require adjustments only if former estimates were incorrect though. For...

Hi Jorge! It's the one on page 12, the typo is now fixed, thanks!

Hi Goliath! It can't be 78,294 actually. The IFPI mixed data on their entries, there is no 3 versions of The Fame that have been issued in Finland bu...

Hi Bren! Turkey was absent from the list of countries where JLP was certified as provided by Billboard in 1999. We must say that the Gold criteria, a...

Hi RLAAMJR! All versions of songs available on Spotify inside the artist's page are included.

Hi Chrysalynne Lingling! Well, both JLP and COO sold virtually the same. At this level of sales, it's impossible to commit when the gap is so tiny, l...

Hi Kris! The issue is that most of these 8 million units weren't achieved by SFIJ's merits, but instead thanks to the fan base created by Jagged Litt...

Hi Unbreakable! As it stands I'll be unable to fix these figures if there is no additional information. While these numbers are valid, they would con...

Hi XM! To be honest you are mostly wasting your time going through old myths posted on online boards more than 10 years ago. It's true for all these ...

Hi Marcelo! From Brazil, Feast On Scraps 45k in CD and 30k in DVD. Then Acoustic moved 50k to date, The Collection 55k.

Hi XM! This message dates from 2006. Back then we knew close to nothing about Brazil, there wasn't even an official database available from the ABPD ...

Hi Rey! 1) Lists are based mostly on acts rather than persons. If we start looking at persons, it becomes way too complex. Take Eric Clapton, he cont...

Hi Donald! Anthony and I had the exact same though when we saw final results. Interestingly, there is tiny indicators which still point out that 'Roc...

Hi Jules! We could have added it to Nine Lives if it had sold most of its copies as a catalog item thanks to the song. Say an album is released in 19...

Hi XM! People tend to extrapolate way too much Japan into Asian sales. There is several markets in Asia which follow trends of the UK rather than Jap...

Hi Pkuc01! You are mixing pure sales with SPS (Sales Plus Streaming) data. The figure 12,3 million refers to pure downloads/ringtones, with no stream...

Hi XM! It's a list of figures completely made up that surfaced on online forums nearly 15 years ago. They are all massively inaccurate.

Hi Temporal! Please find below relevant markets for both songs. Most missing ones are calculated with formulas as per the market share / weight of ri...

Hi X! I have to contradict that: it isn't according to IFPI, but according to the writer of the article. Platinum awards mentioned there are official...

Hi Vitor! A good share of her total comes from Because of You which stands at 2,9 million in SK. Mr. Know It All, What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) an...

Hi RLAAMJR! The article pre-dates Biggest Tracks lists! I have put the post Sticky for today as it's Dylan's 77th Birthday 🙂

Hi Roberto! Well, if I'm wrong, then SG's label is too since all figures fit with official data 😉 You mention that "there are a lot more countries"...