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Hi Johnny Gnecco! The figure of 241 million stands for comprehensive sales of all formats weighted as per album sales. This includes 202 million albu...

Hi Rell! Yes, she definitely is. Maybe more impressively, Ella Elle L'A also did wonders all over continental Europe, as did Babacar. Obviously Poupé...

Hi Janet, Well no, Madonna did it too with The Immaculate Collection, True Blue and Like A Virgin. Then Whitney has a word to say there as well with ...

Hi Hexar! 10 million is the number of units certified way back in October 2001, TIC continued to sell ever since especially from 2001 to 2009 prior t...

Hi Romi ! You have to download Spotify software and then you only need to mouseover the popularity bar of the song which you are looking for 🙂

Hello Daydreamer ! There is various French artists who sold more abroad like Jarre, Richard Clayderman, Daft Punk, David Guetta or even Edith Piaf bu...

Hello Jean Marc ! Merci pour tous les compliments 🙂

Hi Jackie! I'm French and lived there for 25 years, plus I have plenty of in-house data which enables me to be very accurate on this market. I'll def...

Hi Nathan! Thanks for all the nice words 😉 About physical singles sales, it is divided into 2 categories: - 10,53 million EPs, weighted 0,5 - 27,25 ...

Hi Donald, As previously stated on requests about Ayumi and Hikaru, the fact that Japan doesn't use Spotify make it harder to dispatch sales of comp...

Hi Grendizer! The easiest way is to estimate sales in the US / UK / France / Italy during the "visible" (on charts) periods in Japan and look at the ...

Hi Daydreamer! I haven't got into CCR for long but yes no doubt the Eagles outsold them!

Hi IE! Their success in the US is indeed unreal and using pro-rata to the catalog surely only the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Garth Brooks can challeng...

Hi Ingrid! It is mostly due to the low market / low competition the album had in various countries. The figure from Germany was way too high for th...

Hi Kevin, The OCC is much less accurate that it claims to be. Just like Soundscan, it excludes Music Club sales. Morning Glory alone sold nearly 400,...

Hi Matty! Labels need to be accurate on their claims, they can't inflate figures. If they publish an official statement saying an album sold 7m while...

Hi Thomas! Yes, all versions of tracks are added together, it isn't rare to get more than 5 versions of one song on our Excel sheets 🙂

Hi Stephane! It came out only in Australia - everywhere else there was only promo singles / imports!

Perfect! You will be a great ally to identify interesting artists to study 😉

Hi Matty! Champagne Supernova was certified in 2005 for Digital Sales, it wasn't released as a physical single which is why it never made the Hot 100...

You are right about MJ's upcoming records! Bad's 3rd song is already on 97 million now so it is only a matter of days before it joins Thriller. The fo...

Hi Thomas! Well spotted! Ten has four songs over 60m. The main version only: - Even Flow 92,8m - Alive 101,5m - Black 73,4m - Jeremy 63,1m I always ...