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Hi Thomas! Adding some more details to the ones posted by Anthony 🙂 About Back to Black, its 3rd and 4th biggest songs are both on 52m so while...

Hi Thomas! We are lucky enough to have various factual evidences to answer those questions! 1) Sales of the studio album In 1995, 432 million physi...

Hi again dear! On page 33 it refers to the CD1 of the package! The CD2 is counted too but as a studio album. The CSPC methodology distinguish albums ...

Hi Ingrid! Yes, he has. He is far and away ahead of anyone else on this category as the number #2, Madonna's TIC, is more than 7 million lower and se...

Hi Chrysalynne! Sadly Jamaica lacks both market numbers and official charts. From what I know, albums have never been really big there, it was mostly...

Hi Rell! I suppose you refer to male artists only. He is clearly among the leading pack but most likely not second. MJ is at 1 but then Bruce Springs...

Hi IE! Yes, the Top 3 international male acts in France in terms of album sales are 1/ MJ 2/ Bob 3/ Collins!

Hi ASJ! All album sales mentioned on those articles are pure album sales. Each format is treated on its own, this is only the final CSPC numbers that...

Hi IE! Yes, this article has been drafted even before the release of the ravaging impact of downloads article. One of the chapters from the impact of...

Hi Harry, This is a very wrong reasoning - his album sales are not spectacular in comparison to 90s artists because of streaming, they cannibalize ...

Hi Anna! There isn't one unique reason for variations, each album has been updated as per up to date information available which may led to slight ch...

Hi Mat! Indeed, Ray of Light was never awarded a Diamond cert in France. It broke the million mark in recent years, after the change of criteria whic...

Hi Rell! Johnny is the clear #1 with Sardou at 2 and Goldman at 3. Cabrel and Michael Jackson should be slightly ahead of Renaud in terms of CSPC in ...

Hi IE! Yes, I was myself expecting Mistral Gagnant at #1, so much that I put inside the top tracks page the pic of this bench due to the lyrics at ...

Hi Karalady! Other songs managed to chart high in foreign countries, Gainsbourg had international hits, then Joe Le Taxi or the Soeurs Sourire were b...

Hi Dan! It's very good to know that you discovered him thanks to our website, various of his songs / albums are really brillant 😉

Hi Rjhay, Spotify streams are just that, Spotify streams. This platform has 132 million users against 212 million users combined for all streaming pl...

Hi Joel! Mediatraffic figures are strongly inaccurate, and already include streaming for 2017 figures anyway, so this addition is wrong!

Hi Mauricio! I decided to exclude preloaded sales as they aren't legitimate, they don't reflect the success of an album / artist. Those awards refer ...

Hi Martin, Some views: - you just want to see the best selling artists, that's fine and everyone respect that. I'm sure you can respect then that ot...

Hi Jacob! It is really hard to tell. At the time though the Bee Gees were coming from multiple albums that failed to chart so they had truly no follo...

Martin, Do you really think it is needed to call names when nobody went after you? Please slow down your useless attacks or I'll move your comments t...