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Hi again Lulu! No, actually this is a false myth. In fact, labels never gave nor sold copies to music clubs. The main reason why Clubs were for lon...

Hi Marcus! Closer To The Truth kept going in-and-out the BB200 due to her tour bundles. By the end of July 2014, it had already scanned 337,000 copie...

Hi Lulu! You are mixing different concepts which bring you to wrong conclusions! The first things which needs to be said is that albums certified r...

Hi Elke, The RIAA does not make "estimations", let alone about Worldwide sales. They have 0 authority on that point and are barely quoting the nonsen...

Hi Nathan! You should add the likes Neil Diamond, Bob Marley, Claptan, Santana, Simon & Garfunkel and the Beach Boys who definitely outsold the l...

Hi HengeBoy, Yes, Sam Smith is among the artists to come during the next weeks 🙂

Hi IE! Thanks for noticing, it has been fixed 🙂

Hi Lance! Yes, Pink Floyd's albums sales are largely deflated by their RIAA certifications. Their label hasn't been caring about certifications for ...

Hi Alan! Sales of video singles were added to the singles directly. That's how Justiy My Love broke 2 million! About MDNA World Tour, Brazilian cert...

That's correct. Thriller has the biggest video, but Billie Jean is the biggest song. It was the trigger that made everything happen.

You are both correct! I changed the spelling to best selling english-speaking album for Latin America countries due to the local superstars!

Hi Marcus! Good spot - figures of Ghosts (200k) and HIStory on Film: Volume II (1650k) were reversed. As Ghosts go to Orphan while HIStory to the big...

Hi Nathan, Thanks for pointing out the typo, now fixed!

Nor MJ nor Madonna, the Beatles 😉 Their Love from 2006 is on 6,1 million!

Hi Stephon! As mentioned by GUS, the real credited artist on We Are The World is USA For Africa. While the impact of MJ is clear on that song, this i...

Hi Marcus! Codes of his first 3 CDs are pretty big - 11,500, 17,200 and 5,000 respectively with codes eventually missing and of course no digital sal...

Hi Alfonso, Every country is free to use the ratio they want but most of them have a ratio equal /close to 1500/1. This is the way the IFPI does. In ...

Hi Tom! Spotify counts only streams on which the artist is the main credit and also often excludes all remix versions, which explains the gap between...

Hi again Anon! I have to contradict the end of your message that states features are counted as their own material, they aren't! In fact an artist fe...

Hi Raffi! DC's Survivor sold 2,88 million in Europe. MJ's Invincible did 2+ million, as an album produced by Jerkins I suppose it may be considered, ...

Hi Anon! The case of features is definitely a tricky one. To be honest, I don't like the 100% attribution that much, but I can't see a better solutio...

Hi Alfonso! I'm not sure to really understand your question. The streaming method is not supposed at all to concern the US only, in fact all streamin...

Hi Stephen! Cher (the 1987 album), charted from 1988, it was released in 1987. You can see its release date on BPI site. I Found Someone was released...