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Hi Raffi! It depends who you wanna put on that folder! Does James Brown enter on it, or Ray Charles? One omission from your list is Barry White. He s...

Hi Marcus! It seems her fans aren't aware of Janet Jackson's discography 😉 Her first big albums and the compilation covering them - Design of a Dec...

Hi Helloo, Both Born To Die and Born to Die Paradise Edition are already merged together on all figures of the article. The only stand-alone product...

Re: UKmix' discussion about the accuracy of figures I was directed to that thread in order to check the relevance of some posters there. A couple o...

Hi Marcus! There is 2 solo male artists, 2 solo females and 2 groups already scheduled after High School Musical, so I'll wait a bit before doing a n...

Hi Martin! Spotify was created in April 2006. The date of October 2008 is its launch to public access, but as songs from 2006-2007 were still very yo...

Hi babyshowers! Demographics are very important in records sales. Usher and Janet Jackson are part of the black culture. Black music doesn't sell a t...

Hi Babyshowers! Just like Slobro, you are over-estimating sales in the old days due to catalog sales. Most Stones albums from the 60s sold under 1 mi...

Hi Slobro! I let everyone free of their opinion about the results of every artist, Cher included. There is several wrong facts you point out though. ...

Hi Raffi! The correct figures for both Madonna albums is the one from breakdowns, the other set of figures was an old copy/paste from the previous ve...

Hi RLAAMJR! Encore Un Soir is now up to 720,000 units scanned in France. In Canada, it failed to sell the copies shipped upon release with sales up t...

Hi Raffi! The main error on the old formula for streams was the paid users vs total users confusion. The formula was using the percentage of paid u...

Well, it depends on how you define difficult! In terms of relative accuracy, big sellers are easier. There is so many sales confirmed from big countr...

Hi Raffi! Starting with Look At Us question, I think 7 million is really the max it could have achieved. That's an awful lot for an album out of whic...

Hi Lucas! Paradise EP sold 550,000 units, it is listed on page 14 😉

Hi Richard! Indeed, Take Me Home (album) is listed with 450,000 US sales although it was certified Gold way back in May 17, 1979. It's fairly standar...

Hi Chrysalynne! Thanks for the nice words 🙂 As for your two questions, here we go: 1) Although certified for 1 million units shipped, Take Me Home ...

Hi Stephen! Since April 2016 Denmark introduced a system similar to the one of the BPI, automatically certifying albums on the back of scanned sale...

Yes there is a team! Hernan Lopez is in charge of physical singles and music videos estimates while Anthony Blanchard does the streaming part and ...

Hi Raffi! There is still quite a lot of work on Cher but I'm confident I'll advance fast on it since I have a large amount of available time during...

Hi Dan! We have always been working on two main pipes: - artists with strong news surrounding them (new album, passing etc) - else, completing th...

Hi Julien, MJ is not forgotten obviously, but those studies take time. As he had near no news since CSPC series started, we haven't got into his f...