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Agree 100% Jake. Not forgetting that McCartney already had a handful of hit albums solo/with Wings and #1 singles too at age 33. At that point he was ...

Hi Mikko! It isn't as simple as picking total EAS units moved in a year to see who has the greatest "firepower". The market changed so much, so did t...

Hi Anonymous! You are mixing together numbers of different nature, like SPS (sales plus streams) for Thriller at 35m in the US with pure sales, then ...

Hi Zee! Streams listed here are 100% accurate. They reflect the most streamed songs, with their live/remixes combined with the main recording. The mo...

Hi all! With the posting of Def Leppard, Jay-Z wins this round, he is coming next!

Hi Terrell! Sorry somehow I missed this comment. Well, it is one more example of why I created ChartMasters in first place: the music industry is full...

Hi Terrell! For old albums, there are 4 distinct 'blocks' which are estimated to value US sales to date: - initial sales at retail, as reflected on B...

Hi mriv13! Actually it's more down to a method issue so far. While in the future I think we will be able to directly map sales updates with new US/Uk...

Just a small word on the Chinese downloads: they are virtually gone. With the increase of streams and the regulated market, next to no foreign album...

Hi May! Numbers from the picture in this article date from a dozen of days ago, although streams converted into album sales in the final tables are c...

Hi Denysanatol! Tbh I don't know how you, Smiley or Tommy keep spotting these data glitches so precisely 🙂 After checking, his physical singles' CS...

Hi Tommy! Very well spotted. I checked the code and fixed a couple of errors. Taylor just keeps winning, as it appears she is already on 187m instead...

For older albums, technically it was Born in the USA although it's somewhat debatable as Thriller did 78+5+8, through original, 25th year reissue, and...

Hi Lala! Your feelings about which albums should be bigger or weaker may not portrait a definitive truth. All numbers are out there, detailed by fo...

Hi omi! Rap fans move away from higher priced products earlier than other consumers. They translated from album sales to downloads very early, and ...

Hi Johnny! To speak only about western artists, we have: Neil Diamond way over anyone else missing, 150m+ contenderKenny Rogers, Julio Iglesias, W...

Hi Taylorfan! I've enough material to accurately gauge sales of Indian artists actually. These would be very interesting, and I'm sure some totals wo...

With 2000s acts getting in the upper region of the charts now they are pushing the limit for the top 50 quite high, 111m as we speak, 113m when we con...

Hi Don! We can't just through out totals without caring about the method. US units ignore ringtones, totals here include them, they are worth 540k un...

Hi Analord! A body like Luminate make reports about total market data, adding figures from all artists/records on their database, so they will need t...

Hi SexyRedd fan! You suggest that 115k pure in first week sales is bad. Do you have many examples of rap albums doing better? There's no way these ca...

Hi! With Nicki and Diana posted, Def Leppard win this new round of voting. It was a close call with EXO and Jay-Z!

Hi Sebastian! You conveniently ignore both downloads and YouTube views where she does wonders. She has got tons of million sellers, add for 93m even ...

It's always 100% for lead artists, and 50% divided into all featuring acts (so if only 1 is there, he gets 50%, but if there are 4 features, he gets 1...