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Which human with a brain would consider Waiting To Exhale a Whitney album though? The logic adopted by the RIAA has pretty much the same basics as...

Millennium was the #1 album of the year - 26 weeks Top 3 is definitely an awful lot. Britney Spears only had 1 week Top 3 and both Santana & Ricky...

That's utterly incorrect. First, when speaking about "records sold", all majors quote sales of all products on which artists got involved, this do...

Hi Tomas, One Direction have been obviously incredibly popular, on which argument can you safely claim they got bigger than the Backstreet Boys th...

Hi Sam, No official organization ever considered Waiting to Exhale as a Whitney Houston album. The album sold so much because it had various succe...

Hi Mike, Sales of Whitney Houston are just like figures of all other artists figures - as realistic as possible. Absurd inflations / deflations are...

Hi again Bri! Mariah Carey won't be the very next artist to be posted but she will be treated reasonably soon 😉

Hi Xyz! The success of Bodyguard in Latin America / Asia was often extrapolated into her earlier albums creating inflated sales figures as those re...

Hi Raffi! Well, as you know we can find easily a lot of fanciful figures over the internet. No serious source ever claimed 25m units for Whitney de...

Hi Cameron! Millennium is undoubtedly the biggest seller on markets not listed - rest of Latin America and continental Asia - thus it is quite natu...

Hi Bri! I think you missed something on BSB count as they are up to 80 million albums sold overall! The gap was much bigger about a decade ago but ...

Hello Raffi! Actually, a lot of certifications came out for them back in the day. By mid-98, their first two albums were certified as listed below:...

Hi Grendizer, Thanks for spotting out! Going across my Excel spreadsheet, someway I glitched out non-LP sales for its original run. I'll update the...

Hi Raffi! Sadly for such old albums and with someone like Billy Joel, who is covered nowhere near the likes Michael Jackson or Madonna, there is to...

Hi Anthony, Your previous posts weren't automatically approved quite simply because you used different emails addresses. Just like in the past, yo...

Hi Anthony! I'm currently trying to complete David Bowie analysis for the anniversary of his death. After that, I'll focus on fixing those errors, ...

Hi Tlfan, There is no difference between net shipment and actual sales for such old records that haven't been selling notable amounts for years. Th...

Hello Anthony, I don't mind answering a couple of times a question but as soon as it disturbs other users navigation I can't let it go. You need t...

Hi Jeff! No, I'm following as closely as possible every chart to avoid such issues. For example, when a single goes 4xP in Italy for 200,000 downlo...

Hello Sambuu, You need to take into account that those certifications involve a huge amount (25-50% of the total) of streaming, thus you are double...