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YTD Sales : Please read these guidelines before you request sales estimates, it makes my task a lot easier.

 

1. Be specific - please name the artist and title for each entry you'd like an estimate for.

2. I log sales for all albums that have charted this year, but only update those that have sold enough to reach my 200 position tracking range

3. If an album isn't in the current Top 100, I won't be able to update its sales until Tues. Also, please don't ask about ex-T100 albums too often - once a month at most)

4. Remember to check the thread before requesting estimates - they may already have been answered. Also, no more than half-a-dozen requests at a time, thanks.

5. Please note my figures are combined sales & streams, and since I have no way of separating them, I cannot provide a split.

6. While I am no longer estimating singles sales, I can provide YTD singles positions from C+, and I am still maintaining my sales archive based on published figures (PM me if you want to see it)

 

 

Thank you.

 

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Albums

 

Pos - LW - YTD - Total - Artist - Title - New - Hst

1 - 1 - 359,500 - 1,988,250 - Motion Picture Cast Recording - Greatest Showman - 04/01/18 - 1

2 - 2 - 216,000 - 216,000 - Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next - 21/02/19 - 1

3 - 3 - 212,250 - 903,750 - George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's - 05/04/18 - 2

4 - 4 - 203,750 - 414,000 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (OST) - 02/11/18 - 3

5 - 5 - 175,500 - 175,500 - Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? - 11/04/19 - 1

6 - 6 - 163,750 - 435,500 - Cast Recording ft Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born - 18/10/18 - 3

7 - 8 - 158,750 - 158,750 - Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent - 30/05/19 - 1

8 - 7 - 153,000 - 153,000 - Tom Walker - What A Time To Be Alive - 14/03/19 - 1

9 - 9 - 119,000 - 324,000 - Jess Glynne - Always In Between - 25/10/18 - 5

10 - 10 - 113,750 - 2,172,000 - Queen - Greatest Hits I, II & III (Platinum Coll.) - 25/11/00 - 8

11 - 11 - 109,750 - 3,322,750 - Ed Sheeran - ÷ - 16/03/17 - 8

12 - 12 - 104,250 - 226,500 - Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop - 29/11/18 - 5

13 - 13 - 99,750 - 178,500 - Billie Eilish - Don't Smile At Me - 19/07/18 - 12

14 - 14 - 97,250 - 97,250 - Dave - Psychodrama - 21/03/19 - 1

15 - 16 - 96,250 - 96,250 - Pink - Hurts 2B Human - 09/05/19 - 1

16 - 15 - 96,000 - 483,000 - Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa - 15/06/17 - 9

17 - 17 - 86,750 - 86,750 - Jack Savoretti - Singing To Strangers - 28/03/19 - 1

18 - 18 - 82,750 - 364,500 - Post Malone - Beerbongs & Bentleys - 10/05/18 - 13

19 - 19 - 81,750 - 381,750 - Drake - Scorpion - 12/07/18 - 16

20 - 20 - 78,500 - 453,000 - Motion Picture Cast Recording - Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again - 26/07/18 - 7

21 - 21 - 77,000 - 126,250 - Clean Bandit - What Is Love? - 13/12/18 - 9

22 - 22 - 77,000 - 308,250 - Take That - Odyssey - 06/12/18 - 3

23 - 23 - 69,500 - 227,750 - Olly Murs - You Know I Know - 22/11/18 - 10

24 - 26 - 67,000 - 358,250 - Elton John - Diamonds - 23/11/17 - 6

25 - 24 - 65,500 - 124,500 - Rita Ora - Phoenix - 06/12/18 - 16

26 - 25 - 62,500 - 256,000 - Ariana Grande - Sweetener - 30/08/18 - 16

27 - 28 - 59,250 - 131,500 - 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships - 13/12/18 - 10

28 - 27 - 59,250 - 59,250 - Specials - Encore - 14/02/19 - 1

29 - 29 - 57,000 - 57,000 - Bring Me The Horizon - Amo - 07/02/19 - 1

30 - 30 - 57,000 - 57,000 - AJ Tracey - AJ Tracey - 21/02/19 - 3

31 - 31 - 55,250 - 4,841,750 - Abba - Gold - Greatest Hits - 03/10/92 - 29

32 - 33 - 54,250 - 54,250 - BTS - Map of the Soul: Persona - 25/04/19 - 1

33 - 32 - 54,000 - 2,228,500 - Eminem - Curtain Call - Greatest Hits - 10/12/05 - 28

34 - 34 - 52,750 - 1,622,000 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - 26/02/77 - 25

35 - 37 - 51,500 - 1,057,000 - Oasis - Time Flies : 1994-2009 - 26/06/10 - 32

36 - 35 - 51,000 - 51,000 - Dido - Still On My Mind - 21/03/19 - 3

37 - 36 - 50,500 - 216,750 - Little Mix - LM5 - 06/12/18 - 19

38 - 38 - 49,000 - 3,466,250 - Ed Sheeran - X - 05/07/14 - 34

39 - 40 - 48,750 - 418,750 - David Bowie - Legacy - 24/11/16 - 27

40 - 41 - 48,250 - 194,750 - Xxxtentacion - ? - 29/03/18 - 31

 

Edited June 11, 20196 yr by vidcapper

Wonder if lewis can catch up to ariana before Ed releases

Ariana Grande wont even be top 5 in a couple of months. I maintain my stance she underperforms given the hype.

Do you have total sales for the following please;

Sigala - Brighter days

Sigrid - Sucker punch

 

 

Thanks

Ariana Grande wont even be top 5 in a couple of months. I maintain my stance she underperforms given the hype.

I'd say the album has performed well considering she's never been that much of an album seller, but I do think 7 Rings and Break Up... didn't really stick around as well as the initial hype would suggest. Particulary once they hit ACR as most big hits can stick around despite it, but Break Up... in particular didn't hang around for very long at all.

Do you have total sales for the following please;

Sigala - Brighter days

Sigrid - Sucker punch

Thanks

 

63k, 45.5k

Updated

I'd say the album has performed well considering she's never been that much of an album seller, but I do think 7 Rings and Break Up... didn't really stick around as well as the initial hype would suggest. Particulary once they hit ACR as most big hits can stick around despite it, but Break Up... in particular didn't hang around for very long at all.

 

But saying she has never been much of an album seller is like saying she underperforms always so we should judge her by that not by the amount of hype, streaming exposure, radio play etc she gets.

 

Her main issue is the music just isn't that good, she has everything else going for her it is just the actual quality of her output in general disappoints. Songs charting big and falling fast says to me people were willing to give the songs a chance but moved on quickly as the songs just weren't that great.

For an artist who has never had a double platinum album (due to being foreign artist in the streaming era), she is doing great with both TUN and Sweetener reaching platinum status eventually.

Edited June 11, 20196 yr by SKOB

With the huge single success Ariana has achieved i really thought her albums would sell more.

yes but artists that sell singles usually don't sell albums

and she's lucky that shes getting lots of streaming points, pretty sure her pure sales must be very poor

yes but artists that sell singles usually don't sell albums

and she's lucky that shes getting lots of streaming points, pretty sure her pure sales must be very poor

 

What? Big artists sell loads of 'singles' and albums. George Ezra and Lewis Capaldi are written right there in the opening post.

 

Little mix were selling loads of both too until this last era.