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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 - 431,500 - 2,060,500 - Motion Picture Cast Recording - Greatest Showman - 04/01/18 - 1

2 - 2 - 368,750 - 368,750 - Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent - 30/05/19 - 1

3 - 3 - 333,000 - 333,000 - Ed Sheeran - No 6 Collaborations Project - 25/07/19 - 1

4 - 4 - 270,500 - 962,000 - George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's - 05/04/18 - 2

5 - 5 - 264,250 - 474,750 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (OST) - 02/11/18 - 3

6 - 6 - 261,000 - 261,000 - Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? - 11/04/19 - 1

7 - 7 - 251,500 - 251,500 - Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next - 21/02/19 - 1

8 - 8 - 205,500 - 477,250 - Cast Recording ft Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born - 18/10/18 - 3

9 - 9 - 191,250 - 191,250 - Tom Walker - What A Time To Be Alive - 14/03/19 - 1

10 - 10 - 168,250 - 3,381,250 - Ed Sheeran - ÷ - 16/03/17 - 6

11 - 11 - 158,750 - 363,750 - Jess Glynne - Always In Between - 25/10/18 - 5

12 - 12 - 148,000 - 270,250 - Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop - 29/11/18 - 5

13 - 13 - 139,250 - 2,197,500 - Queen - Greatest Hits I, II & III (Platinum Coll.) - 25/11/00 - 8

14 - 14 - 138,500 - 138,500 - Pink - Hurts 2B Human - 09/05/19 - 1

15 - 15 - 135,000 - 214,000 - Billie Eilish - Don't Smile At Me - 19/07/18 - 12

16 - 16 - 132,250 - 519,000 - Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa - 15/06/17 - 9

17 - 17 - 125,500 - 125,500 - Dave - Psychodrama - 21/03/19 - 1

18 - 18 - 120,250 - 411,500 - Elton John - Diamonds - 23/11/17 - 6

19 - 19 - 112,000 - 393,750 - Post Malone - Beerbongs & Bentleys - 10/05/18 - 13

20 - 20 - 109,500 - 409,750 - Drake - Scorpion - 12/07/18 - 16

21 - 21 - 106,000 - 106,000 - Jack Savoretti - Singing To Strangers - 28/03/19 - 1

22 - 22 - 97,500 - 146,750 - Clean Bandit - What Is Love? - 13/12/18 - 9

23 - 23 - 97,500 - 472,000 - Motion Picture Cast Recording - Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again - 26/07/18 - 7

24 - 24 - 95,750 - 95,750 - Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars - 27/06/19 - 1

25 - 25 - 94,500 - 325,750 - Take That - Odyssey - 06/12/18 - 3

26 - 26 - 84,500 - 143,500 - Rita Ora - Phoenix - 06/12/18 - 16

27 - 28 - 83,250 - 4,869,750 - Abba - Gold - Greatest Hits - 03/10/92 - 27

28 - 27 - 82,500 - 240,750 - Olly Murs - You Know I Know - 22/11/18 - 10

29 - 29 - 82,000 - 2,256,500 - Eminem - Curtain Call - Greatest Hits - 10/12/05 - 27

30 - 30 - 81,750 - 1,087,000 - Oasis - Time Flies : 1994-2009 - 26/06/10 - 25

31 - 31 - 81,000 - 1,650,250 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - 26/02/77 - 25

32 - 32 - 78,250 - 271,500 - Ariana Grande - Sweetener - 30/08/18 - 16

33 - 33 - 78,000 - 3,495,000 - Ed Sheeran - X - 05/07/14 - 18

34 - 34 - 75,250 - 75,250 - AJ Tracey - AJ Tracey - 21/02/19 - 3

35 - 35 - 74,500 - 146,500 - 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships - 13/12/18 - 10

36 - 36 - 72,250 - 72,250 - BTS - Map of the Soul: Persona - 25/04/19 - 1

37 - 37 - 71,750 - 441,750 - David Bowie - Legacy - 24/11/16 - 27

38 - 38 - 70,000 - 2,546,250 - Bob Marley - Legend - 19/05/84 - 22

39 - 40 - 68,250 - 663,000 - Killers - Direct Hits - 23/11/13 - 5

40 - 39 - 67,500 - 214,000 - Xxxtentacion - ? - 29/03/18 - 31

 

Edited September 3, 20195 yr by vidcapper

How much has Kylie and Sigala sold? Cheers

How much has Kylie and Sigala sold? Cheers

 

65k, 55k

Updated

13 of the top 40 are best of or greatest hits albums!

So top 40 was a little high for taylor to debut but she should probably make it in a few weeks

Oasis- definitely Maybe

Oasis- morning Glory

 

Thanks

Oasis- definitely Maybe

Oasis- morning Glory

 

Thanks

 

4553.5k, 2210k

13 of the top 40 are best of or greatest hits albums!

It's a perfect example of how streaming benefits "sales" of best of albums, especially heritage acts. Streaming is the main reason why the album chart is full of Best Of or Greatest Hits albums.

Yeh that sounds the point I was trying to make - a lot of sales from streams go to GHs these days!

Yeh that sounds the point I was trying to make - a lot of sales from streams go to GHs these days!

 

But shouldn't streams go to parent albums, rather than GH ones?

they should go to the album you're streaming it from... and it shouldn't count for the album charts if you stream from a playlist

they should go to the album you're streaming it from... and it shouldn't count for the album charts if you stream from a playlist

 

Playlists are the bane of the charts, nowadays...

and will never understand how you search for Elton John - Sleeping with the Past album, you stream Sacrifice, but that counts for his Diamonds Greatest Hits... makes zero sense to me...

But shouldn't streams go to parent albums, rather than GH ones?

If the track is on both a parent album and a best of / Greatest Hits album then the stream counts towards both albums. If the track features on more than one Greatest Hits / Best Of type album the stream will count towards the sale of either the album with the highest sale (I read that as meaning paid for sales) for that week or a hits album nominated in advance by the label.

Edited September 6, 20195 yr by Robbie

no wonder why the top 40 is plagued by the same greatest hits for months, Elton, Queen, Fleetwood Mac...

no wonder why the top 40 is plagued by the same greatest hits for months, Elton, Queen, Fleetwood Mac...

Yup. The heritage acts that attract the most streams are usually the same acts that have a greatest hits album in the top 40. Unless the chart rules change on how streams are allocated to an album (or unless a form of ACR is introduced for album streams) then those same albums are likely to be hanging around the charts for years to come.

no wonder why the top 40 is plagued by the same greatest hits for months, Elton, Queen, Fleetwood Mac...

 

To be fair, those are classics that've been charting since before even CD's were invented, let alone streaming... ;)

 

sure but now they're charting cos of the wrong reasons

ABBA-Gold should chart if people stream that album, not if people stream songs from the parent studio album and still count for Gold or if they listen to random ABBA tracks on playlists

sure but now they're charting cos of the wrong reasons

ABBA-Gold should chart if people stream that album, not if people stream songs from the parent studio album and still count for Gold or if they listen to random ABBA tracks on playlists

 

Agreed.