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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)

 

7. Total sales are post-1994 only, so sales of albums relased before then will be understated.

 

 

 

Thank you.

 

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Albums

 

 

Pos YTD Artist Title

 

1 432,000 Lewis Capaldi Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent

2 261,500 Harry Styles Fine Line

3 230,500 Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia

4 222,500 Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

5 212,000 Stormzy Heavy Is The Head

6 207,500 Ed Sheeran No 6 Collaborations Project

7 193,000 Pop Smoke Shoot For The Stars…

8 170,000 Elton John Diamonds

9 169,500 Fleetwood Mac 50 Years: Don't Stop

10 168,000 Queen Greatest Hits

11 158,000 Eminem Music To Be Murdered By

12 154,500 Taylor Swift Folklore

13 153,500 Ed Sheeran ÷

14 144,500 Post Malone Hollywood's Bleeding

15 141,500 Mabel High Expectations

16 137,000 Fleetwood Mac Rumours

17 129,500 Juice WRLD Legends Never Die

18 128,000 Lady Gaga Chromatica

19 122,500 Abba Gold - Greatest Hits

20 121,500 Bob Marley Legend

21 22 119,800 1,244,800 Oasis Time Flies : 1994-2009 26/06/10 15

22 21 119,400 119,400 Weeknd After Hours 02/04/20 1

23 23 119,400 4,706,000 Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory? 14/10/95 3

24 24 118,000 682,600 Dua Lipa Dua Lipa 15/06/17 16

25 25 117,400 151,200 Becky Hill Get To Know 10/10/19 20

26 26 116,400 116,400 J Hus Big Conspiracy 06/02/20 1

27 27 115,800 379,000 Billie Eilish Don't Smile At Me 19/07/18 12

28 28 113,200 2,410,400 Eminem Curtain Call - Greatest Hits 10/12/05 24

29 29 103,000 232,800 Jax Jones Snacks 17/01/19 19

30 30 101,000 3,619,200 Beatles 1 25/11/00 17

31 31 98,400 367,200 Tom Walker What A Time To Be Alive 14/03/19 8

32 32 97,400 251,800 Taylor Swift Lover 05/09/19 14

33 33 97,000 573,600 David Bowie Legacy 24/11/16 15

34 36 91,800 2,822,800 Michael Jackson Number Ones 29/11/03 30

35 35 91,400 1,114,800 George Ezra Staying At Tamara's 05/04/18 27

36 34 91,000 91,000 BTS Map Of The Soul 7 05/03/20 1

37 37 90,400 1,798,800 Whitney Houston Ultimate Collection 10/11/07 31

38 38 89,200 256,200 Dave Psychodrama 21/03/19 13

39 43 89,000 89,000 Bruce Springsteen Letter To You 05/11/20 1

40 39 88,200 328,400 Xxxtentacion ? 29/03/18 38

 

 

Thanks Vid.

Great Thanks!!!

 

Would love Kylie to finish in the top 40!

Thanks Vid as ever!

 

It’d be great if Eminem and Taylor edged ahead of the two long-standing greatest hits!

Not a single album released this year will sell enough to reach platinum certification :( That's very sad. And only one album selling over 300k this year...

Yeh it’s not a healthy market!

Piracy dealt the first blow and then streaming ended once and for all with the music industry. While it's good for "singles sales", it's really bad for album sales.

It's also the matter of how the streams are counted.

For me, singles sales have been extremely inflated since 2013. Proof of this is that on the OCC's 2017 list of the 50 biggest singles in UK history, of these 50, 20 are from 2013 to 2017 and today, singles released from 2013 onwards are the majority on the list, which doesn't reflect reality at all. The streams of the songs released in the streaming era should be divided by something like 250-300 instead of 150 to reflect, in fact, the actual size of these songs and how big they were/are, while the streams of the songs released before the streaming era should be divided by 125-150.

Basically, that:

 

Songs released until 2004 (physical sales era): 100 streams : 1 sale

 

Songs released from 2005 to 2012 (digital sales era): 150 streams : 1 sale

 

Songs released from 2013 onwards (streaming era): 300 streams : 1 sale

For me, singles sales have been extremely inflated since 2013. Proof of this is that on the OCC's 2017 list of the 50 biggest singles in UK history, of these 50, 20 are from 2013 to 2017 and today, singles released from 2013 onwards are the majority on the list, which doesn't reflect reality at all. The streams of the songs released in the streaming era should be divided by something like 250-300 instead of 150 to reflect, in fact, the actual size of these songs and how big they were/are, while the streams of the songs released before the streaming era should be divided by 125-150.

I agree about inflated sales and it takes away from how big having a million selling was.

Yeh you have to take into account the era when thinking of sales.

 

I mean in 50 years the biggest sellers will all be high selling Xmas singles

Yeh you have to take into account the era when thinking of sales.

 

I mean in 50 years the biggest sellers will all be high selling Xmas singles

If these songs are popular enough to return to the charts every year at this time of year, it's not my fault. ;)

Lol I didn’t say it was your fault!

For saying Gaga had the biggest opening sales of the year for most of it her total of 128k and 18th is surprising and pretty poor.

Yeh I always wondered by Gaga and Taylor didn’t continue to promote with follow up singles!

Missed seeing these so thank you so much for the return, just a shame that album sales are so shockingly low

I agree about inflated sales and it takes away from how big having a million selling was.

Right? That's why almost 750 songs sold 1 million units in the UK (adding pure copies + streaming), but of those, only 25% sold 1 million pure copies (aka real copies). Streaming is the way the music industry has discovered to mask its evident decline.

Yeh I always wondered by Gaga and Taylor didn’t continue to promote with follow up singles!

 

It's the 2020 strategy it seems, you stop all promo after album release week :/

 

 

For saying Gaga had the biggest opening sales of the year for most of it her total of 128k and 18th is surprising and pretty poor.

I think you forgot that Chromatica has only two singles released and only one performance during the whole era. :huh: