official chart No. 6 certified 2x Gold | QQ Music Certifications (China)

[peterstyles13]

 

3x Diamond

Taylor Swift – reputation (100% completed, reached the maximum certification)

Taylor Swift – 1989 (100% completed, reached the maximum certification)

 

2x Diamond 

Taylor Swift – Lover (0.54% completed for 3x Diamond)

 

1x Diamond 

N/A

 

3x Platinum

Imagine Dragons – Evolve (54.54% completed for Diamond)

Eminem – Kamikaze (44.25% completed for Diamond)

Troye Sivan – Bloom (10.92% completed for Diamond)

Rihanna – Anti (2.39% completed for Diamond)

 

2x Platinum

Maroon 5 – Red Pill Blues (93.12% completed for 3x Platinum)

Ariana Grande – thank u, next (91.10% completed for 3x Platinum)

Ariana Grande – Dangerous Woman (83.34% completed for 3x Platinum)

Eminem – Revival (55.17% completed for 3x Platinum)

Ed Sheeran – Divide (35.64% completed for 3x Platinum)

The Chainsmokers – Memories…Do Not Open (3.94% completed for 3x Platinum)

 

1x Platinum

Imagine Dragons – Origins (49.51% completed for 2x Platinum)

Ariana Grande – Sweetener (35.16% completed for 2x Platinum)

Charlie Puth – Voicenotes (39.23% completed for 2x Platinum)

Linkin Park – One More Light (30.20% completed for 2x Platinum)

Lorde – Melodrama (23.25% completed for 2x Platinum)

Sam Smith – The Thrill Of It All (20.14% complete for 2x Platinum)

Katy Perry – Witness (18.81% completed for 2x Platinum)

Alan Walker – Different World (11.36% completed for 2x Platinum)

 

3x Gold

Nicki Minaj – Queen (68.84% completed for Platinum)

Lana Del Rey – Lust For Life (24.48% completed for Platinum)

 

2x Gold

Ed Sheeran – No. 6 Collaborations Project (82.98% completed for 3x Gold)

 

1x Gold

Bruno Mars – 24K Magic (87.28% completed for 2x Gold)

P!nk – Beautiful Trauma (38.03% completed for 2x Gold)

Edited October 7, 2019 by peterstyles13

[peterstyles13]

What is QQ Music?

 

QQ Music is the biggest music application in the world. It is used by over 700M Chinese users. Just like iTunes, you can purchase albums through the app. It is owned by Tencent, the fifth largest company on the globe.

 

How does it work?

 

The certifications are based on revenue and overall downloads of the album. For example, an album needs ¥3,000,000 of revenue to be certified 3x Platinum. If an album costs ¥5, that means it has to sell 600,000 copies before it can get the certification. Most western albums are around ¥18 to ¥20. When you select popular albums, you will see a number appear. For example, when you click on Ariana's Dangerous Woman, QQ Music claims almost 1.87M "single sheets" of the album have been downloaded. That does NOT mean the album has been downloaded 1.87M times. To know the amount of time an album has been sold, you need to divide that number by the amount of tracks on the album (including the deluxe tracks). Dangerous Woman has 15 tracks. 1,867,772/15 = 124,158 albums sold. On average, that album was sold for ¥20, which brings its revenue total to around ¥2.5M. Like I said, the threshold to be certified 3x Platinum is ¥3,000,000, which explains why QQ claims Dangerous Woman is 55% completed for 3x Platinum. Keep in mind QQ Music is only one of multiple music applications in China. This is not the "official" Chinese certifications, which are unreliable. QQ Music has the most reliable and transparent numbers to evaluate China's digital music market.

 

Edited September 22, 2018 by peterstyles13

[RideOrDie]

They also leaked Lily Allen's singles and Charli XCX's Pop2 

[Rev8]

Wonder how Bruno and Pink couldnt do it..meh whatever

 

Grats to Ari and so many others!

[peterstyles13]

If you guys want other western albums added to the list, just tell me and I'll check if they are certified

[NMiguelCosta]

3 minutes ago, peterstyles13 said:

If you guys want other western albums added to the list, just tell me and I'll check if they are certified

Not western, but could you tell me about Blackpink's album Square Up and Twice's album Twicetagram. Thanks. 

[atishvaze]

The gap between Taylor and the rest  what about Beyoncé?

[HausofAri]

Taylor and Ari 

[peterstyles13]

2 minutes ago, NMiguelCosta said:

Not western, but could you tell me about Blackpink's album Square Up and Twice's album Twicetagram. Thanks. 

Unfortunately, they are not certified. I think Square Up can't be certified because it only has 4 tracks.

 

5 minutes ago, atishvaze said:

The gap between Taylor and the rest  what about Beyoncé?

Right and nah, not yet anyways. QQ Music is fairly recent, so don't expect her old albums to be certified.  I could maybe see Everything Is Love ending up Gold tho.

[DaenerysFenty]

ANTI being almost 3x platinum 

[MileyRayChrist]

can you post the screenshot of sweetener?

[peterstyles13]

Just now, DaenerysFenty said:

ANTI being almost 3x platinum 

Yeah it's slowly getting there. With R9's boost it will definitely reach the threshold!

[peterstyles13]

1 minute ago, MileyRayChrist said:

can you post the screenshot of sweetener?

[evtimow]

How many copies actually 1989/reputation sold?

[TtaraHae]

Taylor 

[King Of My Heart]

1 hour ago, peterstyles13 said:

If you guys want other western albums added to the list, just tell me and I'll check if they are certified

Little Mix? I mean I know they have no certifications there but I still wanna know how many albums they’ve sold  Screenshots would be nice but only if that’s not too much of a bother to you. 

Edited August 25, 2018 by King Of My Heart

[Movimento Perpétuo]

screaming @ Revival. Global legend  

[Yog]

1 hour ago, peterstyles13 said:

Sam Smith – The Thrill Of It All (5.20% complete for 2x Platinum)

WTF!! GLOBAL 

[Yog]

@peterstyles13 can you check on how 21, 25 and in The Lonely Hour are doing?

[Samson]

interesting! how do you find this out?

also what are the thresholds for each cert?

[Agenor]

@peterstyles13 Buddy, been doing some math, and it seems that platinum on that Chinese app is equivalent to 11.5k albums sold in the US.

[Katamari]

dragons slayed

 

wheres big bang 

[marsblyr]

Great thread @peterstyles13! Thanks for your effort!

[Unknown User]

The Chinese better stan for Ari  

[aesthetic bih]

China.