charts discussion IFPI Global Recording Artists of 2020 (prediction)

[DesiredConsternation]

 

IFPI GLOBAL  RECORDING ARTISTS OF 2020	No	Artist	EAS (m)
	1	BTS	16.1
	2	Taylor Swift	7.8
	3	Drake	6.4
	4	Ariana Grande	5.2
	5	Post Malone	4.9
	6	The Weeknd	4.9
	7	Bad Bunny	4.8
	8	Justin Bieber	4.7
	9	Juice WRLD	3.7
	10	Eminem	3.5

 

IFPI TOP 10 BEST-SELLING  ALBUMS OF 2020	No	Album	Sales (m)
	1	Map of the Soul: 7	6.3
	2	folklore	3.0
	3	THE ALBUM	2.9
	4	BE	2.8
	5	Lit	2.5
	6	New World	1.6
	7	Stray Sheep	1.4
	8	Neo Zone	1.2
	9	Changes	1.0
	10	evermore	0.8

Source: EAS reported through Chartmasters (includes audio streams, video streams and permanent downloads). Original Album Sales totals estimated from reported numbers by Billboard, QQ Music, NetEase, Hanteo and Oricon.

Edited December 24, 2020 by DesiredConsternation

[TayDine1989]

wtf evermore 

[Sweet Sexy Savage]

Wonder how much of that 16m figure is SPS. 

[Green]

BTS numbers 

[JawBreaker]

I'm not sure that Ariana would be that high. When last year she missed the top 5 during her peak. 

Bad Bunny is definitely coming for top 3 tho. Why is he that low? Isnt he near 9B streams from Spotify alone?

Also wheres Billie? She had a bigger year than Justin lol

Edited December 24, 2020 by JawBreaker

[BIAATCH]

Kpop dominating the album chart

[Safe&Sound]

Evermore entering chart after 1 week after release and unavailability of physical copies 

[Kyoto]

How are some people in this list but not Billie?

[katyhudson]

folklore & evermore Taylor

[Selena Gomez]

How is it that BLACKPINK's units this year go from 5.5m+ SPS to less than 3.5m EAS? Chartmasters' Youtube views to album ratio is a joke. 

[Yuanyu]

Justin 4.7 vs Eminem 3.7?? 

And Ariana 5.2m? 

Not very realistic

Edited December 24, 2020 by Yuanyu

[Icarus]

This seems pretty fake

[katyhudson]

Well... I found that Taylor has over 5m+ units in US this year and 2m+ units in CN... so 7.8m is a really underestimated figure, I'll predict ~12m for her this year.

[biblicalmonster]

 

Changes couldn't have sold more than Chromatica in pure sales...

 

Changes sold 325k pure sales worldwide according to CM. Chromatica 680k. A whopping gap. 

Edited December 24, 2020 by biblicalmonster

[Eternium]

Those numbers are absolute nonsense. For example, if The Album shipped 2.9M copies, there’s no way BlackPink could possibly miss the top 10. “How You Like That” did 3M “sales” in China. The Album is almost at 1B on Spotify alone (which is 666k EAS). How could they possibly have done less than 3.5M when they passed that mark with just their album?

[katyhudson]

18 minutes ago, biblicalmonster said:

 

Changes couldn't have sold more than Chromatica in pure sales...

 

Changes sold 325k pure sales worldwide according to CM. Chromatica 680k. A whopping gap. 

Changes sold almost 800k in China alone.

[OrgVisual]

BTS  The gap  

[OrgVisual]

29 minutes ago, Eternium said:

Those numbers are absolute nonsense. For example, if The Album shipped 2.9M copies, there’s no way BlackPink could possibly miss the top 10. “How You Like That” did 3M “sales” in China. The Album is almost at 1B on Spotify alone (which is 666k EAS). How could they possibly have done less than 3.5M when they passed that mark with just their album?

The Album sold 1,2M in Korea + 1M in China so 2.9M WW seems about right. I think it's pure sales only not SEA so HYLT "sales" does not count

[cityfolk]

pure sales are the biggest joke of a metric to make these lists by, I don't get why it's like that in 2020 

 

where are blackpink and dua lipa???