US update: 'Fearless (TV)' 1.81M, 'Red (TV)' 3.32M

[luckythisway]

38 minutes ago, Cruel Summer said:

Red TV coming for 4x platinum even without double album shenanigans, biggest female release of its year besides Sour, I can't- 

 

you see when you do talentry 

Wait so that 3.32M number doesn’t incorporate the double album rule? Is that only for its RIAA certification? 

[monster_enriquer]

6 minutes ago, By the Water said:

 

Lover while doing considerably so well for all these years has barely outsold Reputation which will get a boost with reputation TV

[Cruel Summer]

14 minutes ago, luckythisway said:

Wait so that 3.32M number doesn’t incorporate the double album rule? Is that only for its RIAA certification? 

Yeah, the 3.32m is just raw units. It's past 4x Platinum eligibility for RIAA certification if her label submits it as a multi-disc set, but it's been unclear in recent years whether labels ever still submit that way and whether requirements for a release to qualify as a multi-disc set remain the same as described on the RIAA website. Most official sources will go by the Luminate/Billboard figure of 3.32m, but if you double the pure sales figure (which I don't have off the top of my head, unfortunately) you'd get something that I feel is a little better as a measure of its total consumption, since the CD and vinyl are a bit more expensive and have twice as many physical discs and all that. The RIAA figure might actually be even higher than if you just double the pure sales, since physical copies that have shipped but not yet sold will also count for RIAA certification. We really won't know for sure how the RIAA will handle things until Fearless TV or Red TV is certified in the US, and neither are yet. Personally, my best guess is that if the RIAA counts this as a double album due to its length and having two discs, it's getting close-ish to 5x Platinum.

[Clauss]

24 minutes ago, monster_enriquer said:

Lover while doing considerably so well for all these years has barely outsold Reputation which will get a boost with reputation TV

Reputation benefited from sales. Its pure sales were way bigger, and got 2 years more of streaming

[Rican]

2 hours ago, byzantium said:

Wow, this means RED TV was the second biggest female album released in 2021 and RED (across all albums) as crossed about 11 million units.  Insane.  
 

Also Fearless (across all albums) is at around 13 million units.  

The re-recorded albums are not the same as the originals due to different producers, vocals, time lengths, instrumental, etc this horrible habit of combining them is tragic. Ya need to stop that. 

[1989]

This is huge. 
 

Congrats to my baby Fearless TV for doing its thing despite being the guinea pig no one really cares about. 

[byzantium]

24 minutes ago, Rican said:

The re-recorded albums are not the same as the originals due to different producers, vocals, time lengths, instrumental, etc this horrible habit of combining them is tragic. Ya need to stop that. 

I never said it was.  Go cry about it somewhere else.