official IFPI Global Charts 2023 | #1… Artist: Taylor Swift, Single: "Flowers", Album: 'FML'

[FolkLover1989]

 

This is insane

 

Excluding Kpop all of these are in Top 10  

So for Western Artist she had 5 of the Top 10 best selling albums

Edited February 27 by FolkLover1989

[FolkLover1989]

Basically 50% of Top 10 was occupied by Taylor Swift albums last year for Western Music

 

This is massive

[FolkLover1989]

26 minutes ago, family.guy123 said:

Release dates shouldn’t matter for the most successful artist of all time 

5 albums in Top 20

 

The receipt is there 

[Feanor]

3 albums (!) by her competing for the #10 slot and all of them ending up blocked.

[K$Ellie]

11 minutes ago, Taylena said:

I'm genuinely confused how did IVE get into the top 20 but not NewJeans' Get Up which sold more albums and have WAY more streams. 

especially when newjeans were higher on the artist list and they only had the one album last year where as ive had two 

[hallucinate]

IVE

[BtDecember]

30 minutes ago, family.guy123 said:

Release dates shouldn’t matter for the most successful artist of all time 

And Taylor placed FIVE albums in the top 20, four of those were released BEFORE 2023. Only the MOST SUCCESSFUL artist of all time

[Bosque]

Not bad for a local artist with no GP support

[State of Grace.]

Loser blocked as it should be Maybe 2024 is the time.

 

folklore serving classic album at #13 too without being carried by big hits 

[wish]

Endless Summer Vacation, the IFPI charting album.

[lily42]

How is ZB1 there and not TXT when Temptation had 2.8M on Circle Year End (after returns and all adjusted)?  

[BtDecember]

Only the MOST SUCCESSFUL ARTIST OF ALL TIME

[State of Grace.]

WaiT at IVE girlies sneaking into the Top 20. Get Up missing is weird.

 

Maga Wallen being above Taylor is also really ridiculous especially with how local that album was. How the hell were his units in the US/Australia (his main markets) enough to edge out Midnights when the latter stomped everywhere. This chart and the artists one need better ratios

Edited February 27 by State of Grace.

[DevilsRollTheDice]

Dancing her way to the top of the charts 

[FolkLover1989]

13 minutes ago, State of Grace. said:

WaiT at IVE girlies sneaking into the Top 20. Get Up missing is weird.

 

Maga Wallen being above Ralor is also really ridiculous especially with how local that album was. How the hell were his units in the US/Australia (his main markets) enough to edge out Midnights when the latter stomped everywhere. This chart and the artists one need better ratios

US streams count more basically 

 

The royalty for streams is different for every country. 

Midnights smashed in Asia and LatAm tok where royalties are less. So weighted Morgan sold more.

 

But I think then they should weight vinyl more too but they don't sadly

[byzantium]

And she is not even slowing down for 2024 

 

 

[Scars]

Endless Summer Vacation made it, a successful album. 

[byzantium]

31 minutes ago, State of Grace. said:

WaiT at IVE girlies sneaking into the Top 20. Get Up missing is weird.

 

Maga Wallen being above Taylor is also really ridiculous especially with how local that album was. How the hell were his units in the US/Australia (his main markets) enough to edge out Midnights when the latter stomped everywhere. This chart and the artists one need better ratios

We knew it was going to be close.  Morgan’s album had the biggest single year for any album since Adele’s 25 in the US.  When you factor in his major markets he had about 6-7 million units which is about where we expected midnights to be too.  
 

I think a lot of people discount the size of the U.S.  it has a similar population and economy to the entire EU.  Then when you include Canada and Australia (which are countries about the population of California and Florida) it is still a substantial market.

[Raspberries]

The k-pop fraud

[Flanders]

[Ms. Togekiss]

Midnights the TRUE #1 global album of 2023 that wasn’t carried by one country like the albums at 1-3 

[iHype.]

I know IFPI does a country economic conversion for units, and also physicals are weighed differently (i.e. Vinyls > CDs). Is this somewhat how the top 20 looks with units assigned?

 

1. SEVENTEEN - 'FML' (7.5 million)
2. Stray Kids - '5-STAR' (7 million)
3. Morgan Wallen - 'One Thing At A Time' (6.25 million)
4. Taylor Swift - 'Midnights' (6 million)
5. Taylor Swift - '1989 (Taylor's Version)' (6 million)
6. NCT Dream - 'ISTJ' (6 million)
7. SZA - 'SOS' (6 million)
8. SEVENTEEN - 'Seventeenth Heaven' (5.75 million)
9. Stray Kids - 'ROCK-STAR' (5 million)
10. Travis Scott - 'UTOPIA' (3.5 million)
11. Taylor Swift - 'Lover' (3.5 million)
12. Taylor Swift - 'Speak Now' (3.5 million)
13. Taylor Swift - 'folklore' (3.25 million)
14. Jung Kook - 'GOLDEN' (3 million)
15. The Weeknd - 'Starboy' (2.5 million)
16. Metro Boomin - 'HEROES & VILLAINS' (2.5 million)
17. Bad Bunny - 'Un Verano Sin Ti' (2.5 million)
18. ZEROBASEONE - 'YOUTH IN THE SHADE' (2.25 million)
19. Miley Cyrus - 'Endless Summer Vacation' (2.25 million)
20. IVE - 'I've IVE' (2 million)

 

 

 

[wehavetostan]

Glad Starboy got the units instead of The Highlights

[Feanor]

 

Well, this is it for now from IFPI.

 

Once they publish their full annual report, we should get separate top 10 album charts based on 1. pure sales 2. streams and 3. vinyl, and also some general industry numbers. They usually release it in late March iirc.

[Ivan_brit]

Endless Summer Vacation at the Top 20

 

The way Miley could had a massive era of she was not hiding all year