charts discussion Forbes: Taylor Swift becomes 1st artist in Luminate history with 100M+ US album units

[Feanor]

 

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Swift has become the first artist in U.S. history to hit 100 million equivalent album units, according to Luminate

Forbes

 

 

Luminate, formerly known as Nielsen Soundscan, has been tracking US sales since 1991 till now.

So that's 100M units across album pure sales, digital & physical track sales and video/audio streams.

 

 

Edited May 15 by Feanor

[idkwiam]

A cute certification update would be cute @Taylor Swift

 

[iam1925]

Oh wow the queen of pop, the music industry indeed 

[Michael196]

The SPS industry 

[gustavothehuman]

How much did Madonna sold in the US? Doesn't 100 million make Taylor the best-selling female artist now?

[1989]

ATRL is not going to like this. 
 

OT: Living Legend 

[wastedpotential]

Cute 

[Goaty]

27 minutes ago, gustavothehuman said:

How much did Madonna sold in the US? Doesn't 100 million make Taylor the best-selling female artist now?

I can't find a good, straightforward answer to Madonna's domestic totals (perhaps someone else reading this thread could assist ), but I believe the top spot was Mariah Carey anyway. 

[Soda Pop Queen]

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Luminate, formerly known as Nielsen Soundscan,

 

wait... when and why did the company change its name?? Is this brand new or I just been out of the loop?

[Mrnoniee]

Erm isn't it Brit Brit?
why Nellysun lying through their yellow teeth?

[Badgalbriel]

17 minutes ago, Mrnoniee said:

Erm isn't it Brit Brit?
why Nellysun lying through their yellow teeth?

Brit Brit as in "British artist Adele"? Cause there's no way anyone thought of the other brit brit as a contender here. 

[byzantium]

1 hour ago, gustavothehuman said:

How much did Madonna sold in the US? Doesn't 100 million make Taylor the best-selling female artist now?

Just going off memory Mariah is second among women with somewhere between 75-80mm

 

Madonna is somewhere in the 60-70mm range I believe.  

[Miss Show Business]

So she's the first artist in the Soundscan era to achieve this... An important distinction.

 

Edit: This sounded dumb but the Soundscan name change confused me

Edited May 15 by Miss Show Business

[By the Water]

How is this possible? I was told Taylor was barely undercertified

 

 

[Breathe On Moi]

1 hour ago, Badgalbriel said:

Brit Brit as in "British artist Adele"? Cause there's no way anyone thought of the other brit brit as a contender here. 

you're literally asking for clarification tho? rent free in your head Badgalbriel 

 

OT: cool! 

[Bloo]

Yes, but do we know how many of these sales were by the GP? Otherwise this number means nothing. /s

 

[elincomprendid]

It's so annoying that these numbers are useless cause of the lack of public official information regarding artists

Like yeah 100M is huge but let us be aware of were is the rest of the people, they treat the numbers as if it was federal info

[Cruel Summer]

She's literally unstoppable in the US. What a legend 

 

It's neat that she's the only artist ever to do this during the era of actually relatively reliable consumption metrics. I think it'll be interesting to see how high she goes. Unfortunately, it seems like getting to the top spot of all time might be difficult for her, looking at how The Beatles are certified for 183 million album shipments without including singles, and RIAA certifications are probably as close as we're going to get for total pre-Luminate figures. Sad that we may never have a full picture of reality.

[FailSafe]

I don't have much units about album units but if I'm understanding things correctly, she basically sold 100 million album units across 10 albums? So Taylor sells 10 million copies per album? That's awesome.

[RobynYoBank]

4 hours ago, Miss Show Business said:

So she's the first artist in the Soundscan era to achieve this... An important distinction.

 

Edit: This sounded dumb but the Soundscan name change confused me

The only conceivable artists who could compare pre-Soundscan Era are Beatles and MJ. Probably only Beatles, since they are the third best-selling of the Soundscan Era last I saw.

[byzantium]

25 minutes ago, FailSafe said:

I don't have much units about album units but if I'm understanding things correctly, she basically sold 100 million album units across 10 albums? So Taylor sells 10 million copies per album? That's awesome.

The last estimates I think I have seen:

 

Debut: 7m

Fearless: 14m combined 

Speak Now 10m combined 

Red: 12m combined

1989: 17m combined 

Rep: 7m

Lover: 8m

folklore: 7m

evermore: 3.5m

Midnights: 7m

TTPD: 3.5 

 

this adds up to 96m: add on some sales since the last estimates and some rounding errors and it could easily be at 100m.

[Kyle-x]

2 hours ago, byzantium said:

The last estimates I think I have seen:

 

Debut: 7m

Fearless: 14m combined 

Speak Now 10m combined 

Red: 12m combined

1989: 17m combined 

Rep: 7m

Lover: 8m

folklore: 7m

evermore: 3.5m

Midnights: 7m

TTPD: 3.5 

 

this adds up to 96m: add on some sales since the last estimates and some rounding errors and it could easily be at 100m.

They were recently posted in the receipts thread a few weeks ago by @Squall

 

Debut: 8.478 million

Fearless: 11.517 million
Fearless TV: 2.562 million

Speak Now: 8.477 million

Speak Now TV: 2.149 million

Red: 8.998 million

Red TV: 4.484 million

1989: 14.152 million

1989 TV: 3.816 million

reputation: 7.313 million

Lover: 7.394 million

folklore: 6.119 million

evermore: 3.71 million

Midnights: 7.228 million

TTPD: 3.331 million (up to 3rd week)

 

= 99.728

 

Then there are miscellaneous releases like Speak Now World Tour Live which sold ~380,000 pure, the folklore LPSS vinyl which registered separately at 75,000 pure, the Lover Live from Paris vinyl which sold 13,000 pure, the Beautiful Eyes EP which sold 370,000 pure and the Holiday EP which sold 1.1 million pure.

 

= 101.666 million (not including any SPS units from the Holiday EP, etc.)

 

 

[wildestdelicate]

2 hours ago, Kyle-x said:

They were recently posted in the receipts thread a few weeks ago by @Squall

 

Debut: 8.478 million

Fearless: 11.517 million
Fearless TV: 2.562 million

Speak Now: 8.477 million

Speak Now TV: 2.149 million

Red: 8.998 million

Red TV: 4.484 million

1989: 14.152 million

1989 TV: 3.816 million

reputation: 7.313 million

Lover: 7.394 million

folklore: 6.119 million

evermore: 3.71 million

Midnights: 7.228 million

TTPD: 3.331 million (up to 3rd week)

 

= 99.728

 

Then there are miscellaneous releases like Speak Now World Tour Live which sold ~380,000 pure, the folklore LPSS vinyl which registered separately at 75,000 pure, the Lover Live from Paris vinyl which sold 13,000 pure, the Beautiful Eyes EP which sold 370,000 pure and the Holiday EP which sold 1.1 million pure.

 

= 101.666 million (not including any SPS units from the Holiday EP, etc.)

 

 

do you have the link of his post with taylor career sales in US?

[Cruel Summer]

7 hours ago, Kyle-x said:

They were recently posted in the receipts thread a few weeks ago by @Squall

 

Debut: 8.478 million

Fearless: 11.517 million
Fearless TV: 2.562 million

Speak Now: 8.477 million

Speak Now TV: 2.149 million

Red: 8.998 million

Red TV: 4.484 million

1989: 14.152 million

1989 TV: 3.816 million

reputation: 7.313 million

Lover: 7.394 million

folklore: 6.119 million

evermore: 3.71 million

Midnights: 7.228 million

TTPD: 3.331 million (up to 3rd week)

 

= 99.728

 

Then there are miscellaneous releases like Speak Now World Tour Live which sold ~380,000 pure, the folklore LPSS vinyl which registered separately at 75,000 pure, the Lover Live from Paris vinyl which sold 13,000 pure, the Beautiful Eyes EP which sold 370,000 pure and the Holiday EP which sold 1.1 million pure.

 

= 101.666 million (not including any SPS units from the Holiday EP, etc.)

 

 

Thank you for that breakdown, really cool to see where she's at overall. Incredible that 1989 is at 18 million combined.

 

The total tho

 

[stevyy]

Madonna / Mariah are quite tied on actual albums sales in the US, both at above 80 million. 

Streisand is the biggest female albums artist in the US at 95m. 

 

CM:

71,260,000 - Madonna

72,828,000 - Mariah Carey

41,874,000 - Taylor