Poncho Barlliams

I still can't believe I'll see my queen again

Initial sales are going very well

I still can't believe I'll see my queen again.

smash hit

We need her to release a Deluxe version

Do you have a source for these estimates? Because officially, the certificates are smaller, and when it comes to estimates, if we don't have a good source, anyone can estimate any number.

I won't even go into the fact that of these 117 million, only approximately 58 million are sales and the rest are streams. The main point here is to believe that the 240 million reported by CM is real. If officially it's 117 million US + 10 million UK = 127 million (in Taylor Swift's two largest markets, which together represent 49% of the music industry), Then it makes no sense to think that other smaller countries are generating an absurd amount of sales that surpassed the two largest music markets combined. This 240 million number doesn't exist. What Chartmaster is doing is taking Spotify's TOTAL STREAMS and applying the RIAA's 1500/1 rule to these amounts, and that's not how it works.

First, HDD doesn't have access to filtered streams from each country; they take the total and convert it according to the RIAA rules. We know that each country has its own methodology for converting streams into units; not all use the 1,500/1 conversion US + UK + Japan represent 67% of the music market, according to the IFPI. So it's illogical to think that Taylor would make up the sales gap to reach Madonna's total, if with her sales in the US + UK + Japan (the largest music markets), Taylor wouldn't yet reach Madonna's total worldwide. And you also ignore that Madonna also sold a lot in these other smaller countries, and probably more than Taylor, as well as in Latin America and other European countries where Taylor was never big.

They are perfect together

Everything was perfect. She sang live, looked beautiful, and gave a lively interview.

Is that true? Honest question. I know HDD started out as a magazine back in the 1980s, but do they have the authority to estimate sales outside the US?

This is crazy, Taylor officially sold 117 million copies in the US and 10 million in the UK. Where are the other 123 million? What mysterious country is this that sells so many units and not even the IFPI knows about it?

Adding the two largest music markets together, Taylor doesn't have higher sales than Madonna worldwide. Why do you think adding the other smaller countries would change the result? Taylor only outsold Madonna in the US; Madonna has higher sales in other countries, so it won't change the result. I know it's hard for you to believe that there are other artists who have outsold Taylor, because we're witnessing her peak, a peak so great that we haven't seen the industry since Britney in 1998/2000, probably. But before she existed, the world was already a world, and we've had other artists who were just as big and bigger than her. Now, regarding HDDs, I know they're important and more relevant than the MJD Dangerous Blog. But I don't know if they have the authority to estimate sales in countries other than the US. I can't tell you that.