Discussion: Biggest Selling Artists Since Their Debut - Page 6

iHype.

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Originally posted by Miracle Whip

Isn't My All the only confirmed #1 to have been discounted?

'My All' is confirmed, 'Thank God I Found You' and 'Heartbreaker' might have been.

The rest of her #1's weren't discounted. 'Loverboy' and 'Through The Rain' were discounted, but Single Sales died in 2001/2002 and almost every artist who still released them had them discounted.

Eternium

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Originally posted by iHype.

Or, "She only got 18 #1's because her discount sales" yet she had the most Radio #1's ever (before Rihanna), and still has the most as a Lead Artist.

She had the most #1's on Single Sales (during physical single era) and most #1's on Radio. Clearly the public was here for her all around.

She also had a multi-platinum album every year except for 1996 because she didn't release an album.

Tommy Motolla clearly bought her success

But those #1s are forgotten

*Insert other failed shade here*

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Originally posted by Miracle Whip

Isn't My All the only confirmed #1 to have been discounted?

Can we even be mad when it's one of the best songs of all-time and totally deserved it? I don't mind good music winning with a discount.

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Originally posted by EpicSongFan

This tbh. And even her most disastrous single, Loverboy, was the best selling single of the year it was released

I even like "Loverboy" a lot

I guess when you have a great voice, you can sing anything.

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Originally posted by iHype.

'My All' is confirmed, 'Thank God I Found You' and 'Heartbreaker' might have been.

The rest of her #1's weren't discounted. 'Loverboy' and 'Through The Rain' were discounted, but Single Sales died in 2001/2002 and almost every artist who still released them had them discounted.

TGIFY definitely was but Heartbreaker was a "legitimate" #1. Mess at almost all of my favorite Mariah singles being named in this thread.

I remember being able to buy some physical singles then for like 30 cents

It's crazy to me that people always have shade to throw about Mariah's single prices...even when they cost more when discounted than the majority of physical singles being sold.

slobro

The 2.25m figure was the most recent figure I found on UKMIX. Anyway, 2,200,000 + 100,000 (Japan) is 2,300,000. My estimate was still closer to the truth than the 2.9m-3m estimate that was thrown around

Those Asian numbers also sound way too good to be real. I assume you got them from this post on UKMIX:

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Phillippines:
...Baby One More Time: 13x Platinum (520,000)
Oops...! I Did It Again: 11x Platinum (440,000)
Britney: 4x Platinum (160,000)
In The Zone: 2x Platinum (80,000)
Greatest Hits: My Prerogative: Platinum (40,000)

Thailand:
...Baby One More Time: 9x Platinum (360,000)
Oops...! I Did It Again: 9x Platinum (240,000)
Britney: 10x Platinum (400,000)
In The Zone: 5x Platinum (200,000)
Greatest Hits: My Prerogative: 5x Platinum (200,000)

Taiwan:
...Baby One More Time: 9x Platinum (270,000)
Oops...! I Did It Again: 6x Platinum (180,000)
Britney: 2x Platinum (60,000)
In The Zone: 7x Platinum (60,000)
Greatest Hits: My Prerogative: 7x Platinum (210,000)

Malaysia:
...Baby One More Time: 4x Platinum (100,000)
Oops...! I Did It Again: 4x Platinum (100,000)
Britney: 2x Platinum (50,000)
In The Zone: Platinum (25,000)
Greatest Hits: My Prerogative: Platinum (25,000)

Indonesia:
...Baby One More Time: 8x Platinum (400,000)
Oops...! I Did It Again: 6x Platinum (300,000)
Britney: 4x Platinum (200,000)
In The Zone: 4x Platinum (200,000)
Greatest Hits: My Prerogative: 3x Platinum (150,000)
Blackout: Gold (20,000)
Circus: Gold (20,000)

Singapore:
...Baby One More Time: 3x Platinum (45,000)
Oops...! I Did It Again: 4x Platinum (60,000)
Britney: 2x Platinum (30,000)
In The Zone: Platinum (15,000)
Blackout: Gold (6,000)
Circus: Gold (6,000)

Except when you go to the Phillipine certification site, there's no Britney listed at all. As far for the other countries, as far as I know, it's almost impossible to find any certifications list from the other countries, and they don't have a chart either you can't estimate sales based on chart performance. Like.. there's no way to verify those Asian numbers

No wonder y'all estimations are so different from mediatraffic.

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2003 according to the IFPI and must have sold around 5,000,000 that year.

How convenient that the IFPI suddenly count as sales and not shipments