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Originally posted by AALIYAH DANA
Isn't the reason that sounds can doesn't count these is because you can bundle album sales? I.e. get 5 different albums for the price of one?  |
Nah. They just didn't pay to join NSS and would've had to add a point-of-sale business practice, both of which would have cost them millions to do so. You'll notice huge disparities in certifications and Nielsen Soundscan because those club sales and Tower Records (the second biggest music seller in the U.S. when NSS was released) were not counted by NSS.
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Originally posted by Summertime Love
My estimation for WW pure sales are:
DIL = 11M
B'Day = 8.2M
IASF = 8.25M
4 = 3.2M
ST = 5M
LEM = 1.7M
Mixtapes and live albums = At least 1M
Total = 38.35M
If you want to adjust for inflation (even if there is none), let's minus a hefty 2M just to please the haters and round the figure to the nearest 1M = 36M
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What are your estimates for her certifications under the new RIAA rules (i.e. 1,500 streams [including VEVO] = 1 shipment, 100 track sales = 1 shipment)?
I'd guess:
DIL - 6x Platinum
B'Day - 5x Platinum
I Am...Sasha Fierce - 5x Platinum
4 - 3x Platinum
BEYONCE - 4x Platinum
Lemonade - Platinum
And literally all of them should be 200-300k away from the next level of a certification
do you have estimates for DC world wide
5 million is probably SPS + TEA 