The song was NOWHERE to be found in 2009 etc. on the charts and somehow it sold additional 5M + since 2009 ? Sure Jan.
Hot n Cold did NOT even sell 5.5M in 2008 and somehow it sold 4.5M+ more since then ? Sure jan
The song sold more than 4.5m in US. And it probably sold less than 2m in 2008.
Both of those sites post only estimates, not actual sales
Born This Way sold 8.2M copies (pure copies) in 2011, since then it sold 500k in the US & 600k in Japan alone (2012 - present) Of course it's above 10M.
Similiar thing with Telephone. 7.7M pure sales in 2010 alone. You really think it didn't manage to sell 2.3M more copies in the last 5 years?
Gaga's receipts thread only has confirmed numbers, we don't know the exact sales, that's impossible to know unless IFPI released the numbers. Firework, Cali Gurls & Roar are the only Katy singles that actually have 10M sales when you do a breakdown of the known sales from various countries. As I've said, just cuz something is posted in a receipts thread, doesn't mean it's true.
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Originally posted by Mariano
Telephone sold 7.5M in 2010
It was selling in 2009 and 2011 and somehow it's not at 10M, but Hot n Cold, IKAG and Cali Gurls are ?
Born This Way sold 8.2M in 2011 alone, but somehow it couldn't sell 1.8M more, but Hot n Cold, IKAG, Cali Gurls managed to sell half of their initial sales (5M) after their runs ?
Not monsters turning this thread into another Gaga/Katy mess. Congrats kids.
Not this coming from you, though.
In the end, none of this is official and unless you can provide a breakdown that shows a single indeed sold 10M WW, it's pointless to just claim it did if you can't back it up.
For IKAG:
I Kissed a Girl:
US - 4,600,000
UK - 722,140
Germany - P(300,000)
France - 275,900
Australia - 3P(210,000)
Canada - 7P+6P(520,000)
Brazil - 2P(200,000)
Sweden - P(40,000)
Spain - P(20,000)
Austria - P(30,000)
Belgium - G(15,000)
Switzerland - P(30,000)
New Zealand - P(15,000)
Denmark - 3P(45,000)
Finland - 15,000
TOTAL – 7,040,000
+ 1,138,000 ringtones sold in the U.S. in 2008 = 8,178,000 certified units/known sales.
Telephone is most definitely not a 10M seller. It has only done 8M