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Stats: Sales figures for TIDAL stake-holders.
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Madonna is above 75 million, as verified by Guinness World Records.
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Originally posted by PhreshDiamond
OMG Rihanna being literally unmatched and with another killer era on the way
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But they say she can't sell albums. . . .that's what they said
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Originally posted by Lippy
Alicia Keys 18.4M
Beyonce 15.8M
Very interesting. They have the same amount of albums right? Alicia tha album artist
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I think Alicia's live album is included, so 1 million for that.
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But they say she can't sell albums. . . .that's what they said
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For 7 albums, those sales aren't great though.
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Nicki Minaj 3.4M
Nicki Minaj 29.8M
would love to know her WW
hm we know the singles are 67M
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Originally posted by umich
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these jumps, hopefully Soundscan won't count streams with the digital sales
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This list just proves why Tidal is a sham. They're all big names selling millions of downloads and they want more money. No thanks.
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But they say she can't sell albums. . . .that's what they said
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She has 7 albums and has been outsold by people with less. The hell are y'all bragging for? Her digital sales are great. But as usual they do not match up to her album sales.
Anyway, good for Bey. 15 million from 5 albums. And she's sold 16 million albums outside the US. Local indeed.
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I am so confused at digital tracks sales.
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Originally posted by alestevens
Actually they do, thats why Baby by Justin Bieber is Diamond
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Really?
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Originally posted by judaskills
This list just proves why Tidal is a sham. They're all big names selling millions of downloads and they want more money. No thanks.
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Originally posted by Aatthew
Greedy? They just want to be paid for their music. Sure, the majority of these artists have made millions (billions, I'd imagine for Madonna and Jay) from just albums and singles, but you have to realize that they aren't the only ones who get a cut. They have to split it with songwriters, producers, the label, team members, etc. and they have families (and in some cases.... significant others and friends) to take care of... Don't mistake greed for the natural desire to hustle and make the most of ourselves + situations.
We are all motivated by the desire to make money and be able to maintain wealth, but I would like to think that truly greedy human beings would not want to share their wealth with anyone else... They wouldn't ask some of the biggest musicians to come forward and be apart of this for 3% each (for a total of 48%), they wouldn't work with a lot of songwriters and producers so they could make the most money possible, they'd want all of the spotlight to themselves, etc. That's greed lol.
Even Google backs me up with this definition of 'greed': "intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food."
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Originally posted by umich
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So does that mean that Taylor has surpassed Rihanna as the best-selling digital singles artist in the US? The last time BB mentioned Taylor's total digital single sales was in October 2013 (pre- 1989) and they said it was 70.6 million.
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Originally posted by AHemsworth
She has 7 albums and has been outsold by people with less. The hell are y'all bragging for? Her digital sales are great. But as usual they do not match up to her album sales.
Anyway, good for Bey. 15 million from 5 albums. And she's sold 16 million albums outside the US. Local indeed.
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This is the US only, she has worldwide appeal and her ablum sales WW are great for someone who released an album a Year often with minimal promo, and her first 2 albums was her just testing the water, she really came into her own with GGGB
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Originally posted by Forevermore
Madonna is so far above the rest. Damn.
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Originally posted by Big Smoke
This is with or Without the White Stripes?
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without
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Usher
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Rihanna's album to singles sales ratio is tragiquι.
Though at least the actual single sales are good.
Usher slaying.
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Originally posted by Big Smoke
This is with or Without the White Stripes?
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Without obviously.
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Originally posted by timecables
With TEA
Madonna 55.1m
Jay Z 40.5m
Usher 27.6m
Coldplay 21.7m
Alicia 20.6m
Beyonce 20.4m
Kanye West 19.1m
Rihanna 17.9m
Jason Aldean 13.3m
Nicki Minaj 6.3m
Daft Punk 4.3m
Arcade Fire 3.3m
J Cole 2.3m
deadmau5 1.6m
Calvin Harris 1.4m
Jack White 1.0m
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This just shows how unimportant being a singles artist.
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Originally posted by umich
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But where did those extra 15m tracks for Beyonce & Kanye come from? Did they actually sell that many digital sales since the beginning of 2012?
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Originally posted by boodytay
So does that mean that Taylor has surpassed Rihanna as the best-selling digital singles artist in the US? The last time BB mentioned Taylor's total digital single sales was in October 2013 (pre-1989) and they said it was 70.6 million.
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No. These numbers don't include features.
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But where did those extra 15m tracks for Beyonce & Kanye come from? Did they actually sell that many digital sales since the beginning of 2012?
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Beyonce has released:
XO
Drunk In Love
Partition
Pretty Hurts
***Flawless
7/11
And she had a ton of catalog sales and singles such as Love On Top and Countdown were just starting their chart runs in 2012.
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Originally posted by Ady.
I am so confused at digital tracks sales.
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What's confusing you? They use the term "track" instead of "single" because these numbers incorporate sales from non-singles, too.
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