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Originally posted by I. AX
Oct 8 i believe, zzmyth would know better tho. Anyway just because it wasn't #1 doesn't mean it wasn't selling a lot. Lets say it sells 500k a week for 8 weeks that's already 4M obviously not counting ringtones etc. And these sales will not be counted for last years list.
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And yes i can prove she's front loaded in Asia because of her sales in SK and Japan, the only relevant countries when it comes to sales
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First, I'm not trying to downgrade We Found Love. I love it so much and am so impressed with its chart runs.
But, there's no way it was selling 500k weekly for 5-6 (and not 8) weeks. That's exaggerating though. For example, it's UK sales (her biggest market) in its first four weeks did not even exceed 100,000 copies and her US sales, are not even exceeding 250,000 (only 243,000 on its 6th week and this must have been counted in 2012's list.)
Even SK and Japan are the "only" relevant countries in Asia (not really relevant since crush crush crush was massive and China and was included in one of IFPI's year-end list), she never debuted that big in South Korea or Japan. She went number one in Korea but only number six in Japan.
As what I've been trying to point out, only the sales of We Found Love from September 22, 2011 (release date) to October 29, 2011 (last week before the tracking period) would be excluded and the rest would be factored in 2012's list.
I'm a fan of this song and I've been expecting to see it in this list.