US Record Sales Database - ARTPOP hits 746k, TD 2.97M, 1989 4.65M

[Mills 446]

Updated the stats of Rihanna and Taylor Swift. 

 

In November 2012, according to Billboard / SoundScan, Rihanna has already sold 58M digital tracks as a lead artist. With the inclusion of the updated sales of Unapologetic's singles, Rihanna's US digital song sales, as the lead, are now at 70.45M at the very minimum. Her overall US record sales, as the lead, are now at least 80.45M.

 

In October 2013, still according to Billboard / SoundScan, Taylor Swift has already sold 70.6M digital tracks since her 2006 debut. Adding the sales of the released tracks from her new album, 1989, Taylor Swift's US digital song sales, as the lead, are now at 73.34M at the very minimum. This pushes her overall US record sales, as the lead, to at least 96.14M.

 

Note: The reported digital song sales which were not credited to any particular single or song by Billboard are compiled as "others" under the "album tracks" of the four artists.

[Mills 446]

Updated the stats of all four artists, including the latest reported sales of Gaga's Cheek to Cheek and Taylor Swift's 1989 (+ its singles and album tracks). Here are now their overall US record sales, as the lead, at the minimum:

 

Lady Gaga - 60.83M+ since 2008

Taylor Swift - 97.66M+ since 2006 

Rihanna - 81.29M+ since 2005

Katy Perry - 69.53M+ since 2008

[Wet Fire 5,676]

Taylor, really??? :eek:

Taylor, really??? :eek:

[Arturo 40,746]

Taylor's U.S record sales are massive and they're growing in the hundreds of thousands each week with 1989 + 2 songs in the Top 10 on iTunes.

Her total WW record sales haven't matched Gaga's though if I remember correctly. She may be gaining ground over seas, but she's still very U.S-centric.


 

 

 

Katy's lead over Gaga (~70M compared to ~61M) is pure singles. Take away Roar and Dark Horse and Gaga has Katy beat. Unfortunately, that's not how things work. No matter how you got there, 70M is still an impressive amount. 

Look at how much came from the PRISM era alone too:

 

Roar: 5.6M

Uncon: 1.2M

DH: 5.6M

Bday: 600k

TIHWD: 500K

 

PRISM: 1.6M

Total: 15.1M records sold in the U.S from the PRISM era alone. That is massive for an era now-a-days.

[danwasd 2,444]

I'm trying to be respectful, but Gaga slays and that's all the reasons I need :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha:

[Mills 446]

New SoundScan numbers for Taylor Swift have just been released by Billboard in celebration of Taylor's chart domination upon the release of 1989. Since her debut, Taylor Swift has now 22 released songs, as the solo / lead, to cross one million digital sales and above. She's also now the 50th best-selling album artist in SoundScan history (i.e. since 1991) with 24.2 million album units sold. 

 

Here are the 22 songs from TS, as solo / lead, to sell at least 1 million:

Rank/Song/Total Digital Sales

1. Love Story - 5.8M 
2. I Knew You Were Trouble - 5M
3. You Belong With Me - 4.5M
4. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - 3.9M
5. Our Song - 3.2M
6.  Teardrops on My Guitar - 2.9M
7. Shake It Off - 2.7M
8. Mean - 2.3M
9. Mine - 2.2M
10. 22 - 2M 
11. White Horse - 1.9M
12. Back To December - 1.9M
13. Safe & Sound - 1.8M
14. Today Was a FairyTale - 1.6M

15. Picture to Burn - 1.6M
16. Tim McGraw - 1.5M
17. Ours - 1.4M
18. Red - 1.4M
19. Should've Said No - 1.4M
20. Fifteen - 1.3M
21. Eyes Open - 1.3M

22. Crazier - 1M

 

Other song which sold more than 1M:

Highway Don't Care (with Tim McGraw) - 1.7M

 

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6312267/ask-billboard-all-taylor-swift-edition?page=0%2C1

[Arturo 40,746]

New SoundScan numbers for Taylor Swift have just been released by Billboard in celebration of Taylor's chart domination upon the release of 1989. Since her debut, Taylor Swift has now 22 released songs, as the solo / lead, to cross one million digital sales and above. She's also now the 50th best-selling album artist in SoundScan history (i.e. since 1991) with 24.2 million album units sold. 

 

Here are the 22 songs from TS, as solo / lead, to sell at least 1 million:

Rank/Song/Total Digital Sales

1. Love Story - 5.8M 

2. I Knew You Were Trouble - 5M

3. You Belong With Me - 4.5M

4. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - 3.9M

5. Our Song - 3.2M

6.  Teardrops on My Guitar - 2.9M

7. Shake It Off - 2.7M

8. Mean - 2.3M

9. Mine - 2.2M

10. 22 - 2M 

11. White Horse - 1.9M

12. Back To December - 1.9M

13. Safe & Sound - 1.8M

14. Today Was a FairyTale - 1.6M

15. Picture to Burn - 1.6M

16. Tim McGraw - 1.5M

17. Ours - 1.4M

18. Red - 1.4M

19. Should've Said No - 1.4M

20. Fifteen - 1.3M

21. Eyes Open - 1.3M

22. Crazier - 1M

 

Other song which sold more than 1M:

Highway Don't Care (with Tim McGraw) - 1.7M

 

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6312267/ask-billboard-all-taylor-swift-edition?page=0%2C1

That's crazy 23 Platinum singles as a lead artist. She's heading for at the very least 25 Platinum singles by the end of the 1989 era. 

[Mills 446]

Updated stats for Taylor Swift. She has shifted over 696k from 1989 and its two singles alone - pushing her minimum career sales to 98.35 million. At this rate, she's on track to pass the 100 million career sales milestone before Christmas. The other only contemporary solo artist in the SoundScan era, specifically during the digital music era, who's close to reaching 100M US record sales is Eminem. He's currently at 95.721 million US record sales at the very minimum (50.811 million digital songs sold, as lead, at the minimum + 44.91 million albums sold as of March 21, 2014). 
 

That's crazy 23 Platinum singles as a lead artist. She's heading for at the very least 25 Platinum singles by the end of the 1989 era.

 
She also has three other songs which are at around the 800k-900k digital sales range + three more at the 700k-800k range. And most of these songs got their last updated stats two years ago. 

[Jee Yew Whai 1]

omg i never knew g.u.y. flopped that hard... how is that even possible for gaga????

[JustPokeHerFace 2,564]

Hopefully Gaga's stats get updated when she crosses 10 million album sales in the US. Did anyone know if they did that when Rihanna hit the mark last year (I remember that they had an article about it)?

[Mills 446]

New SoundScan numbers for Taylor Swift and Katy Perry have been released, as of November 15, 2014:

 

Hot Digital Songs (Billboard's Issue Date: Nov. 22, 2014)

 

Taylor Swift
Shake It Off - 2,749,559
Blank Space - 318,845
Out of the Woods - 182,305
Welcome to New York - 112,078
Style - 102,602
Wildest Dreams - 82,213
Bad Blood - 78,347
How You Get the Girl - 45,017
All You Had to Do Was Stay - 37,605
This Love - 34,312
Clean - 31,598
I Know Places - 27,062

 

Katy Perry
Roar - 5,677,716
Dark Horse (feat. Juicy J) - 5,636,841
This Is How We Do - 511,311 [NEW GOLD]

 

With the newest updates, Taylor Swift's total US record sales, at the minimum, are now at 99.101 million. While Katy Perry has scored yet another gold single with "This Is How We Do", making all her official singles reach gold status and above (i.e. 500,000+ in digital sales; Birthday was already certified as gold by RIAA). 

[Mills 446]

UPDATES:
 

-Lady Gaga finally hits the 10 million album sales threshold this month. She's the first female artist to achieve this since Rihanna back in November 2013. 

 

The Fame and The Fame Monster (EP) - 6.2 million units sold (as of Nov. 17, 2014 via Billboard)
Born This Way - 2.326 million units sold (as of March 30, 2014 via Billboard)
ARTPOP - 725,000 units sold (as of August 18, 2014 via Billboard)
Cheek to Cheek (w/ Tony Bennett) - 322,333 units sold (as of Nov. 19, 2014 via @chartnews)
 
The Remix - 308,000 units sold (as of March 30, 2014 via Billboard)
Born This Way: The Remix - 60,000 units sold (as of March 30, 2014 via Billboard)
A Very Gaga Holiday (EP) - 42,000 units sold (as of March 30, 2014 via Billboard)
Others / Cherrytree Sessions (EP) - 29,000 units sold (as of August 23, 2013 via Billboard)

 

TOTAL: 10.012 MILLION SoundScan-reported units sold at the very minimum

 

Note: The reported SoundScan album sales of Lady Gaga released in August 2013 which were not credited to any particular album by Billboard are labeled here as Others / Cherrytree Sessions.

 

-Taylor Swift has now passed the 100 million record sales threshold this week thanks to the continued success of her multi-platinum album 1989 and its first two singles. She's the first ever artist, as a solo, to achieve this milestone in the Digital Era (2005-present). The only contemporary artist who could rival her sales is Eminem, who greatly benefitted from the massive album sales in the pre-Digital era (early 2000s). 

[JustPokeHerFace 2,564]

Congrats to both Taylor and Gaga! I wonder if they'll do an article updating Gaga's album sales like they did with Rihanna when she hit the 10 million mark last year. 

 

Also, the same article lists Poker Face's sales as 7.2 million. 

[Mills 446]

Congrats to both Taylor and Gaga! I wonder if they'll do an article updating Gaga's album sales like they did with Rihanna when she hit the 10 million mark last year. 

 

Also, the same article lists Poker Face's sales as 7.2 million. 

Updated. Thanks for pointing it out. 

 

And yes. I hope Billboard does come up with an article too. But they also may not, considering they didn't make one for Justin Bieber when he hit the 10M career album sales mark, well as far as I'm aware of. According to Paul Grein of Chart Watch*, Bieber's SoundScan-reported album sales stand at 10,630,000 from his 8 releases since 2009, and that was still as of June 23rd of this year. Bieber has most likely reached the 10M milestone in less than 4 years, way earlier than Rihanna in November 2013. 

 

*Bieber's album sales (along with Avril Lavigne, Justin Timberlake, Maroon 5, etc.) were mentioned under Kanye West's photo, ranked at #20 of the slideshow listing the top new album acts since 2000. @chartnews on Twitter has also reported Bieber's career album sales - https://twitter.com/chartnews/status/481883392062283777

 

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And speaking of career album sales, here are the top 6 best-selling album acts of the SoundScan era (1991-present):

 

1. Garth Brooks - 69.8 million units sold (as of Nov. 21, 2014 via Billboard)

2. The Beatles - 65.73 million units sold (as of May 30, 2014 via Chart Watch)

3. Metallica - 54.36 million units sold (as of May 30, 2014 via Chart Watch)

4. Mariah Carey - 54.28 million units sold (as of May 30, 2014 via Chart Watch)

5. Celine Dion - 52.23 million units sold (as of May 30, 2014 via Chart Watch)

6. Eminem - 45 million units sold (as of March 21, 2014 via Billboard)

[Yanko 9,860]

taylor only sold like 5 m outside of us

taylor  US is u okay? do u need something? earcondom or such?

tbh