Chinese sales are always excluded from those worldwide sales calculations and ranking. I don’t think it’s because of xenephobia like people like to say.
It’s just chinese digital sales for a song count 0-0.20 cents which is literally nothing compared to the rest of the world, and also you can buy the same song/album for an unlimited amount of times which make the digital sales of an album/song really high just because of chinese sales which is unfair for artists who aren’t big in China.
I’m not very knowledgeable about sales methodology calculations and all that stuff. But can’t the poeple who calculate sales make a methodology for chinese sales?
For example: imagine an album in china costs 1$ or whatever the currency is in china, and an artist sold 1M digital albums, which makes 1M pure sales. Can’t they take the 1M sales and act like a digital album costs 15$?
That way the numbers will be smaller and it will be comparable to other countries. Or maybe they could divide the numbers or something.
Could that work or not? And if it could, why don’t they do that? (And also please let me know if what i said isn’t clear)
