Is THE ALBUM the best selling album of 2020??

THE ALBUM has just surpassed 7M consumption units sold globally ✔️

IFPI had 7 at 6.7M? If I'm not mistaken..

Does this mean THE ALBUM is the best selling album of 2020?!

No! Cause I'm pretty sure 7 sales are missing other consumption units...

The 6.7M figure didn't include YouTube streams & Chinese digitals which will definitely add another 1M units or so

Nevertheless THE ALBUM is definitely the 2nd most consumed album globally across all platforms & metrics 💯

BLACKPINK did that with their debut album, anticipate their 2nd album this October ✔️

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It's 2021 and still no sources and receipts.

7M units:

Pure sales = 3M

TEA = 500K

SEA = 3.5M

Quote from azhra-0110

That is hardy's brand ✔️✔️✔️

It's literally not hard to decipher facts lol

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With him you never know what's reality and what's wishful thinking.

It's just facts actually.

Quote from azhra-0110

You can't just take chinese downloads, count them as 1 pure sale and go. I know what analysis you are talking about from twitter and it is just wrong. It would be like what vips used to do and call their 5+ million downloads per song in korea+china 1 pure sale.

It's raw consumption tho

Ion really care about the intricate details & I'm not the one

The Chinese digitals thing is overblown considering IFPI had Justin Bieber pure sales counting em as 1 pure sale lol

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What are these consumption units? Where are the comparisons?

Anyway, they did amazingly. They’ve had consistent growth. I’m sure whenever they release their next album, they’ll beat their own records. That should be enough, no? Without pulling figures from nowhere? No...

Consumption units are basically equivalent album sales from every single streaming platform + Track equivalent sales + obviously pure sales

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Thank you.

I hope he'll at least listen to someone in his own fandom. When other fandoms say it, we get told we're racist or against the girls. Not so.

Blackpink sold very very well undeniably, but they don't have the numbers he's claiming and that does not negate any of the success they saw in 2020! MOTS7 did very big numbers - huge - an extraordinary feat. Most did not beat that and there is no shame in it.

I don't think it matters when on IFPI changes counted Chinese digital as 1 pure sale

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Watch this thread delve into a bashing fest.

As it is does with most of Hardy's threads.

I hope am wrong.

Why will it delve into that?

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Like, this is suuuuper hazy, lad. Be satisfied with what they have achieved, which is incredible?

Or not, if it helps you sleep at night or something, but you do know by now that people will pull you up on these things, so you have to wonder if it’s worth it.

I literally have no idea what u on about lol

It's up to u to count Chinese digitals as 1 pure sale or not, even IFPI does if they wish lol

There's no discussion to be had for the streaming figures

Quote from azhra-0110

They still shouldnt count as 1 raw sale considering their prices. They should be counted for sure but using a formula. Like for example billboard uses /11750 for youtube streams

I recommend u checking out the site chartmasters which uses a pretty good method to correctly show album and streaming equivalent sales. They even use japanese, korean and chinese platforms to reflect worldwide consumption

Streaming Masters – Blackpink - ChartMasters they studied bp streaming 2 years ago but havent updated again yet

LMAOO chart masters had THE ALBUM at 2.9M pure sales at the end of 2020!

Quote from penepol

Ok, sure, love. As I said, if that mindset helps you, you do you... but just don’t be surprised when other people disagree that there actually *is* quite a lot of discussion to be had.

I welcome the discussion lol

I'm not denying Chinese digital can't be counted as 1 pure sale but since IFPI didn't bother doing so or even chart masters

I to choose to do so :)

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Pure sales on their ifpi article are not the same numbers they use during their analysis so no. If blackpink are studied by them chinese sales will get a different weighting. It's one thing counting everything and call them pure sales and another one equivalent album sales with proper weighting

You're being hypothetical lol

No such thing exists, THE ALBUM has sold 7M in global consumption units or 5.5M excluding Chinese digitals ✔️

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Post where u got the 3.5m streaming from btw. I'm sure it will get there at some point but I don't think it has yet

YouTube + Spotify + Apple music + melon + genie + anghami + qq music

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sure grandpa now go to bed

Cringe.

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Yeah... not sure about that one, does apple music even show streaming numbers? even if they did spotify is probably a better western-worldwide representation, in which case the album is at around 1.41m eas from there alone. I dont think melon and genie should be counted at the same time, and melon has a shitty filtering anyways, have u seen how many streams some bg songs have? Again, chartmasters uses a method to represent south korea which seems pretty fair imo cause it is consistent with gaon numbers; the album has 530k eas using it

Youtube and qq music should both use the /11750 formula cause they are video streaming platforms. Youtube is around 300k eas so I'm doubting qq music makes up for the remaining 1m+. Overall it is still below 3m but increasing quickly so...

Wrong

1250 paid streams = 1 eas

3750 free streams = 1 eas

So THE ALBUM has 1.1M from spotify streams & 1.1M from YouTube streams

Melon & genie are actually paid streams