BE is also above 7.5 million consumption units by now

Amazing feat

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70 mil overall consumption

and yes BTS is above artists like Ed sheeran. Unbelievable

And thing is article is little old bcoz their streams equivalent is above 30 mlilion now. They are around 75 million

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That wikipedia sales include singles sales with album. Also double counting is included . 1 album is not equal to one download. That above method u posted use that

By that logic, rihanna outsold celine ad mariah. In true Value Mariah carey is around 180 million and Rihanna is around 100 million

During download era artist like Rihanna, katy perry sold lots of cheap download. Both physical and streaming era artist don't have those download advantage.

By that logic, Bb outsold Backstreet boys bcoz they sold those downloads.

To stop this, equivalents methods are used now by industry. Like few days back, occ ( uk chart ) declared taylor's swift equivalents around 114 million

Katy perry label declared 48 million

Where they converted singles and streams into album units

The above method of equivalency and consumption unti is used by ifpi

Where physical singles, downloads and streams are converted into album unit

Billboard uses

Like 1 album = 10 downloads = few thousand streams = more thousand video streams

You can't add cheap singles with an album to post best selling list

Equivalents is method used by current standards. Fair method to come with best selling artists.

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I guess they dont know equivalent thing