Where/How did Little Mix sell 50 Million albums?

well uhh some article i found did say "estimated 50 million albums" so

The key word would be 'estimated' as in its a round up guess and album sales are continuous (as in people still are buying them) so some are still being counted. (this goes for all artists in general) Outside sales are unstated so that will factor into the estimate.

Language is key it didn't say officially sold.

Also for a album to be certified as platinum. You have to sell atleast 1 million copies, so I think they have a few platinum certifications there but I don't know really, this includes streams now I think. But there isn't much verification on what type of sales in The charts you put up..if its physical sales then the chart makes sense, no one really buys physicals here much.

Also remember anyone can edit wiki it's not the most trusted source.

I'm not sure but this made me think of Jesy. I wish her the best and I miss her so much

Cumulated sales along with singles and digitals. Sales don't equal albums.

Look at this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…_best-selling_girl_groups. Almost all the sales on that list are not actual albums sold.

SNSD apparently has 34.4 million sales but if I go with the source https://web.archive.org/web/20…eration-psy-gangnam-k-pop then it's over 30m in digital singles and 4.4m albums.

AKB48 has 60m sales, but on oricon it says that 53.4m are singles and 6.6m are albums. https://www.oricon.co.jp/confidence/special/52827/2/#link1

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I'm not sure but this made me think of Jesy. I wish her the best and I miss her so much

Me too. I miss OT4 LM.

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Yeah, but it's ridiculous to estimate 50M starting from a base of at most 10M (and that's extremely generous, as I'm 99% sure they haven't sold ~7.8M outside of the UK).

While wikipedia is unreliable, there's also no articles on Google showing any sort of statistics or proof that they've even sold more than 5M or 10M.

Like I can't find one single source for it.

Honestly don't know, never focused on sales and stuff, it's never been in my interest but most articles about artists or bios generously estimate or over hype the artist, it just what most media does.

UK doesn't really care too much about numbers but I think you have to go to official disturbitor and labels to get the real statistical sells information. It would be much easier to find possibly if you live in the UK

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Alright, so let's say they combined everything into one pot, and let's say I trust their stats of 18.9 million singles and 3.4 million albums in the UK. That's still only 22.3M.

That means they sold 28M others outside of the UK, which is again crazy.

Mediaplayed numbers by UK newspapers, shouldn't waste your time really. People who change things on wiki are usually fans so they kinda let mediaplay to happen. If you want strong facts, wiki is not the place.

I found something but it might be long to read through, dated from..Feb last year. Might be helpful...

https://chartmasters.org/2020/…x-albums-and-songs-sales/

Tltr. It basically says the the estimated 50 million doesn't just encompass physical & digital sales but also other things.

So it's not pure sales (digital and physical copies) alone.

But again I don't know this person, so i don't know their legitimacy with sales and what not.

Hopefully it's helpful.