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RobbinAmber wrote:

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You really gotta stop this ILGE

General Methods
For albums in www.mediatraffic.de Top 40 (So also for first week and highest week data) use their selling data (Thanks!!!). When an album go out from Mediatraffic chart i try to estimate data thanks to some selling data like Soundscan for USA, Musicweek for UK or oricon for Japan.If I have seen ,in previous week, that an album selling for 50% in USA, and this week Soundscan data say 5.000, i estimate the worldwide data in 10.000.for other countries i use the chart and i look if and how much the position increase or decrease.For Xmas time increase all data.For have a comparison sometimes i use http://fanofmusic.free.fr/Site.htm expecialy for French Data.

Pre-2006 albums
In the lists there are only albums released from the first week charting considered 2006 ( January 14 on Mediatraffic), So there aren't albums released before that data like James Blunt album that is the album that have sell more copies DURING 2006.

The first and the second data
the first data should indicate a "minimun", the second (at the right) a "maximum" (made adding 7,5% at the first data)

When we must correct some data
Sometimes labels release some sales data, when we see, it we compare that data with estimations, usually the two data is really similar, but sometimes the difference is too big. If you have an article released by label with a data really different from my estimations please contact me.

!REMEMBER!:
- Are only ESTIMATIONSnot "real" data, is impossible to have the real sales data, so there might be some mistakes.The data want to give a "general" view of the worldwide sales.

This could also mean, Kelly could have sold close to 20million.......

...........but we'll never know.