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The list is frequently edited in good faith to update the certified sales figures; however, claimed sales figures need to be supported by reliable sources, preferably from news organizations.

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Below you can get an understanding as to when certifications for songs are added to the total certified sales of the listed artists.

One lead artist and one featured artist. (The issued certification(s) should be added to the total of both, the lead artist and the featured artist as both will have almost equal amount of part).
Two lead artists. (The issued certification(s) should be added to the total of both lead artists as both will have almost equal amount of part).
Two lead artists and one featured artist. (The issued certification(s) should be added to the total of both lead artists as well as the featured artist. Both lead artists will play a significant part in a song and the part of the featured artist also should be significant enough).
One lead artist and two featured artists. (The issued certification(s) should be added to the total of the lead artist and to the total of both featured artists as almost all should have equal amount of part).

The year next to markets below indicates how far back the certification systems go in each country. The percentages stand for the global market share based on a 2007 IFPI report.

USA: RIAA (1958) (31.6%)
Japan: RIAJ (Physical certifications since (1989)(16.5%)
UK: BPI (1973) (10.6%)
Germany: BVMI (1975) (8.4%)
France: SNEP, Infodisc (albums), Infodisc (singles) (1973) (5.8%)
Australia: ARIA (1990) (2.23%)
Canada: Music Canada (1975) (2.22)
Italy: FIMI (2009) (1.95%)
The Netherlands: NVPI (1978) (1.52%)
Spain: PROMUSICAE (1979) (1.48%)
Austria: IFPI (1990) (1.10%)
Mexico: AMPROFON (1999) (1.08%)
Brazil: PMB (1990) (0.97%)
Belgium: Ultratop (1995) (0.91%)
Norway: (Archived certification-database) (1993) (0.86%)
Switzerland: Schweizer Hitparade (1989) (0.84%)
Sweden: IFPI (Archived certification-database), Sverige Topplistan (Chart-database) (1987) (0.81%)
Denmark: Hitlisten (Chart-database), IFPI Denmark (2001) (0.67%)
Ireland: IRMA (2005) (0.52%)
Poland: ZPAV (1995) (0.51%)
Finland: IFPI (1971) (0.49%)
Argentina: Capif (1980) (0.48%)
New Zealand: Recorded Music NZ (1978) (0.37%)

Salvabl is World wiki Terrorist, This Wiki RIAA 2011 - MJ 177.3 m / Real RIAA 2023 - MJ 89.0 million .... What's going on?

MJ USA sales volume in this document is based on RIAA 2013, which is completely different from RIAA 2023 data.

Wiki. RIAA 2011 - MJ 177.3 million /// REAL. RIAA 2023 - MJ 89.0 million .... What's going on?

Apr/2023 RIAA Figures - https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=top_tallies&ttt=TAA#search_section 39.114.157.194 (talk) 09:22, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The 89M units in the above RIAA source that you provided only show the units of albums Jackson is certified within in the USA. The 177.3M includes albums+physical singles+digital singles+video. This is why The Beatles have 217.250M instead of 183M, and Elvis has 199 650M instead of 146.M in the same sources as you provided. TheWikiholic (talk) 20:27, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Billy Murray

Billy Murray is a singer who is said to have sold as many as 300,000,000 records in the early 1900s. He needs to be included 2600:1015:B120:3229:813A:FD25:4CCE:E022 (talk) 03:46, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tina Turner

Hi. I would like to ask how many certified sales should Tina have for her to claim 180 million records (or even 200 million records sales)? Thank you! Loibird90 (talk) 11:49, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Loibird90: She's far away from that claim. By 2010 she had 32,973,694 and had only few certs since then. See here: Tina Turner's claimed figure.--Markus WikiEditor (talk) 22:11, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

How many certified sales does she have to have for her to claim 180M or 200M? Loibird90 (talk) 01:36, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mariah Carey (Japan)

Update 186.205.68.114 (talk) 02:11, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

25,5M certification 186.205.68.114 (talk) 02:13, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mariah Carey (Brasil)

http://www.mariah-charts.com/chartdata/Brasil.htm 186.205.68.114 (talk) 02:30, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Wjo

Where is the Who on this List? 2601:18C:8100:E030:80B1:2FC4:4A13:39B3 (talk) 13:56, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]