Top_artists_CSPC_best_selling_artists_of_all-time（转）
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The below table presents the top artists of all-time using the
below ratios.
- Studio Album: sales of the original album
- Other LPs: sales of compilations generated
thanks to the album
- Physical Singles: sales of physical singles
from the album (added to CSPC total with a ratio 3/10 for 2-tracks,
5/10 for EPs and Maxis)
- Digital Singles: sales of digital singles from
the album (ratio 1.5/10 for CSPC total)
- Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the
album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video
stream)
Commensurate Sales to Popularity Concept (CSPC).
Setting up accurate best selling artists
lists
For decades, marketing tricks from labels and lack of education
from media led to
various myths about the best selling
artists of all-time getting repeated so often that the general
public assumed it was true.
Today, the same lack of education on the matter continues to be
a pain for accuracy lovers. Most of these lists
floating around online are either flat lists of
RIAA certifications or a mere sum of
all certifications from all countries. The first are given only
on-request, sparsely for many artists, and relate to the US only.
The latter are adding together apples and oranges by mixing
distinct formats and different national streaming conversion
methods.
Our home-made solution : the CSPC and equivalent album
sales
To solve these flaws, we introduced several years ago the
Commensurate Sales to Popularity Concept (CSPC).
If you are not familiar with this concept, it consists in
retrieving sales figures from every format and weighting them on
par with album sales.
That’s what we call equivalent
album sales (EAS), or simply
CSPC
units.
In doing so, we grant that comparisons between
artists from
different periods make sense, unlike lists based on raw
records totals.
The method also secures that the same formula applies to all
artists. So we are avoiding issues related to the varying
conversion rate used for
streaming in different
markets as well as by most labels on their
communications.
How we work on it
When applying this concept to an artist, our team go into the tank.
We analyze all data available, from charts, certifications,
internal reports, or official scanning systems. Through the years,
we developed various methods to fill the holes, backing all numbers
on meaningful indicators. In-between, we have also discovered
thousands
of receipts.
To make everything as transparent as it gets, all figures
for sales have been detailed on each artist article,
available through the link under their name. We also show dates of
updates, both for sales and for streams.
The column ‘Other LPs’ includes long formats made of already
released material like greatest hits compilations, box sets, live
records, bootlegs, and music videos.
Digital singles include both downloads and ringtones. Streaming
units include both audio and video streams.
An ongoing process
Obviously,
digging into the catalog of an artist takes
time. It would be easy to simply copy/paste RIAA’s most
certified artists list in a minute. Given our ambition, the largest
discographies require several weeks of study, with several people
involved.
Most top artists have been studied by now, but some are still
missing. The main ones are
Frank Sinatra and
Neil Diamond.
These omissions are listed on
this
page, which enables users to vote for the next pick.
As soon as a CSPC article is released, we treat the new leader of
the requests list.
You can vote
too!
The automatic update of streams
As part of our process to get all artists treated at the same time,
we have been implementing tools to automatically keep
numbers up to date every day whenever it is
possible.
We also developed
a tool
to retrieve updated Spotify streams by artist. Thus, we are
able to increase accordingly the streaming units of artists part of
our all-time top artists leaderboard.
