US sales according to en.wiki

____no5 said:
good question, I don't know, maybe cornfedhick could
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Billboard has a digital chart, which is based on a collection of web-based sellers of single and album downloads.  However, that collection doesn't include iTunes, which is by far the biggest seller of digital music downloads.  So, Billboard's chart doesn't mean that much to me, except that if a song is popular on Yahoo Music (one of the sellers that is counted on Billboard's chart), it's probably also popular on iTunes.  Again, record companies probably keep track of all this stuff, though perhaps not even for stuff that is 20 years old, so even if there is an ascertainable number for each title, it isn't publicly available, and any source that purports to quote album sales numbers is inherently unreliable unless it is able to cite the music companies' own data. 
 
____no5 said:
My point was some documented feed back about US sales -it's one subject that interesses me quite a while
and the occasion for the thread was the wiki article
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So, basically, you came across a wiki article, and decided to post it here?  Alright.  That's fair.  Sometimes it's just difficult to tell, since you provided no direction for the discussion to go in during your opening post.  That's why it's a bunch of random assertions stapled together therein.
 
Invader, check your math. You're two orders of magnitude short  :D

Finland : 15.000 gold cert.
USA : 500.000 gold cert.

Finland cca 60 times less population : 500.000 / 60 = 8333.

Therefore, if you look by population to gold certificate ratio, USA is almost twice easier to accomplish. One person out of ~ 350 in Finland should by the record if you want gold certificate. One person out of 600 in USA should by the record if you want gold certificate. Hence it's easier in USA.
 
Zare said:
Therefore, if you look by population to gold certificate ratio, USA is almost twice easier to accomplish. One person out of ~ 350 in Finland should by the record if you want gold certificate. One person out of 600 in USA should by the record if you want gold certificate. Hence it's easier in USA.
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Well, you still proved my point.  The US is not the be-all end-all music market, and this especially can not be based on gold certifications. :)
 
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