Beyonce & Destiny's Child combines sales don't even approach FM's numbers, which are more than double Beyonce/DC.
Future Games, Gold
Bare Trees, platinum
Mystery to Me, Gold
FM, 5x platinum
Rumours, 19x platinum
Tusk, 2 x platinum
Mirage, 2 x platinum
Tango, 3 x platinum
Behind the Mas, Gold
Say You Will, Gold
The Dance, 5 x platinum
Greatest Hits, 8 x platinum
Essential FM, platinum
48 million in U.S. sales.
Beyonce Solo
Dangerously In Love, 4 x platinum
B'day, 3 x platinum
I Am Sash Fierce, 3 x platinum
10 million solo
Destiny's Child, platinum
The Writing's on the Wall, 8 x platinum
Survivor, 4 x platinum
8 Days of Christmas, Gold
Destiny Fulfilled, 3 x platinum
16.5 million as a group
RIAA certified sales:
FM: 48 million in U.S.
Beyonce & DC: 26.5 million in the U.S.
It's an increasingly common gesture for performers, labels and publicists to inflate numbers and chart movement. Sometimes labels define "record" as an "album," (which is a record), or a "single" (which is a record), and now digital copy, which is a recording. If an act has solde 4 million albums, 4 million singles and 17 million paid downloads, the label or publicist send out a release of citing 25 million records sold! or they'll claim Billboard #1 hits, when the song only hit #1 on a minor chart and not the comprehensive chart.
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