American Life in Top 40 Global Album chart
The www.mediatraffic.de website, that compiles every week the world top 40 album chart has now unveiled the chart of global best selling albums of the period between 2002 and 2004. Madonna‘s American Life is in the chart at number 50 with a total of 3,065,000 copies sold worldwide. For each album, the number of copies sold is calculated on the cumulative total of weeks each album spent in the top40.
American Life in Top 40 Global Album chart
( Entry May 10 2003) 1–1-2-3-6-8-11-15-15-16-16-17-18-21-25-25-30-38-//( September 13 2004)
Note: the 3,065,000 copies of American Life sold are the ones globally sold between April and September 2003. This means that the actual number of copies sold might be bigger (about 3,500,000 copies)
Media Traffic‘s global album chart is mainly based on dates from:
IFPI, NIELSEN SOUND SCAN (USA, CANADA), ORICON & SOUND SCAN (JAPAN), OFFICIAL UK CHARTS COMPANY (UNITED KINGDOM), SNEP / IFOP (FRANCE), MEDIA CONTROL (GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND), ARIA (AUSTRALIA), AFYVE & MEDIA CONTROL (SPAIN), FIMI / AC NIELSEN (ITALY), HOT100 BR@SIL (BRAZIL), MEGA CHARTS BV (NETHERLANDS), GLF (SWEDEN), VERDENS GANG (NORWAY), AC NIELSEN (DENMARK, BELGIUM), YLE (FINLAND), AFP (PORTUGAL), ZPAV (POLAND),
RIANZ (NEW ZEALAND),RIM (MALAYSIA), CAPIF (ARGENTINA).
And now here’s a look at the certifications of AL in different countries. American Life has reached top position in at least 21 nations.
Europe #1(3w) (IFPI Europe Platinum Award=1,000,000 ) Europe Total Sales=1,377,500
Czech Republic # 1(5w) (Gold=5,000)
Greece #1(3w) (Gold=10,000)
Switzerland # 1(3w) (Platinum=40,000)
Germany #1(2w) (Platinum=200,000)
Italy #1(2w) (Platinum=100,000) Total Sales=120,000/150,000
Belgium #1(2w) (Gold=25,000)
Sweden #1(2w) (Gold=30,000)
Estonia #1(2w)
UK #1 (Platinum=300,000)
France #1 (Platinum=300,000) Total Sales=500,000
Austria #1 (Gold=15,000)
Norway #1 (Gold=20,000)
Finland #2
Spain #2 (Gold=50,000)
Denmark #2 (Gold=20,000)
Holland #3 (Gold=40,000) Unconfirmed
Slovakia #3(2w) (Gold=5,000)
Hungary #3 (Gold=10,000)
Poland #4
Ireland #6 (Gold=7,500)
Portugal #10
Canada #1 (Platinum=100,000)
USA #1 (RIAA Platinum=1,000,000 shipments) (Soundscan Sales=650,000 circa)
Mexico #1
Brazil #1 (2xPlatinum=250,000)
Chile #2
Argentina #5 (Gold=20,000)
Venezuela #– (Gold=10,000)
Taiwan #1(3w) (Platinum=30,000)
Thailand #1(3w) (Gold=10,000)
Hong Kong #1 (Gold=25,000)
Philippines #1
Singapore #1 (Gold=7,500)
Japan #4 (Gold=100,000) Total Sales=103,000
South Korea #11 (Total Sales=10,500) Monthly chart
New Zeland #2 (Gold=7,500)
Australia #3 (Platinum=70,000)
Special thanks to our team member Pierpinto for this year end report