Vanjiminie

Third opinion requested

I've asked for a third opinion regarding the digital sales discussion here. According to the rules I should notify you. - Ïvana (talk) 02:06, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

I've already sent you an email but I will also explain it in details here.

On April 5, 2023, an editor named DiegoF 1996 edited Jimin's sales and added this information:

Number of sales this week added (US [38K] = Global [86K] - Global Excl US [48K])

This calculation is completely wrong. I will explain difference between the 3 main Billboard digital-counting charts

- Global 200 & Global Excel. US: counting digital sales from worldwide retailers like Amazon, Itunes and NOT counting data from BTS official store (BTS official store only counts sales from US)

- Digital song sales chart (also Hot 100): counting digital sales from US retailers like Amazon, Itunes, Qobuz and INCLUDES data from BTS official store

So we cannot do the calculation: Number of sales this week added (US [38K] = Global [86K] - Global Excl US [48K]). That is completely wrong. 38k are only sales from Amazon, Itunes, Qobuz in the US, the remaining 200k sales are from BTS official store.

According to Billboard, Like Crazy sold 254,000 song downloads and CD singles.

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/jimin-like-crazy-debuts-number-one-first-bts-solo-hot-100-1235297097/

According to Forbes, Like Crazy sold 241k downloads and topped the Digital Song Sales chart. https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2023/04/04/btss-jimin-occupies-10-of-billboards-song-sales-chart-as-his-new-hits-debut/?sh=7d9835c113bd

There can't be any song that only sold 38,000 downloads and topped the Billboard hot 100 chart.

I hope you will understand my explanation. Thank you. Vanjiminie (talk) 02:28, 7 May 2023 (UTC)