Talk:True Blue (Madonna album)

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The following sites give breakdowns of the sales for all Madonna's albums: http://www.beautifulmadonna.com/charts/albumven.html = 22.5m, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Top-Biggest-Selling-Madonna-Albums/lm/37BXBHN8JKB68 = 20m, http://charts.mlvc.org/CHThist.php = 19m, http://www.world4madonna.com/charts/ = 20m, http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=41261&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 = 14.98m. Of these the first link is always higher (inflated) in sales. The avearge is 19m - 20m

According to Madonna's official website, True Blue has sold 19 million copies worldwide. http://www.madonna.com/discography/index/album/albumId/3/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.239.49.12 (talk) 05:31, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The ideal thing to do would be to get "reliable third-party" sources from places such as

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1682061/madonna-lionel-richie-top-billboard.jhtml — Preceding unsigned comment added by 39.209.88.69 (talk) 01:32, 5 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• "Il suo ultimo Lp True blue ha raggiunto il milione di copie" (Italy) | Panorama title: Rock/sege Edizioni 1107-1110 (in Italian), pag 66, 1987
• BRASIL (1): Quando a gravadora WEA lançaou o primeiro long-play da roqueira Madonna ("Like a Virgin") no Brasil, no ano pasado, precisou de 14 meses para vender 410 mil cópias. O segundo, "True Blue", lançado en julho último, alcancou 205 mil em duos semanas. | Exame (pag 62) 1986 — NOTE: 205,000 copies in Brazil in 2 weeks (her 1993 tour that visited the country boosted her overall sales)
• Brasil (2): 680,000 copies as of 1987 (already included)
• Brasil (3): 3x Platinum
• Brasil (4): 75,000 pre-sales in Brazil + 500,000 copies sold in the USA (first 10 days) (2)
• Brasil (5): 750,000 (1988) copies + 800,000 copies (1988-89)
• The album sold more than two and a half million copies as soon as it was released and received critical praise | Contemporary Biography - Women, Volumen 2 by Contemporary Biography Press, 1991, pag 216
• Number one in Argentina (1 or 2), and already included with another ref.

--Apoxyomenus (talk) 07:02, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]