Japanese sales/Certifications + others?

Simon KC1950

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Hi, I'm fascinated by the Carpenters record sales and can only find sales and certified albums and singles for the USA and the UK which after doing some maths got this:

USA:
6 multi-platinum, 2 platinum and 5 Gold albums + 10 gold singles.

= 34,500,000

UK:
2 multi-platinum, 3 platinum, 13 gold albums and 5 silver albums + 3 silver singles

= 5,650,000

Total certified sales of US and UK

= 40,150,000

Does anyone have any others?

Below are those albums and singles :

USA:
albums

-The Singles 1969-1973 (7x Platinum)
-Carpenters (4x Platinum)
-A Song For You (3x Platinum)
-Close To You (2x Platinum)
-Now & Then (2x Platinum)
-Yesterday Once More (2x Platinum)
-Christmas Portrait (Platinum but I think almost 2x)
-Horizon (Platinum)
-A Kind Of Hush (Gold)
-Voice Of The Heart (Gold)
-An Old Fashioned Christmas (Gold)
-Love Songs (Gold)
-Gold (Gold)

Singles (all Gold)
-Close To You
-We've Only Just Begun
-For All We Know
-Rainy Days And Mondays
-Superstar
-Hurting Each Other
-Sing
-Yesterday Once More
-Top Of The World
-Please Mr. Postman

UK:
albums

-Only Yesterday (4x Platinum)
-Gold (4x Platinum)
-The Singles 1969-1973 (Platinum)
-Yesterday Once More (Platinum)
-Carpenters (Platinum)
-Live At The Palladium (Gold 1977) + (Gold 1990)
-Interpretations (Gold 1994) + (Silver 2013)
-Passage (Gold)
-Horizon (Gold)
-Now & Then (Gold)
-A Kind Of Hush (Gold)
-Voice Of The Heart (Gold)
-The Best Of (Gold)
-Love Songs (Gold)
-The Ultimate Collection (Gold)
-40/40 (Gold)
-The Carpenters Collection (Silver)
-Singles 1974-1978 (Silver)
-Made In America (Silver)
-Reflections (Silver)
-The Singles 1969-1981 (Silver 2014) + (Gold 2016)

Singles

-Yesterday Once More (Silver)
-Top Of The World (Silver)
-Please Mr. Postman (Silver)
 
USA:
albums

-Gold (Gold)

UK:
albums

-Gold (4x Platinum)

That’s an interesting statistic. The Gold compilation seems to have served them very, very well in the UK compared to the US.

I’ve often wondered, taking into account royalties to other writers on the album, record company cut etc, how much would Richard Carpenter actually make from selling one copy of a posthumous compilation like this?
 
Remember that GOLD in the UK is a one-disc CD. In the US it's a double CD, generally costing much more.
 
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