Island says 160 m including TEOM for Mariah so that s about it Music Box can t possibly have sold 23 M outside the US This would mean 17 M outside Europe and the US never happened in the history of music not even Thriller has such sales outside these two markets and it went 1 basically everywhere for months a lot more than can be said for Music Box It was a huge hit but not to that extent Adding all the markets in teh world apart from a tiny handful 0 005 of teh world or so Music Box adds up to about 20 M or so