thanks for the reply my biggest issue at the moment is whether to include sales figures for earlier years as far as i know there were no published end of year sales figures before and the sales published at the time for to have since been discredited and revised so are basically worthless the figures currently quoted in the articles up to are usually estimates that have been taken from various charts message boards calculated by enthusiasts from officially published yearly sales figures per artist i e sales could be made up of one or more singles or albums and estimating what percentage of sales were assigned to each record as these are completely unofficial and unverifiable i am thinking to remove them altogether or at least add a note that all figures are unofficial and estimated in any case i don't think most people are interested in how many records the th best selling album of sold that year it makes more sense to me to concentrate efforts into keeping list of best selling singles in the united kingdom up to date