The figures given do not take into account the resale of used albums or illegal copies (including in some external reports).
According to British ethnomusicologist Martin Stokes, the first efforts to establish official figures by MESAM took place in 1990.
Numerous acts have several entries, with İbrahim Tatlıses, Tarkan and Sezen Aksu having the highest claims with at least one release reaching 3 million units across the nation.
Additionally, his album Aacayipsin (1994) sold two million domestic copies, including 450,000 units in its first 10 days,[3] Allah Allah-Hülya (1987) by İbrahim Tatlıses became one of the fastest-selling albums to reach the million mark, in a lapse of one and a half month according to Milliyet.
[1][4] She also set a record for a foreign album when MDNA moved 30,000 units in just 4 days for which outsold domestic artists at that time.