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Music is generally defined as the art of arranging ______ to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.
sound
Definitions of music vary depending on ______, though it is an aspect of all human societies and a cultural universal.
culture
The creation of music is commonly divided into musical composition, musical improvisation, and musical ______, though the topic itself extends into academic disciplines, criticism, philosophy, and psychology.
performance
Music may be performed or improvised using a vast range of ______, including the human voice.
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In some musical contexts, a performance or composition may be to some extent ______.
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The tables are listed with each artist's claimed sales figure(s) and their total independently certified units and are ranked in ______ order by claimed sales.
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If two or more artists have the same claimed sales, they are then ranked by certified ______.
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The claimed sales figure and the total of certified units (for each country) within the provided sources include sales of ______, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums.
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Gold/Platinum certifications issued after 2016, especially on ______, have not been included in the certified units column.
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This information cannot be listed officially, as there is no organization that has recorded global ______ sales.
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