Other factors including the total weeks on the chart and at its peak position were calculated into an album's year-end total.

Bradley raised $8 million to Gore's $4 million between October and December, bringing him within $2 million of Gore's year-end total.

In 2002, album sales dropped 17.3 percent, to 650 million units, from the year-end total of 785 million units in 2000.

The year-end total of 24.3 million accounts was up by more than 3.7 million from the end of 1991.

Attendance was also up 477,000 over last year, for a year-end total of 7.9 million.

But now, the Korea Development Institute has scaled down its second-half forecast to less than 6 percent growth, for a year-end total of 10 percent.

The PlayStation 3 version has similar numbers, with year-end 2010 totals of nearly 107,000 units.

To take matters even harder to gauge, the only figures Dior and Givenchy release are their year-end totals, which are skewed by perfume sales.

But those $1.50 fares, paid in cash, add up, although the drivers do not reveal their year-end totals.

Mr. Tanaka said he expected the release of "Vespertine" to spur a new round of submissions, bringing the year-end total to 900 remixes.