> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.qlero.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What are Total Units?

> The quantity behind the period's royalties, and what it counts.

**Total Units** is how many sales the period's royalties were calculated from: streams, downloads, and physical copies, added together across every store and territory in the statement.

It covers the tracks and releases your contracts reach. The count isn't reduced by your share of a track, so a track you're credited 50% of contributes all of its units here. Your share shows in the money, not in the count.

Units and money don't move together. A million low‑value streams can earn less than a few thousand high‑value downloads, so rising units with flat royalties usually means the mix of stores or territories changed, rather than anything being wrong.

Sales that didn’t match a contract aren’t included, because they aren’t part of your statement.

## Next steps

* See where the units came from in [What do the Tracks, Releases, Territories and Stores tabs show?](/artists/statements/top-performer-tabs).