291k and debuted at #2. Unfortunately it is her worst selling studio album but still was certified Platinum despite having only one not really radio friendly single a being paid dust by its label. But her stans love the album the most and it contains some of her best songs aka Maybe and Sober.
Mariah Carey's "Music Box" debuted #2 with 174,000 copies, went on to sell 505,000 copies in it's fifteenth week, go #1 for 8 weeks, then went on to become Diamond in U.S. and one of the best-selling albums of All-Time w/ 32+ million copies WW.
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I Am... Sasha Fierce sold 482,000 first week and went to sell 3M in the US and 7.5M+ WW.
I can't find info on much Janet's Control sold first week, but it went on to sell ~6M copies in the US and 14M WW.
284,000 - The Eminem Show (due to a premature release, it managed to sell 284,000 copies and had only one day of official sales chart and it wasn't available on Walmart) - 1,322,000 - First week of full sales, The Eminem Show is DIAMOND in the US and has sold 20 MILLION worldwide. 745,000 - Britney 663,000 - Survivor
482,000 - I Am...Sasha Fierce