I remain unbothered

they could have broken it in 2001, 2002, 2003 etc.

kii, exactly. not to mention rap, rock, hip hop, a whole bunch of Pop AND RnB acts dominating in the 2000s. Taylor would have been buried.

Yeah, in a sense Taylor would've done it twice, Gaga once, and Bey once.

Especially with the Internet and illegal downloads and piracy.

Taylor or Adele will break it, just wait.

This. So it's not really even that viable of a receipt .

What? Country, and country-pop were selling really well back then too.( Shania Twain, Faith Hill, The Dixie Chicks)
Every genre was selling well, and we're not saying that SHe would've slayed back then, we're saying that you can't compare the market from now and back then

You do know what year it is right?!

Taylor's first week sales are far more impressive considering the sales climate -- increasing popularity and ease of piracy, free streaming online and availability of a la carte tracks making it increasingly more difficult to sell albums. And she's done a million plus TWICE.

Britney's record was set during a time when album sales were at PEAK. This is not debatable and some of the delusional grasping to spin that is seriously sad. Are we really going to pretend like FIVE albums didn't debut with over a million in the year her record was set alone? Are we really going to pretend like NSYNC didn't debut with 2.4 million the week before Oops was released? Eminem pulled a 1.7 million debut not even 3 months after that. Even Limp Bizkit got a million+ debut in 2000. Out of top five of the biggest debut sales weeks in US history, four of the top five happened in the year 2000 ALONE. The other was in 2001. But, Britney's debut was more impressive because Napster came out a mere few months prior. Whew, chile...the delusion. I can't.

Clearly album sales have fallen drastically and the record will probably never be beaten

NSYNC,BSB they are boy bands, it is known that they have high first week sales and overall huge album sales
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No other female at the time was not able to have bigger first week sales and now sales dramatically decline so the record probably will not be beaten. and I agree that piracy and online streaming etc. is also the reason

See the bottom of my post.

And if Britney had a single discount with Oops!...I Did It Again she probably would've broken 2 million. Imagine if Britney had an extra day of sales and digital sales to help frontload her album and had non-traditional retailers reporting and had all of her sales reported by Nielsen Soundscan

LOL If they didn't do it when digital sales have female first weeks frontloaded at their highest rates ever, what makes you think they would've done it in 2000 when Britney would've devoured them all for breakfast?

I can't at you calling math "spinning" the numbers Like why are you in a thread about sales if you're anti-math?

On top of that, the Taylor stans are the ones originally spinning the numbers by saying the digital market caused album sales to become weaker in their first weeks, which is not true in the slightest. Female first week album sales are considerably stronger now.

1. Oops I Did It Again (2000) - 1,319,000/14% of total Nielsen Soundscan album sales
2. Red (2013) - 1,280,000/32%
3. Born This Way (2011) - 1,108,000/46%
4. Speak Now (2010) - 1,047,000/25%
5. Feels Like Home (2004) - 1,000,000/22%

If album sales were so frontloaded for females in 2000, how come 3 of the five 1,000,000+ female debuts happened from 2010-2012?

Feel free to try again, though

Can you prove that the digital market is the actual cause for higher female first weeks, though? Because the way I see it, Britney was just the only female with the right fan base + star power at the time. You keep using BTW and Taylor as examples of current female digital first weeks, but they too just happen to have huge star power + fan bases (well Gaga doesn't even count because well... y'all know...). Taylor still has great physical sales.

Taylor would have easily snatched this record if Red had been released in a similar sales climate.

That is the point of the first week to final number ratio. If first week sales were declining with the rise of the digital market then they would show a smaller average than the first week sales from 2000. In reality, they show a considerable jump in the average.

For something even easier to see, only two solo female albums ever broke the 1,000,000 in a debut week sales mark before 2010, but during/after 2010 we've had three female albums break the 1,000,000 mark in a debut week.

Taylor wouldn't have made it as a solo female country artist around the time with the way Shania was stepping on every country solo female's neck and even she only pulled a little south of 900k AFTER releasing the best-selling studio album by a female artist of all-time.

No it isn't

It's her second worst album before Shitcus

Any other questions or are we settled that Oops!...I Did It Again has the most impressive first week sales in America ever?