as if the "GP" even knows who that is

Those 1999-2001 sales though

1999

1° Backstreet Boys – Millenium – 26.000.000 (1999)
2° Santana – Supernatural – 26.000.000 (1999)
3° Britney Spears – ...Baby One More Time – 24.000.000 (1999)
4° Celine Dion – All the Way... A Decade Of Song – 21.800.000 (1999)
5° Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication – 15.500.000 (1999)
6° Ricky Martin – Ricky Martin – 15.000.000 (1999)
7° Dido – No Angel – 14.000.000 (1999)
8° Creed – Human Clay – 14.000.000 (1999)
9° Christina Aguilera – Christina Aguilera – 13.000.000 (1999)
10° Dixie Chicks – Fly – 12.000.000 (1999)
11° Destiny's Child – The Writing's on the Wall – 12.000.000 (1999)
12° TLC – FanMail – 11.500.000 (1999)
13° Dr.Dre – 2001 – 11.000.000 (1999)
14° Faith Hill – Breathe – 10.500.000 (1999)
15° Eminem – The Slim Shady LP – 10.000.000 (1999)

2000

1° The Beatles – 1 – 32.000.000 (2000)
2° Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP – 22.200.000 (2000)
3° Britney Spears – Oops!...I Did It Again – 20.500.000 (2000)
4° Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory – 19.000.000 (2000)
5° 'N Sync – No Strings Attached – 15.500.000 (2000)
6° Backstreet Boys – Black & Blue – 14.000.000 (2000)
7° Enya – A Day Without Rain – 14.000.000 (2000)
8° U2 – All That You Can't Leave Behind – 12.000.000 (2000)
9° Madonna – Music – 11.000.000 (2000)
10° Nelly – Country Grammar – 10.500.000 (2000)
11° Whitney Houston – Whitney: The Greatest Hits – 10.100.000 (2000)
12° Shaggy – Hot Shot – 10.000.000 (2000)
13° Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water – 10.000.000 (2000)
14° Coldplay – Parachutes – 9.500.000 (2000)
15° Bon Jovi – Crush – 8.500.000 (2000)

2001

1° Shakira – Laundry Service – 13.000.000 (2001)
2° Alicia Keys – Songs in A Minor – 12.500.000 (2001)
3° Pink – Missundaztood – 12.500.000 (2001)
4° Britney Spears – Britney – 11.000.000 (2001)
5° Destiny's Child – Survivor – 10.000.000 (2001)
6° Nickelback – Silver Side Up – 10.000.000 (2001)
7° Staind – Break the Cycle – 9.500.000 (2001)
8° Enrique Iglesias – Escape – 9.500.000 (2001)
9° Creed – Weathered – 8.500.000 (2001)
10° 'N Sync – Celebrity – 7.500.000 (2001)
11° Pink Floyd – Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd – 7.500.000 (2001)
12° Usher – 8701 – 7.500.000 (2001)
13° Jennifer Lopez – J. Lo – 7.500.000 (2001)
14° Robbie Williams – Swing When You're Winning – 7.500.000 (2001)
15° Backstreet Boys – The Hits: Chapter One – 7.000.000 (2001)

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We generally have one 1M opening a year these days. 2013 didn't have one, but JT was 32K copies away, which is still damn good, especially when it wasn't a Q4 release.

Any artist that was even moderately successful during that time will probably have outsold the current pop girls

Omg, Giselle

Taylor may not go to 1m+ this time around but it's almost as guaranteed as Britney never selling a million copies of anything ever again.

Are those WW numbers? I'm pretty sure this is only 8x platinum in the states...

It was indeed. No skippable tracks.

There's always a backlash to the backlash. The media were slamming her for everything in the beginning of 2013 but there's barely a negative article nowadays.

Sales for major artists are actually relatively even worse now than they were around 1990 (which had similar overall album sales). I suspect that's because smaller artists are now collectively contributing majorly to overall sales due to the recent rise of methods of producing and releasing music at low costs coupled with exposure through new media.

Who is Harry Styles?

Please don't talk about musical dullness here. You stan for Britney Spears. Wigs, outfits, scandals, lip-synced performances, dull performances, being overtly sexual and selling sex with little to no substance seem to be what defines iconic or risky to you. I know as Britney stan you're not used to well-written music that has a certain theme and artists who play instruments and perform little choreography and still manage to entertain, but these artists can be as iconic as any popstar. And believe me, by the end of her career, Taylor would have left much more impact on music than Britney.

Is that Tinashae
PLEASE CALVIN PLEASE

Wooo Lord THE MELTDOWNS if there's a Madonna/Gaga collab

Whether she writes about their "relationship" or not, people(tweens) are going to be curious as to what she's going to say about him.

Pretty sure her album was #1 during the Harry Styles relationship and after the it ended (during the backlash). Pretty she had the highest grossing tour in North America in 2013 during the Harry Styles back lash. Pretty sure IKYWT was being a hit during the Harry Styles backlash + the Golden Globe mess+ the country backlash.

Calvin blessing Tinashe with a breakthrough pop hit. Poor Rita