From the interview with Capitol Music Group Chairman/CEO Steve Barnett:
Having met your goals for the first year, what are your goals for the second, and what have you accomplished so far?
While building the artist roster, revitalizing our company and beginning the process of breaking artists, we needed to pay very close attention to what was right in front of us. Katy Perry’s Prism was obviously a very crucial album for us, and here we are now really into our third phase of the record—
we’re at 6 million TEAs worldwide. Greg Thompson and his team have done a brilliant job domestically, and Robbie McIntosh in international and the affiliates around the world have done a brilliant job as well. So that was a vital record, there was absolutely no margin of error that we could allow on that record, and I feel really good where we are, both in our relationship with Katy and her management team, but also the success of the record so far.
US TEA:
http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi
At least now we know that LiveNation didn't lie. They just used TEA(Track Equivalent Albums) in their reports
