Why is the biggest flop released by a pop star still Top 100 in worldwide iTunes sales, almost two years after the album was released?

Other albums released the same year:

#NA - Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
#NA - Yours Truly - Ariana Grande
#NA - Yeezus - Kanye West
#NA - Magna Carta & Holy Grail - Jay-Z
#NA - Nothing Was The Same - Drake
#NA - Britney Jean - Britney Spears

#166 (-31) - Pure Heroine - Lorde - 1210 points (-199)
#141 (+6) - The Marshall Matters LP2 - Eminem - 1354 points (+44)
#100 (+1) - ARTPOP - Lady Gaga - 1835 points (+25)
#65 (-4) - Prism - Katy Perry - 2474 points (-174)
#39 (-3) - Midnight Memories - One Direction - 3705 points (-163)
#27 (+1) - BEYONCE - Beyonce - 4425 points (-85)

Why is it one of the few remaining albums of 2013 to still chart in numerous iTunes charts all over the world despite being a commercial catastrophe? Discus

Because it only flopped on ATRL.net, the GP loved ha!

Her stans from Central Asia are keeping it on the global charts.

album of the millennium

Weren't some pop albums discounted last week?

Because it has more points than the album at 101

I'm only surprised to see it over Eminem and Lorde on that list, tbh.

Because it was a success

Selling those extra copies

it didn't flop. 2,300,000 copies isn't flopping!

Wait is seriously is? woah

I really did not expect it to be higher than Pure Heroine and MMLP2 but slay a bit

So local and so frontloaded

queen of mongolia

Hip-hop albums typically have frontloaded sales since all the hardcore fans buy them in the first few weeks.

Britney Jean and Yours Truly were less successful and had less successful singles than Artpop.

There's not really an explanation for Bangerz, though...

Album of The Centuary

Definitely the biggest pop release of 2013

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Because it's iconic

queen of the WORLD

It's the album of the century, that's why.