The Immaculate Collection is the first greatest hits album by American singer Madonna released on November 9, 1990.
Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales data for Nielsen on March 1, 1991.
Soundscan: 5,777,000, "The Immaculate Collection" (1990)
This means TIC sold/shipped at least 4.3 million copies in the US in just under 4 months. (I think).
Not sure about that.
RIAA has the album at 4x platinum within 3 years.
the album was released November 1990 and was certified 2x by January 1991, 3x platinum by December 1991 and 4x platinum September 1993.
So that would account for 2M of the albums if March 1991 was the beginning of soundscan.
So either 2.3M are music club sales or maybe the album met the requirements to be certified twice.
I thought the album needed to be at least 90 or 100 minutes to be double certified even if not a double disc cd though.
Imagine she did lose all of her shipments but had still sold more albums. The true kii.
Mariah's sold 55 million albums in Soundscan era and Madonna has sold 28 million. If they made certifications based on sales, Madonna would over half of her certifications and Mariah would only lose a few million.
(I think).
