Madonna and Christina Aguilera notch the highest biggest debut 2008-2009 by a female artist in the USA. Britney Spears is one of the top-selling artists of the last decade and has sold over 63 million albums worldwide only managed to debut around 26k with “The Singles Collection”
aka Greatest Hits, in honor of her 10th anniversary with Jive Records.

1) Madonna-CELEBRATION 72k September 09 / Christina Aguilera- KEEPS GETTIN' BETTER 72k December 08
2)Celine Dion- MY LOVE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION 56k November 08
3)Janet Jackson NUMBER ONEs 37k November 09
4)Mariah Carey THE BALLADS 29k February 08
5)Britney Spears THE SINGLES COLLECTION 26k November 09
With illegal downloading and file sharing, may make it difficult to sell many copies of this GH album.
MARIAH CAREY (the highest selling female artist in the 90s) has blamed music industry bosses for failing to spot the internet download trend - accusing record labels of letting their artists down by allowing illegal file-sharing to become commonplace.
Carey is adamant label bosses should have realised the potential of the internet a long time before illicit song swapping became prevalent, and she's furious because the practise means many musicians lose out on precious royalty money.
The Hero hitmaker insists that although record labels are slowly beginning to grasp the potential of the internet, they will never be able to repair the damage done by illegal downloads, because many consumers now feel entitled to get their music for free.
She says, "Frickin..........(Read Mariah's fuming here)
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf...nloads_1122559
..just want honest, truthful and adult opinions.