he has a point, but he should stop being so pressed. i love oasis, but this is just pathetic.

I can only imagine Adele walking up to 8.6million houses in America, asking potential customers "Excuse Me Sir, do you have a moment to buy my new album 25?".

Aren't at least half of the sales are coming from physical though

But everyone who's not an idiot knows albums sold way more first weeks back then because now people can illegally download albums or just buy a few songs from the album instead of the whole thing so it makes her record that much more impressive. He's so dumb and angry

The excuses, especially when Adele is a huge physical albums' seller and sales were much bigger in the 90's.

This forum has a habit of yelling "PRESSED!!" at anyone with an opinion, but oh my god this man is pressed

Well so does every other artist, but none of them are doing it...

Omg he's actually pressed about the record

He's not pressed

And Oasis didn't have a full week, so they still win.

Love it that he is so MAD.

he's OBVIOUSLY pressed, lol. specifically about losing the record. why even talk about it otherwise?
the sales were much higher in the 90's. EVERYONE knows that, you should too if you've not been living under a rock for the last 15 years.

also, they needed 17 days to reach 1 million sales with BHN. Adele needed only 10 days. Oasis were much more frontloaded, ppl basically stopped buying the album after the first 3 days
Adele wins any way you want to twist it

Looks like you're an idiot then, because:

Thriller sold 166,000 copies in its first week, and went on to sell 32m copies.
http://www.mademan.com/mm/10-fastest...ums-world.html

Mariah's Daydream sold 224,000 copies in its first week, and went on to sell 10m.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daydre...ah_Carey_album)

In contrast, E=MC2 opened with 463,000 copies, and is only Platinum so far.

It was much harder to sell a lot of albums in the first week back then. Reason is that marketing and promotion wasn't as effective as it is now. It took people days, if not weeks, to realize that an album was even released. And yes, people had to drag their asses to the store to get a copy, instead of clicking a button. Do you think Beyonce could have dropped an album in the middle of the night with absolutely no fanfare in 1990, and 600,000 people would go buy it in the next 3 days?

On the other hand, as much as the Internet has boosted first-week number, it also shrinks the long-term sales of albums. It is a struggle these days to go multi-platinum, if not just platinum. BEYONCE sold 600,000 copies first week, but is only 3x platinum so far. Album sales have become incredibly front-loaded.

So yes, this Oasis guy had a point in saying that they did a more impressive job pulling off these numbers back then. But it doesn't take away from that fact that 25 has been nothing short of a miracle in terms of sales in 2015/2016. It's just that the breakdown of album sales looks very different nowadays than it did in their time.