Alicia doing 50k with 80+% of it being pure sales is not bad! Are y'all not aware her singles didn't even go top 100; considering that, her debut is impressive
I will say that Alicias sales are at least mostly honest album sales. Yet again we see other acts having highly placed albums because of a big hit single/s. Given that hit singles have their own chart to shine I think its extremely unfair they also have so much impact on the album chart too. And in the US thats a huge impact as we've seen all year with Bieber, Drake & Rihanna.
If they switched to the UK way of not counting the top two album tracks this would make a huge difference.
I will say that Alicias sales are at least mostly honest album sales. Yet again we see other acts having highly placed albums because of a big hit single/s. Given that hit singles have their own chart to shine I think its extremely unfair they also have so much impact on the album chart too. And in the US thats a huge impact as we've seen all year with Bieber, Drake & Rihanna.
If they switched to the UK way of not counting the top two album tracks this would make a huge difference.
I doubt that. Drake's album stayed in the Top ten for a long time in the UK too.