Hell ****ing no.

200k now = around 350 before

Me too, I never liked those.

YASSSSSS

No, only teenage girls buy her music.

LOL! Yeah, 6 million teenage girls ran out an bought the girl's last album. Give me a break! If the album is exploding on Amazon, then that means adults, whether for their kid or themselves, are buying it. Amazon skews much older than iTunes. My point still stands.

No. Album sales declined 55% between 2000 and 2009 and they're down another 12% this year from 2009.

200k now = 500k before.

Yeah, I totally imagine a 20 years old guy buying her album, or even my mom.

Maybe older girls, maybe.

Well, imagine. 5-6 million teenage girls aren't buying Taylor's albums.

So basically if we're using 500K as an example...

(500 x 0.454) = 227K

(227 X 0.88) = 200K

pablo's stats are exactly correct. 200K now = 500K before.

If sales were like they were in 2000 now, TD would've opened with 480K+.

And possibly even higher. Many of the sales we're seeing right now for "California Gurls" and "Teenage Dream" (the song) would have wound up being album sales had things stayed the same from 2000. By that logic, I think The Fame would have gone diamond!

Anybody has any doubt that Lady Gaga would have sold like 10 million albums if sales were like in 2000?

I think it's pretty obvious.

If instead of buying only the digital singles like Just Dance, PokerFace and Bad Romance people would have bought the entire album this would be like 10 millions.

without internet lady gaga wouldn't have been so famous.. so... i don't care about 2000

^Yeah, she could only have become famous in this era.

I'm not sure about that, but the Internet has played an important role in GaGa's success (and many other artists as well), so you may have a point.

Why has there not been a full 200 in over a month?

To add on to my previous post, love100 brought up a good point. I think we can translate today's sales into 2000 sales to get a grips of how well each artist is selling despite the climate. However, artists are marketed differently today, so it's hard to say whether an artist would be selling well if it was 2000, especially since the trend is different. The type of music GaGa is making, for example, was not huge in 2000. The Backstreet Boys would probably be selling close to nothing if they were musicians of today.

I'm sorry, but you're wrong.

In part, CD sales have declined so much because at its peak, people were updating their collections with old albums that they only had in record form. They don't need to do that anymore.

The same thing is happening with DVD sales right now. Why do you think the studios introduced Blu-ray?

Does anyone know where Animal is on the iTunes album chart and amazon?