Exactly.

The Fame would be Diamond. The Fame Monster would be 2x or 3x Platinum. The Remix would be Gold, maybe Platinum.

It's not correct to simply double an album's sales. We have to factor in that much of those album sales came from old records being released in CD format for the first time. Also, once a flop, always a flop. There aren't twice as many suckers buying the ****** albums; there are fewer people buying the big hits. If you look at the drop from the top-selling album of 2000 to now, it goes from over 10 million to about 3 million. That's a 70% drop!

Notice the article refers to 2008 sales. I'm sure the decline is well past 60 percent now.

Erm...you do realize that the albums came out in different years, right? You can't just make the same percentage adjustment for all three albums.

Circus would have sold 1 million copies in its first week.

obviously its decreasing... no one buys CDs anymore and no one buys albums on iTunes.... everyone just illegally downloads them... Or uses that Youtube to MP3 converter.

goodies would have sold 10million

yes

It's to be expected.

and the fame won't sell more in 2000. I just can't at this delusion.

Oops would have sold 3 million copies in its first week if it were released in 1980.....

loose could sell like 16m world-wilde. :O

THIS.

however, there is still music quality but that doesn't get any attention, this is doomed..

Today I was watching Vh1 Pop top 10 and 7 of those 10 were stupid generic party songs with the same beats the other 3 were Just The Way You Are, Teenage Dream and Love The Way You Lie

I do this
But I buy some albums that I really love

This

and 54.6 is the average. meaning, our faves is affected by a larger percentage

Taylor fearless would be 12 platinum her debut would be 10 platinum deadddd

but albums sales hadn't fallen by 50 percent in 2003.



half the albums people are adjusting sales for weren't released this year, they have only declined 53% as of this year, in 2009 i( just a guess ) it could of been like 48% and in 2008 maybe 43% and so on.

Nah, the music market in 1980 was very similar to the market now, very singles driven. The mega-selling albums didn't really come until after Thriller. 2000-2001 was the best time for album sales according to Soundscan.

I can't say I feel sorry for industry execs. They largely brought this upon themselves.