Originally posted by Duca

Why are you acting like it's not different? Have you not seen the sales of #1 albums released around the same time? Here are #1 albums of last five years released around the same time:

March 25, 2006 Reality Check Juvenile 174,000
March 31, 2007 Luvanmusiq Musiq Soulchild 149,000
March 29, 2008 Trilla Rick Ross 198,000
March 28, 2009 All I Ever Wanted Kelly Clarkson 255,000
March 27, 2010 Battle of the Sexes Ludacris 137,000
March 29, 2011 Femme Fatale Britney Spears 279,000

Originally posted by KRL

here are sales at the end of may:

may 26, 2007 - michael buble - 145,000
may 31, 2008 - Death Cab for Cutie - 144,000
may 28, 2009 - green day - 215,000
may 29, 2010 - justin bieber - 60,000

if anything, they are even lower.

now sales for early august:

august 4, 2007 - now - 223,000
august 2, 2008 - nas - 187,078
august 1, 2009 - daughtry - 269,000
august 7, 2010 - eminem - 187,000

not different from march sales either so my point stays

+even with sales being higher on holiday season and lower in january, it is only a nice feat, sales still depend on the artist and the album. kesha releasing cannibal on christmas and adele putting out her album in february are good examples

Originally posted by Duca

It doesn't change the fact that they're also low in March. In addition, Britney did no promotion whatsoever prior to the album release week. There weren't any public appearances as usual too.

Originally posted by MrDeeds

In BET maybe

Originally posted by Shame♥

All urban sounding songs with black artists featured on them.

Originally posted by Marc.

Yes, but will her 7th ?

Originally posted by CaptainMusic

When was this decided?

Originally posted by Rîh.røx.

What's weird to me is that a lot of the Beyonce stans think Beyonces a huge album seller.
No.

Alicia KEYS is an album seller. She can have no significant hits and push 400k first week.

Beyonce had 6 singles with Sasha Fierce and 1 re-release single, and ALWAYS has HUGE Urban AND Pop support, and with B'Day and Sasha Fierce she's had MORE that one special release. Sasha Fierce had a regular, a 2009 deluxe and a platinum edition and a HUGE #1 single and sold 2.8 mill. B'Day had 4 singles and one re-release single and had Irreplaceable which was HUGE. B'Day had the regular, and the re-release AND the video anthology and sold 3 million. And remember Beyonce has always had HUGE Urban, along with Pop support (unlike Britney, who someone compared her to in this thread).

While I know some will come at me since I'm a Rihanna stan, but Rihanna only had Good Girl Gone Bad and its reloaded edition. The remixes were a separate album and did nothing for GGGB.

Beyonce isnt really a huge album seller when you take everything I said into account, so I think this album, the way its headed so far is looking like a Platinum seller, and 1.7 mill with its re-release (if its successful enough to re-release) and either 250-300k first week.

Originally posted by Rîh.røx.

How can you even compare Alicia to Beyonce? Alicia clearly is the albums seller and Beyonce is the singles artist.

The difference is Alicia doesnt always have Pop support, so she usually only has one group supporting her. And Beyonce has many #1's and always Pop and Urban support so she should be selling more than Alicia anyway.

And Alicia is the #1 R&B Artist of the Decade on Billboard.

Originally posted by Rîh.røx.

What's weird to me is that a lot of the Beyonce stans think Beyonces a huge album seller.
No.

Alicia KEYS is an album seller. She can have no significant hits and push 400k first week.

Beyonce had 6 singles with Sasha Fierce and 1 re-release single, and ALWAYS has HUGE Urban AND Pop support, and with B'Day and Sasha Fierce she's had MORE that one special release. Sasha Fierce had a regular, a 2009 deluxe and a platinum edition and a HUGE #1 single and sold 2.8 mill. B'Day had 4 singles and one re-release single and had Irreplaceable which was HUGE. B'Day had the regular, and the re-release AND the video anthology and sold 3 million. And remember Beyonce has always had HUGE Urban, along with Pop support (unlike Britney, who someone compared her to in this thread).

While I know some will come at me since I'm a Rihanna stan, but Rihanna only had Good Girl Gone Bad and its reloaded edition. The remixes were a separate album and did nothing for GGGB.

Beyonce isnt really a huge album seller when you take everything I said into account, so I think this album, the way its headed so far is looking like a Platinum seller, and 1.7 mill with its re-release (if its successful enough to re-release) and either 250-300k first week.