Hmm. I decided to do a little bit of UK sales analysis based on some numbers.
Right, I wanted to use the 94k figure to try and predict the final total, but the first-day percentage of overall sales varies. So I figured, Born This Way about as anticipated as an average of 21 and I Dreamed a Dream.
21
First day
69k First week
208k % first day of week
33.2%
I Dreamed a Dream
First day
134k First week
411k % first day of week
32.6%
Average
33.2 + 32.6 = 32.9%
Born This Way
First day
94k First week
94k / 32.9 * 100 = 286k
By way of a disclaimer, can I emphasise that these are not predictions, rather estimations using similarly-hyped album releases; mathematical experiments. We'll see how accurate such experiments are at the end of the week
