Their impressive now, but it's dumb to assume she would of sold X (e.g 25m) if it was in 1999.
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I dunno

she will.

I'm not saying their not. But their was alot of other big AC based artist that were big at the time. Celine Dion, Whitney, Mariah ect. Her sales are amazing now, but maybe she wouldn't of smashed in 90's and sold the equivlent amount sales wise of her figuers atm,.

That's not what he was saying tho. He said if the sales climate was the same as a decade or so ago, her sales would probably be even bigger. Britney's era wasn't highly affected by illegal downloading or digital.

Well yes, if she was also relatively as successful as she is now.

Why are you even adding a popularity variable into the discussion? The only factor that is proven is that sales across the board have declined, regardless of genre.

wut?

I guess what I'm trying to say is that saying "had adele released 21 in an era like 2000 given the record sales she would easily have topped 20+ " is completely valid because it would be similar to adjusting for inflation since record sales have declined over time across the board.

What you said about there being a different industry and she may have flopped in 2000 because there were different stars seems like a stretched hypothetical.

It's time for that record to be broken. Props to Brit, but it's Adele's turn now.

I didn't even now she held this record

I'd be surprised if it doesn't tbh.