Is Flo Rida's 1st week record sealed for eternity?
The record: Most digital one week sales in the U.S. (iTunes)
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The first single, "Right Round" featuring Ke$ha, and was released for airplay in January 2009. "Right Round" jumped from number 58 to the top spot in one week in late February. The song broke a record for the most digital one week sales in the U.S., with 636,000, beating the previous record he had set himself with "Low"
A record he currently holds for 6 years and counting....
Lady Gaga couldve tried if the release was in full charting week, but thus unluckily & untimely failed...given if it was full week, it couldve easily amassed 800k+ sales for first week.
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"Born This Way" became the nineteenth song to debut at number one on the Hot 100, and the 1000th number one single in the chart's history. The song sold 448,000 digital downloads in three days , the most downloads in a first week by a female artist, beating the previous record held by Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me"
Taylor Swift also tried but shortly failed.....
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"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" debuted atop the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart, selling 623,000 digital copies in the week ending September 1, 2012. It is Swift's fourth number one on that chart. It set the record for the biggest digital sales week ever for a song by a female artist, surpassing the record held by Kesha's "Tik Tok", which sold 610,000 digital copies in its largest week. It also surpassed Lady Gaga's song "Born This Way" to become the song with the highest first-week digital sales for a female act. I[I]t is also the second largest figure ever overall. Only Flo Rida's "Right Round" has sold more in a week, when it debuted at number one with 636,000 on the Digital Songs chart dated February 28, 2009.
Now with Spotify & the newly launched Apple Music Streaming killing sales inevitably as we are drawing to the peaks of the Streaming age in 2015, does Flo Rida have this record on locked & sealed for eternity???