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Originally posted by BtDecember
Is there any chance that Speak Now will outsell Recovery? I badly needed that second spot. Or I should pray now that LP5 must sell 5 Million.  |
If it does it will take a while (years) simply because Eminem has quite remarkable longevity in terms of sales. Recovery is selling quite well in catalog and so the gap between that and Speak Now widened. It is now almost 200k and that gap is big for albums that have reached a point where they are selling slowly. I am not expecting it to happen and if it does it will take years so don't hold your breath!
I am not sure that Eminem will go 4 Plat again though as his last album is only 2 Plat. This still makes MM2 one of the best selling albums in the US in recent years though.
Interesting to see whether Frozen Soundtrack could reach 4Plat. I think it might.
Taylor is less than 2 million or so units away from selling more albums in the US than any other new artist this century! She is currently third behind Linkin Park and Nickelback. To add context to this, the other acts at the top of this list debuted right in 2000 or 2001, so they had 5 or 6 more years to accrue sales than Taylor did AND the albums market was a lot bigger at that time meaning it was easier to sell more albums.
Don't read if you want it ruined. 
means, maybe he was talking about LP5, you know he's a songwriter, talented one focuses on MUSIC.