She still managed to sell well after holiday sales. It's not like she just hadn't released the best selling Pop album of 2010/2011 9 months ago. UK/international fans are faithful and WFL & TTT would've only built up the hype.Especially in the US. She could've waited or at least till the first week of January.
no, that wouldnt have made sense. money is more important than a #1 album