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Originally posted by Phoenix83
Surprised that this happened so soon.
After all the album has sold 4.3m to consumers in the UK, and 16x platinum means that 4.8m copies have been shipped. So they are expecting another 500k to be sold fairly quickly - which would imply something else to boost her sales over the coming months. Olympics?
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I think if there's ever a situation where an album is guaranteed to sell X amount, regardless of a time-frame, it always makes sense to just make a large batch in one go, simple for the economies of scale. Whether it takes 1 year or 5 years, those 500,000 surplus copies WILL sell. Don't think anyone would doubt that.