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Originally posted by MrPeanut
Not really, though. There were like 5-6 albums to open to 1m+ back in 2000 alone.
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And between late 2010 and last year, you had three albums to either sell over 1M copies (Taylor and Gaga, regardless of the situations) or come pretty damn close to it (Lil Wayne). I stand corrected that there were probably more 1M first week sellers back then, but 5-6 albums out of how many albums released that year? Not really that much, right? The market conditions were undeniably better then, but that doesn't change the fact that 1M+ first week sellers weren't ever really common, even in better market conditions.
Here's an old list of 1M+
one week sellers:
16. Lil Wayne
'Tha Carter III' (2008)
1,006,000 albums sold week of 6/28/08*
* All sales data courtesy of Nielsen Soundscan
15. Norah Jones
'Feels Like Home' (2004)
1,022,000 albums sold weel of 2/28/04
14. Taylor Swift
'Speak Now' (2010)
1,047,000 albums sold week of 11/13/10
13. Limp Bizkit
Chocolate Starfish & the Hot Dog Flavored Water' (2000)
1,055,000 albums sold week of 11/4/00
12. Whitney Houston
'The Bodyguard' Soundtrack (1993)
1,061,000 albums sold week of 1/9/93
11. Garth Brooks
'Double Live' (1998)
1,085,000 albums sold week of 12/5/98
10. Usher
'Confessions' (2004)
1,096,000 albums sold week of 4/10/04
9. Backstreet Boys
'Millennium' (1999)
1,134,000 albums sold week of 6/5/99
8. 50 Cent
'The Massacre' (2005)
1,141,000 albums sold week of 3/19/05
7. The Beatles
'1' (2001)
1,259,000 albums sold week of 1/6/01
6. Britney Spears
'Oops!...I Did It Again (2000)
1,319,000 albums sold week of 6/3/00
5. Eminem
'The Eminem Show' (2002)
1,322,000 albums sold week of 6/15/02
4. Backstreet Boys
'Black & Blue' (2000)
1,591,000 albums sold week of 12/9/00
3. Eminem
'The Marshal Mathers LP' (2000)
1,760,000 albums sold week of 6/10/00
2. N Sync
'Celebrity' (2001)
1,880,000 albums sold week of 8/11/01
1. 'N Sync
'No Strings Attached' (2000)
2,416,000 albums sold week of 4/8/00
*Doesn't include Gaga.
There were just five in 2000, and they came from mainly the teen/pop phenomenons.
