BJ - 500 K
Unapologetic - 3.5 mil
BEYONCE - 3.3 mil
TTAL - 6 mil
Born To Die - 5 mil
Red - 6 mil
UJ - 7 mil
20/20 - 5 mil
Prism - 3 mil
ARTPOP - 1.8 mil
Average is near 4 million (kept all the releases from these two years)
You have to measure sales with Track Equivalent Albums nowadays, just sales isn't the measure of success the industry uses anymore. Which is why many certification plaques refer to TEA now (like the 7m plaque for The Truth About Love, if you look closely at the bottom it says "Track Equivalent Albums").
Every pop star must, at some point, confront career mortality. For some, the end comes suddenly and without warning, while others experience a slow, bewildering decline into mediocrity. After two decades of nearly uninterrupted chart dominance, one figures that Mariah Carey has spent some of the last year dwelling on the end of her reign. ............................
Yet, despite the circumstances, I Am Mariah is not an album that sounds desperate. It makes an argument for Mariah letting pop stardom come as it does— or doesn't—and the record seemingly acknowledges her increasingly murky future by looking back at loves and sounds of the past. She is not Jennifer Lopez or Madonna, leaving smudged fingerprints on the zeitgeist; I Am Mariah does not bend toward the whims of the radio. The album sounds exactly, defiantly like Mariah, acknowledging her place in the pop ecosystem both implicitly and explicitly without chomping at the bit.
BJ - 500 K
Unapologetic - 3.5 mil
BEYONCE - 3.3 mil
TTAL - 6 mil
Born To Die - 5 mil
Red - 6 mil
UJ - 7 mil
20/20 - 5 mil
Prism - 3 mil
ARTPOP - 1.8 mil
Average is near 4 million (kept all the releases from these two years)
Fine anything below 4 mil is flop.
I don't do shades of gray people. I need hard and fast lines.
You have to measure sales with Track Equivalent Albums nowadays, just sales isn't the measure of success the industry uses anymore. Which is why many certification plaques refer to TEA now (like the 7m plaque for The Truth About Love, if you look closely at the bottom it says "Track Equivalent Albums").
Take out Bruno and JT.
