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Stats: Average Sales for #1 Albums by Year.
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Originally posted by Popboi.
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Originally posted by Guernica
ummm it is? Explain how it isn't?
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Originally posted by Timber
The average debut is half of what it was in the 2000s.
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Female debuts over 1,000,000 before the digital age (1945-2003):
1. 1998 - Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again - 1,319,000
Female debuts over 1,000,000 after the start of the digital age (2003-2013):
1. 2004 - Norah Jones - Feels Like Home - 1,000,000
2. 2010 - Taylor Swift - Speak Now - 1,047,000
3. 2011 - Lady Gaga - Born This Way - 1,108,000
4. 2012 - Taylor Swift - Red - 1,210,000
Surprise! Digital sales have frontloaded album sales. This shouldn't be a surprise when this era also holds multiple records for biggest drops from #1.
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can someone count this years debuts and averaging them by weeks that already happen? i'm interested how low will be this year
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0-Beyoncé 310,000 (2013 or 2014 ?)
1-Frozen 165,000
2-Frozen 86,000
3-Bruce Springsteen 99,000
4-Frozen 93,000
5-Frozen 94,000
6-NOW 49 98,000
7-Eric Church 288,000
8-Frozen 89,000
9-ScHoolboy Q 139,000
10-Rick Ross 179,000
11-Frozen 99,000
12-Frozen 202,000
13Frozen 161,000
14-Frozen 149,000
15-Frozen 133,000
16-Frozen 259,000
17-Frozen 115,000
18-Frozen 106,000
19-NOW 50 153,000
20-The Black Keys 164,000
21-Coldplay 383,000
22-Coldplay 83,000
23-Miranda Lambert 179,000
24-Jack White 138,000
25-Lana Del Rey 182,000
26-Ed Sheeran 210,000
27-Trey Songz 105,000
28-Sia 52,000
29-Weird Al 104,000
30-5SOS 253,000 *HITS number*
Average #1 : 152,000
Average #1 including Beyonce : 157,000
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Member Since: 3/31/2012
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Originally posted by Eternium
Yet the Taylor stans still think it's harder now to debut with 1,000,000+ copies |
You are not making sense 
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Originally posted by Eternium
Female debuts over 1,000,000 before the digital age (1945-2003):
1. 1998 - Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again - 1,319,000
Female debuts over 1,000,000 after the start of the digital age (2003-2013):
1. 2004 - Norah Jones - Feels Like Home - 1,000,000
2. 2010 - Taylor Swift - Speak Now - 1,047,000
3. 2011 - Lady Gaga - Born This Way - 1,108,000
4. 2012 - Taylor Swift - Red - 1,210,000
Surprise! Digital sales have frontloaded album sales. This shouldn't be a surprise when this era also holds multiple records for biggest drops from #1. |
Nnnn only 3 females did it tho and one needed a MASSIVE discount to do it  It's still hard to debut with a million copies
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Originally posted by Eternium
Yet the Taylor stans still think it's harder now to debut with 1,000,000+ copies |
2000 503,999
2010 245,649
But...504k is more than twice 246k, so it is harder to be #1 with big #s. But I guess some people just like to throw bile and filth.
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Not bad, but this year is gonna look a mess 
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Napster went mainstream about 2000, right?
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Originally posted by Guernica
Album sales don't actually look that bad here, I mean the average number one in 2013 is still higher then the average number one in 1992  |
Debuts weren't big then, rather major albums would push big numbers in their run. Like ADELE performed.
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
Debuts weren't big then, rather major albums would push big numbers in their run. Like ADELE performed.
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No, not like Adele did. 350k first week @ #1 in 2011 isn't like what artists with big albums in the long-run were doing first week back then, or before then for that matter. Many big albums debuted outside the top 10 but eventually climbed to the top. Adele debuted at the top with pretty impressive figures and just maintained week after week.
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More like Frozen's run except either it lasted longer or had bigger sales for most of the the weeks.
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I'm honestly expecting an average of no more than 175K this year
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It'll be 75K this year 
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Thank you for this. This is great.
Do you know the average for 2014 so far by any chance? I'm sure it's abysmal lol.
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2014 AVERAGE :
Average #1 : 152,000
Average #1 including Beyonce : 157,000
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Originally posted by Idontcareaboutyou
0-Beyoncé 310,000 (2013 or 2014 ?)
1-Frozen 165,000
2-Frozen 86,000
3-Bruce Springsteen 99,000
4-Frozen 93,000
5-Frozen 94,000
6-NOW 49 98,000
7-Eric Church 288,000
8-Frozen 89,000
9-ScHoolboy Q 139,000
10-Rick Ross 179,000
11-Frozen 99,000
12-Frozen 202,000
13Frozen 161,000
14-Frozen 149,000
15-Frozen 133,000
16-Frozen 259,000
17-Frozen 115,000
18-Frozen 106,000
19-NOW 50 153,000
20-The Black Keys 164,000
21-Coldplay 383,000
22-Coldplay 83,000
23-Miranda Lambert 179,000
24-Jack White 138,000
25-Lana Del Rey 182,000
26-Ed Sheeran 210,000
27-Trey Songz 105,000
28-Sia 52,000
29-Weird Al 104,000
30-5SOS 253,000 *HITS number*
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Originally posted by MusicTalker
Thank you for this. This is great.
Do you know the average for 2014 so far by any chance? I'm sure it's abysmal lol.
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Originally posted by Idontcareaboutyou
2014 AVERAGE :
Average #1 : 152,000
Average #1 including Beyonce : 157,000
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I chose not to do 2014's 'cus all years this decade were ABYSMAL until the Holidays had huge weeks that bumped the average greatly.
I'm sure Adele, Taylor, etc might bump 2014's to over 200k.
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Frozen and Coldplay kept the average above 100k it seems
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
No, not like Adele did. 350k first week @ #1 in 2011 isn't like what artists with big albums in the long-run were doing first week back then, or before then for that matter. Many big albums debuted outside the top 10 but eventually climbed to the top. Adele debuted at the top with pretty impressive figures and just maintained week after week.
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I'm more than aware. I said in their run, as in overall. As in modest debut then later having big pushes thanks to hits, exposure etc. Which is why you see a lot of low debuts but huge total sales for albums back then.
I was more speaking about how she went higher during Xmas/Grammys. And times like that fueling larger sales moment.
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Originally posted by Eagle7
Napster went mainstream about 2000, right?
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I'm not 100% sure, since we didn't have the Internet in our house back then, but I think Napster was already big in the late 90's..
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