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Originally posted by MrPeanut
Nobody is suggesting COO was anything less than a sales blockbuster and one of the biggest albums of its time... on the other hand 21 is bar none (and by far) the biggest album of its time.
Calling it a wash based on some "lotsa sales is a lotta sales" notion while discounting the significance of a measure that provides relative context for the sales seems misguided.
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derpI guess I just don't buy that 21 was that strongly affected by the overall market decline. For starters, the main demographic she targets skews at least a bit older than most mainstream-leaning albums, and that demographic is far more likely to purchase an album than, say, the demo for a Katy Perry album, among which streaming and illegal downloading are far more popular. Look at Barbra Streisand, who's well beyond her peak and largely outside of the spotlight, who still managed to outsell most mainstream pop acts' latest albums, presumably because she still caters to an older crowd (whereas contemporaries like Madonna and Cher don't and now don't sell as well)
I've also found (and I realize this is completely anecdotal and doesn't actually mean anything) that for whatever reason even people I know who usually illegally download their music still went ahead and purchased 21, for whatever reason. Adele's sales just seem like a bit of an anomaly to me, like she somehow managed to bypass the overall market trend.
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