[brianc33616]

I wonder if Hello will lose sales on both ends -- from those pre-ordering the album when buying the song AND from the CMA effect upon 25's release? Does BB subtract for both the former AND latter? Hello may still sell strongly enough on its own to negate much of both effects. Also, if Hello can sell 1.272 million downloads this week Adele will double Flo-Rida's record he set with Right Round.

[brianc33616]

Originally posted by RobynYoBank

U.S. Digital

Fastest to 1M: Right Round (2 weeks)
Fastest to 2M: Roar/Right Round (5 weeks)
Fastest to 3M: Roar (9 weeks)
Fastest to 4M: Roar (17 weeks)
Fastest to 5M:
Fastest to 6M:
Fastest to 7M: Thrift Shop (? weeks)
Fastest to 8M: Rolling In The Deep (? weeks)

U.S. Physical

Fastest to 1M: Can't Buy Me Love, Beatles (1 day)
Fastest to 2M: Candle In The Wind, Elton John (1 week)
Fastest to 3M: Candle In The Wind, Elton John (1 week)
Fastest to 4M: Candle In The Wind, Elton John (2 weeks)
Fastest to 5M: Candle In The Wind, Elton John (? weeks)
Fastest to 6M: Candle In The Wind, Elton John (? weeks)
Fastest to 7M: Candle In The Wind, Elton John (? weeks)
Fastest to 8M: Candle In The Wind, Elton John (? weeks)

EDITED: Uptown Funk reached 5 million in 20 weeks, and I thought it reached 4 million in 15 or 16 weeks (faster than Roar).. Blurred Lines hit 6 million in 29 weeks (UF was less than 15 k short and had to wait 30 weeks). Somebody That I Used To Know hit 7 million in 56 weeks. Did Thrift Shop beat that?

For physical sales at Soundscan tracking stores, CITW sold 2 million in its 1st day, then hit 5 million in its week 3, 6 million in week 4/5, 7 million in week 6/7/8, and 8 million in week 12. CITW 97 holds the Top 6 selling weeks for physical singles. The song reached 11 million copies because the single sold 2 million copies in non-Soundscan tracking outlets.

Whitney Houston occupies physical sales weeks #7 & 8 with I Will Always Love You (630 k & 580 k I think). Those two weeks Whitney sold all those copies of IWALY, The Bodyguard Soundtrack sold just over 1 million and around 850,000. The "lesser" of the two weeks for both came the week before Christmas in 1992, which set records for both the Hot 100 and BB 200, and then Whitney broke both records again Christmas Week 1992. That goes to show you how hot that song was, and she had three solo songs in the Top 11 for 2 straight weeks too. Her records were of course obliterated by CITW 97, but still the 4.6 million physical singles is the second most in the Soundscan Era.

[Temporal]

Originally posted by Almighty Gaga

WW Albums:
3 +1 Adele - 21

#1 without pre-orders

[FAN]

So Born This Way had its all powerful first 10 days that everyone brags about but Roar not only outsold it but got to 2M, 3M & 4M quicker? iconic

[RobynYoBank]

Originally posted by FAN

So Born This Way had its all powerful first 10 days that everyone brags about but Roar not only outsold it but got to 2M, 3M & 4M quicker? iconic

I think Born This Way and Roar both reached 2M in the same number of weeks, but I was too lazy to confirm. But yeah, Roar beat it to all of the others. It's still impressive honestly - Born This Way was obviously the biggest single release of the century until Hello, despite the fact that apparently everyone hates it and it celebrates gays and trans people. It's also a very sonically dark song, in my opinion. Quite the contrast with the bright, universal, inoffensive Roar.

[Rentboy]

2. Justin Bieber - Sorry 0.201
3. Sam Smith - Writing's on the Wall 0.252

Sam Bond closing in on Biebers rear. No floppage. Sam all green updates, Bieber all red.

UK itunes.

[Kkamjong]

Originally posted by RobynYoBank

I think Born This Way and Roar both reached 2M in the same number of weeks, but I was too lazy to confirm. But yeah, Roar beat it to all of the others. It's still impressive honestly - Born This Way was obviously the biggest single release of the century until Hello, despite the fact that apparently everyone hates it and it celebrates gays and trans people. It's also a very sonically dark song, in my opinion. Quite the contrast with the bright, universal, inoffensive Roar.

[brianc33616]

Originally posted by RobynYoBank

I think Born This Way and Roar both reached 2M in the same number of weeks, but I was too lazy to confirm. But yeah, Roar beat it to all of the others. It's still impressive honestly - Born This Way was obviously the biggest single release of the century until Hello, despite the fact that apparently everyone hates it and it celebrates gays and trans people. It's also a very sonically dark song, in my opinion. Quite the contrast with the bright, universal, inoffensive Roar.

BTW also sold around 100,000 physical singles too, which is rarity this decade.

[Rentboy]

I thought Born this way celebrated one of Madonnas big hits?

Like a tribute thing.

[RobynYoBank]

Originally posted by Kkamjong

?

It sold 800K copies in the U.S. in its first seven days of release. It topped every iTunes market in the world. It debuted at #1 in virtually every country in the world where it had a full week of sales. It debuted at #1 in the U.S. with three days of sales. Its AUDIO-only video broke the single day YouTube view record and was the fastest video to 100M views at the time.

Its opening days were a very close (and certainly the only recent) parallel to Hello, honestly.

[fridayteenage]

Well BTW was sub-200k after just 3.5 weeks, so on the frontloaded side.

[Delilah.]

Originally posted by Almighty Gaga

WW Albums:
3 +1 Adele - 21

#1 without pre-orders

[iamvladd]

Today's the last day in the tracking week, here we come 1M+.

[Mattyboy]

Off topic question: How much did Born This Way sell in its first 7 days of release?

Glad to see Adele nearly doubling the record.

[RobynYoBank]

Originally posted by Mattyboy

Off topic question: How much did Born This Way sell in its first 7 days of release?

Glad to see Adele nearly doubling the record.

Over 800,000 copies.

Its first tracking week was 3 days. It sold 957,000 copies in its first 10 days of release, which was two tracking weeks.

[fridayteenage]

I guess at least Gaga stans can't use "But Born this Way would have the record if it had a full tracking week" anymore.

[shelven]

14. Alessia Cara - Here

Is this the highest it's ever been? Get that fall smash, Alessia

[LostInStereo100]

Happy for that Here song. It's going to be lingering around for a long time and it already has too. Christmas number one?

[Jeiboy]

Originally posted by LostInStereo100

Happy for that Here song. It's going to be lingering around for a long time and it already has too. Christmas number one?

Not when Adele is around.

[Vagabond]

Originally posted by shelven

14. Alessia Cara - Here

Is this the highest it's ever been? Get that fall smash, Alessia