That is adjusting for pure consumption. There are no imaginary multipliers or any "what-ifs" involved. The market isn't even the same from week-to-week, let alone year-to-year. Just in 2015, we've had a WW #1 with only 280k sold and one with 5.8M sold. Why would we assume those #1s are equal? I don't see how you can assume that 21 would have sold 27M copies WW in just the U.S. in one year when fewer people than that have consumed it from 2011 to 2015 in the U.S.
Yes adjusting makes more sense when comparing bigger albums from such different time periods. Hence why Billboard did it when comparing albums from different time periods, hence why Kworb uses it, hence why other industries (movie industry) uses adjusting.
Comparing album equivalents makes sense for albums released in the same time period. Comparing pure+TEA+SEA with an album from 2014 and an album from 2012 would make sense. Both same time periods, climate hasn't changed drastically, etc.
But not comparing sales to albums from 1999 and 2014. What kinda mess.
By your logic an album that sold 10M and had 0 in TEA in 1999, is bigger than album in 2015 that had sold 9.9M and had 0 TEA despite one period having 3x lower overall sales.
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Album sales reached their historical peak in 2000, falling 60.6 percent through last year. Although digital track sales have partially filled that void, total sales have fallen sharply. No Strings Attached was released when total music sales (albums plus digital tracks) were about 2.5 times higher than today.
Billboard themselves confirmed even album equivalents were still almost triple larger then compared to today, so no, it makes no sense to compare even album equivalents.
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Another way to compare today's apples to yesterday's oranges is by adjusting for "inflation." Everything from food prices to movie revenues are regularly adjusted for shifting currency values -- for example, $100 in 1980 would go as far as $290 would today.
I'm in Miami Bitch 1x platinum
Shots 2x platinum
Party Rock Anthem 15x platinum
Champagne Showers 3x platinum
Sexy and I Know It 12x platinum
Sorry for Party Rocking 2x platinum
Gettin' Over You 2x platinum
Album sales reached their historical peak in 2000, falling 60.6 percent through last year. Although digital track sales have partially filled that void, total sales have fallen sharply. No Strings Attached was released when total music sales (albums plus digital tracks) were about 2.5 times higher than today.
I mean, Billboard confirmed even WITH track equivalents, sales are still almost triple lower, so why exactly is he still comparing with even album equivalents?
According to him, an album that sold 10M when 758M albums were sold overall, is bigger than an album that sold 9.9M when 257M albums were sold overall.
"21" is over 27M in US alone if you did album equivalents to 2000 and people tried to really say Shania / Britney / etc had a bigger peak.
I cannot believe this bitch is about to possibly go Diamond AGAIN tho
Which is difficult to get not everyone has that?
Can't wait for her to fulfill the seven deadly slays of dem other girls
Madonna
Shania
Mariah
Whitney
britney
Celine
soon to be adele.
Where's the excuse for the other girls when this happens
Of course Myth X is expendable on that show. I mean, she hasn't been able to tour in almost a decade because none want it, do you really think people would be tuning in to watch her?
one does not just become a Broken Spearit stan in this day and age, they would have to have already been one.
Knee is just too much of an ugly vegetable right now to get new fans
The way xtina fans go against Britney you would think that xtina would have outsold her and had more hits than her.
mad that xtina's us album sales total britney's first album sales.
"Remedy" is such a shameless Someone Like You/Turning Tables rehash
I haven't heard it since I deleted it halfway through it.
I also immediately deleted Devotion; the melody was wack and i couldnt stand the way she yells in it
I have heard since I deleted it halfway through it.
I also immediately deleted Devotion; the melody was wack and i couldnt stand the way she yells in it
I only enjoy When We Were Young, Water Under The Bridge, Hell and River Lea
I don't see how you can assume that 21 would have sold 27M copies WW in just the U.S. in one year when fewer people than that have consumed it from 2011 to 2015 in the U.S. 
What kinda mess.
Like people make those kinds of threads about Gaga all the time 
