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Originally posted by Kevinkdc
I remember before the AIEW era started she sold about 20 million albums. I don't think she sold 3million with AIEW though.
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That number came from Nielsen SoundScan this year. The last number we had was from late 2008/early 2009. Every era always gives a boost to previous albums too. New fans probably went back and bought her previous albums. I know Breakaway was charting well in Europe & Asia for awhile in the past years due to many reality contestants singing songs off that album.
Considering 20 million was from 3 years ago, AIEW sold about 1.5 WW plus of course her previous albums (especially Breakaway) was still selling for reasons I stated above, selling 3 million in that gap sounds correct. It came from Nielsen SoundScan so I'll take that!!
