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Originally posted by Eternium
Would you also like to post how many albums/singles were released in 2000 as opposed to 2012? Once again, you're manipulating data by leaving out segments of the truth (like when you included JD's early 2008 sales in to its catalogue figure).
The bump SEAs gives is more than enough to make up for the shift in the music industry especially when you take in to consideration that fewer acts released, catalogue sales were considerably lower and none of the artists were nearly as individually successful.
You might as well say 2011 sales can't be compared to 2010 because Adele single-handedly raised them.
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I don't post the number of albums/singles released because the IFPI doesn't.
Mess @ you thinking number of releases is the reason for sales decline tho
According to IFPI: 2908M albums were sold in 2001, and 1062M in 2012 (so sales in 2001 were 2.74x bigger than in 2012)
But let's just look at the top 50 best-selling albums of the year instead (so neither number of releases, or catalog sales can influence the result)
2001: The top 50 amounted to 216M-217M (Hybrid Theory did
10M, you can fill up the gaps with the revealed numbers)
2012: The top 50 amounted to 92.2M
216.5M/92.2M = 2.35x, hardly a difference from 2.74x
As you can see, catalog sales and number of releases are not the reason for the sales decrease
The sales weren't higher because of catalog sales or number of releases, it was simply significantly easier to sell albums in Britney's time than it was during Taylor's.
So comparing absolute sales (even with TEA added) is an invalid comparison as it clearly favors Britney. You can do that, but it doesn't tell who is 'bigger' as their circumstances were completely different.