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Originally posted by Rolland
It's Gaga selling ~600K at full price versus Taylor selling three times in a row +1 milli at full price. But whatever makes you sleep at night, Taylor is still the only one who has opened with +1 milli three times in a row, which is the feat we're discussing as being way more impressive than Spears' feat 14 years ago so either way you lose.
Oh, really, I have nothing to say? What about the question that you have been avoiding all this time. Let me address it for you one more time, this time I expect and answer, to make things easier for you just answer YES or NO. If you avoid the question for the 4th time then you'll just expose your deluded ass.
Is it or isn't it more impressive to open with +1 milli three times in a row during the '10s (when album sales are in a historic low) than doing 1.3 million in early '00s (when albums sales were at their peak)?
YES or NO
You all say you don't care yet you are here perched "clocking" trolls. Interesting reasoning.
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Nobody is pitting them against each other.
The point is four studio albums from two female artists have debuted with 1M+ in the 2010s whereas only two studio albums from two female artists debuted with 1M+ in the physical age (and one of those was technically after the digital age started). Can you actually argue that or just say "pressed," "deluded" or "we don't have to discuss that because you automatically lose?"
The three 1M+ weeks are not the same thing as what we were arguing about. I pointed out that female first week sales were not at their peak in 2000. Only 7 women debuted with 100k+ (your fave, Christina, put out two studio albums and neither debuted with 100k+ nor did legends like Mariah Carey with her Valentines EP and Celine Dion with her boxset, among many others). Only three women went #1 that year (Britney, Celine and Madonna).
How can you prove female first week sales were at their peak in 2000?
If you're just going to post things like "deluded" or "YOU'RE PRESSED" or whatever, then please keep it to yourself. You haven't been able to follow our "argument," let alone formulate anything other than those three words. The irony lies in the fact that you're angry enough to post on my wall and asked to let me know when I respond to you.
And for the record, I didn't say I don't care. I've been a fan of Taylor's since 2006 (whereas you've been a fan since a week ago when she was a threat to a record held by an artist you don't like) and I'm a stan of Britney's. I'm invested in the outcome either way. However, I am not pressed. I think Taylor will do it and I'm happy for her. You could say I'm annoyed by bandwagoners like you, but that's not the same thing as "being pressed"
some of you really dont get how this works, the last updates are usually smaller and the 50% doesnt mean of all total sales, it means of all the retailers and judging by the numbers, most of the major ones like iTunes and Target are probably part of that 50%.
I think lyrically Speak Now is the best with maybe some from Red.