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Originally posted by MrPeanut
2) Total record sales include album sales, you should know this... unless you are counting album sales and are somehow suggesting she has sold literally no singles outside the U.S
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I will give you several gifts in this discussion:
1. She has sold 17 million albums (even though totals for The Fame are closer to 14 million, and her remix album has not sold 2 million)
2. She has sold 30 million singles in the U.S. (even though it's closer to 27)
Those numbers combined would give her a total of 47 million records worldwide. Not including single sales from other markets outside the U.S.
Unless you want to argue that she has sold the same amount of singles in the U.S. as she has sold all over the world and dismiss the fact that the U.S. is the biggest musical market in existence than it's obvious she hasn't sold 75 million records. She's likely in the 50 millions at the biggest extreme. Not in the 60's or the 70's.