Keep in mind that some of those sales won't be counted by Nielsen Soundscan since pre-orders of her album give away instant grats, meaning that would only be 300k first day.
Top ten album debut weeks in the US (Soundscan era)
1 2000 No Strings Attached *NSYNC 2,415,859
2 2001 Celebrity *NSYNC 1,879,955
3 2000 The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem 1,760,049
4 2000 Black & Blue Backstreet Boys 1,591,191
5 2002 The Eminem Show Eminem 1,321,799
6 2000 Oops!... I Did It Again Britney Spears 1,319,193
7 2014 1989 Taylor Swift 1,287,000
8 2012 Red Taylor Swift 1,208,000
9 2005 The Massacre 50 Cent 1,140,638
10 1999 Millennium Backstreet Boys 1,133,50
I still feel like I owe my life to VH1 for their You Oughta Know thing back in 09.
same. Who would have taught a VH1 you Oughta know artist would carried the entire music business on her back and slayed that much.
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Y'all going on about Brit's record. That's child's play.
i know right? i"m keeping telling them, they won't list. she will probably break Britney record on the 3/4 day. Right we now should say she is coming for Eminem and Marshal matter wig.
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is this true?
because in alexandrio thread, streming for one day in USA was 1,3 mln and in WW was around 5mln. Why are they saying about 2 mln?
you forgetting about apple music and the other streaming site.
Is this how the who people experience MJ slayage in the 80's felt? i know MJ slayage was WAY more, but i guess this the closest will get in POP music.
While not yet confirmed, it appears XL/Columbia's Adele has broken first-day digital sales records with over 400k for single "Hello" sold across all platforms. Meanwhile, digital preorders for album 25 (due out 11/20) surpassed 100k. Streaming numbers also appear to be through the roof with some speculating she could hit well over the 2m mark in the first day.The current record-holder for streaming is labelmate One Direction’s “Drag Me Down” with 1.8m U.S.