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Originally posted by Squall
Bad Romance was a lead single while Firework was a third single, Teenage Dream was still slaying and Firework started blowing up at the end of the year.
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The IFPI tracking period runs from Dec 1 through Nov 30, so practically Firework's whole chartrun was eligible for IFPI's 2011 list, yet..
Bruno Mars Just The Way You Are 12.5
Bruno Mars Grenade 10.2
LMFAO Party Rock Anthem 9.7
Jennifer Lopez On the Floor 8.4
Adele Rolling in the Deep 8.2
Lady Gaga Born This Way 8.2
Pitbull ft. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer Give me Everything 8.2
Black Eyed Peas The Time (Dirty Bit) 7.3
Maroon 5 Moves Like Jagger 7.0
Bruno Mars The Lazy Song 6.5
http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/...nd_figures.pdf
In that tracking period, FW sold like 5M in the US and UK alone, so the fact that it only needed to sell an additional ~1.5M to make the list and STILL did not make it shows how local it was