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Originally posted by blue_mode
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/chart...-sales-artists
you can call Billboard a liar all you want!!!
DECADE END CHARTS
Issue Date: 2009
# Artist
1 MADONNA
2 CHRISTINA AGUILERA
3 DESTINY'S CHILD
4 JANET JACKSON
5 MARIAH CAREY
6 SANTANA
7 CLAY AIKEN
8 WHITNEY HOUSTON
9 LEANN RIMES
10 BRITNEY SPEARS
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That's still a bit awkward to me. Especially looking at the list of physical singles for the decade, Santana/Mariah even have more higher entries than Christina that I'm sure sold more than the 3.3 million they report for her. Especially between "Maria Maria" & "Smooth" for Santana. Oh well, they wouldn't lie.
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Originally posted by blue_mode
I really think that it does not include digital sales. However, back when physical sales were huge. It isn't a wonder that those artists would top it. Christina was the better singles artists then than Britney, while Britney was the better album seller then. So it explains their positions.
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Christina wasn't necessarily the "better". Jive did not hardly release any of Britney singles to be purchased physically. Which is why most did not chart higher, subsequently her album sales were greater. "BOMT" & "From The Bottom of My Broken Heart" sold 1.4m and 775k singles respectively, which is dangerously close to Xtina's 3.1m of I'm assuming all of hers. Had "(You Drive Me) Crazy" been released as a CD single, you can assure it would have done phenomenal as well - since it reached #10 off of heavy airplay alone.