It's the largest sales week this year for an album by a woman and the second-largest for a pop effort. Among women, she surpasses Miley Cyrus' "Bangerz" for the year's biggest sales week. ("Bangerz" bowed at No. 1 with 270,000 three weeks ago.) Among pop sets, only Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories" had a larger frame this year, when it debuted with 339,000.
"PRISM" also tallies the debut largest week for a female pop artist's album since Madonna's "MDNA" bowed at No. 1 with 359,000 on the April 14, 2012, chart.
Whenever news about really low album sales come out I get really worried what if streaming & digital sales take over and we never see a physical album again :cires: I don't want that... I love physical copies so much
PEOPLE GO AND BUY ALBUMS, GO AND BUY 'EM. PHYSICAL COPIES TOO.