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Originally posted by Brinny Baby
I guess you're not familiar with how the charts were back then. When Avril debuted, it was nearly an all airplay chart. What A Girl Wants and Come on Over wouldn't have gone #1 under these rules since neither was #1 on the Hot 100 Airplay.
Album sales were declining also by 2002-2003 compared to 2000, however Let Go did better in the USA than CA.
1999
Top Billboard 200 Albums
39. Christina Aguilera
2000
Top Billboard 200 Albums
8. Christina Aguilera
2002
Top Billboard 200 Albums
14. Let Go
2003
Top Billboard 200 Albums
5. Let Go
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So?
The question was which debut was bigger. And since you are mentioning the Billboard charts, according to them CA sold almost 3M more copies
I wasn't aware that the music market went down THAT much during that period.
NSYNC's album Celebrity was released a year before Let Go and yet it managed to sell 1.8M in it's first week
FYI I am not saying Avril's sales were bad, they were great - I am simply replying to your statement about the sales being down.