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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
That's why I lowered my predictions. I was aiming at 700-800k, but for some reason, big named pop stars do not open up with huge numbers. Who was the last pop singer to do over 600k?
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Female artists generally don't do HUGE opening weeks anyway. The exceptions are of course Britney, Beyoncé, Alicia, T-Swizzle and, in their primes, Mary J., Madonna, Janet, Mariah. I'm sure I'm missing a couple, but to me flukes like Norah Jones and Susan Boyle don't count. STABLE female artists don't have huge first week sales. GaGa seems to defy the average, though. I still don't expect miracles from her; if the song "Born This Way" sold about a million copies in its first week, I'd say we can expect the album to sell 60% of that, tops, without tons of pre-promo.