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Originally posted by revel8
Taylor is already going to be the reference point and high mark for this year's releases. Taylor has done that before in 2008 and 2012. 1989 is going to be the best selling album released in 2014 by a massive margin. Taylor's album is dominating all other albums released this year.
Britney Spears came nowhere close to dominating in 2000. Britney had the 4th highest opening week once in 2000. Oops I Did It Again was no 1 on Billboard 200 for only 1 week, compared to N'Sync being no 1 for a whopping 8 weeks and Eminem being no 1 for 8 weeks. Even the Beatles were no 1 for 3 weeks during that year. Nelly was no 1 for 5 weeks. Even Now 4 was no 1 for 3 times as long as Britney Spears in 2000.
N'Sync is the reference point for sales in the Year 2000. Oops I Did It Again is the reference point for 4th highest opening album in Year 2000. She was like the Eric Church of that Year. Finishing 4th once is hardly comparable with finishing 1st in 2014.
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Only because it was blocked by Eminem's
The Marshall Matthers LP, which would have blocked all of 1989's weeks, too.
In comparison, 1989 has no competition (only two major releases this year, a Beyonce studio album with no hit singles and a soundtrack album to a movie from 2013) and all of the blockbuster albums were released before
1989. Still, OIDIA went #1 for 1 week and then spent 15 weeks at #2, being blocked by TMMLP for 8 weeks, Now 4 for 3 weeks and then Country Grammar for 4 weeks. Taylor isn't anywhere near facing competition like that.
OIDIA is the reference point for females. It more than tripled the record for first-week sales for a female (Alanis Morisette's
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie set the record with 469,055 copies first week), almost doubled the record for highest-sales week for a female (Mariah Carey set the standard in '96 with 760,000 copies sold with
Daydream) and held the record for biggest first week sales for a solo artist until Eminem snatched it.
1989 is humongous in its own right, but it does not lessen how insanely massive and groundbreaking OIDIA's first week sales were.
