It is for Avril in Japan. Every artist had substancial drop in sales that week and the following weeks after. It did have an effect and you cannot take that away. Avril's sales would be a lot bigger if the disaster did not occur. Its brilliant that you think 58% is an average drop. If Avril only dropped avergely compared to lessor girls, it proves how big she is there. Nonetheless, the predictions for the second week were 106,000, but of course the disaster occured.
How much did TBDT and UMS drop second week? Cuz when Gaga dropped by "only" 65% with a highly anticipated release the locals were saying it was impressive in comparison to the usual pattern of the market.
How much did TBDT and UMS drop second week? Cuz when Gaga dropped by "only" 65% with a highly anticipated release the locals were saying it was impressive in comparison to the usual pattern of the market.
They both reached Diamond status and they didn't do that by dropping over 50% on the first week
And how do you know what the locals were saying? Were you in the streets of Japan on the dates of release?
How much did TBDT and UMS drop second week? Cuz when Gaga dropped by "only" 65% with a highly anticipated release the locals were saying it was impressive in comparison to the usual pattern of the market.
TBDT sold 224k in its 1st week and 120k in it's 2nd week so it only went down 46% and I'm not sure about UMS
Get over it! Avril may have been huge in the past. I don't care. Right now Gaga is way bigger in Japan and that's the way it it is.
Deal it with
Gaga's just the "it girl" ATM. Her popularity has decreased a massively since TF/TFM. In 6 years when Gaga's been in the industry as long as Avril has she will be nowhere near as popular as Avril is now.
Then why has BTW already sold more than TF and is about to blow past TFM in Japan?
Well TFM was just an EP and TF had a re-release (it sold 1 million and TFM sold 500k so I think your a little mixed up) and Duffy sold more than Madonna in 2008. Did that mean she was more popular than Madonna?
Well thats where I disagree. I think if an artist can still remain popular after many years in the industry then they should be deemed more popular than newcomers and current "it girls".
Well thats where I disagree. I think if an artist can still remain popular after many years in the industry then they should be deemed more popular than newcomers and current "it girls".
In that case I guess Avril never had it over Mariah cuz she ain't ever seeing these numbers even in her biggest market: