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Originally posted by Jack.
The people saying ... 21 seriously need an education in music.
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Actually, I think you seriously need an education in chart history if you think anything other than
21 is the biggest album by a female of all time. Sales in the digital era are for obvious reasons far lower than in the physical record era, so it hasn't sold as much as some of the very biggest previous blockbusters (
Come On Over,
Jagged Little Pill,
The Bodyguard) - but it will surpass all others, including anything Madonna or Mariah have ever released.
Like someone already said, you take the chart runs of this album globally and transport them back 20/30 years, you have a
Thriller equivalent. It's no surprise that
21 will become only the second album in history to be the world's bestseller two years in a row...