People are talking about Britney and Joanne while the names the article mentioned are: Taylor Swift, Kanye West and Susan Boyle, and by industry experts, not ATRL people who think they understand music and the industry...
Even in 2000, a 1 million debut was exceptionally amazing...
but really, Susan Boyle is done, Kanye, I don't know, people still remember his Taylor Swift ripping?
If Lil Wayne did it in 2008, I really DO believe Taylor Swift can STILL get it done, but in 2010...
She's STILL extremely popular in the US...
but since this thread moved to a different topic, I don't believe Joanne could open with 1 million, her re-release and her 2nd album sold 300,000 on the first week (together)?, and she was much more popular that time than she is now -- she was just coming out of 4 successful singles, and released Bad Romance, that is her most successful single (after Poker Face), she doesn't have the first week sales power other artists have...
Taylor will get the haters mad, yet, again