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Originally posted by Mrs. Aaron Paul
nobody is trying anything i dont know rihanna's stats perfectly, but didnt loud sell over 6 million ww? and spawn 3 huge hits. and the only album that sold more than recovery this decade is 21. It doubled (more than doubled, actually) BEYONCE' its sales both us and ww. and is the only album in history to spawn 2 US certified diamond singles.
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but the era is not important. I mean Pharell Williams sold Happy very well. singles are not everything. even Eminem knows that Recovery is his most forgettable era.
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Originally posted by pabloanxiety
I was talking about current album sales, not overall. I clearly said BEYONCE sales are amazing but frontloaded. And all the artists i mentioned are outselling her lately on B200 and most of them without promo, she's not even Top 40 after a few months of being released.
The era is one of the biggest, but far from Top 5.
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once again, these artists have +150m airplay that's why they're still selling. if they were in Beyoncé "post-Drunk In Love pop radio snub" situation they would have ALL flopped big time. Beyoncé is still selling 10k a week without a WW single (XO flopped/underperformed, DrIL was only played in UK and France). so basically she's selling on her name. respect that. what you call frontloaded is not a bad thing because there's no promo out there it's not like radio are jumping on her singles or she's doing interviews, TV shows, etc.... you can't ommit BEYONCE in the top 5 because it was such an event
... you'll see at the end of the decade when critics will list the essential musical moment of 10s. don't need to rush things or to over-argument my point. let's wait and see.