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Originally posted by Duca
Alicia Keys - Songs In A-Minor 12.5 million
Avril Lavigne - Let Go 16 million
Dido - No Angel 14.5 million
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me 22 million
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It's questionable. Gaga could end up ahead of Alicia in the end, for one thing, and obviously the other three came out long before the album market collapse. The Fame selling 10m+ in 2009 is quite a bit more impressive than the numbers that Avril/Dido put up in their times (consider also the 40m+ in singles sales Gaga has pulled in).
Norah is very impressive, but she's not also a singles artist. You can make the case that Gaga has dominated the music landscape (well, pop at least) to an extent that no debut artist has since Britney. It goes beyond a simple comparison of album sales (which doesn't take into account differing markets) into the question of cultural ubiquity /buzz.