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Originally posted by C.Damen
Hmmm it's interesting you overestimated it at this exact time.
I have another source that has a different number.
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Doesn’t matter, it's 25 million.
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Originally posted by C.Damen
When did I say it wasn't a huge album?
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You're nitpicking over a slight estimation. 30 million, 25 million, 243 million, either way it was still a huge album, which was the point of my original post.
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Originally posted by C.Damen
When did I claim it was not a huge album? Please show.
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Read the above post.
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Originally posted by C.Damen
Right. Roughly 10 million. Saying it sold 10 million and roughly 10 million is basically the same thing.
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So if they're the same thing what was the point of you saying "roughly" instead of just leaving it as is?
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Originally posted by C.Damen
But Sound Scan does not agree with you in saying The Bodyguard is a Whitney Houston studio album. Sound Scan considers The Bodyguard as a soundtrack.
What Whitney Houston studio album has sold 30 million?
Even her certificate says Original Soundtrack Album.
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Okay, again, how does this refute the fact it is STILL Whitney's album? Soundscan not counting it toward her total sales has to do with their own system, it doesn't have anything to with the fact that it is still her album. They don't count The Preacher's Wife either, and she did that entire soundtrack. Is it not still her album if they don't count it toward her sales? Sound Scan not counting it toward her total sales as part of their criteria, doesn't change the fact Billboard, RIAA and every award show ceremony calls it a Whitney album.
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Originally posted by C.Damen
But Sound Scan does not agree with you in saying The Bodyguard is a Whitney Houston studio album.
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I never said The Bodyguard was a studio album. Brush up on your comprehension skills. I said it is her
album.
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The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album
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Originally posted by Squall
According to her biggest selling album, her debut one, she didn't. The Bodyguard is not a Whitney album.
ST:
13 million (US)
24 million (WW)
Falling Into You:
11 million (US)
30 million (WW)
Let's Talk About Love:
10 million (US)
30 million (WW)
Whitney: more than the half oh her total comes from the US
Céline: about one third of her total sales comes from the US
MHWGO was on two albums, both of them sold 30 million+ WW.
I really don't get your logic when in TWO YEARS, Céline sold more than 60 million albums (90 with the Titanic Soundtrack even though it's not her album). How can a peak be bigger than that?
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When I said most of her sales come from outside of the United States, I was speaking of her total sales, not one album. So this little comparison you did was pointless.
And Whitney's debut was not her peak, so I don't know why you included it in the context of comparing it to Celine's peak. The Bodyguard was her peak, and that album sold more than what those albums sold individually. And you're concentrated within album sales when it's more to being global than album sales. During Whitney's peak, she had the more global album, bigger global song, a global film and her tour touched on more continents, while selling them out. Whitney was more global.
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Originally posted by Squall
(90 with the Titanic Soundtrack even though it's not her album)
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Then you shouldn't have even made this ridiculous statement.