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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
21 gets compared a lot to Come Away With Me and Jagged Little Pill. I would like to know where those albums stood exactly two years after their releases. 21's longevity must be much bigger in terms of the top 40. It's probably up there with Thriller.
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This is the biggest era globally since
Thriller; no one can argue that anymore. Had it been released in the same sales climate as
The Bodyguard,
Jagged Little Pill,
Come on Over, and Celine's big albums, she would have definitely outsold them. As it is, she's only going to miss them by 2-3 million and that's not even factoring in TEA's!!
I'm not sure where those albums were on the charts at the 2-year mark but I assume they were still high.
JLP sold over a million copies in 1997 alone and the release of
Feels Like Home kept sales of
CAWM alive in 2004.