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Originally posted by Eternium
And everyone keeps saying Taylor outdid her peers yet Rihanna has moved more album equivalents. Twice she's had an album released after her career started that's outsold her career to that point (The Fame + Monster & 21). Britney's never been outdone by a single album and her only peer above her, Eminem, had a four year start.
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"Taylor Swift" US sales as of the end of 2008: 3.7M
"Fearless" sales in 2008: 2.2M
"Fearless" sales in 2009: 4.2M
"Fearless" sales in 2010: 3.5M
=13.6M
The Fame (Monster) sales in 2009: 5.9M
The Fame (Monster) sales in 2010: 5.9M
=11.8M
The only album to "outsell her career at that point" was 21 (which also happens to have outsold Britney's biggest album by 3 million copies despite coming out 12 years later, in a much worse sales climate, while also bigger single sales and streaming)