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Originally posted by zzmyth
of course. S&M didnt do as well as I thought.....
But Im not expecting Loud to sell 7M in a single year
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Well the people thinking BTW can outsell 21 are still riding the (delusional
) highs of TF(M) era. Pop generally doesn't sell albums (see...pretty much every pop girl right now who isn't Lady Gaga). TF(M) was a rare exception b/c it was Gaga's introduction to the world. She was able to fully capture the world's attention with her debut - something only a very small number of pop acts have ever managed. She
won't keep selling like that. She can still sell well, but nowhere near as well as she did with the albums that launched not just her music, but her.
That said, you can't call a song's performance disappointing because it won't "even" reach 4M. 4M is not an easy level to reach.