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Originally posted by Work Bitch
Thankfully we have TEAs for that and not some Excel document made by a stan who can't even get his numbers right. He inflated Gaga's numbers and deflated Britney's. 
Lady Gaga:
The Fame: 4.5M
Just Dance: 6.9M = 690,000 albums sold
Poker Face: 7.1M = 710,000 albums sold
LoveGame: 2.6M = 260,000 albums sold
Paparazzi: 3.4M = 340,000 albums sold
=6.5M
Britney Spears:
...Baby One More Time: 12M (Not including Columbia House)
Even if we compare what Gaga's sales would have looked like if she came around in 1999, we can see that she wouldn't even have been half as big as Britney was.  |
The amount of digital tracks sold are not nearly high enough to compensate for the massive decline in album sales and you know it.
Anyway globally, BOMT was the #2 album of 1999 I think (behind that Backstreet Boys album), whereas TF was #2 biggest album in 2009, #1 in 2010, #23 in 2011. I mean it's obvious which album dominated more
That table posted previous page just reinforces common sense.
Britney peaked when album sales where at the absolute highest while Gaga peaked when album sales were the pits
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Originally posted by 4AM.
It's really common knowledge that the Mediatraffic chart is heavily biased toward new releases.  |
Well for example Madonna has a lot of songs on that chart, and there are tons of old songs on that chart (the top 10 is for the most part old songs) so not really
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Originally posted by Luke.
What is that, exactly?  that doesn't prove anything. |
The number next to the year is the amount of albums sold during that year (in millions). It shows that during Britney's peak, album sales were almost 3 times as high as during Gaga's peak. Hence when you adjust Gaga's sales to Britney's market, Gaga's album is bigger.
During Gaga's peak, she sold 16 million albums of the 1333 million albums sold during 2009. During Britney's peak, she sold 25 million albums of the 3199 million albums sold during 1999. Gaga's percentage of the total albums sold during her peak is way higher than Britney's which shows that her album dominated the market way more than Britney's album did.
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Originally posted by 4AM.
1) 38m is still less than 60m - even if you only count Brit's first two years it's 54m for BOMT+OIDIA (ignore Kworb his low estimate) |
It's 45.5 for Oops + BOMT (his Britney estimates aren't low either, the 30 million figure for BOMT was always inflated) which is slightly more than 38, which makes sense when you're comparing 2 full eras to a 1.5 era
How many times will this thread be made? Britney.
