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Originally posted by MonstahNL
Knowing how excessively the music industry has declined, these numbers are really phenomenal. To think that she is about to break a record that was set in 2000.
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The record was insane for 2000 though, at the time female artists did not have those kind of fan bases that rushed out like that, even mega selling artists like Mariah, Celine, Whitney had pretty ordinary first week sales. Britney was a game changer in that sense, the previous record holder for women before Oops was Alanis' Former Infatuation Junkie (coming off of 15x Plat Jagged Little Pill) with 465k