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Originally posted by highwind44029
Not Title out-selling Teenage Dream's first week in January with a declining sales market.
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Title may have had a better opening week, but Teenage Dream's longevity was exceptional Perry's CD finished in the Top 20 selling albums of the year for three years straight, 2010, 2011, and 2012. I am fairly certain her CD charted on the year-end list in 2013, but I cannot remember exactly where.
Many albums started stronger than Teenage Dream this decade, but fewer than 20 have reached Triple Platinum, and Katy Perry will reach that level either right before the Super Bowl and at the very latest the week following her halftime performance. Nor did they produce eight Top Two smashes.
I am not saying Title cannot match Teenage Dream's success. I just know judging the success of the two releases by their opening weeks is impossible, because no one though Perry's CD could have such long legs after a fairly mediocre opening.