Lady Antebellum released in January and they have the best selling album of the year. Eminem might have recently passed them though. Or, look at Ke$ha releasing in January and outselling Katy's summer release.
But I'm sure Katy sold more first week Obviously Kesha has sold more but basically b/c she released 8 months earlier than Katy
May? I don't know about that. TFM was released less than 4 weeks after Bad Romance.
Yeah, but The Fame Monster wasn't meant to be intended as a full-fledged album. It was a complement to The Fame. This is a new album and, therefore, will probably get an even larger treatment by the label.