I sill can not believe there are still people in here that doubt the fact that Born This Way has sold at least 6,5 and most probably has even touched the 7M mark by now.
I just counted its sales based on certifications only, without including the additional copies the album could have sold in advance to those certifications and I got a total of 5,6M.
I mean...damn
There are some more certifications that I can think of, which are not to be found on wikipedia and I also did not count them, such as the Diamond certification the album received in Taiwan for over 100,000 sold copies.
Also, the only Asian country were the album has been certified is Japan (where it sold more than 750k copies), despite smashing in more countries.
How did people dare to call this a flop record 3 years back when it turned out to be the 2nd best selling female album of the decade (only behind 21) and most probably top 5 overall (behind 21, Buble and Frozen).