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1 hour ago, Hot Volcano said:

The discounted copies made it seem like it was frontloaded, without them, week 1 pure copies 650k, total pure copies 2.5m. It did more than well, was one of the biggest albums of 2011 in the US and WW where it ended up only behind Adele's 21 so keep trying it

 

Thats' expected when you debut with 1M? Doesn't mean it can't be frontloaded  

4 hours ago, gustavothehuman said:

Also, Born This Way is kind of an LGBT classic, Adele doesn't really have anything going on for her other than sales.

30 is a soccer mom classic now 

11 hours ago, Marry Illusion Glory said:

2021:

 

 

 

That's a bigger crowd than Katy's Vegas audience these days.

 

 

8 hours ago, State of Grace. said:

30 by far lol. ATRL stays delusional.

 

Albums are literally serving more longevity on charts in the streaming era and yet 30 still collapsed and fell under BTW. Not to mention that BTW also held up much better outside of the US. Yall can cry about its 1M debut forever but nothing is gonna change facts. 

*graph from  @PopDataMusic

 

 

 

ofc 30

13 hours ago, Hot Volcano said:

Digital era longevity =/= streaming era longevity. In the streaming age, it's quite easier to stay on the Billboard 200 since all you have to do is........stream some songs from a particular album, sometimes even ONE song being a big hit is enough to keep the album afloat, while during the digital age you had to buy an album.

Well what happen to Chromatica 4 weeks top ten? 2 weeks more than TG and on par with Homecoming  also, many albums served #1-out so it's not an easy feat to achieve longevity.

I feel like BTW had more memorable singles. BTW, Edge of Glory, You and I are all classics. 30 really only has EOM. So I would go with 30, honestly. 

30 because she barely promoted it. BTW got 5 singles and 385845 performances. But quality-wise, BTW is a better era.