Taylor scores biggest yearly WW album unit total this century, surpassing MJ in 2009

[CaptainMusic]

1 minute ago, Klein said:

Oops, misread the title and didn't notice the "this century". My bad. 

I’m not sure if it’s this century either though, Eminem had The Eminem Show and 8 Mile in 2002:

 

US alone:

1. Eminem — The Eminem Show: 7,608,000 5. Soundtrack — 8 Mile: 3,498,000

11.106M 

 

He was global so did at least twice that worldwide making it 22-23M.
 

Add catalog sales from Marshall Mathers LP, Slim Shady LP and D12 and he probably did about 25M units in 2002. 

 

It’s also a bit easier to accumulate total units in the streaming era than during the pure sales so hard to compare. 

 

[Taylena]

It doesn't matter what anyone says, streaming or not, this is absolutely massive and nobody even came close recently except for Adele. 

[hungrymuffin]

23 hours ago, georgechxng said:

this record doesn’t even belong to michael tho 

 

adele in 2011:

21. 18.1M

19. 3.5M 

Total: 23.3M 

 

the lack of brain cells is showing

 

huge and midnights as only released 2 months ago and its still selling a considerable amount every week

[PoisonedIvy]

Massive.  

[besaid]

Nah, this includes streaming. Michaels (and Adele's) were all sales. 

[Rev8]

5 hours ago, CaptainMusic said:

I’m not sure if it’s this century either though, Eminem had The Eminem Show and 8 Mile in 2002:

 

US alone:

 

1. Eminem — The Eminem Show: 7,608,000 5. Soundtrack — 8 Mile: 3,498,000

11.106M 

 

He was global so did at least twice that worldwide making it 22-23M.
 

Add catalog sales from Marshall Mathers LP, Slim Shady LP and D12 and he probably did about 25M units in 2002. 

 

It’s also a bit easier to accumulate total units in the streaming era than during the pure sales so hard to compare. 

 

Which is another reason why continued comparisons from different times - are dumb  

[PopFan1996]

Not so sure about the century record

Source? Pretty sure Eminem and Adele both did more in their big eras

[Xpress2019]

On 12/23/2022 at 5:36 PM, georgechxng said:

this record doesn’t even belong to michael tho 

 

adele in 2011:

21. 18.1M

19. 3.5M 

Total: 23.3M 

 

Oh poor baby. You might wanna check this one again then come back k? 

[Saintlor]

Swifties only wanted to accept streaming as a metric when Taylor became the #1 female force on it

[Cheetos]

Good for her 

[1989]

I bought all 339 cassette versions, that sealed the deal. 

[fridayteenage]

yes global yes winning

[Starchild]

9 hours ago, besaid said:

 

Sorry quoted you by accident, can't delete quote 

8 hours ago, Saintlor said:

Swifties only wanted to accept streaming as a metric when Taylor became the #1 female force on it

Oh my god you repeatedly say stuff like this over and over, it's so weird with a name like saintlor 

[Cloröx]

On 12/24/2022 at 1:36 AM, georgechxng said:

this record doesn’t even belong to michael tho 

 

adele in 2011:

21. 18.1M

19. 3.5M 

Total: 23.3M 

 

So many wrongs in this post.

 

First, IFPI counts shipments not the exact sales. Second, the math isn't mathing 

[Europe]

First she ended the female MJ's career and now she completely surpassed the male MJ . And all of that with NO promo and no performances! Imagine if she actually tried.

Madonna you're next.

[mrpartyrocker]

Be humble and don’t push it!! 
 

Taylor’s numbers don’t include only pure sales(streams have helped a lot) so not on par with MJ. 

[Erreur2 La Nature]

If this isn’t enough to prove anyone that streaming is getting out of hands… 

[The Music Industry]

On 12/23/2022 at 12:36 PM, georgechxng said:

this record doesn’t even belong to michael tho 

 

adele in 2011:

21. 18.1M

19. 3.5M 

Total: 23.3M 

 

You tried

[WildHeart]

8 hours ago, mrpartyrocker said:

Taylor’s numbers don’t include only pure sales(streams have helped a lot) so not on par with MJ. 

As if better sales climate didn't help other artists back then 

[mrpartyrocker]

1 hour ago, Artistofthedecade said:

As if better sales climate didn't help other artists back then 

Name me at least 2 more artists doing the same numbers as MJ back then

 

Either way, you cannot compare 2 artists from 2 different sales area when Taylor’s numbers are majorly inflated by streams

[WildHeart]

31 minutes ago, mrpartyrocker said:

Either way, you cannot compare 2 artists from 2 different sales area when Taylor’s numbers are majorly inflated by streams

Again, streams don't "inflate" sales. They just count as sales because that's how people consume music nowadays and physical sales are almost nonexistent. 

If they were inflating sales, we could see much better unit sales compared to past nowadays which is not the case. She is not in advantage. 

[mrpartyrocker]

4 minutes ago, Artistofthedecade said:

Again, streams don't "inflate" sales. They just count as sales because that's how people consume music nowadays and physical sales are almost nonexistent. 

If they were inflating sales, we could see much better unit sales compared to past nowadays which is not the case. She is not in advantage. 

She is in advantage as her pure sales are not that different from 10 years ago (estimation). Streams count as sales no one said it’s negative but it does bring her more numbers.

[Yuanyu]

On 12/24/2022 at 11:53 AM, wastedpotential said:

And I love seeing the one Eminem fan on this website run in to defend his honor when Taylor breaks a record you think he should have 

 

Just because this wasn’t a widely discussed record (and why would it be, MJ died 13 years ago and no one has been close to breaking it since) doesn’t mean it doesn’t count. There are plenty of people in the industry who want to see Taylor fall, if these numbers were truly fake, Scooter would have TMZ screaming about it already 

 

How annoying it must be that the only person who has sold more albums in this century than you is a guy who has 0 interest in selling records while you try to sell multiple covers and formats to your fans to increase your sales 

 

I see you have clear information that I don't have, so it would be great if you could share with us the best year in sales of artists like
Eminem
Adele
Norah Jones
BSB
NSYNC
Usher
MJ (including singles sales not only pure sales)

...

And while we're at it, it would be great if you could tell us from which platforms those millions of streams come from, because math is not mathing.

 

And finally, if we believe what Taylor's label says (not the industry), we will have to believe what the record label says about the rest of the artists, won't we?

[ChandlerBing]

On 12/25/2022 at 10:13 AM, AbeHicks said:

First she ended the female MJ's career and now she completely surpassed the male MJ . And all of that with NO promo and no performances! Imagine if she actually tried.

Madonna you're next.

She really erased both Katy and MJ.