other stats GOAT Female Billboard 200 Albums Ranking

[bad guy]

WWAFA the biggest debut since The Fame 

[wastedpotential]

10 minutes ago, HardBambi said:

Absolutely weird not to see Like a prayer, Like a Virgin, True Blue in there

TB is at 56 and LAV is at 76 I forgot to include them in the OP lol but I was really surprised LAP and TIC didn't make it 

[UseYourIllusion2002]

7 minutes ago, HardBambi said:

Absolutely weird not to see Like a prayer, Like a Virgin, True Blue in there

Like a Virgin and True Blue are here, but Like a Virgin is at #76 which is so low  I know this doesn't include sales and it's just based on Billboard's charts but it surprises me that according to this list, a diamond selling album is on par with Thank U Next, The Truth About Love, Good Girl Gone Bad, Pure Heroin, etc. Even looking at it's chart run, Like a Virgin was clearly bigger. 

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70- 10-4-3-3-2-3-3-2-2-*1*-1-1-2-3-4-7-6-6-6-6-6-5-5-8-7-7-9-9-8-8-9-9-8-11-11-15-16-17-16-16-16-15-21-19-16-23-22-25-25-29-39-40-58-57-75-71-71-58-53-53-65-71-75-78-84-88-92-93-98-108-108-120-104-104-111-112-124-122-122-122-136-136-146-131-136-133-138-130-128-149-149-145-141-155-151-172-163-167-194-189-198-188-188-180-176-187-193

In comparison this is Good Girl Gone Bad's chartrun:

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*2*-7-12-14-14-18-16-14-16-17-23-27-24-21-18-29-40-47-54-41-51-58-64-84-63-92-97-93-90-65-61-59-55-45-51-47-36-39-46-49-54-65-68-73-63-69-62-72-71-71-84-85-105-138- 7-10-9-8-10-11-12- 9-9-12-12-13-12-14-15-19-17-17-12-24-22-32-39-35-40-42-39-30-21-19-20-22-24-25-31-35-44-45-54-50-76-98-103-112-121-129-147-133-166-154-170

But according to Billboard, Good Girl Gone Bad is bigger than Like a Virgin 

No hate to Rihanna by the way, it just shows that Billboard's method is flawed

[UseYourIllusion2002]

17 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

TB is at 56 and LAV is at 76 I forgot to include them in the OP lol but I was really surprised LAP and TIC didn't make it 

I'm surprised LAP isn't here either since it's chart run is bigger than a lot of albums on the list, maybe it didn't spend enough weeks in the 50-100's to accumulate points, I don't know  I guess by this point Madonna albums were selling quickly and she moved onto I'm Breathless and The Immaculate Collection just one year later, so record stores stopped ordering Like a Prayer. It's chart run is below.

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11- 3-*1*-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-3-3-4-5-4-6-8-10-12-13-14-17-17-17-17-18-19-20-21-23-29-36-43-51-55-59-59-61-57-57-48-42-42-42-48-55-62-65-60-65-73-75-71-99-113-118-121-124-99-107-105-108-114-125-130-141-150-154-199-189-195-192-169-152-163-168-168-199-199

As for The Immaculate Collection, it was one of the albums affected by Billboard's recurrent rule which was if an album was 18 months old and below #100, it wasn't allowed to chart and was moved to the Catalog Albums Chart. That's why Michael Jackson's albums couldn't re-enter the chart in 2009 when he died, even though he would have had the #1 selling album that week. TIC spent 148 weeks on the BB200 and 290 weeks on the Catalog Chart, totaling to a combined 438 weeks on the Billboard Charts  But those 290 weeks don't count due to Billboard's rule.

[The Music Industry]

Beyoncé barely making the top 100 is kinda shocking

[Gaia]

Adele and Billie  

[punisher]

didn’t expect cardi to be in the top 50 

[Mocha]

wow, Paula was that big? 

[stevyy]

2 hours ago, byzantium said:

Not Taylor with 30% of the top ten.  
 

Taylor and Mariah are the undisputed queens of the US. 

Mariah Carey did it in all eras: physical, digital and streaming. <3 I applaud that.

[Scars]

Miley with two entries, her debut album inside the top30. Put some respect on her name!