artist stats The Fame Monster sells 40M album units ww (2nd best-selling album of the century)

[kudmips7890]

10 minutes ago, DoubleRainbow! said:

Well two different eras can’t outstream Katy’s most successful one in daily streams so you tell me 

Hoping to see its total units surpass TFM soon then!  

 

 

[BrandNewBrandon]

11 minutes ago, byzantium said:

Because you can get a bigger number. 

You mean like this: https://youtu.be/vBTRNq1Wfd4?si=8a2Zz7BiK8R8P_K3&t=816

 

Btw, she bought almost all of those variants and that's only on vinyl. She has another video with the CDs 

 

Edited February 9 by BrandNewBrandon

[byzantium]

2 minutes ago, BrandNewBrandon said:

You mean like this: https://youtu.be/vBTRNq1Wfd4?si=8a2Zz7BiK8R8P_K3&t=816

 

Btw, she bought almost all of those variants 

 

Your obsession with Taylor Swift is weird.  

[BrandNewBrandon]

Just now, byzantium said:

Your obsession with Taylor Swift is weird.  

More like yours with anyone who doesn't think Taylor is #1 in everything  

 

I didn't even mention Taylor until you downvoted my comment because I did NOT mention Taylor  The self-drag. 

[Artur]

16 minutes ago, kudmips7890 said:

Hoping to see its total units surpass TFM soon then!  

 

At this rate it definitely will, in around 650 years for sure! 

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Oscar winning Legends only 

[VioletsandRoses]

1 hour ago, CaptainMusic said:

Dangerous was a decade after Thriller and sold 30M.

 

“Regular” pop acts were not selling that and it’s not comparable to Gaga going from 40M to ARTPOP in less than 5 years

 

Y’all need to make up your mind as well if it’s 2 albums or not. 

 

59 minutes ago, brenda-walsh said:

those are called deluxe editions. GGGB Reloaded and TD Complete Confection each had three new songs, not a whole new 8 track album with a different theme and sonic direction 

 

lady gaga even called TFM a new album herself

It’s physically impossible to separate its sales because it was just a regular re-release outside the US/Japan. Plus all three of those eras had 8-9 singles at the end and she ended up selling them with a large margin. In face more than Loud+GGGB:R combined and Katy’s discography without even including the separate ep sales. All the pop girls re-released their biggest albums Shakira, Beyonce (3 times), Rihanna, Katy, Lana, and Taylor. 

[VioletsandRoses]

1 hour ago, Badgalbriel said:

Ugh, my fave. She really did that with The Fame/Monster. I'd say it will eventually become much bigger than 21.

Plz nothing is touching 21. It’s doing almost 5m off of 4 singles. 
 

Her and Adele were probably the most consistent at their peak. amazing single sales, amazing album sales and amazing streams globally. The other pop girls had one or the other. I also thought TD was the biggest selling digital era but it’s actually TFM with a 15m gap. Insane.  

[AllyGayTor]

It has "Dance in the Dark", so not surprised  

[brenda-walsh]

14 minutes ago, VioletsandRoses said:

 

It’s physically impossible to separate its sales because it was just a regular re-release outside the US/Japan. Plus all three of those eras had 8-9 singles at the end and she ended up selling them with a large margin. In face more than Loud+GGGB:R combined and Katy’s discography without even including the separate ep sales. All the pop girls re-released their biggest albums Shakira, Beyonce (3 times), Rihanna, Katy, Lana, and Taylor. 

a rerelease ≠ a deluxe edition. there's a huge difference between releasing 3 new songs vs adding an entire new album onto your previous one. you can't possibly compare beyonce adding two new songs and some remixes to ST deluxe to Gaga creating a whole new album. 

 

in fact Gaga "rereleased" her next album Born This Way yet was unable to sell no where near TFM 

[DoubleRainbow!]

1 hour ago, BrandNewBrandon said:

I'm pretty sure that one era would still be more than Katy's most successful one. 

 

48 minutes ago, kudmips7890 said:

Hoping to see its total units surpass TFM soon then!  

 

you guys need to get it together with this separating and then convinientely combining them cause you're making no sense

[byzantium]

41 minutes ago, BrandNewBrandon said:

More like yours with anyone who doesn't think Taylor is #1 in everything  

 

I didn't even mention Taylor until you downvoted my comment because I did NOT mention Taylor  The self-drag. 

Well now you are just making up narratives to fit what you imagine in your head.  

[byzantium]

Just now, DoubleRainbow! said:

 

you guys need to get it together with this separating and then convinientely combining them cause you're making no sense

This.  I personally think they are one album since this was common back then (see GGGB reloaded, Fearless Platinum Edition, I Am Sasha Fierce…the bonus tracks, Kesha’s Cannibal, etc), but fans seem to have split opinions on this depending on what is convenient. 

[DoubleRainbow!]

34 minutes ago, VioletsandRoses said:

 

It’s physically impossible to separate its sales because it was just a regular re-release outside the US/Japan. Plus all three of those eras had 8-9 singles at the end and she ended up selling them with a large margin. In face more than Loud+GGGB:R combined and Katy’s discography without even including the separate ep sales. All the pop girls re-released their biggest albums Shakira, Beyonce (3 times), Rihanna, Katy, Lana, and Taylor. 

why you making **** up? 

One Of The Boys + Teenage Dream are at like 40M units

[babyforlife]

the only countries I know that TFM counted as two different album is US?

In my country and other countries, it counted as ONE album, hence you got TWO CDs inside..

[fememeist]

Isn’t 1989 also 40M EAS?

[Yuanyu]

2 albums not 1

[Maroonx]

talent won x

[Infernal Paradise]

The amount of pressed weirdos in this thread fuming for literally no reason 

 

OT: Remembered classic that changed the pop culture forever 

[wehan6]

i've always considered them to be two separate albums but both are iconic and timeless so who cares really 

[VioletsandRoses]

1 hour ago, DoubleRainbow! said:

why you making **** up? 

One Of The Boys + Teenage Dream are at like 40M units

I was talking about album sales. Katy’s pure album sales are around 15m which is around the same as TFM sales excluding the ep. 

2 hours ago, brenda-walsh said:

a rerelease ≠ a deluxe edition. there's a huge difference between releasing 3 new songs vs adding an entire new album onto your previous one. you can't possibly compare beyonce adding two new songs and some remixes to ST deluxe to Gaga creating a whole new album. 

 

in fact Gaga "rereleased" her next album Born This Way yet was unable to sell no where near TFM 

Beyoncé re-released bday with Beautiful Liar which is her biggest European chart hit to date along with halo. She also released IASF a year later and that helped the album a lot since it was released during Xmas. Then she re-released ST the same way TFM was released. With new tracks and remixes tagged on the to regular edition plus a separate ep called “more ep”. Yet non of those albums even came close to its sales. My other faves Kesha and Lana re-released the same way with an ep in the states and a re-release everywhere else. Fearless was released with 6 or 7 new tracks a year later during Xmas and it jumped back in the top 10 (this was bigger than tfm in the states though). Shakira did in 2006 with HDL and that album only sold 5m. GGGB and TD also had 3 more singles added which helped the album a lot, especially GGGB which was selling worse than A Girl Like Me if you read old ukmix threads. No one is going to decide to buy a re-release based on how many album tracks there is. That makes no sense. People buy albums when they hear a lot of hits or a really good song. BAd Romance might have not sold as much as poker face but it’s the reason why TFM sold that much. The album peaked in January 2010 in most places and that’s exactly when Bad Romance started peaking everywhere. Lastly, BTW re-release comparison makes no sense because it was anniversary release that a lot of artists do (alanis, Gwen, evanescence,etc), plus there’s no original songs just make overs from LGBT artists. It was also released 10 years later not during the album cycle with new singles to help it reach more sales.

Edited February 9 by VioletsandRoses

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