The Dutchess had massive success in North America/Oceania.

It debuted with 150k+ sales in the USA at #3, managed to peak at #2 after a year, was the 3rd biggest album of 2007 and had 3 #1s, a #2 single and a top 5 hit.

Despite the singles selling 15M+ downloads, she managed to sell 4M pure sales alone in the USA with the album as well.

It was charting at #10 on the Billboard 200 in January 2008.

On top of that, it was sandwiched between BEP's smash eras "Monkey Business" and "The END"

What went right for the songstress?

Is this the one that leaked?

Because every week The Dutchess was Top 10 a new small village worth of gays discovered themselves in this album

Just now, PicklePower said:

Is this the one that leaked?

You mean the one that made her team contact ATRL to take it down? That's Double Dutchess

1 minute ago, Spicy Pisces said:

You mean the one that made her team contact ATRL to take it down? That's Double Dutchess

Oh fun fun

Fergie was the queen of the 2000s I don't think there was one week where a solo or BEP track wasn't in the billboard hot 100 between 2003-2010

This album aged well tbh

Because she had a lot of hits from an album, and at that time you could have multiple hits from an album and those multiple hits would serve as further marketing to convince people to get the album.

Isn't this how it worked for most artists tho? You get hits you sell the album, like Gwen's LAMB also sold 4m in the US.

Every single was an event, and music videos literally revived songs

Was no one else selling both Albums and Singles before Fergie?

1 hour ago, TaylorsSquad said:

Was no one else selling both Albums and Singles before Fergie?

correct

In terms of album sales and single success she was actually the biggest pop girl in America during that 2006-2007 era

Kelly Clarkson was also selling albums + singles during that time. Mariah was mostly selling albums. Her digital sales were paling in comparison to the other eras. It was very radio driven. Back then huge airplay still had impact

Fergie's TD / Nelly Furtado's Loose / Gwen's LAMB / Kelly's Breakway were THE pop bibles of the mid 2000s

It's kind of insane how The Duchess sold more than all the BEP albums in the US bar Monkey Business. Even more than Elephunk and The END.

1 hour ago, MatiRod said:

In terms of album sales and single success she was actually the biggest pop girl in America during that 2006-2007 era

She actually sold more than GGGB and Loose in Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Loose and GGGB were bigger in Canada and Europe (but TD did very bad in Europe tbh)

1 hour ago, Distantconstellation said:

Kelly Clarkson was also selling albums + singles during that time. Mariah was mostly selling albums. Her digital sales were paling in comparison to the other eras. It was very radio driven. Back then huge airplay still had impact

This false. First of all the Mariah and Kelly albums were released 2 years prior and the singles weren't even as big bar WBT/SUBG. Secondly saying she's radio driven is false. Fergalicious didn't go #1 only because of radio. LB didn't have chart longevity because of weak radio. Let's look at the YEC on digital and radio.

RADIO- SALES

London Bridge-#75 #13

Fergalicious-#53 #10

Glamorous-#30 #8

BGDC-#4 #1

As you can see her songs did much better on download than radio. It's more impressive that she did that with the OG album no re-release.

Fergalicious is still a banger.

It's weird that she and Gwen had a massive debut album and went downhill with their second album... Truly boatmate.

And L.A Love is still that *****.

1 hour ago, VioletsandRoses said:

It's kind of insane how The Duchess sold more than all the BEP albums in the US bar Monkey Business. Even more than Elephunk and The END.

She actually sold more than GGGB and Loose in Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Loose and GGGB were bigger in Canada and Europe (but TD did very bad in Europe tbh)

This false. First of all the Mariah and Kelly albums were released 2 years prior and the singles weren't even as big bar WBT/SUBG. Secondly saying she's radio driven is false. Fergalicious didn't go #1 only because of radio. LB didn't have chart longevity because of weak radio. Let's look at the YEC on digital and radio.

RADIO- SALES

London Bridge-#75 #13

Fergalicious-#53 #10

Glamorous-#30 #8

BGDC-#4 #1

As you can see her songs did much better on download than radio. It's more impressive that she did that with the OG album no re-release.

the power of adult contemporary ballads

i do remember rih getting dragged for her album sales with fergies being propped up for instance

The original Teenage Dream. This era was monumental, I dare to say she was the IT girl in 2006-2007, after that Rihanna took the crown with GGGB.