An amazing first week. Congratulations are in order!

Million selling weeks in the US (pure album sales)

Soundscan era (since 1991)

 

Rank	Chart Date	Sales	Week	Artist / Album
1.	2015-12-12	3,377,885	1	Adele / 25
2.	2000-04-08	2,415,859	1	NSync / No Strings Attached
3.	2001-08-11	1,879,955	1	NSync / Celebrity
4.	2000-06-10	1,760,049	1	Eminem / The Marshall Mathers LP
5.	2000-12-09	1,591,191	1	Backstreet Boys / Black and Blue
6.	2002-06-15	1,321,799	2	Eminem / The Eminem Show
7.	2000-06-03	1,319,193	1	Britney Spears / Oops!…I Did It Again
8.	2014-11-08	1,286,544	1	Taylor Swift / 1989
9.	2001-01-06	1,258,667	6	Beatles / 1
10.	2012-11-10	1,208,290	1	Taylor Swift / Red
11.	2016-01-09	1,160,000	5	Adele / 25
12.	2005-03-19	1,140,638	1	50 Cent / The Massacre
13.	1999-06-05	1,133,505	1	Backstreet Boys / Millennium
14.	2015-12-19	1,112,162	2	Adele / 25
15.	2011-06-11	1,108,403	1	Lady Gaga / Born This Way
16.	2004-04-10	1,096,213	1	Usher / Confessions
17.	1998-12-05	1,085,373	1	Garth Brooks / Double Live
18.	1993-01-09	1,061,483	6	Whitney Houston / The Bodyguard Soundtrack
19.	2000-11-04	1,054,511	1	Limp Bizkit / Chocolate Starfish…
20.	2010-11-13	1,046,718	1	Taylor Swift / Speak Now
21.	2004-02-28	1,022,149	1	Norah Jones / Feels Like Home
22.	2008-06-28	1,005,545	1	Lil Wayne / Tha Carter III

 

 

"Reputation" will probably rank at #9.

I'll update the list with "Reputation" when we get the official Soundscan numbers from Billboard.

Edited November 18, 20178 yr by Green

28 minutes ago, Verge of Obscene said:

Yes, I know Adele beat Brit. I mean, Brit’s still 2nd 

.....then it's not a record

14 minutes ago, Cheers said:

Well..she was smart in doing the two-magazine thing cause she prob wouldn't have sold 1m w/o it 

 

So she sold 550k after the first day? Pretty frontloaded

 she just outsold the best-selling album of 2017 by 400k in a week 

12 minutes ago, Icannot said:

Let's be honest with your gay selves, anything above 1 million is phenomenal. She outsold everyone  with 4 days of sales.

 

 

 

 

But keep trying hard to discredit her, I guess

2 minutes ago, Green said:

Million selling weeks in the US (pure album sales)

Soundscan era (since 1991)

 

Rank	Chart Date	Sales	Week	Artist / Album
1.	2015-12-12	3,377,885	1	Adele / 25
2.	2000-04-08	2,415,859	1	NSync / No Strings Attached
3.	2001-08-11	1,879,955	1	NSync / Celebrity
4.	2000-06-10	1,760,049	1	Eminem / The Marshall Mathers LP
5.	2000-12-09	1,591,191	1	Backstreet Boys / Black and Blue
6.	2002-06-15	1,321,799	2	Eminem / The Eminem Show
7.	2000-06-03	1,319,193	1	Britney Spears / Oops!…I Did It Again
8.	2014-11-08	1,286,544	1	Taylor Swift / 1989
9.	2001-01-06	1,258,667	6	Beatles / 1
10.	2012-11-10	1,208,290	1	Taylor Swift / Red
11.	2016-01-09	1,160,000	5	Adele / 25
12.	2005-03-19	1,140,638	1	50 Cent / The Massacre
13.	1999-06-05	1,133,505	1	Backstreet Boys / Millennium
14.	2015-12-19	1,112,162	2	Adele / 25
15.	2011-06-11	1,108,403	1	Lady Gaga / Born This Way
16.	2004-04-10	1,096,213	1	Usher / Confessions
17.	1998-12-05	1,085,373	1	Garth Brooks / Double Live
18.	1993-01-09	1,061,483	6	Whitney Houston / The Bodyguard Soundtrack
19.	2000-11-04	1,054,511	1	Limp Bizkit / Chocolate Starfish…
20.	2010-11-13	1,046,718	1	Taylor Swift / Speak Now
21.	2004-02-28	1,022,149	1	Norah Jones / Feels Like Home
22.	2008-06-28	1,005,545	1	Lil Wayne / Tha Carter III

 

 

"Reputation" will probably rank at #9.

Adele taking 3 spots with one album.

Just now, hellocory said:

 she just outsold the best-selling album of 2017 by 400k in a week 

This is her Born This Way. A successful era, but the beginning of the downfall. 

 

HOLY For It being performed constantly is this eras last hope  

2 minutes ago, Cheers said:

This is her Born This Way. A successful era, but the beginning of the downfall. 

 

HOLY For It being performed constantly is this eras last hope  

This is said literally every time she releases. 

 

Abandoning country = beginning of downfall

Kim/Kanye = she's over!

Selling 1.3M in 2017 = frontloaded mess! beginning of her downfall!

 

Y'all never learn   

Edited November 18, 20178 yr by hellocory

2 minutes ago, Cheers said:

This is her Born This Way. A successful era, but the beginning of the downfall. 

 

HOLY For It being performed constantly is this eras last hope  

Her fanbase is getting larger and larger, and there's no evidence to the contrary.

 

Now, the singles aren't being as well received by the GP as she probably would like, but I don't see any case for her being on a "downfall."

Just now, hellocory said:

This is said literally every time she releases. 

 

Abandoning country = beginning of downfall

Kim/Kanye = she's over!

Selling 1.3M in 2017 = frontloaded mess! beginning of her downfall!

 

Y'all never learn   

Except this is the first time since Speak Now (2010) that her lead single under-performs and she fails to dominate the iTunes top 10 like she usually does. 

2 minutes ago, Cheers said:

This is her Born This Way. A successful era, but the beginning of the downfall. 

 

HOLY For It being performed constantly is this eras last hope  

The only thing bad about BTW is that gaga was bigger than Taylor used to be and that she was 3 years into her career

After 6 albums and 13 years in the industry at least (by her next release), it wouldnt be bad at all

1 minute ago, alexanderao said:

Her fanbase is getting larger and larger, and there's no evidence to the contrary.

 

Now, the singles aren't being as well received by the GP as she probably would like, but I don't see any case for her being on a "downfall."

We shall see in the coming weeks.

8 minutes ago, hellocory said:

.....then it's not a record

Relax.

38 minutes ago, tomorrowneverdies said:

This is admittedly impressive. But I firmly believe that one era trades on the quality/success of the last. I don't think that the singles' reception this era bodes well for the next album.

You mean like 'Speak Now' era killed 'Red' era?

Edited November 18, 20178 yr by muddysquirrel

2 minutes ago, Cheers said:

Except this is the first time since Speak Now (2010) that her lead single under-performs and she fails to dominate the iTunes top 10 like she usually does. 

She went #1 for 3 weeks. I think she's doing alright She's also playing an exclusive stadium tour that's probably going to challenge Madonna for the biggest female tour of all-time.

Her next album will probably decline in pure sales but she'll still remain easily above everyone else bar Adele.

5 minutes ago, Cheers said:

Except this is the first time since Speak Now (2010) that her lead single under-performs and she fails to dominate the iTunes top 10 like she usually does. 

It was technically impossible to dominate the Top 10 as all album tracks besides the 4 already released were album-only during the first week. They were only released as individual downloads today!

Just now, alestevens said:

It was technically impossible to dominate the Top 10 as all album tracks besides the 4 already released were album-only during the first week. They were only released as individual downloads today!

This, and also, none of the songs are available in streaming, which is arguably the biggest component of the Top 10 right now.

2 minutes ago, Blue. said:

This, and also, none of the songs are available in streaming, which is arguably the biggest component of the Top 10 right now.

He meant the iTunes Top 10 i think!

2 minutes ago, alestevens said:

It was technically impossible to dominate the Top 10 as all album tracks besides the 4 already released were album-only during the first week. They were only released as individual downloads today!

So are you saying she will be all over the iTunes top 10 tomorrow morn? Cuz her other eras had no problem doing this even her bonus tracks went top 10 as soon as they were made available on iTunes. 

 

 

 

 

Streaming this masterpiece is the only way to ensure longevity, success, and beauty, girlies! Get to it

27 minutes ago, Timber said:

Maybe they meant WW?

2m is too high for her.  She might hit 1.7m WW.  1.6-1.65m is more likely since she's just over ~1.5m with 1.267m US (HDD... final Billboard # could be higher) + 84,000 UK + 65,000 CA (through four days) + 37k Japan + ~50k WW TEAs & SEAs.

 

The anglosphere + Japan are her bread and butter.  She won't put up similarly impressive numbers, even relative to market sizes, from the rest of Europe: she's debuting #2 Germany, #11 France (assumed), #2 Sweden, #3 Italy, #9 Belgium (Wallonia), etc.  She'll pull solid numbers in AU ofc, as well as NZ & IE (but they're small), and perform decently in Mexico/Brazil.

Dying at the difference between Taylor and Sam.  

 

You people are such cranks.  Why bother calculating today's climate sales to years ago or saying it's front loaded. 

 

Point of the matter is, she outsold all our flop faves in a week and you'll just have to get the **** over it. 

9 minutes ago, Firework said:

You people are such cranks.  Why bother calculating today's climate sales to years ago or saying it's front loaded. 

 

Point of the matter is, she outsold all our flop faves in a week and you'll just have to get the **** over it. 

Tis' true

We still have to wait for Billboard's numbers because apparently they are more accurate and they do tend to be a bit higher!