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Posts: 28050 (03/09/2009 1:06 PM) Chris Fanatic '03 |
This is funny. I went to google specific info about the record they hold, and I was reading this came up:
Eminem sold 4 million in one week. Someone is clearly delirious. 
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Posts: 22231 (03/09/2009 1:07 PM) |
The accompanying album, No Strings Attached, was released on March 21, 2000. It sold a record 2.4 million in its first week of release[7]. An estimated 1.1 million of those sales were attributed to the first day of release, another record. By the end of 2000, it had sold over 9.9 million copies, a record for most albums ever sold in a single year. No Strings Attached is currently the eighth best selling album of the SoundScan era which received a Diamond Certification from RIAA for sales of over 11,099,000[17]. The album also broke the Amazon sales records.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27N_Sync#Legal_Battles |
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Posts: 25322 (03/09/2009 1:10 PM) |
Thanks, people.
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Posts: 34540 (03/09/2009 1:13 PM) |
No one's gonna sell that much ever again.
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Posts: 3735 (03/09/2009 1:13 PM) |
Yeah there is no way that is ever going to change unless they completley get rid of all file sharing software.
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cheercutie3333 |
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Posts: 1267 (03/09/2009 1:14 PM) |
I know they still hold the record for first week sales for NSA but doesn't Celebrity still hold the number 2 spot for first week?
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Posts: 42016 (03/09/2009 1:26 PM) TMI JJBer '08 |
But we had file sharing back then too... maybe even more so than now because wasn't Napster still around? I remember downloading I Though She Knew when I
was specifically trying to stay away from all the NSA songs so I wouldn't be spoiled. No one will take this away from them
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Alex the Goob |
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Posts: 46836 (03/09/2009 1:31 PM) |
Yeah, I had Napster back then. I think so at least. But I bought BBB and NSA the first day they came out. I don't think I downloaded the songs before the
album came out, because I remember my radio station played the whole album the night before it came out and I flipped out.
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Posts: 5896 (03/09/2009 1:31 PM) |
chocolate covered raisins wrote:Ditto. There are new stats to track now. Like I think Coldplay has the record for most downloaded album ever. |
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Posts: 13343 (03/09/2009 1:35 PM) |
Yeah there was still file sharing back then..when it wasn't as big of a deal and people weren't getting in trouble for illegal downloads.
I think what also made it so big, besides the Pearlman bs was the fact that it had been 2 years since their first album came out so the fans were super antsy and impatient and we wanted that music ASAP. At least..I know I was going nuts waiting for that shit.  2 years felt like a century waiting for NSA to be released back
then..especially with all the issues they had.
And yeah they did do a lot of promo for that..they were all over the place. |
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Semirhage626 |
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Posts: 5897 (03/09/2009 1:42 PM) |
There was file sharing -- but people weren't selling digital music the way they are now and that has had a huge impact. The record Coldplay holds isn't
for illegal downloads -- it is for the most, legal, paid downloads of an album ever. I think more and more, that will be the yardstick -- not physical CD
sales.
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joey is a teapot |
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Posts: 63099 (03/09/2009 4:44 PM) Joey Fanatic '06
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But aren't legal digital downloads counted in album sales on places like Billboard and Soundscan?
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ThaaosHoochie |
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Posts: 251 (03/09/2009 5:15 PM) |
I think it's safe to say 'N Sync will hold that record for quite some time. Not because there will never be an artist/group around that will match
their musical talent
, but it was a very special time in music then
that will probably never happen again. People were more willing to buy cds then. Not only that but we had plenty of "foils" in the industry, ie:
'N Sync vs BSB, Britney vs Christina, Eminem vs pop music, etc. TRL played up those rivalries, and that's when you get the fans outdoing each other
with everything including sales. The entire culture of pop music itself at the time encouraged going out and buying those cds the first day/the first week.
Selling a million a week soon became a regular thing, no big deal. Of course, when there's demand, the price will go up and that's when Napster popped
up as protest. File sharing didn't immediately effect cd sales but in under five years, I'd say it posed a big problem for cd sales. I don't think
it will ever be like it was in 1999-2001 again. Maybe the next wave of teen pop can bring it back, but I highly doubt it.
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Posts: 3436 (03/09/2009 5:32 PM) |
I actually remember the day it came out
I was standing at the cashier paying for my CD when this older girl came running in, grabbed like 6 CDs and was
almost hyperventilating as she was standing in line. Hilarious!
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Sham99 |
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Posts: 19798 (03/09/2009 5:34 PM) |
People don't care about the record they set to this day so much anymore.
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dear lady |
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Posts: 38819 (03/09/2009 5:51 PM) |
Right place at the right time.
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Posts: 3159 (03/09/2009 6:24 PM) |
man, good times.
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