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Adele's 25 Breaks Record for most amount of Sales Records Broken in a Week!
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I wonder how much it has to do with Amy Winehouse fizzling out and becoming a less-marketable drug addict. Would Adele be this popular with Winehouse as a relevant artist?
I see. I guess my problem is that it seems a bit facile. It's not like the only thing that has changed is that album sales have plummeted; singles sales have also exploded by comparison. Today it's easy to think of female singers whose albums to singles sales are 1:3.25 or 1:5 or whatever; if you look at the big names of the 1980s or 1990s you'll see those numbers reversed: 3:1 or 2:1 or something. I'm not a music sales historian or anything, but it just seems to me that doing an adjusted apples to oranges comparison lends itself to something more complex than just "multiply album sales by three."
Diprosalic
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Gaga still had a career?
Amy wasn't a marketable artist like Adele, drug issues aside, you could tell she was incredibly uncomfortable with being a celebrity in her interviews. I think Adele would almost always certainly rise to prominence.
Carnby
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I've never heard of her either.
Paracelsus
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Well, I guess it's time for me to listen at least a song from her. Which one is considered to be her absolute best?
ZombieSupaStar
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me either, then again I think the most recent album I own is Hellbilly Deluxe from 1998?
NHarmonic.
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Still nothing on 1989. Sell all the shit you want but this album is filled with uninspired songs. It feels too much like trying to rehash 21, but not working.
The Power Of Snap
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Wasn't technically Michael Jackson dangerous album in 1991 the fastest selling? I remember seeing that somewhere but I don't think it was ever calculated.
Utada did it when she was 18 years old in 1 country though.
That being said, this post would have been perfect with the Be My Last car crash gif.
I think one of the main reasons for her success is how she is able to reach the older market.
RumblingRosco
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I mean, Adele outsold Utada in just 1 country (USA) albeit the USA has a much larger population than Japan.
OrangeGrayBlue
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There are so many variables beyond population that could be factored in if you really wanted to.
RumblingRosco
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Right, I'm not discounting it, just mentioning the population difference. Adele's record is still legit IMO.
The Kingdom Hearts girl who couldn't even give away her US albums for free? Adele done sent her back to Square Enix to work on KH3.Hmph so what? Utada Hikaru's distance sold 3m on its first week
In japan
teruterubozu
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Poor Hikki. She didn't ask for this.
LQX
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I'm still trying to figure out why so many are amazed by Adele singing. We have and have had singers that sound just as good if not better that don't get half the attention she is getting but then again we can say that for a lot of the biggest singers, still, I listened to her first album and I did not find it remarkable at all.
It's not even one of Utada's best albums, oh well. She can lose this one accomplishment.
Wow, so 3.38 million is the new US record.
Triggerhappytel
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I'm not sure anyone cares, but I find it interesting - when I wrote the above post Hello was at about 503 million views, and it's now at over 555 million. So in four days it's had over 50 million views, which I find an insane number. At this rate it'll be nearing a billion in just over a month.
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