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Originally Posted by Macfan4life
Perspective, perspective, perspective.
A few weeks ago on Stern, they were having a discussion about music sales. J-Z's lastest album that was released about a month or so ago was instantly platinum selling just over a million downloads or CD's during the first week of release. The comments were that it was a LONG time since a music release/album did this in the first week. This used to be fairly common but extremely rare these days. For any album to sell a million copies is a huge success in today's music world. Rewind time to the 1990's. I think Janet Jackson's albums during the early 90's would go Diamond, selling well over 10 million worldwide. When her career fizzled about 10 years ago, she had an album release that sold about 2 million copies. It was considered a HUGE flop. To think that a double platinum album to be considered a flop. To sell 2 million today would be a HUGE success and Jay-Z territory.
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Wait a minute here!!!! Jay Z sold a million copies the first week because Sprint bought the copies and made the album Free to its customers. It did not go Platinum by customers paying for the album. Total shenanigans. It was platinum before it was available.