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ghlbtsk
Apr 19, 2005

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In 2000, *NSYNC's No Strings Attached debuted at #1 on Billboard with one-week sales of over 2.4 million.
In 2011, Amos Lee's Mission Bell went to #1 on Billboard selling only 40,000, or 0.1% of *NSYNC's total.

:siren: THE MUSIC INDUSTRY :siren:

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ghlbtsk
Apr 19, 2005

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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Where do you find the actual sales numbers? Billboard's website blows. This is really cool though, I'm glad it's dead.

https://www.google.com/#q=lowest+selling+%231+record

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest-selling_albums

ghlbtsk
Apr 19, 2005

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Here's an interesting graph.
People are still gobbling up music, they're just paying almost nothing for it.

ghlbtsk
Apr 19, 2005

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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Okay so it's actually a record low, not a typical modern #1 - that's pretty much what I wanted to know. For all you know the month after the NSYNC album was nearly that low. I want to know what the sales figure are week-by-week, not just the extremes.

Yeah sorry if that was misleading.
Record low #1 vs. record high #1.

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