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It feels pretty inevitable barring anything extreme but 100m is a pretty sizeable gap so who knows
You are wrong MJD 1989 will pass X without its re-recording clearly. Its about 500k away from surpassing X and its doing way higher numbers daily.
It's only a matter of time.
Ok? I never claimed it was. English albums usually aren't that big in Latin America anyways. Regardless, Red was a massive era and I don't think this is something that can be argued against.
I think they’ll put it in orphan unless Taylor releases a ‘deluxe’ version with it on. A bit optimistic tho bc the song is clearly in all but official capacity meant to be an addition to Lover.
It was huge in some places Is what I am saying and English speaking artists have had massive sales in Latin America at the time like Adele or Katy Perry
Red wasn't more of a "massive era" than Speak Now actually, both albums sold about the same (at the time), most of the difference now comes from streaming, and of course Red had better catalog sales after 1989.
I mean Red's singles were a lot bigger and a lot more crossover appeal. Not to mention by that point traditional albums were already in steep decline. I mean Apples iPhone revenue doubled between the two year release of the albums, there was clearly a shift away from pure units, and streaming had yet to really pick up.
Points were made. The Debut-Fearless-Speak Now-Red-1989 album run is legendary. She did that
What i'm saying is that Red is the Top Album of 2012 and soon 1989 will be the Top Album of 2014. I don't care about Katy Perry or Adele's sales in Latin America.
Album sales in the US from 2010 to 2012 went from 360m to 350m, not that steep of a decline... Red's singles were bigger but both albums sold about 6m before 1989 which sold 10m, like Fearless, her two obvious peaks imo.
In any case, her 2007-2015 run in the US was quite impressive indeed, she had basically no competition (besides lazy Adele).
