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Blackout Finally Hits 1 Million
The Fan-Favorite Album Finally Crosses The Platinum-Selling Threshold
In 2007, amidst personal struggles that were publicized by the press worldwide and frequent court visits, the last thing on Britney Spears's mind was promoting her then new record Blackout. The album hit number two on the Billboard 200 albums with minimal promotion upon release, but took a few years to officially sell a million copies in the U.S. Billboard's Gary Trust revealed Blackout's latest sales total on Sunday when answering fan questions about Spears' album sales. Using the numbers from Nielsen SoundScan, the music sales tracker, Trust reported that Blackout has sold over one million copies since its October 2007 release. The album's sales culminated to around 988,000 copies sold in 2011 and remained stagnant, which peeved Spears fans because Blackout was so close to attaining one million-selling Platinum status. Spears' fans responded to Blackout's almost platinum sales with specified weeks during the year dedicated to boosting the album's sales. One notable week took place in July of last year where fans came together and created “Blackout Purchase Week,” in hopes boosting the album to number one on Billboard's album charts and having it achieve Platinum status. While Blackout did not re-chart to number one on the albums chart, the purchase week did give the album a sales spike that helped it come closer to selling one million units in the U.S. Nearly a year later and the album has gone on to finally hit one million in sales. Blackout remains to be Spears' only studio album to not debut at number one on the Billboard 200 after being outsold by the Eagles' Long Road Out of Eden. Spears' album was set to top the chart, but word got out that the Eagle' Wal-Mart exclusive album sold more copies than Spears. Wal-Mart put out a press release announcing that the Eagles sold double Spears' reported numbers and Billboard did a controversial rule change to its chart methodology and allowed the Eagles to take the number one spot with Spears debuting at number two. [SOURCE] | |
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I remember she was on E News news everyday and on the front of every tabloid back then. Some said her album went to #1, others didn't. Not a Spears fan, but Blackout is her best and most personal album. 'Piece of Me' is the only song I've heard from it and its a pretty good pop song. | |
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I'm all confused here | |
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How do you know it's her best album, when you've heard one song of it? its what everybody else says. | |
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I thought this was a Method Man Redman thread
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It's Funk Doc where the weed at b****
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You never heard Gimme More? | |
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If Blackout had been done by Madonna or any other pop singer, it would've done amazing. It's a fantastic album, front to back. | |
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