It seems like every other day a Billboard record is being broken...
This week Taylor Swift sets a new high for biggest opening sales week of a digital song by a female artist, with her new tune "Today was a Fairytale", which sold an impressive 325,000 last week.
That number is good enough to knock former record holder Britney Spears down to the #2 spot. In 2008 her single "Womanizer" debuted with 286,000 when it rocketed to the #1 position.
I know the digital age is still booming, and most "records" will be broken within a couple months of each other, but I think this all delegitimizes some of the feats that have been set in the past.
Things have changed in the music business; a #1 single in 2010 is not the same as a #1 single in the year 2000. Back in the beginning of the decade, albums sold MILLIONS of copies, now most are lucky to break 500,000.
Sad.
(Image courtesy of Billboard.com)
Guess you have to adjust for deflation... huh?
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