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Feb 3 09 1:40 PM

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I don't know if it's just a game played by the labels or something, but i can't understand why they just announce singers as the best-selling female as if there's no responsibility at all.

First they say Mariah has sold over 200 millions albums world wide making her the biggest-selling female of all.
Then they announce Celine (watch her on Oprah singing My Love) as the biggest-selling female of all with also 200 millions records. I won't even mention Madonna for being acclaimed as the one who has sold the most.

So how trustful is those informations? Where people get that? In all those music institutions, is there anyone really able to say how many records artists sell even if it's estimated numbers? Please, just let me understand that.
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Feb 3 09 2:37 PM

I just roll my eyes whenever I hear that! I don't recall them doing that with the male singers, I could be wrong though.

Eminem: "Hi Mariah, can I touch your boobs?"
Mariah: [drunk] "I'm Mary Poppins!"
Eminem barely touches Mariah and then just jizzes on her stomach
Eminem: "[sobbing] That. Was. Amazing."
Mariah: "You're gross, get me a towel..."

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Last Edited By: underneath the stars Feb 3 09 2:39 PM. Edited 1 time.

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Feb 3 09 4:33 PM

Mariah's sales were just recently inflated this year. The whole TEOM era she was at 160 million in sales and now she is magically at 200 million sold worldwide. I think all the divas have inflated sales and egos which is why this occurs.

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Feb 3 09 5:03 PM

whatitlooklike wrote:
Mariah's sales were just recently inflated this year. The whole TEOM era she was at 160 million in sales and now she is magically at 200 million sold worldwide. I think all the divas have inflated sales and egos which is why this occurs.
If I remember correctly she was at 165 million just as TEOM was coming out.

If you add 9 million for TEOM that comes to 174. Add 2.5 for EMC2 then she has 176.5.

If you then include 1 million shipped for The Ballads worldwide then she rises to 177.5.

So still quite short of the 200 million mark. Her back catalogue would have sold 1 million max over the last 3 years. So Max max max she is about 178 million.

I think they include singles sales though in her figures. Also probably every itunes sale for a track gets included on her total to get the magic figure plus dvd sales etc.

But yeah, still inflated like all the divas.

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Feb 4 09 2:50 AM

hmm but when did celine ever sold so much?
i dun believe that all her french albums were such gazillion sellers

and madonna... also again she never did have many albums so i always wonder where all her sales came from
anyone has some of their stats?

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Feb 4 09 3:15 AM

one thing is for certain...mariah is definitely NOT the best selling artist this decade.

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Feb 4 09 7:22 AM

^Well, sales are significantly lower this decade, so that's not a surprise (did I just stand up for Beyonce? )

It's funny how Mariah says she never pays attention to the numbers and didn't care, but when that UK station quoted her minus like 100 mil she had something to say about it

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Feb 4 09 10:56 AM

and madonna... also again she never did have many albums so i always wonder where all her sales came from
anyone has some of their stats?
Madonna has released almost 20 albums, Andy.....

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Feb 4 09 11:52 AM

Ana Honey, I just saw that Oprah show with Celine yesterday on tv and I was thinking the exact same thing! lol. We all know mariah was THE artist of the 90s though. And charts wise still has the most succes...

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Feb 4 09 3:35 PM

LikePhoenixFromTheAshes wrote:
The best selling female artist worlwide is Nana Mouskouri... how often have I stressed that fact??? *gives up*

WHO???????

Eminem: "Hi Mariah, can I touch your boobs?"
Mariah: [drunk] "I'm Mary Poppins!"
Eminem barely touches Mariah and then just jizzes on her stomach
Eminem: "[sobbing] That. Was. Amazing."
Mariah: "You're gross, get me a towel..."

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Feb 4 09 3:59 PM

underneath the stars wrote:
LikePhoenixFromTheAshes wrote:
The best selling female artist worlwide is Nana Mouskouri... how often have I stressed that fact??? *gives up*

WHO???????

See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Mouskouri


And check 1st and 2nd sources of that claim in the opening sentence:

http://www.universalmusic.../artiste/nana--mouskouri/

http://www.universal-musi...POP/NANA%20MOUSKOURI/809/


Don't know who and what to believe in, though... I gave up questioning this to myself years ago.

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