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Originally Posted by andre2907
Actually, american artists always celebrate when their album sells a lot. Mariah celebrated when her latest album sold 7 million copies worldwide. Plus, when an album reach over 10 million copies ww, there's always a stickers in the cover saying it did.
It's very common artists celebrating when they reach certain numbers everywhere. In Japan it isn't, because albums sell well only in the first week (usually) and them everybody moves on to their next single, while in the rest of the world artists spend the whole year promoting the album (and the singles).
Oh and by the way, the 2 million copies (in the whole Asia, obviously) aren't a lie. Record companies can be sued and have to pay lots of money if they lie a number like that...
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I'm totally agree. They cannot simply lie about their artistes' sales number. Jolin's J-Game sold more 240k copies last year in Taiwan alone and it was the second best selling album of the year behind Jay Chou. Her first album sold 400k in Asia and her Magic 72 album sold 300k in Taiwan alone and all of them are true. I read them somewhere beside in Wikipedia
Another great examples are Fish Leong and 5566. 5566's first album.which I forgot the title, sold more than a million copies across Asia. Fish Leong's The Power of Love album sold more than 1.5 million copies in Asia. What I can say from this situation is, Taiwan's music market is pretty small. An album can sell 400k-500k or even more than that but reaching a million mark in Taiwan is quite impossible.
On the other hand, Asia is not one of the 3 biggest music market in the world (USA is the biggest, Japan is the second biggest and Europe is the third biggest)but an album could gradually sold 1 or more million copies in Asia
By the way, Jolin Tsai's Dancing Diva sold 2 million copies across Asia? The album was out in May and August is getting near. After just nearly 3 month it has already over 2 million copies. Hmm....... I don't know about that but it's quite possible. Who knows.
