Hybrid Theory: 7th Best Selling Album of the Decade

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    It did. If I remember correctly; I read something a few years ago that stated LP lost about 4 million sales of HT to downloading.

    That's a lot.
     
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    nsync ... we will never forget you :D
    looool :lol:
     
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    Over 10 million have been produced, but only 9,663,000 have been sold, or something like that. That means there's still like 400,000 sitting on the shelves. I think that's correct anyway.
     
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    Strange list.

    I didn't know anyone with Creed's album lmao. Eminem doesn't really suprise me at all though.
     
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    WOW!!
    nice job LP. You guys deserve that HT was amazing!!
    props to eminem for having not 1 but 2 albums! respect for him.
     
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    I don't think Creed got that popular outside of America (where they were huge for a few years).
     
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    Could have sworn Hybrid Theory was somewhere around 12-13 million copies. :/

    Ah well, props.

    n another note, I miss Nelly.
     
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    I disagree with that statistic because that's assuming that everyone who downloaded it would've bought it if downloading was not an option, but that's not an assumption one can make. I know I've downloaded many albums that I would never waste my money on, yet my download of that album would be considered a lost sale for statistical purposes.
     
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    Yeah I was actually gonna make the point that we should take those kind of statistics with a grain of salt.
     
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    Congrats to the band.
     
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    And you're right; but I guarantee you a lot of people downloaded it and never bought it, and that's a shame. Downloading isn't wrong persay, but if you like a CD you should buy it...even though the "album sales to artist compensation" ratio is an absolute joke.
     
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    Agreed 100%.
     
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    this is a pretty monumental achievement, regardless of how many sales were lost. It's unfortunate but you gotta expect these things now a days. I think I actually downloaded the album first, then went out and bought the CD anyway haha. It's a shame we'll never see CD sales this high again.
     
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    They should be more exact when it comes to albums sold instead of rounding off to the nearest 1,000 lol, but regardless congrats LP!
     
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    Music should be free man, don't listen to the capitalists.
     
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    Blech *NSYNC...I can't believe that was the second best-selling album of the decade. Disgusting. I mean really now, couldn't people have chosen a better album to buy 11 million times? I would even have been fine with American Idiot being in the #2 spot!
     
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    They were really really popular when that album came out
    and I hate to say it but the album was pretty fuckin good xP
    thats what i get for having so many female cousins lol
     
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    Tell that to the pre-teen/teen girls back then who bought that album, including myself. They were huge, the album was huge, plus friggin' Justin Timberlake was in the group. It's justified.
     
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    I see what you did thar. Lolz.
     
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    Funny how I didn't do that intentionally lol. :lol:
     
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