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sad that Mariah dropped from 120m albums to 25m this decade.. thats a huge drop.. (same for celine)... Madonna "only" lost 50% of her 90's sales... I think next decades biggest seller will be the beatles with ... maybe 25m...lol the music industry is dead.. btw until june 2009 Michael did not belong to the top 30 biggest selling artists of the decade.. he sold well over 10m copies since his death on albums alone.. Robbie is the biggest selling international artist, with the highest sales in most countries.. Eminem and Britney and Beatles would not even be close without the US market.. RW is the biggest selling artist in EUROPE of the decade..BY FAR

.. 420-430,000 copies in 4 weeks IS amazing..(reality is not his debut album-hes no new artist... of course all the x factor newbies sell well, but theres only ONE Robbie Williams as unique as his music and persona is, his sales are well better than anybody expected...) OK he's not sellinmg that well in ALL european countries... but he's still the KING of Europe.. Reality's 1x platinum cert for european shipments of 1,000,000 is overdue now... his shipment for the UK must already be near 600,000 (2x platinum) cause over the counter sales already are exceeding 400,000.. and he received platinum in Germany in the first week, too (200,000)... so he's already shipped 800,000 copies (at least) between UK and Germany alone.. I bet Reality will become top 5 of europes biggest selling albums of the year..

but RW had an amazing string of super-successful releases in the UK (basically from 1997-2005 all his albums were more than just successful)...

sales are really good... compared to its position... it'll break 400,000 sold in its 4th week.. thats good... but we have to face it, that his popularity has decreased in the uk massively. btw its platinum in Germany (200,000 copies shipped)... in the first week.

hopefully sales stay above 50k

go mariah... top 10

so far Reality sold another 61k (latest update) I wish he would come close to 100k again.. its quite shocking that reality will drop to #4 this week..

first week sales must be huge in europe.. maybe exceeding 450,000... so he may have shipped 700k to the minimum... known sales (rounded) 270,000 UK 17,000 France (12,000 Australia)

UK still has one of the biggest markets... and its not that affected by illegal downloads i guess.. i think in 2 years the us and british music market will have equaled.. lol.. just at the top 10 albums in the uk (almost same sales as the us top 10...) especially during xmas season...

but I bought 2 copies of reality myself.. unfortunately in GERMANY.. lol (he'll debut at #1 here) its his: 8th consecutive #1 album-debut in Germany 2000 Sing 2001 Swing 2002 Ecapology 2003 Knebworth 2004 Greatest 2005 Intensive 2006 Rude 2009 Reality

the only thing that is important is 1st week sales, and when reality exceeds 200,000 copies it'll be a HUGE success. + if it has stable sales during xmas i see it selling 800,000-1m copies even in 2009...

i hate all the x factor crap now... rob deserves #1!

but how can you neglect a song that features robs angelic voice or his entertaining dance moves? btw, look at it as if its a "duet"...

my ranking: 1. Intensive care 2. REALITY 3. Rudebox 4. Sing 5. Escapology 6. I've been 7. Life thru 8. Swing It has some outstanding songs on it, Morning sun, superblind, last days of disco, difficult for weirdos, starstruck.. some very amazing songs- well done rob.

i would faint and cry if that happens.. I wasn't a fan of rob back to TT prime in the 90's.. I always was camp Gary.. lol.. I became a ROB die hard, life changing stalker-esque fan in 1998/99 when his second album became a huge hit.. and now I think its right to rejoin them-as long as its only a "guest" appearance (BTW I love how TT changed Could it be magics production to less dance-pop and more generic piano-pop...)

what a wise thing to do

i bought both versions: normal CD and special edition on the first day, and the cashier asked me if it was right, that I took 2 copies.. lol, and I said yes, and she was a bit irritated. proof http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/489/11441674.jpg

Wetten Dass is not recorded, its always live (since like 1982...) his performance was good (as always) but this time, he wasn't really interacting with the audience-like he did at previous visits to that show. He also had a little chat with Thomas Gottschalk (the host)... but left after 12 minutes. The interview was mainly about his comeback and if he was nervous about it and what he thinks is important in life besides being a succesful singer. But one funny incident happen eventually, he licked the co host on her cheek... he did so back in 2003 when she (Michelle Huntziger) awarded the ECHO Award to him... so Tommy posted the picture of the licking incident from 2003 and asked if Michelle could come to the stage (she was backstage before) and then he licked her again-was kinda funny :) he performed bodies btw.. (looooove the song) the berlin concert was broadcasted on thursday on pro7... RW is EVERYWHERE in Germany, I think he will score the biggest selling album of the year, just because he's as popular as he used to be in 2005/2006, when Intensive Care became the biggest album...(selling 1.2m copies). I love my country for showing soooooooooooooooo much love and attention to him!

even more esxciting is the first ifpi certification (for shipments across europe).. i bet reality will stars with double platinum in europe (what means, becoming the fastest and biggest selling album in europe of 2009)

Morning Sun: 10/10 Bodies: 10/10 *love it* You know me 5/10 Blasphemy: 7/10 do you mind: 8/10 las days of disco: 10/10 somewhere: 5,5/10 deceptacon: 7,5/10 starstruck: 8/10 difficult for weirdos: 6/10 superblind: 10/10 won't do that: 6/10 =93,5/120 = 77%/ 7,8/10

Bodies stays at #1 in Germany for a second consecutive week (by far)...

mark owen was so right when he said that reality is better than their new album (the circus).. loooove it. loooove rob, he's the greatest!

this song is a very successful return to his pre rudebox sales.

omg it leaked..?? I'm downloading it right now, but don't worry i'm going to buy both versions on the first day.

thank you, amazing gig!