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What some may not know, many probably do, is that when The Fame Monster came out the deluxe version ,which includes all of The Fame and The Fame Monster, was counted as The Fame and not The Fame Monster. Therefore, when The Fame Monster debuted it debuted at #5 with 174,000 in sales, while The Fame soared from #34 (about 28,000 in sales) to #6 with 151,000 in sales. That means The Fame Monster really sold about 295,000 copies when it debuted. Now, Susan Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream debuted that week as well and debuted with 701,000 copies sold. So if we combined The Fame Monster's sales it would have debuted at #2 instead of #5 (#5 remains The Fame Monster's peak).

Would you have rathered this?

 

Fast forward five weeks and The Fame soared to a new peak of #2. It had previously peaked at #4 in 2009. That week The Fame (which was mostly The Fame Monster) sold 82,000 copies and was second to Susan Boyle's 122,000 copies. Also that week, The Fame Monster moved from #12 to #9 and sold 44,000 copies. If we added the two Fame Monster's together it equals 126,000 copies, a number that beats Susan's 122,000 which would have made The Fame Monster #1 that week, if the regular The Fame's sales were below 4,000 (which is possible). 

 

Would you have rathered The Fame Monster going #1 instead of #5 and The Fame peaking at #4 instead of #2?

 

If you wanna see the full week to week performances of Gaga's albums you can go here

 

To read the articles by Billboard from the weeks discussed here you can go here

The Fame Monster's debut week: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/266540/susan-boyle-sees-dream-soar-to-no-1-on-billboard-200

The Fame's week at #2: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/960799/susan-boyle-extends-run-atop-billboard-200

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weed

Because her album sales total would remain the same, I say yes I would've preferred that so she got another #1 album

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Dominic

Both albums went #1 here.  Flop American Monsters :green:

The hardest thing in this world is to live in it
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Varo Yan
10 minutes ago, Dominic Marc said:

Both albums went #1 here.  Flop American Monsters :green:

just lazy and not so much devoted:grr:

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Ray of Light

She would've had 4 consecutive albums debut at number 1 - bringing her one album shy of Madonna and Janet, and two of the Lemonde lady married to Jay Z

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