Oct 18, 2025
BotneyHe's the actual Adele.
Completely different type of sales juggernaut
- Oct 18, 2025·edited·6 replies
Adele has a Thriller/Rumours/Saturday Night Fever - and is the only artist with an album wholly on that performance + cultural level this century. Eminem doesn’t have one, Beyoncé doesn’t have one, not Kanye, Coldplay, Drake, Gaga, Katy, 50 Cent, Wayne, Rihanna, Taylor, Bieber, Weeknd, Ed Sheeran or Bruno. Not even Confessions. Put some respect on her name
Gosh 😹Oct 18, 2025BRAVE· editedAdele has a Thriller/Rumours/Saturday Night Fever - and is the only artist with an album wholly on that performance + cultural level this century. Eminem doesn’t have one, Beyoncé doesn’t have one, not Kanye, Coldplay, Drake, Gaga, Katy, 50 Cent, Wayne, Rihanna, Taylor, Bieber, Weeknd, Ed Sheeran or Bruno. Not even Confessions. Put some respect on her name
Frank and Kendrick have one
Oct 18, 2025BRAVEAdele has a Thriller/Rumours/Saturday Night Fever - and is the only artist with an album wholly on that performance + cultural level this century. Eminem doesn’t have one, Beyoncé doesn’t have one, not Kanye, Coldplay, Drake, Gaga, Katy, 50 Cent, Wayne, Rihanna, Taylor, Bieber, Weeknd, Ed Sheeran or Bruno. Not even Confessions. Put some respect on her name
Taylor Stans about to swat you, good lucky buddy
Oct 18, 2025·1 replythegreatdivineIf Taylor was as big as Swifties keep claiming ("she's bigger than Michael Jackson and the Beatles!"), she wouldn't have suffered such a massive drop.
It was a Temu style marketing campaign, that article that claimed it was a win for e-commerce and not music was very true
As someone who works in that industry it's impressive to see how they operate that store
Oct 18, 2025https://twitter.com/DrakeUpdating/status/1979604042172280972thegreatdivine
that lil nigga was getting 45-50mil daily in march/april
cant even make it up dog, for that many listeners to tune into your art, your work, your passion, and 50% of them decided within 6 months that that s*** isnt listenable more than once
- Oct 18, 2025·2 repliesBRAVE
Adele has a Thriller/Rumours/Saturday Night Fever - and is the only artist with an album wholly on that performance + cultural level this century. Eminem doesn’t have one, Beyoncé doesn’t have one, not Kanye, Coldplay, Drake, Gaga, Katy, 50 Cent, Wayne, Rihanna, Taylor, Bieber, Weeknd, Ed Sheeran or Bruno. Not even Confessions. Put some respect on her name
Awesome that she achieved that 15 years ago, bravo. How did 30 perform?
Didn't 1989 sell like 10m in USA alone and 20m more globally? It must rank pretty high.
Oct 18, 2025BRAVEAdele has a Thriller/Rumours/Saturday Night Fever - and is the only artist with an album wholly on that performance + cultural level this century. Eminem doesn’t have one, Beyoncé doesn’t have one, not Kanye, Coldplay, Drake, Gaga, Katy, 50 Cent, Wayne, Rihanna, Taylor, Bieber, Weeknd, Ed Sheeran or Bruno. Not even Confessions. Put some respect on her name
check my last post in the pop thread
- Oct 18, 2025Botney
Awesome that she achieved that 15 years ago, bravo. How did 30 perform?
Didn't 1989 sell like 10m in USA alone and 20m more globally? It must rank pretty high.
If I said 1989 is in the same category as Britney's BOMT to me...
Oct 18, 2025BRAVEAdele has a Thriller/Rumours/Saturday Night Fever - and is the only artist with an album wholly on that performance + cultural level this century. Eminem doesn’t have one, Beyoncé doesn’t have one, not Kanye, Coldplay, Drake, Gaga, Katy, 50 Cent, Wayne, Rihanna, Taylor, Bieber, Weeknd, Ed Sheeran or Bruno. Not even Confessions. Put some respect on her name
The Eminem Show
Oct 18, 2025no one has or will ever have trilogy by weeknd. i dont want to hear it
Oct 18, 2025BRAVEAdele has a Thriller/Rumours/Saturday Night Fever - and is the only artist with an album wholly on that performance + cultural level this century. Eminem doesn’t have one, Beyoncé doesn’t have one, not Kanye, Coldplay, Drake, Gaga, Katy, 50 Cent, Wayne, Rihanna, Taylor, Bieber, Weeknd, Ed Sheeran or Bruno. Not even Confessions. Put some respect on her name
Several of the people you named have one, some even bigger than Adele’s
- Oct 18, 2025·edited·3 replies
The Eminem Show
Graduation
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Tha Carter III
Anti
1989
After Hours
Doo Wops & Hooligans
24K Magic
Take Care
Teenage Dream
Confessions
The Fame
ViewsAll of these albums easily on the same level
- Oct 18, 2025TheFader
The Eminem Show
Graduation
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Tha Carter III
Anti
1989
After Hours
Doo Wops & Hooligans
24K Magic
Take Care
Teenage Dream
Confessions
The Fame
ViewsAll of these albums easily on the same level
What are we saying those albums are on the same level of?
Thriller/Saturday Night Fever?
Oct 18, 2025KingOfPopIt was a Temu style marketing campaign, that article that claimed it was a win for e-commerce and not music was very true
As someone who works in that industry it's impressive to see how they operate that store
Life Of A Showgirl is basically a Disney live action remake in the form of a pop album.
- Oct 18, 2025·edited·3 repliesTheFader
The Eminem Show
Graduation
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Tha Carter III
Anti
1989
After Hours
Doo Wops & Hooligans
24K Magic
Take Care
Teenage Dream
Confessions
The Fame
ViewsAll of these albums easily on the same level
Same level as 21?
21 is one of those albums that a grandma in a rural area of Laos knows about, I think that's what BRAVE is saying.
If we are strictly talking about the US, an album that all ages have heard about and generally like, knows the songs...
- Oct 18, 2025jack johnson· edited
Same level as 21?
21 is one of those albums that a grandma in a rural area of Laos knows about, I think that's what BRAVE is saying.
If we are strictly talking about the US, an album that all ages have heard about and generally like, knows the songs...
Same with TES
Even 70 year old grandmas from Poland know this album lmao
- Oct 18, 2025·2 replies
TES is also bigger than 21. That album was everywhere on the world when it dropped
- Oct 18, 2025mov
TES is also bigger than 21. That album was everywhere on the world when it dropped
TES was massive but it factually wasn't bigger than 21 at all.
21 basically sold 20 million more copies overseas than in America.
That's f***ing insane.
- Oct 18, 2025·1 replyjack johnson
Same level as 21?
21 is one of those albums that a grandma in a rural area of Laos knows about, I think that's what BRAVE is saying.
If we are strictly talking about the US, an album that all ages have heard about and generally like, knows the songs...
A few of the albums I named fit those categories too
I think y’all are just too caught up in the fact that 21 is the highest-selling album of the 21st Century (which is impressive nonetheless but doesn’t de facto make it more or less known than an album like Graduation)
- Oct 18, 2025mov
TES is also bigger than 21. That album was everywhere on the world when it dropped
Nah, 21 is legitimately the highest-selling album of the 21st Century
But I think there are numerous albums, TES included, that are just as culturally renowned even if the total sales figure doesn’t match up completely
- Oct 18, 2025·1 replyTheFader
A few of the albums I named fit those categories too
I think y’all are just too caught up in the fact that 21 is the highest-selling album of the 21st Century (which is impressive nonetheless but doesn’t de facto make it more or less known than an album like Graduation)
It has Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You. That’s what elevates it to Thriller/Rumours/Saturday Night Fever alongside the sales alone being on that level
Not to mention how fast it got there and remained a relevant legacy album
- Oct 18, 2025·1 replyjack johnson
Same level as 21?
21 is one of those albums that a grandma in a rural area of Laos knows about, I think that's what BRAVE is saying.
If we are strictly talking about the US, an album that all ages have heard about and generally like, knows the songs...
Thank you perfectly said
- Oct 18, 2025BRAVE
It has Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You. That’s what elevates it to Thriller/Rumours/Saturday Night Fever alongside the sales alone being on that level
Not to mention how fast it got there and remained a relevant legacy album
There are plenty of 21st Century albums with 2 or more smash singles on the same level
- Oct 18, 2025BRAVE
Thank you perfectly said
21 is not the only 21st Century album that this applies to though