Do you know what the top 10 albums of 2007 were? Seven years ago the top 10 included ‘N Sync, Eminem, Britney Spears, Creed, Nelly, Backstreet Boys, and Destiny’s Child. These are all mainstream pop stars that everyone’s heard of and everyone knew that everyone was listening to this stuff. Last year’s top albums were:
- “Noel”/Josh Groban: 3,699,000
- “Soundtrack”/ High School Musical 2: 2,957,000
- “Long Road Out of Eden”/Eagles: 2,608,000
- “As I Am”/Alicia Keys: 2,543,000
- “Daughtry”/Daughtry: 2,497,000
- “Soundtrack”/Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley: 2,489,000
- “Minutes To Midnight”/Linkin Park: 2,099,000
- “Dutchess”/Fergie: 2,064,000
- “Taylor Swift”/Taylor Swift: 1,951,000
- “Graduation”/Kanye West: 1,892,000
In this list there are kids albums (#2 and #6), an album that went straight to Wal-Mart (Eagles), a country album (#9) and an American Idol (#5). The top album in 2000 sold ~10 million copies. The top album here had 3.5. It really is all niches nowadays. Nobody is going to kill it the way that GNR and the boy bands did.
