All-Time Sales Debuts

MILLION SELLING BABIES: There have been 12 previous albums to debut with more than one million sold before Taylor Swift’s Speak Now garnered 1.047m, topped by NSYNC’s 2.4m for No Strings Attached in March 2000. The rest of the list is as follows: NSYNC Celebrity (1.9m, 7/29/01), Eminem Marshall Mathers LP (1.8m, 5/28/00), Backstreet Boys Black & Blue (1.6m, 11/26/00), Britney Spears Oops…I Did It Again (1.3m, 5/21/00), 50 Cent Massacre (1.14m, 3/6/05), Backstreet Boys Millennium (1.13m, 5/23/99), Usher Confessions (1.09m, 3/28/04), Garth Brooks Double Live (1.085m, 11/22/98), Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish… (1.055m, 11/22/00), Norah Jones Feels Like Home (1.02m, 2/15/04) and Lil Wayne Tha Carter III (1.006m, 6/15/08). (11/3p)