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Certification

The album has been out for over a year now and is still not certified either gold or platinum despite selling more than enough to be certified gold and enough to be certified platinum. Kelly Clarkson's My December has sold over 700,000 copies in the US, about 200,000 less than Blackout and is certified with platinum status, yet Blackout is still not even certified gold. I'm just trying to figure out how the RIAA works. Is there something that Spears' record label would need to do to certify the album, or does certification simply come from the RIAA?

Production

It says "In February 2006, it was reported that Britney was "in the midst of recording her next album," which could possibly be released later that year." Should it says "In February 2007..." since her album was released in October 2007, and She didn't start recording it till November 2006 so it couldn't have been "in the midst of recording it"?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexander.hugh.george (talk • contribs) 04:26, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

U.S Sales and Worldwide Sales as of 2009

As of July 2009, it has been confirmed by the Nielsen SoundScan figures that Blackout had sold 967,000 in the United States, therefore it lacks another 33,000 copies to give the album a total of 1 million mark that's why it did not received a platinum certification by the RIAA which requires 1 million units or copies. Her 3.1 million sales according to the Yahoo! Music News, stands only in her digital sales of remixes and songs for Blackout being sold in the iTunes worldwide.

Sales of Blackout worldwide could be 2.5 million as of 2009, it did not sell more than 3 to 4 million copies! Despite the fact Britney didn't promote the album very well after her 2007 MTV VMA performance of "Gimme More". Hope this helps!—Preceding unsigned comment added by Adelbutt123 (talk • contribs) 06:19, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Additional Promotion for "BLACKOUT"

I added the Ellen DegeGeneres show, where Ellen dances to "Toy Soldier" watch here, she did promote the album without Britney...and she did gave some of "Blackout" CD'S on its day of its release... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adelbutt123 (talk • contribs) 07:52, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Parental advisory was not present on Middle East edition of the album because I bought mine there and there was nothing on it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.139.36.46 (talk) 14:33, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

BLACKOUT HAS SOLD OVER 3 MILLION COPIES!

the album has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/videogaga/10234/britneys-27-most-memorable-moments/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/28/britney-spears-circus this two sources say it, and also heybritney.com Why people think it is impossible? The album has been for two years and and sold 2 million on its first two months of release, making the album #32 in terms of shipments in 2007. It is very low to say it sold 2.3 million, and using fake links, because you can't use worldwidealbums.net, because that site is not reliable and it only counts mediatraffic information. DON'T LOWER AGAIN BLACKOUT SALES, IT SOLD OVER 3.1 MILLION COPIES ACCORDING TO 3 SOURCES! —Preceding unsigned comment added by BritneyFeli (talk • contribs) 03:02, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Commercial Performance has bi-ist feel to it?

Not saying this trying to sound like a hater or anything because I love Britney (: But I feel this comment and I quote, "It was supposed to debut on the number one spot but two days before the charts came out, a policy changed, stating that albums that were sold exclusively at one retailer could now chart one the Billboard 200 which should have taken effect the next week thus allowing Blackout to occupy the number one spot for a week making all of her studio albums debut in the number one position, but it took effect the same week of Blackout's release", is very iffyyy? It shouldn't say that it would have debuted at number 1. and make all of her albums debut in that position. It just feels very defensive?

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 It is very low to say it sold 2.3 million, and using fake links, because you can't use worldwidealbums.net, because that site is not reliable and it only counts mediatraffic information.
 DON'T LOWER AGAIN BLACKOUT SALES, IT SOLD OVER 3.1 MILLION COPIES ACCORDING TO 3 SOURCES!  <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:BritneyFeli|BritneyFeli]] ([[User talk:BritneyFeli|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/BritneyFeli|contribs]]) 03:02, 24 January 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
+== Commercial Performance has bi-ist feel to it? ==
+Not saying this trying to sound like a hater or anything because I love Britney (: But I feel this comment and I quote, "It was supposed to debut on the number one spot but two days before the charts came out, a policy changed, stating that albums that were sold exclusively at one retailer could now chart one the Billboard 200 which should have taken effect the next week thus allowing Blackout to occupy the number one spot for a week making all of her studio albums debut in the number one position, but it took effect the same week of Blackout's release", is very iffyyy? It shouldn't say that it would have debuted at number 1. and make all of her albums debut in that position. It just feels very defensive?