Believe it or not Katy Perry is the biggest album seller listed to still release a new album in 2013.
Based on the previous album sales of all of the artists yet to release in 2013, Katie’s last album sold more than the previous albums of Justin Timberlake, Elton John, Drake, The Lumineers and Luke Bryan.
Perry’s ‘Teenage Dream’ (2010) has sold 2.7m to date. That is more than Justin Timberlake ‘The 20/20 Experience’ (2013) with 2.1m sales, Drake ‘Take Care’ (2011) and Luke Bryan ‘Tailgates & Tanlines’ (2011) with 2m sales and The Lumineers ‘The Lumineers’ (2012) with 1.3m sales
Katy Perry will release ‘Prism’ in October, Justin Timberlake has ‘The 20/20 Experience 2’ and Drake has ‘Nothing Was The Same’ in October and The Lumineers ‘Deluxe Edition’ and Luke Bryan’s ‘Crash My Party’ will be released in September.
Other major acts with new albums on the way include Backstreet Boys ‘In A World Like This’ (last album sold 111,000), Ashanti ‘Braveheart’ (previous 295,000), Nine Inch Nails ‘Hestitation Marks’ (previous 113,000), Keith Urban ‘Fuse’ (previous 743,000), Sheryl Crow ‘Feels Like Home’ (previous 219,000), Jack Johnson ‘From Here To Now To You’ (previous 837,000), Elton John ‘Diving Board’ (384,000), Kings Of Leon ‘Mechanical Bull’ (728,000) and Sting ‘The Last Ship’ (previous 114,000).
