fedeu2
War Child
Not a good idea to be using a music chart that over inflates sales levels. Lady GaGa by the way just recently went platinum in Europe according to the IFPI. The music chart your using as a source would suggest that nearly half of GaGa's sales come from outside the United States and Europe.
With only 5 months left in 2009, NLOTH is the only album released in 2009 to have sold 1 million or more copies in Europe.
Well, a similar statement could be made in relation to NLOTH. US and Europe combined sales are at roughly 2 M so, according to MusicCharts, 1,5 M (i.e. 43 % of total sales) were sold in ROW. I don´t know, maybe this is the current trend? That is, with illegal download and such one would tend to think that sales are affected the most in developing countries where Internet access is more widespread than in Third World countries. As a result, the usual share of global sales corresponding to ROW (33%) may have increased.
But you´re right, 40-50% seems a bit farfetched.