horchata
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Post by horchata on Dec 4, 2012 23:46:28 GMT -5
For someone coming off of a flop era, Xtina needed to step up the promo. As in getting off of her couch in her mansion and doing some leg work. First stop should have been radio stations. The Voice committments and co-parenting would have restrained her a bit but the way this played out it was liked she was under house arrest. Had she done half of what Pink and RCA put together for her current era, I think things would have turned out differently. I agree with the lazy aspect of the promo, but I also think in general Lotus suffers still from lack of hit potential here.
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Enigma.
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Post by Enigma. on Dec 5, 2012 3:49:51 GMT -5
One Direction are doing brilliantly: two albums in top 40 still.
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remix
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Post by remix on Dec 5, 2012 4:37:39 GMT -5
For someone coming off of a flop era, Xtina needed to step up the promo. As in getting off of her couch in her mansion and doing some leg work. First stop should have been radio stations. The Voice committments and co-parenting would have restrained her a bit but the way this played out it was liked she was under house arrest. Had she done half of what Pink and RCA put together for her current era, I think things would have turned out differently. +1 When you come from an underperfoming album and 1st single from the new album you need to do more then just three perfomances. Im still mad that she never promoted "YB".
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HolidayGuy
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Post by HolidayGuy on Dec 5, 2012 8:41:32 GMT -5
Oh, I agree with that, too, that she could have done more- but, in Aguilera's case, I don't think a few more performances would have made a huge amount of difference in terms of how the music fared. If people aren't feeling the material- or her- the result will be similar in the end.
LovePlastic- it wasn't a "massive" promo campaign, but it also wasn't a "lack of promo." Awareness was there. And, as we've discussed, she's hardly the first to "sit back" when she could be doing performances or whatever.
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Post by reidster on Dec 5, 2012 9:13:20 GMT -5
Phillip Phillips second week drop is only 54%!! After Black Friday week!! Wow. That's great. Must be word of mouth because I don't think he did any extra promo this week.
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Post by Push The Button on Dec 5, 2012 10:33:28 GMT -5
Red is trailing in weekly sales.
Speak Now: 1.046 319k 211k 146k 240k 182k
Red: 1.208 344k 196k 144k 185k 135k (estimate)
Red hasn't sold more copies in the comparable week since its second week of release.
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Mark
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Post by Mark on Dec 5, 2012 10:41:55 GMT -5
Wasn't Red's first week 1.208?
Using that and assuming the 135k holds, Red is still up versus SN - 2.212 vs 2.144.
That might not last, but at least it is still ahead.
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Post by Eloqueen™ on Dec 5, 2012 17:36:37 GMT -5
Red is trailing in weekly sales. I don't find this surprising given the promotion isn't as much of a force as it was the last go around (not to mention she doesn't have quite the same country support). She had a Thanksgiving special among other things that helped benefit the week-to-week sales of "Speak Now". Regardless, it's a tad silly to expect an artist's current release to repeat exact (or even closely similar) week-to-week sales of their last album (particularly considering her last release was a huge seller) when there would be multiple factors that would go into making such a comparison. She may end up shy of Speak Now's first ten week total, but considering it's pretty much guaranteed to clear 2.5 million before the new year, I'd say it's doing pretty fantastic. I'd be willing to bet Red ends up selling more than Speak Now overall regardless, given the album is primed to have great longevity, as it's loaded with hit singles (unlike "Speak Now").
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