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Post by Verisimilitude on Jul 31, 2013 13:11:22 GMT -5
YOUR NEW RELEASES
Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines will be next week's #1, no doubt, as it becomes increasingly clear that audiences are interested in more than the title track, which has been unstoppable sales monster. Thicke, heavy rockers Five Finger Death Punch and hip-hop artist Tech N9ne could all score career-best deuts on next week's chart. Here are this week's key new releases:
Robin Thicke (Star Trak/Interscope) 130-140k (career best: 137k)
Five Finger Death Punch (Prospect Park) 95-105k (career best: 91k)
Tech N9ne (Strange Music) 55-60k (career best: 57k)
Backstreet Boys (K-Bahn) 50-55k
Emblem3 (Syco/Columbia) 40-45k
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Post by Fat Ass Kelly Price on Jul 31, 2013 13:19:36 GMT -5
Luk atchoo, Robin. Luk atchoo.
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Post by Duca on Jul 31, 2013 13:23:16 GMT -5
Tragic #'s for Robin.
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Post by pnobelysk on Jul 31, 2013 13:24:35 GMT -5
Emblem3 (Syco/Columbia) 40-45k
these are actually great numbers for them. they finished 4th in this past season of x factor. the winner, Tate Stevens, album barley made top 20, while this will easily go top 10.
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Post by Verisimilitude on Jul 31, 2013 13:26:12 GMT -5
Fifth Harmony will slaughter them once they release their album.
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Post by when the pawn... on Jul 31, 2013 13:34:49 GMT -5
Wow, the top 3 debuts all challenging their career-best sales weeks. And then the Backstreet Boys...going to be a little off from Black & Blue's 1.6 million  |
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Post by hitseeker. on Jul 31, 2013 13:39:25 GMT -5
Low numbers for Thicke, expected more tb.h~
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Post by Enigma. on Jul 31, 2013 13:40:11 GMT -5
Wait until Limp Bizkit release their next album.
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Jul 31, 2013 13:41:23 GMT -5
Yall realize "Love After War" opened up with 44k? This will be his biggest opening and start so far.
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Post by tae04 on Jul 31, 2013 13:53:58 GMT -5
Expected numbers for Thicke. Thats like a 300% gain from the last album. I don't see how anybody thought he was going to do monster numbers.
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Jul 31, 2013 14:12:52 GMT -5
You YT people and you're expectations. Those are great numbers for Robin! A monster hit doesn't equal sales. Carly Rae knows that personally.
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Post by josh on Jul 31, 2013 14:31:37 GMT -5
You YT people and you're expectations. Those are great numbers for Robin! A monster hit doesn't equal sales. Carly Rae knows that personally. Her label was stupid and didn't release the album until "Good Time" was well a single, though. I definitely think she would have sold more had they released the album sooner. Not massively successful or anything but more successful, definitely. |
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Post by imbondz on Jul 31, 2013 14:36:01 GMT -5
I think some artists are more subject to illegal downloads than others. Can the music industry keep track of illegal downloading and see what songs/artists get illegally downloaded the most?
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jul 31, 2013 15:13:45 GMT -5
How is it tragic for Robin?
I was expecting 150k. It's close.
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Post by hazuki on Jul 31, 2013 15:29:03 GMT -5
Fifth Harmony will slaughter them once they release their album. 60k-70k for them? |
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Post by Glove Slap on Jul 31, 2013 15:39:45 GMT -5
I predicted about 120-150k for Robin, so this is in line with my expectations. And considering that his previous high came during the 4th Quarter, this is more than great.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jul 31, 2013 15:42:54 GMT -5
"Tragic" would be 40k for Robin.
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Post by Rican@ on Jul 31, 2013 15:43:21 GMT -5
Hmm. I wasn't expecting giant sales but I wanted Robin to do 200K at least. However, I do think it has more to do with urban is now hopping on the lead track.
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Post by hitseeker. on Jul 31, 2013 16:02:42 GMT -5
Oh yeah nvm, I wasn't even considering Robin's past openings. Taking that into account, you're totally right, that is a great opening for him :)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2013 16:04:28 GMT -5
I actually was expecting like, 70-80k for Robin. I just didn't think that many pop fans would be interested in more than the single for him, and in the past his solely-urban fanbase has never netted him over 140k (and that was back when albums as a whole sold a lot more than they do now). So I am VERY pleased with his numbers! This bodes well for his ability to continue selling the album with hits, so hopefully the radio support will be there for the next pop single.
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Post by halo19 on Jul 31, 2013 17:05:09 GMT -5
When you consider that "Blurred Lines" is basically 6 years since his last major hit, Thicke's numbers aren't that disappointing. It will definitely be his best sales week since 2008 and he's done 2 other albums since.
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Post by horchata on Jul 31, 2013 17:20:29 GMT -5
Not sure how the high potential of a career best equals tragic lmfao. It's not like he's pulling a Flo Rida here or whatever. He's hitting better numbers than I assumed he was going to quite frankly.
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Post by pnobelysk on Jul 31, 2013 20:07:54 GMT -5
Fifth Harmony will slaughter them once they release their album. 60k-70k for them? I think it really depends on if they can get a single to take off |
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Post by Adonis the DemiGod! on Jul 31, 2013 22:18:49 GMT -5
Amazing album from Robin. Ive never liked more than two songs from any album of his so.... Liking 5+ songs is amazing on my scale.
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Post by Caviar on Aug 1, 2013 7:52:32 GMT -5
He has some of the best album tracks.
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Post by hazuki on Aug 1, 2013 9:12:51 GMT -5
I think it really depends on if they can get a single to take off Well lets hope the rumor premire "Leave My Heart of This" at the VMAS is true |
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Post by Caviar on Aug 1, 2013 14:10:23 GMT -5
When you consider that "Blurred Lines" is basically 6 years since his last major hit, Thicke's numbers aren't that disappointing. It will definitely be his best sales week since 2008 and he's done 2 other albums since. "Sex Therapy" was his last major hit so it's only been a little under 4 years. |
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Post by HolidayGuy on Aug 1, 2013 15:08:16 GMT -5
The projections for RT's album are fine- the single has been huge, but hat doesn't always translate into equal-level album sales. His projection could be along the lines of others who had big singles but disappointing album sales- but, no, it's comfortably north of 100K.
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Post by Duca on Aug 1, 2013 15:17:27 GMT -5
Yall realize "Love After War" opened up with 44k? The fact that his previous album bombed doesn't change the fact that his current record is set to flop though? How is it tragic for Robin? I was expecting 150k. It's close. It's the most promoted album of 2013. The lead single -- which is also the title track -- sold 4 million and will officially become the biggest radio hit of all time during the album release week. I expected +300k. |
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Post by halo19 on Aug 1, 2013 15:44:01 GMT -5
When you consider that "Blurred Lines" is basically 6 years since his last major hit, Thicke's numbers aren't that disappointing. It will definitely be his best sales week since 2008 and he's done 2 other albums since. "Sex Therapy" was his last major hit so it's only been a little under 4 years. Well, I meant like crossover song. EDIT: Despite the fact that the YT view counts for ST definitely show it wasn't obscure, some of the top comments kind of back up this statement. |
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