Billboard 200: 2/14/15 - Taylor Swift 10 weeks at #1

[brady47]

Feb 7, 2015 14:09:30 GMT -5 jjose712 said:

Feb 5, 2015 20:33:15 GMT -5 brady47 said:

I agree about Born to Die, but how is Born to Die outliving Ultraviolence, when Ultraviolence was released about 6 months ago and Born to Die is over 2 years old...it happened in other countries

Is it lack of single support for Ultraviolence while Born to Die had Summertime Sadness?

I think Born to die singles are way more recognizable than Ultraviolence one, the atrocious remix of Summertime sadness had mainstream success but most of singles of that album are the first to come to mind when people think of Lana (maybe with Young and beautiful).

With Ultraviolence i think there's a sense of expectatives, Ultraviolence blocket In the lonely hour from being number one, and there's a sense that it should be bigger, but in the end the album is doing well.

Hopefully next time Lana will have a more radio friendly single to release and of course the label support sending it to radio, because what happened with Young and beautiful was a real waste

It's not even about huge expectations, if Born To Die spent 136 weeks in the top 100 and counting, how did Ultraviolence only spend 19 weeks? And didn't even manage 20 weeks in the top 50, which would be my minimum expectation for it.

I agree with what you said about Born To Die outliving Ultraviolence.

[brady47]

Feb 6, 2015 2:27:05 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

It might have come too soon and not have a special hit to boost it. Ultraviolence is better album imo but Born to Die is what Lana is all about for general public and hits seem to be timeless, just like Adele's (of course in smaller scale)

Debut albums often outlive the second ones. Ultraviolence is still doing ok-ish, charting comfortably and it was in top 100 not so long time ago.

I agree that they outlive second albums, but that's usually after a couple of years when catalog sales come into play. Ultraviolence isn't eve that old yet, it's not common for a 2 year old+ album to be outselling an album that's been out for less than a year.