Beck artist discussion

[areyoureadytojump]

This has sold approx. 300,000 in the USA.

[areyoureadytojump]

Morning Phase is a #4 on US iTunes.

[cufan7]

Who?

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

I haven't listened to his record much since it came out about a year ago. Going back and listening to it this morning, I can absolutely see why it won. But I dont expect that to be a popular opinion on Pulse.

[areyoureadytojump]

Morning Phase on iTunes

#2 United States
#4 New Zealand
#5 Canada
#9 Japan
#12 Denmark
#12 Italy
#14 Australia
#15 Spain
#18 Norway
#31 Belgium
#31 Switzerland
#36 Germany
#41 Netherlands
#50 United Kingdom
#60 France
#75 Austria

[Future Captain]

I already lost followers in many platform just for saying Morning Phase deserve the AOTY....

[Deleted]

Kanye West is insufferable. "Beck needs to respect real artistry and give his award to Beyoncé".

[Active Aggressive]

He didn't lie but...

Beck is amazing - always has been, always will be. I just don't think this Sea Change retread deserved AOTY. I barely listened to it, outside of the first week it came out. There's always a few standouts on any Beck album, no matter how great the album as a whole is, but this one doesn't have any except for the instrumental opener. It reminds me of when Arcade Fire won AOTY for their worst album. The Grammy voters just like to troll but in this case, I feel like they couldn't decide between Sam Smith and Beyonce so went with the critical darling. They should have just picked Ed Sheeran.

[pancakes]

Yeah, as much as I like Beck, wish he had won AOTY with another album.

[SHOOTER]

The AOTY win is almost always a troll so I shouldn't have expected Bey to win. That said, the fact that this album didn't even have its own thread here is proof enough it wasn't no Album of the Year!

[areyoureadytojump]

Pulse really isn't known for its rock fans.

[Nick]

^Or male vocalists.....

[Resident_Evil]

Feb 9, 2015 14:09:30 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

The AOTY win is almost always a troll so I shouldn't have expected Bey to win. That said, the fact that this album didn't even have its own thread here is proof enough it wasn't no Album of the Year!

So the standard of winning a AOTY is that it should have its own dedicated thread on Pulse? SMDH.

People who are clueless about Beck should not be on a music board or list music as their interests.

[Active Aggressive]

Re-listening to this album because, if I remember correctly, I bought it with a bunch of other albums, listened to it once or twice and then...stopped? But yeah, although nothing stands out as much as Lonesome Tears on Sea Change (my former favorite Beck album), this is probably his best work overall. I am missing some of the upbeat Guero stuff and sexiness of the Serge Gainsbourg-referencing shit but this album is definitely better than Sam Smith's and Pharrell's (and I like those albums fine enough). I still personally prefer Sheeran's and Beyonce's but this is more of a deserving nomination than I recalled it being. It's just so weird how it got noticed as AOTY material over...say "1000 Forms of Fear" by Sia, which was a more impactful body of work. Also, this is the best Beck has ever sounded on record. Proof: "Don't Let It Go".

[Active Aggressive]

Feb 9, 2015 19:27:25 GMT -5 Resident_Evil said:

Feb 9, 2015 14:09:30 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

The AOTY win is almost always a troll so I shouldn't have expected Bey to win. That said, the fact that this album didn't even have its own thread here is proof enough it wasn't no Album of the Year!

So the standard of winning a AOTY is that it should have its own dedicated thread on Pulse? SMDH.

People who are clueless about Beck should not be on a music board or list music as their interests.

and cremated.

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.com/articles/events/grammys-2015/6465730/beck-lowest-selling-grammy-album-year-since-2008?utm_source=twitter

Beck Has the Lowest-Selling Grammy Album of the Year Since 2008
By Joe Lynch | February 09, 2015 4:12 PM EST

When Prince revealed that Beck's Morning Phase won album of the year at the 2015 Grammys, it wasn't a shock simply because Beyonce's Beyonce was the favorite. It was a huge surprise because, unlike most albums to nab the big Grammy honor, Beck's latest wasn't a terribly popular album.

Not only was Morning Phase the lowest-selling LP of this year's album of the year nominees, but it's the lowest-selling album to win AOTY since 2008. (Looking at total album sales up until the week prior to Grammy week for each year -- so in this case, we're taking Morning Phase's total sales for the week ending Feb. 1. All data courtesy Nielsen Music.)

Beck's album takes the honor with approximately 301,000 sales to date since its release nearly a year ago. The last time an album with a lower sales total won album of the year was in 2008 when Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters earned the honor despite having moved just 56,000 units in total at the time (as of the week ending Feb. 3, 2008).

For comparison, six out of the last 10 LPs to win album of the year have sold more than a million copies before nabbing the honor. And all but three have moved more than half a million copies before winning album of the year (Arcade Fire's The Suburbs was also shy of that milestone).

Of course, album sales were down overall in 2014 (as is the overall annual trend), but Beck's was especially low when compared to albums that typically nab AOTY at the Grammys.

So what to make of it? One possible explanation: Like Herbie Hancock -- whose good-but-not-classic Joni Mitchell covers album is his sole win in the category -- perhaps the Recording Academy felt it was Beck's time. He's been nominated but overlooked twice in this category, and there's no denying he's created one of the most consistent musical catalogs of the last few decades. This might be an award for his overall legacy, and less an award for Morning Phase on its own merits.

And perhaps, just like Hancock's anomalous win, next year we'll see a return to the Grammys awarding AOTY to more populist fare.

[Nick]

I need to revisit this album also. I did play "Blue Moon" a lot as it was a single and on a Spotify playlist I have.

[Deleted]

Feb 9, 2015 19:27:25 GMT -5 Resident_Evil said:

Feb 9, 2015 14:09:30 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

The AOTY win is almost always a troll so I shouldn't have expected Bey to win. That said, the fact that this album didn't even have its own thread here is proof enough it wasn't no Album of the Year!

So the standard of winning a AOTY is that it should have its own dedicated thread on Pulse? SMDH.

People who are clueless about Beck should not be on a music board or list music as their interests.

Oh, so let's all be music elists because the Grammy voters choices determine who knows "real" music and who doesn't. Please.

For the record, yes I know who Beck is, but his music isn't my style, so I don't listen to him.

Let's not pull a Kanye here.

[Resident_Evil]

Feb 9, 2015 19:59:46 GMT -5 @carrieflattsfan said:

Feb 9, 2015 19:27:25 GMT -5 Resident_Evil said:

So the standard of winning a AOTY is that it should have its own dedicated thread on Pulse? SMDH.

People who are clueless about Beck should not be on a music board or list music as their interests.

Oh, so let's all be music elists because the Grammy voters choices determine who knows "real" music and who doesn't. Please.

For the record, yes I know who Beck is, but his music isn't my style, so I don't listen to him.

Let's not pull a Kanye here.

If people don't want to be music 'elitists' then they shouldn't bitch about the 'artistry' (as Kanye called it) of the musician they know nothing about. And FYI the grammies do determine what constitutes as 'real' music.

And since you know Beck you don't fit the profile i was sketching, so stop trying to jump on the bandwagon.

[ILLUSION]

Not saying that Beyonce didn't deserve a win for AOTY but this is a really good album. I think it deserves it with this record.

[SHOOTER]

I'm not terribly familiar with Beck (aside from the six albums of his I own) and so while I'm probably not enough of a fan to voice my opinion about his win, I will say that I think his two previous AOTY-nominated albums are stronger bodies of work. Although MP is beautifully and expertly constructed, I don't feel it's his most impressive body of work nor do I feel that it was creatively superior to Beyoncé's album. However, considering his consistency and the critical acclaim that's permeated his entire career, I understand him winning from the perspective of it being a reward for his overall career and discography thus far.

[Active Aggressive]

You're not terribly familiar with Beck but you own six albums. That's probably more than the majority of Pulse even knows exists!

[SHOOTER]

Feb 10, 2015 20:50:07 GMT -5 Active Aggressive said:

You're not terribly familiar with Beck but you own six albums. That's probably more than the majority of Pulse even knows exists!

Sarcasm, darling.

[Living Legend]

This is still #2 on iTunes and Amazon. Could this outsell its first week sales from its release last year? It sold 87,000 and debuted at #3 in February 2014. It would be pretty cool to see this sell 100K this week.

[Active Aggressive]

Feb 10, 2015 22:19:04 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

Feb 10, 2015 20:50:07 GMT -5 Active Aggressive said:

You're not terribly familiar with Beck but you own six albums. That's probably more than the majority of Pulse even knows exists!

Sarcasm, darling.

Welp...

[SHOOTER]

I hope the second album he was working on surfaces this year. I need rocker Beck back.

[SHOOTER]

Feb 10, 2015 23:48:30 GMT -5 Living Legend said:

This is still #2 on iTunes and Amazon. Could this outsell its first week sales from its release last year? It sold 87,000 and debuted at #3 in February 2014. It would be pretty cool to see this sell 100K this week.

With just sales from Sunday recorded, he re-entered the top-40 at #21 with 13k per HITS (#23 with 19k SPS).

[SHOOTER]

Feb 10, 2015 23:48:30 GMT -5 Living Legend said:

This is still #2 on iTunes and Amazon. Could this outsell its first week sales from its release last year? It sold 87,000 and debuted at #3 in February 2014. It would be pretty cool to see this sell 100K this week.

Latest update puts his sales at 60-65k for next week (65-70k SPS).

[areyoureadytojump]

Beck's album "The Information" was certified Gold with the RIAA:

BECK THE INFORMATION October 03, 2006 February 23, 2015 INTERSCOPE Standard GOLD ALBUM GROUP

[SHOOTER]

Certified Gold by the RIAA.