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Post by Mazo on Dec 4, 2015 7:28:53 GMT -5
Why is Adele snatching wigs like this? Back in 08 I would have never thought The Chasing Pavements girl would be booking ALL close to 10 years later. I mean, what kind of slayage is that?!
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Post by lincroft on Dec 4, 2015 7:39:31 GMT -5
Certifications are not based on sales and never have been. They're based on shipments. I know. When I say "it's based on sales", I mean the lists I've posted are based on how many weeks it took the albums to actually scan 10 million copies, not how many weeks it took their labels to certify them diamond.
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Post by imbondz on Dec 4, 2015 8:07:33 GMT -5
So is it official, has she sold a million copies in week 2?
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Dec 4, 2015 8:25:50 GMT -5
^HITS will be out this afternoon.
THE DECADE 2010-2019...SO FAR (WEEK 308) Rank - Estimated Sales - TITLE - Artist
01 - 11,274,000 - 21 - Adele 02 - 5,446,000 - 1989 - Taylor Swift 03 - 4,704,000 - RECOVERY - Eminem 04 - 4,541,000 - SPEAK NOW - Taylor Swift 05 - 4,257,000 - RED - Taylor Swift 06 - 4,104,000 - FROZEN - Soundtrack 07 - 4,092,000 - NEED YOU NOW - Lady Antebellum 08 - 3,773,000 - CHRISTMAS - Michael BublΓ© 09 - 3,378,000 - 25 - Adele 10 - 3,337,000 - MY WORLD 2.0 - Justin Bieber
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Post by magik on Dec 4, 2015 8:38:50 GMT -5
Calm down everybody. These sales are incredible and I think they succeeded even the wildest expectations so far. However, this is still a deeply depressed sales climate. Once christmas is over it will again be extremely hard for any album - including this one - to maintain big sales week after week. Look at Taylor's 1989. It has more or less been top 10 all year long, has had several huge singles, and stands at something like 1,7-1,8 million sold during the year, making it easily the second best seller of the year. In other words. Adele might very well do 7 million before the year is over (still want to see it before I believe it), but even doing 2 million next year would be amazingly strong sales that shouldn't be sniffed at or regarded as disappointing in any way. Diamond status is definitely not a given. I'm no Adele hater. I 100% hope that she makes it, I'm just trying to be realistic and just because an album is seemingly defying the sales laws doesn't mean that it will continue to do so. If Adele does meet the HITS projections, you better place your money on Columbia shoving anything Adele in your face to get that ~2.3 million by the end of next year or at least by early 2017.
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Post by imbondz on Dec 4, 2015 10:48:49 GMT -5
^HITS ill be out this afternoon. THE DECADE 2010-2019...SO FAR (WEEK 308) Rank - Estimated Sales - TITLE - Artist 01 - 11,274,000 - 21 - Adele 02 - 5,446,000 - 1989 - Taylor Swift 03 - 4,704,000 - RECOVERY - Eminem 04 - 4,541,000 - SPEAK NOW - Taylor Swift 05 - 4,257,000 - RED - Taylor Swift 06 - 4,104,000 - FROZEN - Soundtrack 07 - 4,092,000 - NEED YOU NOW - Lady Antebellum 08 - 3,773,000 - CHRISTMAS - Michael BublΓ© 09 - 3,378,000 - 25 - Adele 10 - 3,337,000 - MY WORLD 2.0 - Justin Bieber Thx. I'm still confused what day the Album sales get released. Ha
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Dec 4, 2015 11:01:36 GMT -5
^HITS ill be out this afternoon. THE DECADE 2010-2019...SO FAR (WEEK 308) Rank - Estimated Sales - TITLE - Artist 01 - 11,274,000 - 21 - Adele 02 - 5,446,000 - 1989 - Taylor Swift 03 - 4,704,000 - RECOVERY - Eminem 04 - 4,541,000 - SPEAK NOW - Taylor Swift 05 - 4,257,000 - RED - Taylor Swift 06 - 4,104,000 - FROZEN - Soundtrack 07 - 4,092,000 - NEED YOU NOW - Lady Antebellum 08 - 3,773,000 - CHRISTMAS - Michael BublΓ© 09 - 3,378,000 - 25 - Adele 10 - 3,337,000 - MY WORLD 2.0 - Justin Bieber Thx. I'm still confused what day the Album sales get released. Ha For major releases Billboard will release an article on Saturday with pure sales, but it's usually on Sunday that they release both pure sales and SPS numbers for the Top 10.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2015 11:19:57 GMT -5
Good grief. Nothing like a decades list to really hammer home how atrocious album sales are now :( Hopefully by the end of the decade every album in the top ten will have sold at least 5 million.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2015 11:44:45 GMT -5
I guess Adele has found a way looking like an ordinary person(average weight and looking housewife I should say) and being a pop superstar at the same time. I mean she doesnt even write her own stuff and has nothing extraordinary about her, definitely not even close to talents of Michael Jackson. Maybe thats the new definition of being a pop superstar to be an average girl next door, who just finished doing her laundry.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2015 12:03:23 GMT -5
I guess Adele has found a way looking like an ordinary person(average weight and looking housewife I should say) and being a pop superstar at the same time. I mean she doesnt even write her own stuff and has nothing extraordinary about her, definitely not even close to talents of Michael Jackson. Maybe thats the new definition of being a pop superstar to be an average girl next door, who just finished doing her laundry. At least do your homework before you troll.
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Post by blue in moonlight on Dec 4, 2015 12:07:25 GMT -5
I guess Adele has found a way looking like an ordinary person(average weight and looking housewife I should say) and being a pop superstar at the same time. I mean she doesnt even write her own stuff and has nothing extraordinary about her, definitely not even close to talents of Michael Jackson. Maybe thats the new definition of being a pop superstar to be an average girl next door, who just finished doing her laundry. (1) Adele has the top writing credit on every single one of the tracks from her three albums that is not a cover. (2) Adele is quite attractive even if she's a full-figured woman. I'd argue that her girl-next-door beauty combined with the relatability of her music and her down-to-earth public persona is a factor in her sweeping global success. (3) Even if Adele and her music are not to your taste, I think it's borderline laughable to assert that there is "nothing extraordinary about her" when she's pulling in these numbers and is clearly quite talented. She is obviously resonating with a global audience in a way we haven't seen in quite some time and your disapproval of her success for whatever reason cannot change this fact.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2015 12:29:35 GMT -5
She might get the credit for writing, but it still is more about the people who do the writing and producing with her and I just call her extraordinary selling numbers masshysteria, she doesnt deserve those millions albums sold compared lets say Joanna Newsom or Sia, Adele is the right product for the masses.
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Post by Waveyβ¨οΈ on Dec 4, 2015 12:36:37 GMT -5
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Post by 14887fan on Dec 4, 2015 12:38:14 GMT -5
She might get the credit for writing, but it still is more about the people who do the writing and producing with her and I just call her extraordinary selling numbers masshysteria, she doesnt deserve those millions albums sold compared lets say Joanna Newsom or Sia, Adele is the right product for the masses. ...
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Post by blue in moonlight on Dec 4, 2015 12:48:20 GMT -5
She might get the credit for writing, but it still is more about the people who do the writing and producing with her and I just call her extraordinary selling numbers masshysteria, she doesnt deserve those millions albums sold compared lets say Joanna Newsom or Sia, Adele is the right product for the masses.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2015 13:02:51 GMT -5
She might get the credit for writing, but it still is more about the people who do the writing and producing with her and I just call her extraordinary selling numbers masshysteria, she doesnt deserve those millions albums sold compared lets say Joanna Newsom or Sia, Adele is the right product for the masses. So you just made up your mind that her writing credit was fake with absolutely nothing to back it up. Ok. Let's just assume all singers who get writing credits are faking it. Now we're back at square one since that means no singer-"songwriters" deserve mass numbers. Am I following your logic right? Let's examine further. Sia sounds like a dying seal with a [censored] stuck in her throat; she's an acquired taste to put it politely and acquired tastes very rarely sell millions. You will deal. She took rejects that Adele wrote with her and didn't want...again, you will deal...I only tolerate Sia as much as I do because her pen game (if it is even her pen because hey, we have no idea if that's really her writing) is strong enough to make rejects and that yelping thing she calls belting forgivable and I like quirky people on the whole, even if I'm not here for their music half the time. I will ignore the obvious quandary of 'but she wrote stuff with Adele so if it's all about the people you work with, where does the credit go???' You will especially deal with that since it's the rule you made up yourself. That's really a shame b/c otherwise I'd say she deserves all the success in the world as a songwriter. Not good enough to make Adele's album apparently, but good for her, now she doesn't have to be tainted with that masshysteria [sic] on her resume. I don't know who Joanna Newsom is so I won't slander her right now because there's a 50% chance I'll like her; but I'm going to go look for the receipts you couldn't be bothered to produce, and she better not sound like a seal singing Adele rejects or I am definitely going to let you know. As a final note, if someone is the right product for the masses then they obviously deserve to sell millions, because they're right product for the masses! Obvious thing is obvious. That's like saying Jif shouldn't sell more peanut butter than some guy selling homemade peanut butter at a roadside stand. Sure the homemade butter might be awesome and special and there is only a limited amount of it, but, well, there's only a limited amount of it. He can only make so much, thereby limiting his sales; if he wants be on Jif's level he's going to have to sell his product to some big company and be okay with the recipe being commercialized for a broad market. If that happens, it won't really be that peanut butter you've been getting on the side of the road, but that's just how it is. Sia and Joanna are road stand peanut butter. Adele is Jif. Choosy moms choose Jif. You will deal. The end.
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Post by when the pawn... on Dec 4, 2015 13:19:02 GMT -5
She might get the credit for writing, but it still is more about the people who do the writing and producing with her and I just call her extraordinary selling numbers masshysteria, she doesnt deserve those millions albums sold compared lets say Joanna Newsom or Sia, Adele is the right product for the masses. Some of this is wrong and some is merely your opinion. Clearly, enough people have contrary opinions about Adele. Just is what it is. I love Sia but I strongly dislike Joanna Newsom so I don't think she "deserves" to sell millions of albums. And to echo others here, saying there is nothing extraordinary about Adele is a little foolish, no? You don't like her but she is, without question, VERY talented. As a singer and, despite your skepticism, as a writer. *You can check the credits and on 19, she wrote more than half of the originals by herself and co-wrote the rest (mostly with just one other person, none of whom are massive success stories, at least in the pop realm). P.S. doesn't Sia co-write most, if not all, of her new material?
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Dec 4, 2015 13:23:27 GMT -5
She might get the credit for writing, but it still is more about the people who do the writing and producing with her and I just call her extraordinary selling numbers masshysteria, she doesnt deserve those millions albums sold compared lets say Joanna Newsom or Sia, Adele is the right product for the masses. As a final note, if someone is the right product for the masses then they obviously deserve to sell millions, because they're right product for the masses! Obvious thing is obvious. That's like saying Jif shouldn't sell more peanut butter than some guy selling homemade peanut butter at a roadside stand. Sure the homemade butter might be awesome and special and there is only a limited amount of it, but, well, there's only a limited amount of it. He can only make so much, thereby limiting his sales; if he wants be on Jif's level he's going to have to sell his product to some big company and be okay with the recipe being commercialized for a broad market. If that happens, it won't really be that peanut butter you've been getting on the side of the road, but that's just how it is. Sia and Joanna are road stand peanut butter. Adele is Jif. Choosy moms choose Jif. You will deal. The end. Cynthia you did not have to read their obituary like that.
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Post by aser94 on Dec 4, 2015 13:52:32 GMT -5
She might get the credit for writing, but it still is more about the people who do the writing and producing with her and I just call her extraordinary selling numbers masshysteria, she doesnt deserve those millions albums sold compared lets say Joanna Newsom or Sia, Adele is the right product for the masses. Some of this is wrong and some is merely your opinion. Clearly, enough people have contrary opinions about Adele. Just is what it is. I love Sia but I strongly dislike Joanna Newsom so I don't think she "deserves" to sell millions of albums. And to echo others here, saying there is nothing extraordinary about Adele is a little foolish, no? You don't like her but she is, without question, VERY talented. As a singer and, despite your skepticism, as a writer. *You can check the credits and on 19, she wrote more than half of the originals by herself and co-wrote the rest (mostly with just one other person, none of whom are massive success stories, at least in the pop realm). P.S. doesn't Sia co-write most, if not all, of her new material? Yeah, Sia, had no less than nine co-writers on 1000 Forms of Fear, including Greg Kurstin, who she's worked with for years. And just going back to the ridiculous idea that Adele didn't really write any of her material because she worked with co-writers (ridiculous because these are her songs, taken from her life, sung from her perspective with all the requisite emotional weight)...even if she didn't have a hand in writing every single track, so what? The whole idea of pop is founded on collaboration, and it's been that way forever. Look at the big '60s girl groups, look at Motown. The "scandal!!!" at the Grammys earlier this year was how many names were listed in BeyoncΓ©'s liner notes, but that album was the defining personal statement for BeyoncΓ©, and to claim that it wasn't really "her" because of how many people she worked with was just f***ing ridiculous. I really, really, have no time for the notion that someone who relies on (and yet has complete control over) co-writers and producers could never produce as valid an artistic statement as someone warbling over a harp or guitar. Or the idea that having co-writers somehow "dilutes" an artist's perspective. It's almost 2016. Please send these outdated idea of authenticity back to the 20th century where they belong.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Dec 4, 2015 14:03:03 GMT -5
Wait until someone tells Paul and the ghost of John that their legacy is a lie.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Dec 4, 2015 14:24:16 GMT -5
hitsdailydouble.com/building_album_chartChart Date: 12/04/2015 Status: Final ALBUM SALES1 1 ADELE 25 XL/COLUMBIA 1,021,558 -70%2 2 JUSTIN BIEBER PURPOSE DEF JAM 141,057 -18% 4 3 PENTATONIX THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME RCA 75,996 21% 3 4 ONE DIRECTION MADE IN THE A.M. SYCO/COLUMBIA 67,200 -17% 12 5 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 BIG MACHINE 51,391 72% 11 6 CARRIE UNDERWOOD STORYTELLER 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 47,456 54% 9 7 THE WEEKND BEAUTY BEHIND THE MADNESS XO/REPUBLIC 39,075 1% 14 8 PENTATONIX PENTATONIX RCA 38,331 80% 35 9 BLAKE SHELTON RELOADED: 20 #1 HITS WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 36,511 76% 8 10 NOW 56 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW/LEGACY 33,459 -18% 23 11 MEGHAN TRAINOR TITLE EPIC 33,264 98% 6 12 CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER MERCURY NASHVILLE 31,671 -39% -- 13 ERYKAH BADU BUT YOU CAINT USE MY PHONE MOTOWN 31,589 -- 28 14 SELENA GOMEZ REVIVAL INTERSCOPE 29,451 104% 26 15 CHRIS TOMLIN ADORE: CHRISTMAS SONGS OF WORSHIP SIXSTEPSRECORDS 28,655 100% 27 16 ANDREA BOCELLI CINEMA VERVE 28,342 81% 10 17 ADELE 21 COLUMBIA 28,342 -21% 25 18 MICHAEL BUBLE CHRISTMAS REPRISE 27,183 86% -- 19 FETTY WAP FETTY WAP WMG 26,630 174% 21 20 KIDZ BOP KIDS KIDZ BOP 30 RAZOR & TIE 20,783 19% 29 21 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER SOUNDS GOOD FEELS GOOD CAPITOL 20,048 50% 13 22 ERIC CHURCH MR. MISUNDERSTOOD EMI NASHVILLE 19,536 -16% 20 23 SAM HUNT MONTEVALLO MCA NASHVILLE 19,281 9% 34 24 WE LOVE DISNEY VARIOUS ARTISTS VERVE 17,622 39% 7 25 ENYA DARK SKY ISLAND REPRISE 17,426 -58% 24 26 LUKE BRYAN KILL THE LIGHTS CAPITOL NASHVILLE 16,781 11% 22 27 LOGIC THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY DEF JAM 16,085 -5% 41 28 HALSEY BADLANDS ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL 16,082 73% -- 29 ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR WMG 15,561 -- 16 30 ADELE 19 XL/COLUMBIA 15,257 -28% 36 31 DEMI LOVATO CONFIDENT SAFEHOUSE/HOLLYWOOD/ISLAND 14,877 39% 15 32 EMPIRE CAST SEASON 2, VOL. 1 COLUMBIA 14,807 -29% 18 33 CHRIS YOUNG I'M COMIN OVER RCA NASHVILLE 14,755 -24% 32 34 THOMAS RHETT TANGLED UP VALORY/BMLG 14,671 12% -- 35 NOTORIOUS B.I.G. GREATEST HITS BAD BOY 13,654 -- -- 36 JOSH GROBAN STAGES REPRISE 13,617 -65% 19 37 JEEZY CHURCH IN THESE STREETS DEF JAM 13,444 -27% 47 38 TWENTY ONE PILOTS BLURRYFACE FUELED BY RAMEN 13,056 53% -- 39 CASTING CROWNS PEACE ON EARTH REUNION 12,738 -- 5 40 JADAKISS TOP 5 DEAD OR ALIVE DEF JAM 11,339 -78% -- 41 VINCE GUARALDI TRIO A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS FANTASY 11,085 68% 39 42 ED SHEERAN X ASYLUM UK 10,911 10% -- 43 MERCYME MERCYME IT'S CHRISTMAS FAIR TRADE 10,649 103% 48 44 DRAKE IF YOU'RE READING THIS, IT'S TOO LATE YMCMB/REPUBLIC 10,362 21% -- 45 JOSH GROBAN NOEL REPRISE 10,080 67% 37 46 ELLE KING LOVE STUFF RCA 10,079 -3% -- 47 FALL OUT BOY AMERICAN BEAUTY/AMERICAN PSYCHO DCD2/ISLAND 9,751 71% -- 48 WOW HITS 2016 VARIOUS ARTISTS WOW 9,622 37% 38 49 SAM SMITH IN THE LONELY HOUR CAPITOL 9,396 -10% -- 50 ELVIS PRESLEY IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME RCA 9,312 35%
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Dec 4, 2015 14:27:05 GMT -5
hitsdailydouble.com/sales_plus_streamingSALES PLUS STREAMING CHARTChart Date: 12/04/2015 1 1 ADELE 25 XL/COLUMBIA 1,065,741 -69%2 2 JUSTIN BIEBER PURPOSE DEF JAM 220,363 -25% 3 3 ONE DIRECTION MADE IN THE A.M. SYCO/COLUMBIA 88,084 -16% 5 4 PENTATONIX THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME RCA 83,345 31% 4 5 THE WEEKND BEAUTY BEHIND THE MADNESS XO/REPUBLIC 60,952 -12% 10 6 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 BIG MACHINE 59,993 42% 12 7 CARRIE UNDERWOOD STORYTELLER 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 50,275 43% 14 8 FETTY WAP FETTY WAP WMG 45,376 21% 16 9 MEGHAN TRAINOR TITLE EPIC 44,648 48% 13 10 SELENA GOMEZ REVIVAL INTERSCOPE 43,720 31% 40 11 BLAKE SHELTON RELOADED: 20 #1 HITS WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 41,856 56% 21 12 PENTATONIX PENTATONIX RCA 41,549 55% 6 13 CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER MERCURY NASHVILLE 37,733 -39% 34 14 MICHAEL BUBLE CHRISTMAS REPRISE 37,042 84% -- 15 ERYKAH BADU BUT YOU CAINT USE MY PHONE MOTOWN 35,943 -- 8 16 ADELE 21 COLUMBIA 35,921 -26% 11 17 NOW 56 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW/LEGACY 33,459 -18% 44 18 CHRIS TOMLIN ADORE: CHRISTMAS SONGS OF WORSHIP SIXSTEPSRECORDS 29,629 100% 15 19 SAM HUNT MONTEVALLO MCA NASHVILLE 28,948 -5% 45 20 ANDREA BOCELLI CINEMA VERVE 28,731 81% 32 21 DEMI LOVATO CONFIDENT SAFEHOUSE/HOLLYWOOD/ISLAND 25,919 23% 42 22 HALSEY BADLANDS ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL 23,048 29% 25 23 THOMAS RHETT TANGLED UP VALORY/BMLG 23,012 -5% 20 24 DRAKE & FUTURE WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE YMCMB/REPUBLIC/EPIC 22,985 -15% 27 25 LUKE BRYAN KILL THE LIGHTS CAPITOL NASHVILLE 22,943 1% 43 26 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER SOUNDS GOOD FEELS GOOD CAPITOL 22,879 34% 22 27 ERIC CHURCH MR. MISUNDERSTOOD EMI NASHVILLE 22,640 -16% 19 28 LOGIC THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY DEF JAM 21,830 -19% 38 29 KIDZ BOP KIDS KIDZ BOP 30 RAZOR & TIE 21,432 17% 41 30 TWENTY ONE PILOTS BLURRYFACE FUELED BY RAMEN 21,066 20% 30 31 ED SHEERAN X ASYLUM UK 19,945 -5% 35 32 DRAKE IF YOU'RE READING THIS, IT'S TOO LATE YMCMB/REPUBLIC 18,558 -2% 28 33 ALESSIA CARA KNOW-IT-ALL DEF JAM 18,545 -18% 17 34 ADELE 19 XL/COLUMBIA 18,417 -35% 49 35 WE LOVE DISNEY VARIOUS ARTISTS VERVE 18,162 35% 23 36 EMPIRE CAST SEASON 2, VOL. 1 COLUMBIA 18,101 -28% 29 37 ELLE KING LOVE STUFF RCA 17,969 -15% 24 38 CHRIS YOUNG I'M COMIN OVER RCA NASHVILLE 17,823 -27% 9 39 ENYA DARK SKY ISLAND REPRISE 17,637 -58% 36 40 FUTURE DS2 EPIC 17,362 -7% -- 41 ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR WMG 16,827 -- 18 42 SHAWN MENDES HANDWRITTEN ISLAND 16,689 -39% 48 43 MARIAH CAREY MERRY CHRISTMAS COLUMBIA 16,623 22% 37 44 ELLIE GOULDING DELIRIUM INTERSCOPE 16,273 -14% 26 45 JEEZY CHURCH IN THESE STREETS DEF JAM 15,916 -32% 39 46 SAM SMITH IN THE LONELY HOUR CAPITOL 15,567 -14% -- 47 FALL OUT BOY AMERICAN BEAUTY/AMERICAN PSYCHO DCD2/ISLAND 15,185 24% 46 48 J. COLE 2014 FOREST HILLS DRIVE ROC NATION/COLUMBIA 14,202 -2% -- 49 JOSH GROBAN STAGES REPRISE 13,917 -64% -- 50 NOTORIOUS B.I.G. GREATEST HITS BAD BOY 13,767 --
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Post by Envoirment on Dec 4, 2015 14:44:16 GMT -5
Damn yes Adele! Hopefully it'll be over 1 million when Billboard reports too!
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Post by Gary on Dec 4, 2015 14:45:09 GMT -5
Wait until someone tells Paul and the ghost of John that their legacy is a lie. Well the legacy fades after a while. Unless he tries to rejuvenate it by writing with Kanye West or something.
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Post by blue in moonlight on Dec 4, 2015 14:48:22 GMT -5
I'm literally still giggling to myself at Joanna Newsom and Sia of all people being the examples used for artist who deserve Adele's level success. I think the former is interesting enough and kind of love the latter. That said, we know of no alternate universe where someone with material like Joanna Newsom could sniff even a sliver of Adele's success. Sia has also been remarkably successful rather late in her career despite arguably being an acquired taste. It has been quite an achievement for her to even breakthrough and become somewhat of a mainstream household name as is. It's been interesting to read the grasping people are doing on social media and message boards as they try to explain away Adele's success. I knew it was going to happen when "Hello" took off. It then became instantly obvious 21 was no fluke and people would be here for her yet again in a big way. But she's such a difficult artist to pick apart in the usual way people rag on the popular leading ladies. Adele's a strong vocalist who writes her own material. She's not in our faces for seemingly years on end promoting her work in every convenient outlet. She has nary a bad thing to say about anyone. Her music resonates with people from virtually any walk of life. So, most of the critiques I've seen of Adele quickly devolve into "my fave artist X deserves Adele's level of success" instead of an actual critique of Adele herself.
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Post by DJ General on Dec 4, 2015 15:15:58 GMT -5
Wow Adele! But there is no way she will hit 1 million again....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2015 15:20:07 GMT -5
This is incredible success and very good music attached to it. We waited for you for a long time, but lets give it up to first worthy addition to the diva list! #INCREDIblewomen #WORLDWIDEAPPEAL #SUCCESS #VOCALS #SOUL #DIVINE
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2015 15:36:48 GMT -5
Alright, I didnt want to offend anybody or what, still for me Adele goes more into category of Susan Boyle and yes you are right that Joanna Newsom will not sell as much albums even close to Adele, but she will sell more albums in 100 years time than Adele(in a year 2115), lets bet for this! Joanna Newsoms album Divers is for me definitely no 1 album this year and she is the real talent here or genius I must say!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2015 15:44:54 GMT -5
Alright, I didnt want to offend anybody or what, still for me Adele goes more into category of Susan Boyle and yes you are right that Joanna Newsom will not sell as much albums even close to Adele, but she will sell more albums in 100 years time than Adele(in a year 2115), lets bet for this! Joanna Newsoms album Divers is for me definitely no 1 album this year and she is the real talent here or genius I must say! To reduce Adele to a novelty talent show hyped "old, ugly betty lady" who can sing well act is a joke but its your opinions. Not everyone is going to like you i get that but lets not downgrade Adele and her huge success because we dont like her. As for Joanna, I think Cythina said it best. Enjoy your roadside peanut butter but don't expect others to like it too.
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