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Post by areyoureadytojump on Mar 9, 2024 14:20:17 GMT -5
hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=340146&title=NEW-RELEASE%253A-ARI-SHINES-BRIGHTSaturday, March 9, 2024 NEW RELEASE: ARI SHINES BRIGHT Republic's Ariana Grande will debut at #1 on next week's HITS Top 50, as eternal sunshine is on pace for an opening in the range of 165k-185k, good enough for the biggest bow of 2024. This sets up eternal sunshine to meet or exceed the first week activity of Grande’s previous album, Positions, which opened with 174k in 2020. On Saturday morning, Spotify confirmed that eternal sunshine earned the most single-day streams for an album in 2024 in its opening day. Grande's set will also give House Lipman a third consecutive week at #1. Monte plans to celebrate with a trip to Montauk. A wildcard this week is Ye & Ty Dolla $ign's Vultures II, originally slated to arrive on 3/8. Judging by the sloppy roll out of Vultures 1, who knows when part two could drop? Stay tuned for projections later in the week for new titles from Epic's Judas Priest and Dirty Hit's Bleachers.
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Post by Choco on Mar 9, 2024 14:23:59 GMT -5
On par with positions which had no vinyls first week.
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Post by omieethehomieee on Mar 9, 2024 14:25:27 GMT -5
What pop girl is doing this on their 7th album!?! Love this for Ariana!
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Post by edward on Mar 9, 2024 14:27:26 GMT -5
How is it only doing 165k, I thought it already sold like more than 85k pure sales, is the album really doing that terrible on streaming platforms other than Spotify? The number is so underwhelming.
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Post by Push The Button on Mar 9, 2024 14:31:52 GMT -5
Most #1 albums by women:
Taylor Swift (13)
Barbra Streisand (11)
Madonna (9)
Beyoncé (7)
Janet Jackson (7)
Ariana Grande (6) *projected*
Lady Gaga (6)
Britney Spears (6)
Mariah Carey (6)
Celine Dion (5)
Miley Cyrus (5)
Alicia Keys (5)
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Post by ificanthaveyou on Mar 9, 2024 15:59:13 GMT -5
What pop girl is doing this on their 7th album!?! Love this for Ariana! Lol Taylor Swift… |
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Post by Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ on Mar 9, 2024 16:38:23 GMT -5
I mean, if an artist surpasses their previous work it's always a good thing, but ngl, I expected at least 200k.
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Post by Wave. on Mar 9, 2024 19:33:11 GMT -5
She's in line with her other openings(except for sweetener & thank u, next, which did 200k+ & 306k), so it's not bad for an album that was announced like a month or so ago🤷🏾
And it has the potential to hit 200k this weekend with her SNL appearance.
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Mar 9, 2024 20:47:02 GMT -5
Ariana's album does have 4 different versions each of vinyl and CDs on her webstore. They will shipped by Tuesday and should count toward this week's numbers.
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Post by Choco on Mar 9, 2024 21:03:42 GMT -5
Yes, these predictions include physicals and SNL (which barring any sort of viral moment does not translate into much anyways - just ask JLO).
Much like Olivia Rodrigo last year, a savvy physical strategy (dropping multiple versions and vinyls on debut week instead of spreading them out like they did with positions/SOUR) is masking a pretty sizable streaming decline into a slight increase/slight drop on overall units.
Now let's be fair. Ariana is NOT an album artist. My Everything back in the day had pretty pathetic sales, it only grew when you added in the streaming for the plethora of hits it had. The sweetener and thank u, next eras were most likely outliers and even then she never approached pure sales juggermauts like Billie's debut or even Lover (even when Lover was a relative underperformance back in 2019).
The real issue for Ariana isn't the album numbers. She needs hits and yes and wasn't a good choice, first week comeback hyped numbers notwithstanding. It would also absolutely be no big deal if she was able to move quickly but I fear she's gonna go back into a musical hiatus to do Wicked press and stuff and then take a break. Personally I think her minimalistic sound is kinda tired and she needs to go a little bolder. Even if it tanks, serve something new. These new songs don't even seem to take advantage of her amazing voice which is what made her shine all those years ago.
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Post by shayonce on Mar 9, 2024 21:52:37 GMT -5
she has
2 Fan packs (poster+cd $20 , poster+vinyl $40)
6 Vinyls $33 (4 on her store, 1 target exclusive, 1 amazon)
4 CD $14
1 Singed CD $14 (Sold out)
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Post by omieethehomieee on Mar 9, 2024 22:57:50 GMT -5
Aside from her who else? What pop girl is doing this on their 7th album!?! Love this for Ariana! Lol Taylor Swift… |
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Post by Choco on Mar 10, 2024 0:17:59 GMT -5
How is it only doing 165k, I thought it already sold like more than 85k pure sales, is the album really doing that terrible on streaming platforms other than Spotify? The number is so underwhelming. Pre order numbers are misleading. One would usually think oh it sold 85k preorders it will easily triple that but the reality is that preorders make the bulk of the debut week numbers especially since vinyl is inflating the numbers so much these days and those take time to make. It's why you won't catch Beyoncé and Taylor doing surprise releases anytime soon if they want to keep having big debuts. A more reasonable guesstimate is usually preorders plus some sort of streaming prediction. |
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Post by thegreatdivine on Mar 10, 2024 0:58:38 GMT -5
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Post by omieethehomieee on Mar 10, 2024 1:20:41 GMT -5
Oh this will for sure do more than Positions debut sales numbers.
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Post by theycallmedualian on Mar 10, 2024 2:35:50 GMT -5
How is it only doing 165k, I thought it already sold like more than 85k pure sales, is the album really doing that terrible on streaming platforms other than Spotify? The number is so underwhelming. Pre order numbers are misleading. One would usually think oh it sold 85k preorders it will easily triple that but the reality is that preorders make the bulk of the debut week numbers especially since vinyl is inflating the numbers so much these days and those take time to make. It's why you won't catch Beyoncé and Taylor doing surprise releases anytime soon if they want to keep having big debuts. A more reasonable guesstimate is usually preorders plus some sort of streaming prediction. You ain’t making sense.. HDD have extremely accurate insider info on physical sales. It won’t be sales that they’re unsure of and need to create a room for error. That room for error is reserved for streaming performances. If her album dips by -35% tmr then it should be 180k, but if it drops by 40-50% then it’ll be 160k. |
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Post by Wave. on Mar 10, 2024 8:01:13 GMT -5
She's in line with her other openings(except for sweetener & thank u, next, which did 200k+ & 306k), so it's not bad for an album that was announced like a month or so ago🤷🏾 And it has the potential to hit 200k this weekend with her SNL appearance. Positions didn’t have any physicals. This has 7 vinyl variants, sold out signed copies, two months of pre-orders, and a deluxe edition. It's still not a bad prediction either way. |
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Post by Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ on Mar 10, 2024 8:48:30 GMT -5
It's still not a bad prediction either way. I’d say it’s on par, all things considered, with Endless Summer Vacation debut. Which is not a range she should be in. in terms of what? the only similarity I see is the release date. ESV's sales were really solid (which Ariana outsold with her website sales alone before the album release), but it debuted with 8M Spotify streams and charted 3 songs on AM top 200. |
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Post by Envoirment on Mar 10, 2024 10:50:21 GMT -5
The album held up very well in its second day on streaming platforms. Hopefully that means it'll trend upwards and toward 200k!  |
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Mar 12, 2024 15:41:41 GMT -5
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Ariana Grande’s eternal sunshine (Republic) is closing in on a first-week total of 200k and is set to become her sixth #1 debut. With sunshine’s D2C sales still coming in, will they be enough to push Grande’s seventh album over the top? The newly christened Republic Corps could also have as many as 10 of the week’s Top 20 titles.
Meanwhile, Judas Priest will score a Top 20 opening with Invincible Shield (Epic), which has us wishing we could still fit into these leather pants. But we have no shot.
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Post by Wave. on Mar 12, 2024 15:47:03 GMT -5
Let's go Ari!
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Post by Forever Winter on Mar 12, 2024 15:58:11 GMT -5
Utopia's longevity is very impressive. I thought he was over
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Post by Caviar on Mar 12, 2024 17:14:48 GMT -5
Ariana sales are increasing! Great for her.
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Post by Choco on Mar 13, 2024 9:29:22 GMT -5
Good increase for Ariana. The second single going viral has done wonder for her streaming numbers.
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Post by Mayman on Mar 13, 2024 12:33:43 GMT -5
Utopia's longevity is very impressive. I thought he was over I'm curious as to the reason why it's seen a boost in the last few weeks. Nothing is being played on radio (although it looks like they just sent out a fourth single, Fein, but that's just starting) and the tour is over. I wonder if that Grammy performance really helped? I'm not sure. |
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Post by Forever Winter on Mar 13, 2024 12:38:42 GMT -5
Utopia's longevity is very impressive. I thought he was over I'm curious as to the reason why it's seen a boost in the last few weeks. Nothing is being played on radio (although it looks like they just sent out a fourth single, Fein, but that's just starting) and the tour is over. I wonder if that Grammy performance really helped? I'm not sure. Fein is viral but yeah, I'm surprised. I remember the vinyl scam he was doing during the first few weeks |
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Post by karma on Mar 13, 2024 18:57:36 GMT -5
Lover almost outselling 1989TV and Dangerous being top 10 within 1k units of For All The Dogs... huge week for the dinosaurs
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Post by Choco on Mar 14, 2024 14:12:31 GMT -5
to be fair 90% of 1989TV is also a dinosaur.
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Post by clsvltn on Mar 14, 2024 14:38:18 GMT -5
Nothing from Bleachers? I'm surprised they were not even at 22k? maybe shouldve stuck taylor on it? lol
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Mar 14, 2024 15:30:18 GMT -5
^Only their first album debuted in the top 20 of the Billboard. So, not surprising.
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