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Post by areyoureadytojump on Aug 25, 2010 20:19:38 GMT -5
KATY PERRY WINS BATTLE OF THE DIVAS
Capitol Records Pop Queen Scores in the 200k Range for Teenage Dream
August 25, 2010
The summer may be nearing an end, but Katy Perry’s still in her Daisy Dukes and bikini top, straddling the chart universe.
That’s the news from one-day sales reports sent to us by those retailers who haven’t permanently deleted us from their e-mail base.
Coming on the heels of two straight smash singles, including "California Gurls" and the title track, Perry’s sophomore Capitol Records album, Teenage Dream, finds her in the clouds, set to debut at #1 with a total of around 200k, almost half of which will be digital downloads. And while the first-week sales are slightly below expectations, if the steady stream of hit singles keep coming, it could eventually approach a similar performer, Black Eyed Peas’ E.N.D., which is up to 2.7m and still selling 12-15k a week more than a year after its release.
And while Perry’s chart-topping debut would suggest sex trumps a suicide attempt, Fantasia’s J/RMG album Back to Me seemed to generate sales from media interest in her overdose, with first-week estimates of 120-130k, making her a solid #2.
Capitol Nashville co-ed country rockers Little Big Town are targeting sales in the 40-45k range for their new album, The Reason Why.
Usher’s new LaFace/JLG remix album Versus will be counted separately in the chart tally, with around 40-45k, while tne newly released deluxe edition should add some sales to the current Raymond v Raymond CD, already over a million.
Sire’s Never Shout Never looks to be in the 25-30k area for the second studio album from singer/songwriter Christofer Drew Ingle, Harmony/
MCA Nashville’s Randy Rogers Band should do between 24-27k, while indie label Ferrett/ADA’s Dayton, OH, metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada is in the 15-20k range for their Zombie EP.
The market was up 2% vs. last week, down 11% vs. same week last year and still down 12% year to date.
You can now return to tallying up how much Tiger Woods will be shelling out to get rid of Elin Nordegren, and when he starts sexting again.
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Post by slicknickshady on Aug 25, 2010 20:25:13 GMT -5
Suicide is not a joke. Trust me. I would be the last person to think it was funny.
But imo i think it was clearly a publicity stunt. I think it looks bad for the people who really do have issues and do try to kill themselves. Suicide is never something to be joked about but call me skeptical that this isnt all just a publicity stunt. A lot of this stuff was her own doing. Getting with a married man. Etc.
Yes, Fantasia has had a tough life, but don't act like she is blame free in all this. My guess is she didnt even attempt suicide and it was just an accidental overdose that she is using to her advantage by saying it's a suicide attempt.
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Post by Push The Button on Aug 25, 2010 20:27:43 GMT -5
Suicide is not a joke. Trust me. I would be the last person to think it was funny. But imo i think it was clearly a publicity stunt. I think it looks bad for the people who really do have issues and do try to kill themselves. Suicide is never something to be joked about but call me skeptical that this isnt all just a publicity stunt. A lot of this stuff was her own doing. Getting with a married man. Etc. Yes, Fantasia has had a tough life, but don't act like she is blame free in all this. My guess is she didnt even attempt suicide and it was just an accidental overdose that she is using to her advantage by saying it's a suicide attempt. oic.
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Post by Rumors on Aug 25, 2010 20:31:12 GMT -5
Its a wonder what faking suicide can do for ones career. I saw the headlines too. Maybe she should reconsider her reality show. If she's that depressed she needs to get help rather than putting her private life out for everyone to see. Wish her well and maybe she can turn her career and personal life around. However, I didn't care for her first single.
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Post by jj99$ - - LeLe on Aug 25, 2010 21:30:14 GMT -5
Suicide is not a joke. Trust me. I would be the last person to think it was funny. But imo i think it was clearly a publicity stunt. I think it looks bad for the people who really do have issues and do try to kill themselves. Suicide is never something to be joked about but call me skeptical that this isnt all just a publicity stunt. A lot of this stuff was her own doing. Getting with a married man. Etc. Yes, Fantasia has had a tough life, but don't act like she is blame free in all this. My guess is she didnt even attempt suicide and it was just an accidental overdose that she is using to her advantage by saying it's a suicide attempt. oic. did u read the full sentence
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Post by lugus15 on Aug 25, 2010 21:36:37 GMT -5
Word, it's just all a publicity stunt.
Which is shameful, compare her to Hudson (and I'm not a Hudson lover by any chance), who got her family killed and could have use that to sell albums, but she choose to take herself away from the spotlight.
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Post by lugus15 on Aug 25, 2010 21:40:15 GMT -5
Katy Perry's numbers are shameful. With two huge hits, she should have been able to scan at least 350.
I guess it's true that you don't mess with the GaGa. Dumb Perry didn't realize that a good % of her target audience, the GaGa stans, now that GaGa is closing her era, would have gladly take a look at Perry's music.... but dumb ho only alienated them....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2010 21:43:40 GMT -5
Fantasia Barrino on Good Morning America - Was suicide attempt a publicity stunt? (Video) August 24, 2010 10:49 PM EDT
Fantasia Barrino seems to be doing SO much better since trying to kill herself two weeks ago.
The American Idol winner took a bottle of aspirin and some sleeping agent pills and was rushed to the hospital in what was a speculated suicide attempt. In her recent interview with VH1, she admitted that she tried to kill herself.
However, just a couple of days after the incident, Barrino was outside of her house with her married boyfriend, Antwaun Cook, and a camera crew. Huh. That's weird. And today? Barrino hit up Good Morning America for some chit-chatting. Evidently the show must go on.
Now people are wondering if Barrino's suicide attempt was a publicity stunt. Most people who attempt suicide (and are serious about it) succeed. If they don't succeed, they are usually seeking medical treatment ... or forced to do so. Also, Barrino has a daughter - shouldn't child services be involved?
This evidently all stemmed from Barrino's affair with Cook, who is married. His wife is threatening a lawsuit against Barrino, and all of that jazz put her over the edge.
But now she's back, on television, doing interviews, and acting like she's back on top. Really?
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Post by Adonis the DemiGod! on Aug 25, 2010 21:44:28 GMT -5
Katy Perry's numbers are shameful. With two huge hits, she should have been able to scan at least 350. I guess it's true that you don't mess with the GaGa. Dumb Perry didn't realize that a good % of her target audience, the GaGa stans, now that GaGa is closing her era, would have gladly take a look at Perry's music.... but dumb ho only alienated them.... Yeah Katy Perry was stupid for even commenting on GaGa. Half of those GaGa fans would be owning Katy Perry's album right now and legally.
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Post by Honeymoon on Aug 25, 2010 21:45:21 GMT -5
Suicide is not a joke. Trust me. I would be the last person to think it was funny. But imo i think it was clearly a publicity stunt. I think it looks bad for the people who really do have issues and do try to kill themselves. Suicide is never something to be joked about but call me skeptical that this isnt all just a publicity stunt. A lot of this stuff was her own doing. Getting with a married man. Etc. Yes, Fantasia has had a tough life, but don't act like she is blame free in all this. My guess is she didnt even attempt suicide and it was just an accidental overdose that she is using to her advantage by saying it's a suicide attempt. Why would she take a whole bottle of pills accidentally? She took awhile to get her GED but the girl isn't that stupid.
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Post by Hotlantan on Aug 25, 2010 21:49:00 GMT -5
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Post by Jack on Aug 25, 2010 22:00:20 GMT -5
Suicide is not funny. NEVER. The end. Yeah, I was being sarcastic. Anyway I can't at all the people up in here giving definitives about what happened like they know...or news articles that say most people who are serious about killing themselves (you know the ones who aren't just doing it for attention) do. I find it all a bit disturbing, and it's the kind of thing that'll get me banned, so I'm a peacefully step back and say congratulations Tasia on a great album and a great opening week.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2010 22:04:13 GMT -5
You do have to wonder, how many non-celebrities without an album to promote, would be even allowed outside a hospital a mere days after the alleged suicide.
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Post by NeRD on Aug 25, 2010 22:21:50 GMT -5
I have to say the situation is a little sketchy. From her not being kept in a mental ward following the overdose to her publicist conveniently reminding people she had an album coming out in the press release.
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Post by Jack on Aug 25, 2010 22:29:27 GMT -5
Was going to leave it at that but just correcting something. Her publicist didn't say that, she doesn't have a publicist, her manager said it...and her manager is pretty clueless (he's never managed anyone before) and probably thought that was the right thing to do (wrongly). The album was going to be released on Tuesday whatever happened. There's an article posted on MTV (posted in Fantasia's thread) that articulately voices the same queries some people here have about the "sketchyness" of her going back to work so soon, then explains how and why those red flags were dismissed when they saw her sing.
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Post by slicknickshady on Aug 26, 2010 0:26:59 GMT -5
Yep, when Eminem had his problems he didnt use it to his advantage. Nobody even knew he had almost died. Yet somehow we get all this info about fantasia yet we got nothing about Eminem on the brink of death. My guess is she wanted it out that she had this issue.
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Post by badrobot on Aug 26, 2010 0:31:44 GMT -5
Do you guys really think people are not buying Katy's album because of some mostly-exaggerated conflict with Lady Gaga? I had completely forgotten about it (I am guessing this is in reference to her talking about sacrilegious work?).
I find it hard to believe that would be the case.
I think we are seeing the same thing we saw with BEP -- a lot of success with singles not translating into a big album first week, but potentially a strong long-term seller.
I think we will have some truer tests for what can be expected when we see sales from Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga's next albums.
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Post by Diego on Aug 26, 2010 5:49:17 GMT -5
Katy's album will have legs, unlike Fantasia's, as long as the hits keep cranking out. Her last album opened only with 47K but the hits kept coming and it ended up selling over 1.2m
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Post by texasdevil on Aug 26, 2010 6:43:47 GMT -5
Katy's album will have legs, unlike Fantasia's, as long as the hits keep cranking out. Her last album opened only with 47K but the hits kept coming and it ended up selling over 1.2m +1!
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Post by lugus15 on Aug 26, 2010 7:20:43 GMT -5
I'm going to be out an a limb here and predict Katy's legs will be around what Kesha's album were: struggling to go Platinum.
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Post by speeddial on Aug 26, 2010 7:27:43 GMT -5
Katy's album will have legs, unlike Fantasia's, as long as the hits keep cranking out. Her last album opened only with 47K but the hits kept coming and it ended up selling over 1.2m Fantasia's album is being very well-received by the R&B community, so why do you think it won't have legs?
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Post by leoapp on Aug 26, 2010 8:03:49 GMT -5
Katy is definitely a single artist, with 2 big hits, she should've pulled at least 300-400k
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Post by popindustrialist on Aug 26, 2010 8:56:30 GMT -5
Yep, when Eminem had his problems he didnt use it to his advantage You should pick up an Eminem disc some time. Every problem he's ever had forms the lyrical basis of his work.
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Post by Diego on Aug 26, 2010 9:17:19 GMT -5
Yep, when Eminem had his problems he didnt use it to his advantage You should pick up an Eminem disc some time. Every problem he's ever had forms the lyrical basis of his work. Exactly.
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Post by tsw2008 on Aug 26, 2010 9:26:27 GMT -5
Katy's album will have legs, unlike Fantasia's, as long as the hits keep cranking out. Her last album opened only with 47K but the hits kept coming and it ended up selling over 1.2m Exactly, it's not about how you start but how you finish, slow and steady wins the race, etc. I can see it reaching 2xp or at least WELL over 1xp, like 1.5 million.
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Post by vandj4ever on Aug 26, 2010 9:54:16 GMT -5
I think we are seeing the same thing we saw with BEP -- a lot of success with singles not translating into a big album first week, but potentially a strong long-term seller. BEP was initially predicted to open lower and took some heat for it because they were in the same place as Katy with some strong single hits but they ended up selling a little over 300k their opening week. Maybe her sales will build and be adjusted over the week the way BEP's were, otherwise I don't find them that similiar. These numbers look more like Rihanna's opening figures. Strong singles do drive sales for most people so I agree it'll probably keep selling. Long term she should sale at least platinum with the expected hits.
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Post by kylecburke on Aug 26, 2010 10:02:53 GMT -5
I think we are seeing the same thing we saw with BEP -- a lot of success with singles not translating into a big album first week, but potentially a strong long-term seller. BEP was initially predicted to open lower and took some heat for it because they were in the same place as Katy with some strong single hits but they ended up selling a little over 300k their opening week. Maybe her sales will build and be adjusted over the week the way BEP's were, otherwise I don't find them that similiar. These numbers look more like Rihanna's opening figures. Strong singles do drive sales for most people so I agree it'll probably keep selling. Long term she should sale at least platinum with the expected hits. BEP was dissapointing tho...they had 2 multiplatinum albums, a large fan base and a huge single out when the END was released....it was a bit dissapointing at first. Katy is def a Rhianna artist..hit singles but not that great of album sales.... We also have to keep in mind...4 million albums is the new diamond, 3 million is like 5-6Xplatinum and 2million is like 4 million sellers....Hitting Platinum these days is like hitting 2-3Xplatinum
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Post by carrieidol1 on Aug 26, 2010 10:09:26 GMT -5
I so hope a miracle happens and Fantasia con somehow pull off the #1 album. Her album is one of the best of the year (coming from someone who used to hate her voice!), and she just flat out deserves it so much more than Katy could ever imagine. Katy's a nice girl with good music, but when it comes to QUALITY, Fantasia has Katy trumped big time. I'm not even a "fan" of either artist, I just think Fantasia is at a point in her life where she deserves all that she can get. She's had a tough, horrible life up until Idol, and even after it was shaky. I just would love Fantasia to score her first #1 album, it would just make me feel better to see her accomplish that. That's my rant, and truly how I feel. Nothing against Katy, it's just Fantasia has stolen my heart through all of this, and it would warm my heart to see her be successful in the midst of all this commotion in her life.
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Post by kylecburke on Aug 26, 2010 10:47:29 GMT -5
Lets not get too greedy...Fantasia had no career really after her first album...she kinda went MIA even though there were 2 albums wern't there after that...The fact that shes opening with 100+ is a huge thing...take what we can get :) It is nice to see her come back even tho I can't stand her
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2010 10:47:49 GMT -5
Go Katy! :)
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