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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2010 16:03:50 GMT -5
Don't forget: she has had massive promo this week: including The Ellen Show and Dancing With The Stars.
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Post by jamrock16 on Nov 3, 2010 17:09:17 GMT -5
Actually, yes you can say that. If Billboard suddenly chopped the last day of sales off her total she would not have sold 1 million. Some people did buy the album on the 7th day, thus adding to her total. Do you have the daily sales? If you don't, then drop it because you can't prove your point and you won't be to say she would not have sold 1 million with just 6 days. If you have, I'd love to see them. Lol, so I guess she sold 1 million copies in the first 6 days and then 0 on the 7th right? That's a good joke
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Post by microcuts on Nov 4, 2010 0:38:29 GMT -5
I think it's incredibly safe to say that anyone who bought the album on Monday would have just bought it on Tuesday if that was the release date. And the people who bought it on Sunday still would have done that, too.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2010 0:42:16 GMT -5
yeah I think so
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Post by shayonce on Nov 4, 2010 1:32:37 GMT -5
then why the lable do monday release? when it's same as tuesday release. I think lable have to pay extra money to get monday release. isn't it?
her lable want 1m mark and does promotions about it. like they sold her albums in cheap price in just first week. on amazon physical album was 8.99 and digital album was 3.99 in first week. also Walamrt sold it as 7.99. and now both changed it to 12.99 and 13.99.
the cheap price and monday release definately help its 1m mark in first week. but yes, taylor still would sold big numbers without that and she's huge act right now.
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Post by $uperb@tDuDe on Nov 4, 2010 2:58:45 GMT -5
Awesome Taylor
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Post by passionformusic on Nov 4, 2010 10:02:32 GMT -5
I hope she gets 400-500 k this week.
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Post by jumpupandburst on Nov 4, 2010 10:57:58 GMT -5
i hope the promos and the "word of mouth" marketing can help boost her sales this week too!
nothing beats a solid album, great and popular artist, and critically acclamation.
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Post by tsw2008 on Nov 4, 2010 12:22:37 GMT -5
From HDD:
Taylor Swift’s enormous 1.044m first week—which had jaws dropping all over the music business—indicates that great records filled with relatable songs from bona fide stars will sell in any era, even this one.
AMEN to that.
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Post by asg4 on Nov 4, 2010 12:44:48 GMT -5
then why the lable do monday release? when it's same as tuesday release. I think lable have to pay extra money to get monday release. isn't it? her lable want 1m mark and does promotions about it. like they sold her albums in cheap price in just first week. on amazon physical album was 8.99 and digital album was 3.99 in first week. also Walamrt sold it as 7.99. and now both changed it to 12.99 and 13.99. the cheap price and monday release definately help its 1m mark in first week. but yes, taylor still would sold big numbers without that and she's huge act right now. amazon is still 3.99 although amazon is only 15% of market but when it is selling for so cheap it might account for 50% of her sales if not more
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Post by microcuts on Nov 4, 2010 13:03:36 GMT -5
Yeah, except Billboard.biz already broke down the sales by vendor and Amazon only accounted for 40,000, which is less than 5% of her sales.
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Post by fullonrainstorm on Nov 4, 2010 13:19:17 GMT -5
^^^^ Which means Speak Now would have sold 1 million even without Amazon's contribution.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2010 13:53:29 GMT -5
This would have hit 1 million even without the advance 1 day release
The Monday folks would have shown up on Tuesday instead
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Post by applechic on Nov 4, 2010 15:24:22 GMT -5
The bitter people who keep bringing up the amazon price make me laugh at their desperation. I'll keep saying it...don't be mad she is outselling your favorite artists.
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Post by Rumors on Nov 4, 2010 15:42:08 GMT -5
Wow! Amazed at Taylor's numbers. I'm not a fan at all and I've started turning the station when her songs come on but that is a lot of records. Might as well hand her all the awards for the next 12 months too.
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Post by Rumors on Nov 4, 2010 15:43:10 GMT -5
The bitter people who keep bringing up the amazon price make me laugh at their desperation. I'll keep saying it...don't be mad she is outselling your favorite artists. Don't gloat too much either. It won't last for Taylor forever either. Everyone eventually grows old.
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Post by $uperb@tDuDe on Nov 4, 2010 16:33:09 GMT -5
Are people seriously nitpicking Taylor's sales? We should all be grateful that in this day and age an album is even able to SELL a million copies in one week. I'm not a fan of Taylor but I was ecstatic the minute I found out she was on track to sell a million.
I don't see why people care anyway, you're not getting a DIME of her royalties
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2010 16:35:38 GMT -5
LOL exactly right
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Nov 4, 2010 16:43:56 GMT -5
lso Walamrt sold it as 7.99. and now both changed it to 12.99 and 13.99. It's typical that the price of an album increases after the initial release week. The bitter people who keep bringing up the amazon price make me laugh at their desperation. I'll keep saying it...don't be mad she is outselling your favorite artists. I agree with that to a certain extent. Some people keep mentioning how outrageous it is that Amazon is selling the album for that little. It's not like they are going to keep it at that price point forever. They do this sort of thing all the time even with new releases.
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Post by grandelf on Nov 5, 2010 3:27:12 GMT -5
From HDD: Taylor Swift’s enormous 1.044m first week—which had jaws dropping all over the music business—indicates that great records filled with relatable songs from bona fide stars will sell in any era, even this one. AMEN to that. I think that's not accurate, I don't believe the majority of Taylor's audience judged the album *before* buying it. The argument "the album sells because it's good" is always puzzling, people are judging albums based on songs they are exposed to, and of course they go by the previous album of the artist as well. Taylor is exceptional in 2010 because her audience prefers to buy the whole CD instead of just one or two singles, but you can't know whether they are disappointed or not when they listen to the full thing (most likely they are not, but the point is, it's based on personal experience that comes after the purchase).
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Post by neverduplicated on Nov 5, 2010 3:47:39 GMT -5
From HDD: Taylor Swift’s enormous 1.044m first week—which had jaws dropping all over the music business—indicates that great records filled with relatable songs from bona fide stars will sell in any era, even this one. AMEN to that. I think that's not accurate, I don't believe the majority of Taylor's audience judged the album *before* buying it. The argument "the album sells because it's good" is always puzzling, people are judging albums based on songs they are exposed to, and of course they go by the previous album of the artist as well. Taylor is exceptional in 2010 because her audience prefers to buy the whole CD instead of just one or two singles, but you can't know whether they are disappointed or not when they listen to the full thing (most likely they are not, but the point is, it's based on personal experience that comes after the purchase). It's true to a certain extent. True that Speak Now was going to debut well regardless of quality, but people wouldn't be so inclined to buy the album if it got bad reviews or if the first single was terrible. That's especially the case in the long run. Fearless has sold so well and consistently in part because of the success of the singles, but also because most fans who have bought it find the album to be very good and so that sort of spreads through word of mouth or through people hearing their friends' copies and such.
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Post by HolidayGuy on Nov 5, 2010 9:22:55 GMT -5
Also- wasn't the amazon figure for both physical and digital copies?
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Post by grandelf on Nov 5, 2010 12:28:49 GMT -5
It's true to a certain extent. True that Speak Now was going to debut well regardless of quality, but people wouldn't be so inclined to buy the album if it got bad reviews or if the first single was terrible. That's especially the case in the long run. Fearless has sold so well and consistently in part because of the success of the singles, but also because most fans who have bought it find the album to be very good and so that sort of spreads through word of mouth or through people hearing their friends' copies and such. I agree that good word of mouth helps (it's one of the reasons why some albums enter the "classic" category) but you did also mention the single, that's still the main reason if an album does well or flops. I don't think reviews mattered much here, in this phase of her career Taylor could be trashed by critics but her fans wouldn't care (it's not like Britney's Oops had good reviews, did it?).
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