Linnethia Monique
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Feb 21, 2012 19:09:42 GMT -5
HITS REALLY underestimated sales for The Greatest Hits. So, that's a three-spot gain on its initial peak (No. 5 vs. No. 2). Craaazzzyyy sales for Ms. Adkins- but not surprising. I think when death is a variable, sales are a little harder to predict than usual... Especially with on-going coverage, tributes, specials airing, and the funeral being a live event. That last one is really the booster.
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Post by CammyCan on Feb 21, 2012 20:18:21 GMT -5
...is this real life?
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Post by GRRR on Feb 21, 2012 20:22:32 GMT -5
CHART DATE: 02/20/2012 LAST UPDATE: 02/21/2012 11:33:45 NOW IN: FINAL LW TW artist / album label power index % change 1 1 ADELE XL/COLUMBIA 716,091 +196% 21 12 10 COLDPLAY CAPITOL/EMI 35,119 +13% MYLO XYLOTO 35 11 THE CIVIL WARS SENSIBILITY MUSIC 34,164 +145% BARTON HOLLOW Adele :o Coldplay GTFO forever please, Civil Wars
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Post by allow that on Feb 21, 2012 20:30:50 GMT -5
What does GTFO stand for? lol
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Post by ListenToItTwice on Feb 21, 2012 20:31:56 GMT -5
^ Get the f*** out.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2012 20:33:07 GMT -5
Wow at Adele! So amazing :) So happy for her great success!
BEYONCE COLUMBIA 12,814 -3%
Consistency baby <3
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2012 20:55:45 GMT -5
730K from the BB thread
some nice stats given there
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2012 21:04:23 GMT -5
Talent is being rewarded! People DO buy albums. Stop giving us shit!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2012 21:26:08 GMT -5
28 8 BRUNO MARS NEW ELEKTRA 37,142 +114% DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS Yasss bwoy! What an amazing Grammy performance can do. So glad for him and Whitney! :o And +1 to 4's consistency!
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Post by Stefan85 on Feb 21, 2012 21:38:00 GMT -5
Talent is being rewarded! People DO buy albums. Stop giving us s**t! Plenty of talented artists don't sell near enough albums. Adele was just lucky to appeal to several different demographics.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2012 21:39:35 GMT -5
Talent is being rewarded! People DO buy albums. Stop giving us s**t! Plenty of talented artists don't sell near enough albums. Adele was just lucky to appeal to several different demographics. Point being plenty of shit artists don't sell albums despite hits and the labels blame it on illegal downloading.
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Feb 21, 2012 21:53:16 GMT -5
I do have to wonder if labels are looking at the Adele situation and reassessing at all. It seems like so much effort is thrown into stars nowadays to get a platinum or MAYBE double platinum cd if you are lucky and willing to release and heavily promote 70 singles. It is always blamed on downloading, but it is hard to blame JUST downloading in my opinion. I wonder if singer songwriter types will get more of a push at all. I almost feel like Lana was pushed a bit more than she would have if Adele never existed and the best selling cd of last year was Buble's Christmas cd and Born This Way. But, then again, it may just be seen as one of those anomalies and no shifts in promotional power happen at all.
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Post by Stefan85 on Feb 21, 2012 21:54:59 GMT -5
Plenty of talented artists don't sell near enough albums. Adele was just lucky to appeal to several different demographics. Point being plenty of s**t artists don't sell albums despite hits and the labels blame it on illegal downloading. I blame it more on iTunes really. Of course quality is a factor, but plenty of crappy artists have sold tons of albums over the years when iTunes wasn't around (including the artist Adele tied with this week) The ease and ability of downloading a song and not the album. Of course, Adele is a huge exception, but like I said, that's the advantage of appealing to a radio listening public who mostly downloads songs and the older crowd who mostly buys albums. If iTunes wasn't around, the younger crowd might be more inclined to buy albums, because who would really waste a trip to the music store or Wal-Mart just to buy a single?
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Post by imbondz on Feb 21, 2012 22:07:00 GMT -5
In the late 90's and early 2000's it was odd if the #1 album didn't sell that much
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Post by imbondz on Feb 21, 2012 22:11:56 GMT -5
If there is interest, I will post where this falls on all variations of the all-time best sales weeks list (once we have a Soundscan number) I can do: -- top overall -- top female -- top weeks in February -- top in the last x years -- top British female -- top British female that performed for the Queen -- top female who never appeared on the Mickey Mouse club :o Or whatever variation you all want Or none if no interest yes!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2012 22:12:20 GMT -5
700K plus is a feat in any time period. Only 50 or so weeks have had better results in 21 years
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Post by asg4 on Feb 21, 2012 22:25:08 GMT -5
Talent is being rewarded! People DO buy albums. Stop giving us s**t! she appeals to the older crowd who always buys albums. same crowd who made nora jones sell shit loads
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Post by Rodze on Feb 21, 2012 22:28:43 GMT -5
And more recently Susan Boyle.
What Adele is missing is only the Urban and the Country audience. Time to remix those singles!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2012 22:30:41 GMT -5
Here is your female-solo album list ----adding the multi-artist Bodyguard Soundtrack since it is Whitney dominated
1 Oops...I Did It Again Britney Spears 1,319,193 2000 2 Born This Way Lady Gaga 1,108,403 2011 3 The Bodyguard Soundtrack 1,061,000 1993 4 Speak Now Taylor Swift 1,046,718 2010 5 Feels Like Home Norah Jones 1,022,149 2004 6 Up! Shania Twain 874,000 2002 7 The Bodyguard Soundtrack 831,000 1993 8 Daydream Mariah Carey 759,959 1996 9 Britney Britney Spears 745,744 2001 10 As I Am Alicia Keys 742,426 2007 11 Adele 730,000 2012
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2012 22:31:48 GMT -5
Per the BB thread this is the second biggest week that wasn'tChristmas or first month of release, behind the Titanic Soundtrack
Looking at the list above it, I think '21' got the British female title
#5 for February behind Norah Jones, Titanic and 2 50 ent weeks
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Post by allow that on Feb 21, 2012 22:38:42 GMT -5
And more recently Susan Boyle. I don't understand these comparisons. Like Susan Boyle will have three Hot 100 #1's anytime soon or get played on the radio at all even.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2012 22:40:48 GMT -5
Don't need pop hits to sell albums. I think the comparison that 21 is drawing out the non casual record buyer ala Susan Boyle
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Post by Rodze on Feb 21, 2012 22:48:16 GMT -5
^ Yes, it's so simple.
Adele is selling for many different people, some of them are the same people who bought Susan Boyle. Nobody is saying they are the only audience buying her album, or even the majority.
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Post by brucelover on Feb 21, 2012 22:49:15 GMT -5
21 is selling to both the Susan Boyle/Norah Jones audience AND the poppy, younger audience. She is one of the few artists with true cross-generational appeal.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2012 22:59:02 GMT -5
I think Norah Jones and Susan Boyle do two different types of music and draw two different types of people
Lots of genres out there other than pop
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Post by neverduplicated on Feb 22, 2012 2:18:37 GMT -5
7 million copies isn't a lot when you are talking about "everyone has it by now that wants it" To put things into perspective, by the end of its initial chart run, Thriller was at 20 million Billboard actually just posted that only 2.34% of the American population have bought a copy of 21. Granted that doesn't account for very young children who likely don't own albums of their own, nor does it account for multiple people who listen to the same copy (as my husband and I do), nor does it account for the many people who would've downloaded the album illegally, but still, just shows that over 97% of the American public hasn't bought 21. 200 million copies, here we come? (Just kidding, of course).
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Post by Enigma. on Feb 22, 2012 2:42:47 GMT -5
Adele 716 k ? But...But...EVERYONE owned this album already in the U.S.....:/ ^^ words of a pulser the week prior to the Grammy's , in which he/she said that Adele's 21 would sell 'just' 200k after the ceremony, 'cause everyone already had the album... LOL like YOU knew this was going to happen ;) I was one of those who thought 300k max. Was so wrong but that's life and I'm very glad she's selling.
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Post by dgarcia3377 on Feb 22, 2012 14:44:13 GMT -5
Adele=Success
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Post by #LisaRinna on Feb 22, 2012 17:12:43 GMT -5
BEYONCE 4 COLUMBIA 12,814 -3% Consistency baby <3
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Post by herb on Mar 5, 2012 14:33:38 GMT -5
Thanks, j74.
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