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Post by Hussy on Sept 8, 2014 19:26:17 GMT -5
they are fearing the competition? like seriously? :O
the woman can easily sell a million copies in her debut week i mean COME ON !!!
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Post by glen on Sept 20, 2014 15:57:38 GMT -5
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Post by ificanthaveyou on Sept 21, 2014 1:12:12 GMT -5
If they hold this back til 2015, they need to be fired. This will be the album of the holiday season, and an easy stocking stuffer or gift for a casual friend. They'd be missing out on huge holiday sales if they held it back.
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Post by Hussy on Sept 21, 2014 18:06:13 GMT -5
the lead single should have been released already if they are planning for a Q4 release !!!
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Sept 21, 2014 20:41:14 GMT -5
There was only a 1.5 month gap between when Rolling in the Deep debuted and 21 was released. She could have a single out near the middle to end of October and the album out just during the week of the 24th in November; or she could be a bad b!tch and just drop everything at once. Queen Adele gives zero f#cks.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 20:56:07 GMT -5
I could see her getting top 10 airplay within two weeks of dropping her lead single. She could easily set the album up 3 weeks after dropping the lead single if she needed to.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2014 9:16:00 GMT -5
If they hold this back til 2015, they need to be fired. This will be the album of the holiday season, and an easy stocking stuffer or gift for a casual friend. They'd be missing out on huge holiday sales if they held it back. Well I wouldn't say all that. Of course I want a Q4 release, b/c I'm selfish and want new music ASAP. But Adele is in a position that she can release any time she pleases and dominate...hell she could invent a 13th month between the end of 2014 and the start of 2015 and name it Adeluary just for her album release if she wanted to, and she would slay. Whether she should go with '14 over '15 really depends on what kind of faith the label has in the singles and Adele's willingness to do at least a fair amount of promo...although now that I think about it she basically pulled 21 off with a relatively low amount of appearances herself. Q4 of this year is the right choice if they want to strike quickly and let the holiday buzz to carry the bulk of her sales, and particularly if they want to try to get a 1 million+ opening. Early 2015 is fine if she and the label have faith that the album will be similar to 21, where the singles and word of mouth carried the album through the entire year.
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Post by when the pawn... on Sept 22, 2014 11:17:55 GMT -5
There was only a 1.5 month gap between when Rolling in the Deep debuted and 21 was released. She could have a single out near the middle to end of October and the album out just during the week of the 24th in November; or she could be a bad b!tch and just drop everything at once. Queen Adele gives zero f#cks. If I remember correctly, "Rolling In The Deep" came out in November 2010 and 21 was released February 2011. And I agree - she can do whatever she wants. Hopefully the music lives up to the hype.
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Post by maine on Sept 22, 2014 17:41:06 GMT -5
I might not be remembering right, but didn't 21 kind of come out of nowhere success-wise? She never had mainstream success before then ("Chasing Pavements" was a minor hit), but she soared with 21 and "Rolling in the Deep".
Can't wait for this though.
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Post by glen on Sept 24, 2014 4:57:26 GMT -5
A really good time to Announce the new era would be when 21 sells it's 11millionth album in the US, would be great publicity and 21 would sure have a sales increase all over the world.
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Post by glen on Sept 25, 2014 1:53:15 GMT -5
It's been said the Phil Collins song/duet or whatever it was isn't on the album.
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Post by glen on Sept 25, 2014 15:27:24 GMT -5
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Post by vipanonymous on Sept 26, 2014 21:38:44 GMT -5
I've no doubt her new era will be successful. But don't take me wrong when i say this, i don't see all this hype surrounding her. Her first single will be a massive hit, for sure. But besides it, would be nice if she can sustain her moment. I mean i can see big sales, big singles, but a case like 'Teenage Dream' to 'Prism'.
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Post by The Upper Hand on Sept 28, 2014 11:02:35 GMT -5
More proof that a new Adele album is on the way?By Nesta McGregorForget Where's Wally? The question music fans have been asking for the past 18 months is... where's Adele? Well, the good news, we can reveal that she is working on new music. A recording studio we visited this week were only too happy to boast about their latest client. If not yet ready to record them, RAK Studios based in north west London, confirmed that the 26-year-old was writing new songs. Since giving birth to a son in October 2012 Adele has been keeping a low profile having only released the James Bond theme, Skyfall. The list also showed that Emeli Sande, Birdy and Mary J Blige had recently been at the studio. RAK Studios is where Adele recorded most of her debut album, 19. Diane Warren, who according to the document attended the studios with Adele, has also written songs for Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera and Rihanna. In keeping with naming her albums after her age when she started working on them - Adele's latest project is rumoured to be called, 24. Her previous efforts were titled 19 and 21. Released in January 2011 Adele's 21 is the fourth best-selling album in the UK of all time. www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/29323605
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Post by Ryan on Sept 29, 2014 4:21:50 GMT -5
Dianne Warren tho...
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Sept 29, 2014 7:13:21 GMT -5
I had the same reaction. I don't need none of her saccharin filled songs on an Adele album. No ma'am.
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Post by floridagrl on Sept 29, 2014 12:10:01 GMT -5
I had the same reaction. I don't need none of her saccharin filled songs an Adele album. No ma'am. What if she used Splenda?
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Post by The Upper Hand on Sept 29, 2014 14:22:20 GMT -5
Yes, I know Diane is dated as hell, but she recently wrote a very good song for Paloma Faith.
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Post by glen on Sept 30, 2014 5:12:01 GMT -5
British soul star Adele axed her collaboration with veteran musician Phil Collins following the birth of her son, Angelo.
The "Someone Like You" singer contacted the Genesis star and asked him to work on new music with her, but Collins was left baffled when she failed to follow-through with the plans.
Collins eventually found out she had ditched her studio time to concentrate on motherhood and moving house.
Speaking to British magazine, Event, he says, "After we'd met, I didn't hear from her for a little while. And I thought I'd failed the audition - which is fair enough. You need to see if you're compatible... But she said: 'Oh no, no, no, no, no, I love what you do, I really want to do it..." So I thought, 'OK, well, she's very keen, and she's very sweet.' So I just did nothing else but think about this piece of music for a few weeks. But I didn't really hear from her. I eventually emailed her back - I didn't have a phone number - and I said: 'Are you waiting for me, or am I waiting for you?' And she said, 'Well, actually, I'm not writing at the moment - I'm moving house.' And she'd got the new baby. So that was the end of it..."
Adele, 26, is reportedly preparing to release her new album later this year (14), and Collins insists he does not feel bitter about missing out on the chance to collaborate with her.
He adds, "I gather there's '25' (the next album) coming out, another album. So we never did anything. We didn't fall out - we never fell in! But she was a very nice lady. And she's certainly talented, and this piece of music, maybe I'll hear it on the record. I've still got it and I don't know if she's used it. So it was a bit of a non-starter. Everybody got very excited about it..."
www.good4utah.com/entertainment/story/d/story/adele-axed-phil-collins-collaboration-due-to-baby/37137/Jop2Ky2MRkSOO3r3Z1RBjA
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Post by darko95 on Sept 30, 2014 5:45:18 GMT -5
You are all really awful about Diane Warren on this board. Any classic writer has a special gift to write melodies which will be remembered long after most of the young writers came and went. She definitely still has it in her. It never left.
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Post by glen on Oct 2, 2014 16:05:50 GMT -5
music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/chart-watch-11-million-adele-fans-cant-be-wrong-185443712.html
In the sales tracking week that ends Sunday night, Adele's 21 will top the 11 million mark in U.S. sales. That news is at once not really surprising (the album has been a blockbuster since it was released in 2011) and utterly astounding (in an era when albums are hard-pressed to sell 2 or 3 million copies, how on earth has an album gotten to 11 million?)
And if 21 can sell 11 million in such a challenging sales environment for full-length albums (there’s the understatement of the year), what might it have sold if it had been released around the turn of the millennium, when albums were selling like hotcakes? Between April 1999 and December 2002, 10 albums topped the 10 million mark in U.S. sales, based on Nielsen SoundScan data.
There was little reason to think that 21 would become a blockbuster when it was released in February 2011. Adele’s previous album, 19, had been a solid hit, but it hadn’t even sold 1 million copies. (Its sales on the eve of the release of 21: 930K.) Only one of the songs from 19 made Billboard's Hot 100: “Chasing Pavements,” which peaked at #21 (there's that number again!). 19 had, however, brought Adele two Grammys: Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. (In addition, “Chasing Pavements” was nominated for Grammys for Record and Song of the Year.)
21 logged 24 weeks at #1 on The Billboard 200 and spawned three #1 singles: “Rolling In The Deep,” “Someone Like You” and “Set Fire To The Rain.” 21 was the best-selling album of both 2011 and 2012. This marked the first time in Nielsen SoundScan history (which dates to 1991) that an album was the top-seller two years running.
The album’s biggest sales week came in February 2012, when it sold 730K copies in the first full week following the 54th Grammy Awards. Adele won six Grammys that night, including Album, Record and Song of the Year. (The tune-in was greater than usual due in large part to Whitney Houston's shocking death the day before the show.)
So why did the album become such a blockbuster? The obvious answer is that it had broad appeal to fans of pop, R&B and adult contemporary.
Beyond that, many believe that the album did so well because it stood apart from prevailing musical trends, which emphasize flashy images and bombastic beats. Some even think Adele’s full figure helped set her apart. It reinforced the idea that she’s real and authentic.
The week of the album’s U.S. release, Ethan Smith of The Wall Street Journal wrote, “In more ways than one, Adele is the anti-Lady Gaga. The unapologetically full-figured Adele emphasizes substance over style.”
Writing in The Independent newspaper in the U.K. the following week, Guy Adams expanded on that point. “There are two approaches to the business of being noticed by today’s record-buying public. The first, showcased by Lady Gaga at the recent Grammys, revolves around oodles of hype and ever-more preposterous wardrobe selections. The second, adopted by Adele at this year’s Brit (Awards), is more understated: It requires a simple black dress and the confidence to let your music do the talking.”
In January 2012, Tris McCall of The Star-Ledger in New Jersey came up with an explanation for Adele’s appeal that was almost lyrical. “Adele’s soul-inflected pop appealed to Baby Boomers nostalgic for Etta James, Carole King and ‘Dusty in Memphis.’ It also appealed to teens struggling with the first sting of heartbreak, hipsters who missed Amy Winehouse, traditionalists weary of synthesizers and vocal effects, and non-pop fans who simply found it refreshing to hear a singer belt out her blues with conviction … 21 wasn’t niche-marketed. It was made for everyone and—surprise!—everyone listened.”
At a certain point, the album became a phenomenon. You had to check it out if you wanted to be part of the cultural conversation. As industry pundit Bob Lefsetz put it, “We all gravitate to that which is huge because we want to feel part of society, we want to belong.”
21 took a bit longer to sell the last million copies than it did to sell the first 10 million copies (combined), but that’s to be expected.
Here are the numbers, for you data freaks: 21 topped 1M in U.S. sales in April 2011, 2M that June, 3M that August, 4M that October and 5M that December.
It topped 6M in January 2012, 7M that February, 8M that March, 9M that May and 10M that November.
How can I be so certain that the album will top the 11 million mark this week? The album’s sales stood at 10,999,000 last week, and it is selling about 3K copies a week.
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Post by pnobelysk on Oct 4, 2014 11:01:10 GMT -5
Could be passing 12 million this week if set fire to the rain and rumour has it gt videos & turning tables ewe released as a single
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Post by Mack on Oct 4, 2014 12:38:40 GMT -5
Surely this is coming out sometime soon? I just can't believe that they would miss out on the holiday rush. I mean, she could easily sell tons of copies (possibly millions?) before year's end if the album dropped in November.
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Post by floridagrl on Oct 5, 2014 7:58:00 GMT -5
I wish she would interact more with us on her Facebook page. Her last entry was back in Feb. The waiting, between her and Madonna, is killing me.
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Post by when the pawn... on Oct 8, 2014 12:27:42 GMT -5
21 has now sold 11.002 million copies.
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Post by glen on Oct 9, 2014 6:49:23 GMT -5
21 has now sold 11.002 million copies. Billboard: 21 #95 (113)
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Post by glen on Oct 9, 2014 12:06:34 GMT -5
Adele fans will have to wait until at least next year for a new album, according to a statement from her label tucked in a new financial report.
Speculation has been running high for months that Adele — whose 2011 album “21” sold more than 25 million copies around the world, defying seemingly every rule of the depressed modern music business — might release a new record this year. In May, on the eve of her 26th birthday, Adele sent a cryptic message on Twitter saying, “Bye bye 25… See you again later in the year,” which some fans interpreted as indicating a new album by year’s end. Some of her previous collaborators, like the songwriter and producer Ryan Tedder, have also said they are working on new music with her. But nothing new has been confirmed.
The most definitive statement so far about Adele’s plans is in the latest annual financial report by Adele’s label, XL Recordings, which was filed on Thursday with regulators in Britain, where the company is based. Buried alongside the news that XL — whose other acts include Vampire Weekend and the xx — made $15 million in net profit on almost $61 million in revenue in 2013, was the following sentence:
“There will not be a further new release by Adele during 2014 and consequently there will be a fall in XL’s turnover and profits.”
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/no-new-adele-album-until-at-least-2015/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1&
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Oct 10, 2014 17:25:09 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6281504/adele-21-surpasses-11-million-sales Adele's '21' Surpasses 11 Million In U.S. SalesBy Keith Caulfield | October 10, 2014 Adele's mega-selling second studio album, 21, has surpassed the 11 million sales mark in the U.S., according to Nielsen Soundscan. The set, released in 2011 on XL/Columbia Records, is only the 12th album to sell at least that many copies since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991. 21 sold another 4,000 in the week ending Oct. 5, bringing its cumulative sum to just over 11 million after 189 weeks in release. (It has sold 157,000 to date in 2014 alone.) The album was released on Feb. 21, 2011, spent 24 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and has yet to exit the tally: It has spent all but 11 of its chart weeks in the top 100. On the latest chart, reflecting the sales week ending Oct. 5, it climbs 113-95. It's the first album to reach 11 million since March 2012, when Bob Marley and The Wailers' greatest hits set Legend, released in 1984, achieved the feat. (21 and Legend are two of only 22 sets to sail past the much celebrated 10 million mark too.) The last album to hit 11 million faster than 21 was nearly 12 years ago, when Creed's Human Clay hit 11 million in its 165th week of release (week ending Nov. 24, 2002). Adele is currently working on her third album, and it is not due until at least next year, according to reports. A recent financial filing by her label, XL Recordings (reported by The New York Times), states that "there will not be a further new release by Adele in 2014." Her publicist tells Billboard that "at the moment, nothing is scheduled." Earlier this year, Adele tweeted a cryptic note, leading some to think that a new album might materialize by the end of this year. 21 finished both 2011 and 2012 as the top-selling album of the year and was Billboard's year-end top Billboard 200 album for both years. (It was the first time an album had achieved that distinction since Michael Jackson's Thriller in 1983 and 1984.) 21 generated five hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including three No. 1s: "Rolling in the Deep," "Set Fire to the Rain" and "Someone Like You." 21 is the 12th largest-selling album of the SoundScan era, and the fifth-biggest by a woman. The top seller in that 1991-present span is Metallica's self-titled 1991 album, with 16.04 million, followed by Shania Twain's Come On Over (15.58 million), Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill (14.95 million), the Beatles' 1 (12.41 million), Backstreet Boys' Millennium (12.25 million), the Whitney Houston-led The Bodyguard soundtrack (12.14 million), Santana's Supernatural (11.85 million), Creed's Human Clay (11.69 million), Marley's Legend (11.66 million), 'N Sync's No Strings Attached (11.16 million), Norah Jones' Come Away With Me (11.02 million) and Adele's 21 (11 million).
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Post by Nick on Oct 10, 2014 19:16:19 GMT -5
Hopefully a Spring 2015 release.
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Oct 10, 2014 19:20:04 GMT -5
Debut that single during the Grammys and watch the slaughtering.
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