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Post by Push The Button on Dec 22, 2015 18:30:26 GMT -5
Adele’s 25 is set for a historic third million-selling week in the U.S., according to industry forecasters. Those in the know suggest that her red-hot 25 could sell slightly more than a million copies in pure album sales in the week ending Dec. 24 -- its fifth week on sale. That would give the title its third frame of million-plus sales, following its debut week (3.38 million, according to Nielsen Music) and second stanza (1.11 million). 25 is the first album to earn multiple million-plus sales weeks since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991. As earlier reported, through its fourth week on sale, 25 sold 5.98 million copies, making it the biggest-selling album released in the U.S. since Adele’s last album, 21, which bowed in 2011. The latter title has sold 11.37 million. 25’s sales total for the week ending Dec. 24 is scheduled to be announced on Sunday, Dec. 27, after Nielsen has completed processing its sales data for the week. www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6820774/adele-25-third-million-selling-week |
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Post by mcsteamy on Dec 22, 2015 18:51:59 GMT -5
The message is clear this time.
Dear other artists, plz do not even try.
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Post by Caviar on Dec 22, 2015 18:54:46 GMT -5
7 million sold!
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Post by forg on Dec 22, 2015 19:53:35 GMT -5
AMAZING!
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Post by 85la on Dec 23, 2015 0:47:59 GMT -5
The message is clear this time. Dear other artists, plz do not even try. Do Not Try Do not try what? |
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Post by BlueSwan on Dec 23, 2015 2:27:58 GMT -5
Incredible!
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Post by Enigma. on Dec 23, 2015 2:42:55 GMT -5
Wow she surprises me every week. I mean EVERY WEEK. When all other artists would be at 400k max, she sells a million. Incredible.
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Post by Spidey on Dec 23, 2015 2:50:49 GMT -5
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Post by bornfearless2000 on Dec 23, 2015 3:00:51 GMT -5
We are not worthy
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2015 3:53:03 GMT -5
The message is clear this time. Dear other artists, plz do not even try. Do Not Try There is no try 25 is the music world's equivalent of The Force Awakens |
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Post by bornfearless2000 on Dec 23, 2015 4:01:43 GMT -5
The message is clear this time. Dear other artists, plz do not even try. Do Not Try There is no try 25 is the music world's equivalent of The Force Awakens More like THE FORCE AWAKENS + AVATAR |
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Post by Keelzit on Dec 23, 2015 6:51:59 GMT -5
ANTi is coming though so celebrate while it's time amigos
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2015 7:51:21 GMT -5
There is no try 25 is the music world's equivalent of The Force Awakens More like THE FORCE AWAKENS + AVATAR No, 21's the Avatar equivalent |
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Post by SPRΞΞ on Dec 23, 2015 9:12:09 GMT -5
ANTi is coming though so celebrate while it's time amigos I needed my morning laugh. |
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Post by popbox on Dec 24, 2015 23:57:56 GMT -5
One thing's for sure: There may never be another movie at the box office like The Force Awakens nor another album in record sales like 25. Both could literally end among the most successful ever released. EVER.
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Post by BlueSwan on Dec 25, 2015 6:58:01 GMT -5
One thing's for sure: There may never be another movie at the box office like The Force Awakens nor another album in record sales like 25. Both could literally end among the most successful ever released. EVER. There's a HUGE difference between the two. "The Force Awakens" is benefitting from inflation given that for some odd reason, they calculate earnings not ticket sales for movies. Even if The Force Awakens shatters the record of Avatar, it is getting nowhere near Gone With The Wind. And, it is almost certain that another megahyped movie will come along in a few years time and beat The Force Awakens, again helped by inflated ticket prices. On the other hand, "25" is getting huge album sales in an era of deeple depressed sales, which are only gonna get worse going forwards. I personally don't think that any album will ever reach the heights of "25" again, if we are talking pure sales. In general, I think we're witnessing the last few years of actual music sales in a large scale. CD's will die out. Vinyl will stay in a limited market and streaming services will overtake digital sales in a few years time. |
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Post by Push The Button on Dec 25, 2015 8:22:05 GMT -5
The Force Awakens will end up as the biggest ticket seller of the 21 century. 25 will probably not become the best-selling album of the century, though it is certainly a blockbuster.
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Post by jenglisbe on Dec 25, 2015 9:35:33 GMT -5
"The Force Awakens" is benefitting from inflation given that for some odd reason, they calculate earnings not ticket sales for movies. Even if The Force Awakens shatters the record of Avatar, it is getting nowhere near Gone With The Wind. And, it is almost certain that another megahyped movie will come along in a few years time and beat The Force Awakens, again helped by inflated ticket prices. Yeah, I've never understood this either. Why do they go by sales totals and not ticket sales? It would be like using album prices and not copies sold for albums. |
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Post by chartfreak on Dec 25, 2015 11:02:13 GMT -5
Adele is going to have so many returns tomorrow.
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Post by BlueSwan on Dec 25, 2015 11:32:42 GMT -5
The Force Awakens will end up as the biggest ticket seller of the 21 century. Possibly. Avatar did $760 million, which I think Force Awakens will beat. However, adjusted for inflation, Avatar is at $811 million, which is gonna be tougher. Force Awakens has had an unprecedented opening, but you would have to assume that it is very frontloaded. EDIT: Just saw the projected numbers for the upcoming weekend. Yeah, it will probably beat Avatar. |
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Post by jenglisbe on Dec 25, 2015 12:40:07 GMT -5
The Force Awakens will end up as the biggest ticket seller of the 21 century. Possibly. Avatar did $760 million, which I think Force Awakens will beat. However, adjusted for inflation, Avatar is at $811 million, which is gonna be tougher. Force Awakens has had an unprecedented opening, but you would have to assume that it is very frontloaded. EDIT: Just saw the projected numbers for the upcoming weekend. Yeah, it will probably beat Avatar. Well, if you adjust for inflation, then isn't Gone With the Wind the top movie? Avatar isn't even top 10. |
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Post by Push The Button on Dec 25, 2015 14:56:59 GMT -5
The Force Awakens will end up as the biggest ticket seller of the 21 century. Possibly. Avatar did $760 million, which I think Force Awakens will beat. However, adjusted for inflation, Avatar is at $811 million, which is gonna be tougher. Force Awakens has had an unprecedented opening, but you would have to assume that it is very frontloaded. EDIT: Just saw the projected numbers for the upcoming weekend. Yeah, it will probably beat Avatar. Avatar sold about 75 million tickets. TFA is targeting a billion domestically, and it will easily cross 80 million tickets sold. It's really insane. |
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Post by Push The Button on Dec 25, 2015 14:58:47 GMT -5
Possibly. Avatar did $760 million, which I think Force Awakens will beat. However, adjusted for inflation, Avatar is at $811 million, which is gonna be tougher. Force Awakens has had an unprecedented opening, but you would have to assume that it is very frontloaded. EDIT: Just saw the projected numbers for the upcoming weekend. Yeah, it will probably beat Avatar. Well, if you adjust for inflation, then isn't Gone With the Wind the top movie? Avatar isn't even top 10. Apples to oranges. GWTW had many, many re-releases in theaters over the years. No one knows how many tickets it sold in its initial run through 1939-1940. |
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Post by Ravi on Dec 25, 2015 22:26:32 GMT -5
The Force Awakens will end up as the biggest ticket seller of the 21 century. Possibly. Avatar did $760 million, which I think Force Awakens will beat. However, adjusted for inflation, Avatar is at $811 million, which is gonna be tougher. Force Awakens has had an unprecedented opening, but you would have to assume that it is very frontloaded. EDIT: Just saw the projected numbers for the upcoming weekend. Yeah, it will probably beat Avatar. It will crush Avatar, I'd say $900m is locked, and the target now is $1B. It will have its 2nd weekend among the Top-10 weekends of all-time. I'd say both "Hello" and "Star Wars" are equally impressive in their own spheres. Both are demolishing records left and right. |
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Post by popbox on Dec 26, 2015 9:15:09 GMT -5
One thing's for sure: There may never be another movie at the box office like The Force Awakens nor another album in record sales like 25. Both could literally end among the most successful ever released. EVER. There's a HUGE difference between the two. "The Force Awakens" is benefitting from inflation given that for some odd reason, they calculate earnings not ticket sales for movies. Even if The Force Awakens shatters the record of Avatar, it is getting nowhere near Gone With The Wind. And, it is almost certain that another megahyped movie will come along in a few years time and beat The Force Awakens, again helped by inflated ticket prices. On the other hand, "25" is getting huge album sales in an era of deeple depressed sales, which are only gonna get worse going forwards. I personally don't think that any album will ever reach the heights of "25" again, if we are talking pure sales. In general, I think we're witnessing the last few years of actual music sales in a large scale. CD's will die out. Vinyl will stay in a limited market and streaming services will overtake digital sales in a few years time. I've closely followed box office for years. I can tell you "The Force Awakens" is showing heavy signs of becoming the first billion dollar grosser domestically, un-adjusted for inflation. Now even adjusted for inflation, there are only 8 other movies that have ever done that, all released by 1997 or earlier. Furthermore, if you take out re-releases then that is narrowed down to just 4 movies. So basically The Force Awakens could be headed to one of the top 5 first run attendances of all time (by that I mean tickets sold not money made). Now you also have to account for 3d inflation, however 3d has plummeted in popularity in the past few years, and 3d shares are typically only about 20-25% for blockbusters today. So it is unlikely much more than 100m of its gross comes from 3d inflation. Either way, it will easily be the most attended movie since Titanic nearly 20 years ago. It has widely been thought impossible for a movie to clear 80 million tickets sold in this century (since none have), which The Force Awakens will for sure do. So please don't downplay what it's doing. It is about to gross over 150 million in its second weekend, something that only 10 other movies have done in their opening weekend. It is very much 25's equal in its medium, and it is downright mind boggling what it is making. As for your comment about another movie coming along in a few years to beat it, yeah that's about as likely as another album coming in a few years to beat 25. I give it a less than 1% chance that happens. Ticket prices will likely need another decade of inflation before anything will have a shot at out-grossing it. |
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Post by Enigma. on Dec 27, 2015 13:19:39 GMT -5
Adele's '25' Sells Another 1.15 Million in U.S., Spends Fifth Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart
12/27/2015 by Keith Caulfield
Total U.S. sales for '25' now exceed 7 million.
Adele’s 25 locks up its third million-selling week in the U.S., as the set sold 1.15 million in pure album sales in the week ending Dec. 24, according to Nielsen Music (up 46 percent). That’s the five-week old set’s second-biggest frame yet, following its 3.38 million bow in the week ending Nov. 26.
A surge in sales in the week leading up to Christmas (Dec. 25) was expected, as consumers rush to make last-minute holiday purchases. Also aiding 25's sales in the most recent tracking week: the frame captured a full seven days through Dec. 24. Nielsen Music's tracking week runs from Friday through Thursday, and Christmas Eve fell on a Thursday this year. (Usually, the tracking week will end a day or two before Christmas -- or after the holiday, thus lessening the impact of the week-before-Christmas sales frame.)
25 also sold more than a million in its second week on sale, when it shifted 1.11 million. 25 was already the first album to sell a million copies in two different weeks, and now it’s the first to score three million-selling frames.
25’s total U.S. album sales, through Dec. 24, now stand at 7.13 million.
Unsurprisingly, 25 also easily earns a fifth straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, with 1.19 million equivalent album units.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Jan. 9, 2016-dated chart (where Adele is No. 1 for a fifth frame) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Dec. 29.
Elsewhere on the Billboard 200, Justin Bieber’s Purpose stays steady at No. 2 with 229,000 units (up 38 percent). Of that sum, 153,000 were in pure album sales (up 53 percent).
Chris Brown’s new Royalty album clocks the top debut of the week, bowing at No. 3 with 184,000 units (162,000 in pure album sales).
In terms of straight sales, Royalty nets Brown his largest sales week since his 2011, when his F.A.M.E. album started at No. 1 with 270,000 sold.
Royalty is Brown’s eighth consecutive top 10 album (and all of his releases have made the top 10). It follows his collaborative album Fan of a Fan: The Album (with Tyga) earlier in 2015, which debuted and peaked at No. 7 (with 51,000 sold in its first week). Previous to that, Brown released the solo set X in 2014, which bowed and peaked at No. 2 (145,000 sold first week).
Pentatonix’s That’s Christmas to Me dips one position to No. 4 (140,000 units; down less than 1 percent).
The soundtrack to Star Wars: The Force Awakens beams in at No. 5 with 100,000 units (94,000 in pure album sales). The companion set to the mega-successful new movie is the highest debut for a score-only soundtrack since 1999, when Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, started at No. 3.
The Force Awakens is the seventh film in the main Star Wars film series, and its soundtrack is the sixth to reach the top 10. (Only Return of the Jedi, in 1983, missed the region. It peaked at No. 20.)
While the Star Wars series produced six top 10 albums, none have reached No. 1. The closest the series came was with the first film, Star Wars, which saw its album spend three consecutive weeks at No. 2 in 1977. (It was stuck behind Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, which ruled the list for 31 nonconsecutive weeks.)
Back on the new Billboard 200, One Direction’s Made in the A.M. slips 4-6 with 92,000 units (up 38 percent), Chris Stapleton’s Traveller rises 6-7 with 87,000 units (up 41 percent), Taylor Swift’s 1989 ascends 9-8 with 73,000 units (up 49 percent) and The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness falls 5-9 with 72,000 units (up 13 percent). Adele’s 21 closes out the top 10, holding at No. 10, with 71,000 units (up 46 percent).
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Post by Enigma. on Dec 27, 2015 13:20:42 GMT -5
Great sales for Chris Brown
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Post by ccchui on Dec 27, 2015 13:25:44 GMT -5
7 Million for Adele in US after 5 weeks of release....OMG
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Dec 27, 2015 13:40:25 GMT -5
HOLY F###ING SH!T :o
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Post by HolidayGuy on Dec 27, 2015 13:51:07 GMT -5
Chris Brown ended up with the No. 2 album seller.
Unworldly numbers for 25- and a nice boost to the year's overall album-sales total.
Re movies/inflation- that's why Box Office Mojo posts inflation-adjusted numbers- even if they're estimates, it's a necessity to get, at least, a somewhat accurate picture when comparing films (though for some reason, info for Disney's animated "Cinderella" is not complete on he site, even though it ranks among the biggest hits).
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