53rd ACM Awards (April 15)

[recordyear]

Billboard's description of sales spike:

On Sunday, the day of the show (which was broadcast on CBS), the collected songs performed on the three-hour awards logged a 427 percent sales gain in digital download sales, as compared to the previous day.



Overall, the tunes that were performed on the broadcast sold 108,000 downloads on Sunday, up from just 21,000 on Saturday.



Some of the notable sales winners include: Carrie Underwood’s “Cry Pretty,” which vaulted 159 percent to 12,000 sold (up from 4,000); Thomas Rhett’s “Marry Me,” zipping 195 percent to 9,000 (from 3,000); and Kane Brown’s “What Ifs,” featuring Lauren Alaina, rising a whopping 814 percent to 14,000 (from 2,000).


“What Ifs” was the biggest seller among all the songs performed on the show. The second-biggest of the bunch was “Cry Pretty.”

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8344375/acm-awards-sales-gain-carrie-underwood-thomas-rhett-kane-brown

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Here's a question though. If "Cry Pretty" has been at #1 since the ACMs, how can "What Ifs", which hasn't been even close to "Cry Pretty" have sold more? Plus, "What Ifs" has never risen above "Cry Pretty" since the latter's debut, I believe.

[Troublemaker]

Apr 18, 2018 6:45:49 GMT -5 @adam1995 said:

Here's a question though. If "Cry Pretty" has been at #1 since the ACMs, how can "What Ifs", which hasn't been even close to "Cry Pretty" have sold more? Plus, "What Ifs" has never risen above "Cry Pretty" since the latter's debut, I believe.

Because apart from iTunes, there are other digital platforms where music can be purchased (people like me tend to forget that). Although they mentioned sales I won’t be surprised if they meant sales plus streaming cause “What Ifs” is streaming better 

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Apr 18, 2018 6:59:02 GMT -5 Troublemaker said:

Apr 18, 2018 6:45:49 GMT -5 @adam1995 said:

Here's a question though. If "Cry Pretty" has been at #1 since the ACMs, how can "What Ifs", which hasn't been even close to "Cry Pretty" have sold more? Plus, "What Ifs" has never risen above "Cry Pretty" since the latter's debut, I believe.

Because apart from iTunes, there are other digital platforms where music can be purchased (people like me tend to forget that). Although they mentioned sales I won’t be surprised if they meant sales plus streaming cause “What Ifs” is streaming better 

I considered that, but it seems like I can never find any articles about how much a song not only sells, but also what it's sales + streaming equivalent is. So, I assumed these were just sales. I don't know, though?

[Troublemaker]

Apr 18, 2018 7:22:04 GMT -5 @adam1995 said:

I considered that, but it seems like I can never find any articles about how much a song not only sells, but also what it's sales + streaming equivalent is. So, I assumed these were just sales. I don't know, though?

I’ll still stand by those sales numbers meaning sales + streaming because sales numbers alone are horrible these days considering how much people stream compared to buying (and not requesting a refund)

[seak05]

Apr 18, 2018 6:03:31 GMT -5 recordyear said:

Billboard's description of sales spike:

On Sunday, the day of the show (which was broadcast on CBS), the collected songs performed on the three-hour awards logged a 427 percent sales gain in digital download sales, as compared to the previous day.



Overall, the tunes that were performed on the broadcast sold 108,000 downloads on Sunday, up from just 21,000 on Saturday.



Some of the notable sales winners include: Carrie Underwood’s “Cry Pretty,” which vaulted 159 percent to 12,000 sold (up from 4,000); Thomas Rhett’s “Marry Me,” zipping 195 percent to 9,000 (from 3,000); and Kane Brown’s “What Ifs,” featuring Lauren Alaina, rising a whopping 814 percent to 14,000 (from 2,000).


“What Ifs” was the biggest seller among all the songs performed on the show. The second-biggest of the bunch was “Cry Pretty.”

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8344375/acm-awards-sales-gain-carrie-underwood-thomas-rhett-kane-brown

Sales are terrible, but Carrie was at #1 on itunes & 12,000 is about right for that position. Honestly, I just think they screwed up the numbers (for instance none of their percent numbers are right 9000 is 300% of 3000, not 195%) & Kane's what if's had a big percentage jump, but it didn't even crack itunes top 10. 

[Troublemaker]

Apr 18, 2018 7:35:38 GMT -5 seak05 said:

Sales are terrible, but Carrie was at #1 on itunes & 12,000 is about right for that position. Honestly, I just think they screwed up the numbers (for instance none of their percent numbers are right 9000 is 300% of 3000, not 195%) & Kane's what if's had a big percentage jump, but it didn't even crack itunes top 10. 

Seeing those numbers made me laugh

[onebuffalo]

The A.C.M.s should have remembered:

www.savingcountrymusic.com/2018-acm-awards-fail-to-pay-tribute-to-fallen-country-greats-from-past-year/