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Post by Dammn Baby on Dec 24, 2019 13:08:05 GMT -5
I thought it was Sarah Paulson. Can't unsee this now. LMAO.
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Post by Au$tin on Dec 24, 2019 16:17:19 GMT -5
I thought it was Sarah Paulson. Like 85% Sarah Paulson, 15% Lana Del Rey. She looks fantastic!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2019 16:20:05 GMT -5
I thought it was Sarah Paulson. Like 85% Sarah Paulson, 15% Lana Del Rey. She looks fantastic! You nailed it.
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Post by dwhite725 on Dec 25, 2019 2:41:54 GMT -5
I can’t believe she didn’t release anything this holiday season. Shocked actually.
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Post by taylor on Dec 25, 2019 2:56:50 GMT -5
I can’t believe she didn’t release anything this holiday season. Shocked actually. Especially considering she had planned on a holiday 2019 release. PLEASE Adele, come save this industry in 2020 once again!
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Post by dwhite725 on Dec 26, 2019 4:27:06 GMT -5
I can’t believe she didn’t release anything this holiday season. Shocked actually. Especially considering she had planned on a holiday 2019 release. PLEASE Adele, come save this industry in 2020 once again! Maybe she said let Mariah get to #1. They’re both on Sony now right? Maybe it was a company decision. It’s really a win win holding off on Adele’s album/single. They got good press for MC and put her in a good position for her next album. And then with an Adele release it’s going to get good press/sales no matter what. An Adele holiday time release could have stopped MC going #1.
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Post by PGriffin on Dec 26, 2019 12:19:45 GMT -5
I think this is why Adele and Rihanna haven't released yet. I know the Rihanna part is probably reaching.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2019 14:44:36 GMT -5
Rihanna is on Roc Nation (Mariah's current management) so there may be something to the 'company decision' there too. But I'm still more or less convinced that both Rihanna and Adele's teams figured that it would be a better look to open up a new decade than to close out an old one. The decade-end charts ended with September, so nothing released in the fourth quarter would have helped their decade-end positions any, and I doubt either of them were ready to release before Q4.
It is also worth pointing out that Adele and Harry Styles are signed to the same label. I remember when 25 came out, 1D was released a week ahead of Adele - though they ended up losing the #1 spot to Bieber that week, Columbia probably picked that date to avoid being completely overshadowed by their labelmate. I imagine a similar strategy was employed this time; Adele releasing in November or December would have overshadowed Harry. If the label purposely 'held her back' for any reason it was probably for Harry's sake more so than for Mariah's (although as Mariah's old label, Columbia certainly benefits from her anniversary sales and accomplishments).
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Post by Caviar on Dec 26, 2019 14:49:21 GMT -5
Sony would’ve made millions and millions of dollars had they released Adele during the holidays. This same woman sold 7M copies in 6 weeks. I can’t imagine them leaving that much money on the table over other Sony artists. The album simply wasn’t ready yet.
Also I hardly doubt Rihanna, but especially Adele, give two damns about decade end charts. Both will be well past their primes come 2029 and wouldn’t factor in decade charts into the consideration for their releases. I can’t imagine that.
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Post by HolidayGuy on Dec 26, 2019 15:14:34 GMT -5
The reference to Q4 2019 can be removed from the title, me thinks.
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Adele – 30
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Post by Au$tin on Dec 26, 2019 15:53:16 GMT -5
Sony would’ve made millions and millions of dollars had they released Adele during the holidays. This same woman sold 7M copies in 6 weeks. I can’t imagine them leaving that much money on the table over other Sony artists. The album simply wasn’t ready yet. She'll pull huge numbers no matter what time of year she releases. The holiday season sales rush doesn't really exist anymore. (Well, besides Vinyl.)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2019 18:20:11 GMT -5
Sony would’ve made millions and millions of dollars had they released Adele during the holidays. This same woman sold 7M copies in 6 weeks. I can’t imagine them leaving that much money on the table over other Sony artists. The album simply wasn’t ready yet. She'll pull huge numbers no matter what time of year she releases. The holiday season sales rush doesn't really exist anymore. (Well, besides Vinyl.) I think it's a combination of this and what Caviar said. There's no way for me to know of course, but I lean toward thinking A4 - the album itself - is either ready or was close enough to ready that they could have pushed out a Q4 lead single if they wanted to, but it wasn't ready quickly enough for a 2019 release to be in the label's best interests. Harry finished his album in August and started putting out singles in October. So let's say Adele strolled into Columbia's offices in late September with a completed album...if Harry was a new/smaller act with little selling power, sure, he'd get bumped back without a second thought. At the moment though he's easily Columbia's second-biggest star (and to underscore your point about vinyl, notched the fourth-biggest sales week for that physical format that Nielsen has ever tracked); the suits would want him to have an uninterrupted and flaw-free roll out. A label isn't going to leave money on the table for anyone - including Adele - and whatever extra money they might have gotten out of a holiday release for her would have been partially or wholly cancelled out by Harry being lost in the shuffle or pushed back to a month where maybe he's not able to maximize his opening sales potential. So Adele, who will make bank any time of year, is put in 2020 where she won't run into (or over) any of her label mates. Side bar: I'm shying away from saying 'Sony' here because while I'm sure the parent company has some input, we're not talking two acts merely signed to sister labels here. E.g., Normani will be a priority release for RCA (a Sony label) in 2020 but I hardly expect Columbia to have Normani in mind while deciding where in the calendar to place Adele. Harry's success OTOH will matter to them. The specific label connection is also the main reason I am willing to entertain the thought of Columbia holding Adele back for Mariah/AIWFCIY...they have no direct connection Mariah anymore, but everyone loves an evergreen and Columbia directly gained coins from celebrating the 25th anniversary of Merry Christmas. Mariah being on another Sony label now just made it easier to embrace that.
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Post by Janhova's Witness on Dec 29, 2019 0:20:04 GMT -5
I’m so ready for Adele to go apeshit on y’all asses and release a dark house bop like Jessie Ware or a fucking grime track
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Jan 4, 2020 12:21:06 GMT -5
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Post by wjr15 on Jan 6, 2020 19:56:03 GMT -5
My British Queen and my British King vacationing together!
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Post by taylor on Jan 9, 2020 6:52:45 GMT -5
The King and Queen of British Music spotted in the same place. We love to see it!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2020 8:33:13 GMT -5
Predicting a May release for her new album.
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Post by Choco on Jan 9, 2020 10:08:35 GMT -5
I think the album probably changed a bit after she split from her husband and isn't ready for release yet. I can't see her getting pushed back for Harry Styles or Mariah.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jan 9, 2020 17:56:29 GMT -5
If Miss Adele gave us I Miss You about her ex, imagine the kind of sex jam she is gonna give us about her boyfriend's BBC. Whew!
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Post by kmbgs on Jan 15, 2020 18:27:03 GMT -5
I've been hearing loads of Adele on SoCal radio stations lately, which leads to me to believe the new single is dropping imminently.
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Post by Caviar on Jan 15, 2020 23:02:59 GMT -5
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Post by lincroft on Jan 21, 2020 22:25:12 GMT -5
Don't know about imminent. According to this, it's "probable" an album will be released this year, they'd like it out "the sooner the better", but then again "there's no rush". IS ADELE COMING? Press speculation is once again hot and heavy about a forthcoming album from Columbia's Adele. This has ramped up since manager Jonathan Dickins and agent Lucy Dickins confirmed to Music Week that a new set was due this year, with Jonathan adding, "the sooner the better." We're told there's no official release date yet, nor has she been officially listed as pending, but it's looking probable that we'll see a new set from the megastar in 2020 "There's no rush and we're going to get it right” is the official mantra from those who know. Adele's 25 debuted with 3.5m in November of 2015. Given the way streaming has changed the game, how might her new set roll out? Stay tuned. hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=319606
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Post by spiritboy on Jan 22, 2020 3:07:46 GMT -5
Let the hype begin
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Post by wjr15 on Jan 22, 2020 9:13:30 GMT -5
New video uploaded on Adele’s YouTube page but apparently it’s hidden:
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Post by taylor on Feb 2, 2020 11:11:09 GMT -5
New video uploaded on Adele’s YouTube page but apparently it’s hidden: oh LORDT send her to us! We've been perched and ready!
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Post by Lumi on Feb 3, 2020 0:48:35 GMT -5
SHE'S COMING YASSSSSSSSSSSSS
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Feb 3, 2020 18:30:57 GMT -5
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Post by dbhmr on Feb 3, 2020 18:40:16 GMT -5
She looks as if someone took a freeze-frame halfway between one of those facial transformations between Adele herself and Margot Robbie.
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The album that never ends... I mean 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY' out now!
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Post by schnetzka on Feb 3, 2020 19:57:09 GMT -5
I love how long her hair is getting. I hope she keeps it.
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Post by Zach on Feb 3, 2020 20:13:46 GMT -5
Swear I almost have a heart attack every time I see that there's new posts in this thread.
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