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Post by Soundcl🕤ck on Feb 14, 2022 23:32:20 GMT -5
I like it, and you can tell it's from her 25 era.
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Post by Envoirment on Feb 16, 2022 21:33:47 GMT -5
Its longevity has been quite impressive so far.
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Post by spiritboy on Feb 17, 2022 16:36:57 GMT -5
And some people claim it's radio driven and weak on streaming. :kii:
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Post by bat1990 on Feb 21, 2022 14:07:41 GMT -5
WHAT??????????? SHE'S HERE IN MY CITY????????????
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Post by Jay D83 on Feb 21, 2022 14:13:25 GMT -5
Word on Mama Joyce's streets is that Adele is pregnant.
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Post by Caviar on Feb 21, 2022 22:55:14 GMT -5
We stan a queen who sells AND streams well.
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Post by love2be on Feb 24, 2022 14:43:12 GMT -5
Hello all, newbie here.. I do not like the way the label is handling the promotion of 30. They’re leaving it to promote itself and I do not think that is a strategy that will work this time, especially if they want the album to last for a 2 year span as reported. Where is the promotion for OMG? They just threw that one out there based on the attention it received initially that has waned. If they do nothing, the success of the album will halt after EOM peaks. The album is already slowing down streaming wise and older releases are ahead of it. That isn’t good. Whether the label likes it or not, streaming is king and they have to find a way to get people interested in streaming 30 in addition to buying it if it is going to have longevity.
IMO, OMG shouldn’t have been the follow up to EOM. It should have been Can’t Be Together from the Target edition and they should have made it available for download only as an album exclusive via iTunes. That would have kept the album selling after the initial hype went and made people have to buy the album in order to get that song along with WWW. Or they should have done a double release with I Drink Wine and Can’t Be Together if they felt that strategy was too risky. Either way, I hope they get it together, Adele included.
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Adele – 30
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Post by Choco on Feb 24, 2022 15:04:48 GMT -5
I think the label is the only reason OMG was a single. She clearly doesn't care about the upbeat stuff.
She's such a big deal they can't probably force into anything. She doesn't wanna promote that much? Not a lot anyone can do. She can literally do what she wants and... she's already thinking of her next hiatus.
But truth be told her audience was never the type to keep songs atop Spotify that much, especially since most already own the entire album. It happened to 25 too...
Now what the fuck happened with OMG at radio is a complete mystery to me. Perfect radio pick. Maybe the label could have fudged it into a top 10 peak for a week but overall after that first week it never really connected much. EOM is still doing well but I don't think there are any other major hits left on the album. Maybe a SML type of radio hit if the label does some heavy push towards radio programmers.
I'd be more than OK with just one major single push per album if the albums dropped quicker. But she's gonna leave for at least 4 more years.
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Post by Troublemaker on Feb 24, 2022 15:55:30 GMT -5
I think the label is the only reason OMG was a single. She clearly doesn't care about the upbeat stuff. If she doesn’t care for upbeat stuff, why record them? I want to believe something happened, either Vegas or something. This era is definitely an interesting one though
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Post by love2be on Feb 26, 2022 5:14:40 GMT -5
I think the label is the only reason OMG was a single. She clearly doesn't care about the upbeat stuff. She's such a big deal they can't probably force into anything. She doesn't wanna promote that much? Not a lot anyone can do. She can literally do what she wants and... she's already thinking of her next hiatus. But truth be told her audience was never the type to keep songs atop Spotify that much, especially since most already own the entire album. It happened to 25 too... Now what the f**k happened with OMG at radio is a complete mystery to me. Perfect radio pick. Maybe the label could have fudged it into a top 10 peak for a week but overall after that first week it never really connected much. EOM is still doing well but I don't think there are any other major hits left on the album. Maybe a SML type of radio hit if the label does some heavy push towards radio programmers. I'd be more than OK with just one major single push per album if the albums dropped quicker. But she's gonna leave for at least 4 more years. You made a lot of valid points and I mentioned a few of them in the thread for OMG. But as a fan, it’s hard to sit back and watch such rookie mistakes coming off of a huge hit. Adele is too much of a gem in a modern day industry full of trash to be dealt with like this. Even though she is huge, she’s an underdog because an artist of her caliber succeeding is rare nowadays. It always the same generic singers with the same generic sound, but I digress. I thought Columbia learned from the 25 era. At least Adele had a cushion there with the album selling like hot cakes despite the second single fizzling out so quickly. But, boy, this carelessness is giving last hurrah vibes. In this era, you’re truly only as good as your last hit. Why even release OMG if they knew Adele didn’t want to and wouldn’t even promote it? I’d rather her release singles she like and bomb then have the label pick one and do nothing to promote it. Good luck stretching this era out with promises of more to come If you’re giving up on the second single so quickly. I hate to say this but maybe the whole Vegas incident also hurt the song’s chances. Adele is to blame a bit too because she is gonna have to get with the program in today’s industry. This is no longer the music industry of 2015. I know she says she gets that but she can’t show up to award shows only singing album cuts. Do a medley and start with the current single…
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Post by Soundcl🕤ck on Feb 26, 2022 9:52:27 GMT -5
I think the label is the only reason OMG was a single. She clearly doesn't care about the upbeat stuff. If she doesn’t care for upbeat stuff, why record them? agree. If you dislike it, you don't promote it and think people don't want that sound from you, then just stop recording those songs. I'd understand if it was someone else, but I believe Adele had 100% control of her album.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2022 12:02:52 GMT -5
I'm new here too. Imo, Adele is in a weird time in her career. She essentially has done it all and checked off all the career bucket list items. In contrast, Adele never seemed to want to "play the game" so to speak. It always seemed beneath her to strategically release songs for maximum impact or to do flawless promo for second or third singles.
She seems over it and prefers to do minimal promo and touring and wants to sit at home in her Jim jams and watch the record sales flow in. Which is good and dandy really but at the end of the day, she's going to see diminishing returns for her efforts. OMG is an example of the label and Adele not giving a rip.
I think that's the Adele we are going to get from now on. I don't need my faves to "play the game" 24/7 but at least coordinate with the label for some damn promo and effort into the process of being a recording artist of her calibre. I just don't feel as invested in Adele because I feel like Adele isn't as invested in Adele anymore. If that makes any sense at all.
I suspect after the Vegas residency she will disappear again for good. It will be interesting to see how her next release will do in 4 or 5 years time.
I still love me Adele but I feel her heart is not in it and this era is on thin ice. I hope she proves me wrong.
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Post by JJ on Feb 26, 2022 12:27:13 GMT -5
I think people should stop with the expectations. Adele is giving what she wants, which is a lot, she worked hard to build a career around great songs, she never let the quality of her work diminish. I can't understand why people want her to suddenly start dancing, doing promo and stuff. She deserves her time and we should enjoy ours. So what if she doesn't have any more radio hits? Why should she do what she doesn't want to? Let it go people.
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Adele – 30
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Post by Choco on Feb 26, 2022 15:29:24 GMT -5
It's a forum dedicated to tracking charts and you don't understand why people eant the songs to get pushed more so they can... chart better?
Like someone mentioned above a lot of it is just wasted potential and what feels like rookie mistskes.
Amount of times she performed her single live: 0 so far.
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Post by Envoirment on Feb 26, 2022 19:44:12 GMT -5
I think people should stop with the expectations.I can't understand why people want her to suddenly start dancing, doing promo and stuff. No ones expecting her to dance, but it would be nice if she performed her actual single. And fans love promo. It's one thing I look forward to in new album eras. The TV performances, interviews or other things things like Capool Karaoke/SNL/when she went undercover as herself for the BBC/when she was prank interviewed during 19 era by a woman pretending to be Japanese. I assume the Vegas residency fall through put a bit of a spanner in the era. Hopefully she'll have a Grammys performance in April and pushes the next single for the album then. One good thing about the streaming era is consistently releasing singles can benefit albums. So hopefully she'll release another 2-3 singles during the era with music videos. We know we'll get at least 1 with "I Drink Wine".
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Post by dwhite725 on Feb 27, 2022 1:57:46 GMT -5
Adele has never really been a singles artist though has she truly? She had Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You. The 21 singles. But she really only had 3 hits from that album. She was never a Whitney/Mariah/Janet/Madonna with 7 singles off an album. And that hasn’t happened since the 90’s.
And why I Drink Wine? Is it a good song? Yea. Is it single material? No. Can I Get It would be a good single choice.
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Post by pnobelysk on Feb 27, 2022 10:40:55 GMT -5
Since the 21 era Adele’s single performances have been strong including rumor has it off 21 as the 4th. Even turning tables had some success without being a full blown single and sold a ton.
Even her underperformed when we were young and water under the bridge are solid hits.
She isn’t a singles artists but her 9 singles pre OMG were all hits of varying degrees
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Post by Envoirment on Mar 1, 2022 15:29:27 GMT -5
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Post by spiritboy on Mar 1, 2022 17:04:33 GMT -5
A certain fanbase is fuming :kii:
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Post by Caviar on Mar 1, 2022 18:22:47 GMT -5
Queen of sales!!! What an incredible honor for an album that’s “barely selling” or falling down the charts. Adele is still that bitch and did the absolute least in terms of promotion and still outsold “streaming-only” artists with a couple of weeks of sales. Legend.
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Post by Envoirment on Mar 1, 2022 18:52:52 GMT -5
Its sales are more impressive than I thought they would be. In fact, as long as they keep pushing singles/doing intermittent promo and the award show circuits (particularly Grammys 2023 and a possible sweep), the album might be able to do 10 million+ physical and 15 million+ equivalent units by the time the era ends mid/late 2023.
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Post by 85la on Mar 1, 2022 19:58:48 GMT -5
I think people should stop with the expectations. Adele is giving what she wants, which is a lot, she worked hard to build a career around great songs, she never let the quality of her work diminish. I can't understand why people want her to suddenly start dancing, doing promo and stuff. She deserves her time and we should enjoy ours. So what if she doesn't have any more radio hits? Why should she do what she doesn't want to? Let it go people. Yeah ok, she doesn't have to do any of that, no one is demanding that of her, but she will no longer be a superstar if she doesn't to some degree, because that is what it takes to be a pop superstar. Also, not sure if this has been mentioned, but what must have contributed to OMG's poor radio performance are its shockingly low callout scores, which I just checked and it is dead last in the pop rankings. This is highly surprising as well as discouraging, given that it is considered one of the only 2 or 3 radio-friendly songs on the album and its initial streaming stood out from the other tracks. I guess, at least in some cases, streaming audiences' preferences can differ vastly from those of radio listeners, and it is not always a good idea to pick singles based on what's streamed the most.
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Post by 85la on Mar 1, 2022 20:45:19 GMT -5
What? The ‘flashing the card’ comment here doesn’t make any sense at all. Genuine question, what does that even mean? Also, maybe let’s not joke about bi-polar simply because someone is weeping one week and smiling two weeks later. Emotions can co-exist. While I’m sure there was agreement to post something like that on social with whomever manages her accounts, there’s no way Adele would ever just “show up” to the BRITs. It would be announced beforehand. I know all we can do is speculate and that’s what everyone is doing but some of you are REACHING. I am not OP and do not agree with them, but I think the flashing the card thing they meant because a playing card is associated with Vegas (gambling, dice, cards, etc). Ok so I know I am late replying to this but yes, that is what I meant with the card, and one other thing I wanted to add with my use of the term "fuzzy photograph" (odd how that's the term the most people had a problem with lol) was that it legit almost looks like she's also flipping us off with her other hand, most likely not, but with the fuzziness it almost appears so, so that combined with the mockingly flashing of the card I think are what make it look especially bad and can trigger that type of immediate response from people. I just thought that when you literally just cancelled your whole residency walking out on some of your biggest fans who will be dissapointed, whether or not the reasons for cancelling were "legitimate," clapping back with that kind of f-you post with the possible Vegas subtext and which you know many of those same fans you walked out on will see, is definitely not a smart move. I would blame her team as well for vetting it and allowing it to stay up. Plus, we've now had some time to measure the possible ramifications of said post on her chart and sales performance, and I don't know about y'all, but it definitely didn't seem to help.
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Post by Envoirment on Mar 10, 2022 20:19:56 GMT -5
Adele's UK TV special is going to be aired in the US: Adele’s ‘An Audience With Adele’ Special Coming to NBCIf you were unable to watch Adele‘s An Audience With Adele special on the U.K.’s ITV channel and its on-demand ITV Hub platform, worry not. The star’s 30 send-off party is crossing the pond to the United States this month.
The two-hour NBC special, An Audience With Adele, is set for Sunday, March 20, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The special will stream the following day on Peacock, which you can sign up for here.www.billboard.com/music/pop/adele-an-audience-with-adele-special-nbc-1235042803/Hopefully some decent promo for the album. I'm hoping we'll get the NBC Special + Grammy performance + third single being pushed to radio/video release happening in the next few weeks or so. Perhaps with an announcement of the new dates for her Vegas show (which is meant to be sometime in Summer IIRC). Edit: Also the iHeartradio awards are on March 23rd. A performance there, which gets uploaded to her youtube channel, would be good too.
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Post by Music Fan on Mar 11, 2022 20:03:21 GMT -5
Adele's UK TV special is going to be aired in the US: Adele’s ‘An Audience With Adele’ Special Coming to NBCIf you were unable to watch Adele‘s An Audience With Adele special on the U.K.’s ITV channel and its on-demand ITV Hub platform, worry not. The star’s 30 send-off party is crossing the pond to the United States this month.
The two-hour NBC special, An Audience With Adele, is set for Sunday, March 20, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The special will stream the following day on Peacock, which you can sign up for here.www.billboard.com/music/pop/adele-an-audience-with-adele-special-nbc-1235042803/Hopefully some decent promo for the album. I'm hoping we'll get the NBC Special + Grammy performance + third single being pushed to radio/video release happening in the next few weeks or so. Perhaps with an announcement of the new dates for her Vegas show (which is meant to be sometime in Summer IIRC). Edit: Also the iHeartradio awards are on March 23rd. A performance there, which gets uploaded to her youtube channel, would be good too. I don't think she'll bat an eye at the iHeartRadio Awards. But all other stuff you mentioned would be great. NBC + Grammy leading into the third single promo seems great. Give me a late night performance for the perfect trifecta (I feel like late night may actually bode better that IHeartRadio Awards?) Then, give me an amazing video.
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Post by Mike on Mar 11, 2022 20:52:39 GMT -5
I know it's promo at the end of the day and most of these shows are becoming interchangeable, but I cannot even fathom her performing at the "iHeartRadio Awards."
I don't believe she's ever performed at the BBMAs or AMAs (which I kind of group together beneath the GRAMMYs). One performance at the VMAs 11 years ago for "Someone Like You." Wouldn't count on this one, but you never know.
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