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Post by Naos on Aug 4, 2018 14:33:45 GMT -5
NEW RELEASES: ASTROWORLD GOES INTO ORBIT Travis Scott will unseat Drake from atop the HITS Top 50 next week. Tracks from his new album, ASTROWORLD, were streamed nearly 100 million times on Friday; they occupy 17 of the Top 20 at Apple Music, 17 of the Top 25 at Spotify U.S. and 13 of the Top 25 at Spotify Global. It’s also selling, with the #1 album at and #2 track (“Sicko Mode”) at iTunes. Here's what it likes like now: Travis Scott (Cactus Jack/Grand Hustle/Epic) 300-400k total activity, 45-65k album The new set, the follow-up to Scott’s #1-bowing Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight (which debuted with 89k in 2016 and spent two weeks as an Apple exclusive), features guests ranging from Drake (on “Sicko”), Frank Ocean and The Weeknd to Stevie Wonder, Pharrell, James Blake and John Mayer. Stay tuned for more chart info on Monday, including projections for new releases from Mac Miller, YG, Moneybagg Yo, Now 67 and more. hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=312901
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Post by owenlovesmusic on Aug 4, 2018 14:53:45 GMT -5
INSANE!
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Post by wavey.✨️ on Aug 4, 2018 15:04:12 GMT -5
Alright Kylie!
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Aug 4, 2018 21:42:41 GMT -5
Finally, something to knock Scorpion off the top. We'll see how this album holds up over the long run, though.
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Post by willapted33 on Aug 4, 2018 21:58:48 GMT -5
talent wins
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Post by think pink. on Aug 4, 2018 22:24:12 GMT -5
I....
I'm really shocked at his numbers tbh. I was expecting 150-175k max.
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Post by websites on Aug 5, 2018 21:15:56 GMT -5
how many first day spotify streams did it have?
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Aug 6, 2018 8:19:11 GMT -5
^The songs from the album got just over 40.2 million first day US Spotify streams.
Based on its Spotify numbers dropping over the last two days, ASTROWORLD would likely be toward the lower end of HDD's prediction or even downgraded. I'm not quite sure how recent Apple Music's positions are, but I get a sense they are refreshed less often than daily.
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Post by divasummer on Aug 6, 2018 9:57:42 GMT -5
Kylie Minogue??? Oh never mind, does Kylie Jenner go out with him??
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Post by jtd Thee Stallion on Aug 6, 2018 11:45:51 GMT -5
The predictions have been upped to 400k I was not expecting this from Travis.
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Post by wavey.✨️ on Aug 6, 2018 11:56:13 GMT -5
Kylie Minogue??? Oh never mind, does Kylie Jenner go out with him?? They are dating, and have a child together
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Post by Naos on Aug 6, 2018 12:47:46 GMT -5
Updated title:
Travis Scott (Cactus Jack/Grand Hustle/Epic) 400-450k total activity, 120-140k album
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Post by korbel16 on Aug 6, 2018 12:51:42 GMT -5
Travis doing more than Jcole? I’m deceased💀
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Post by kanimal on Aug 6, 2018 13:21:53 GMT -5
Not sure what's going on with regard to album sales, but Hits just revised its numbers:
Travis Scott (Cactus Jack/Grand Hustle/Epic) 450-500k total activity, 170-195k album
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Post by owenlovesmusic on Aug 6, 2018 13:28:12 GMT -5
500K wowwww
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Aug 6, 2018 14:12:39 GMT -5
^Also, the amount of pure sales is unexpected. We are looking at the third or fourth largest pure sales week so far this year.
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Aug 6, 2018 14:19:42 GMT -5
Travis doing more than Jcole? I’m deceased💀 It has more tracks so the SPS is boosted above J. Cole's but it still isn't touching him in Pure Sales. Now him inching towards Drake in Pure Sales...
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Post by Enigma. on Aug 6, 2018 15:45:36 GMT -5
Ok so who has bought the 150k of albums? Jenner family? That's as big as Drake
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Post by thegreatdivine on Aug 6, 2018 17:30:05 GMT -5
For those who might still not get how the predictions for this album keeps rising, Travis bundled his album with merch and the merch remains on sale for the rest of the tracking week. So each sale of merch also counts as a sale for the album. It's the reason why the pure sales numbers are so huge and keep rising.
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Post by Naos on Aug 6, 2018 17:44:41 GMT -5
For those who might still not get how the predictions for this album keeps rising, Travis bundled his album with merch and the merch remains on sale for the rest of the tracking week. So each sale of merch also counts as a sale for the album. It's the reason why the pure sales numbers are so huge and keep rising. So expect it to drop like a rock?
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Post by thegreatdivine on Aug 6, 2018 18:08:44 GMT -5
For those who might still not get how the predictions for this album keeps rising, Travis bundled his album with merch and the merch remains on sale for the rest of the tracking week. So each sale of merch also counts as a sale for the album. It's the reason why the pure sales numbers are so huge and keep rising. So expect it to drop like a rock? I expect it's pure sale numbers to drop like a rock, yes. I'd say his streaming would dip, too, but so far, he's still doing pretty well on both Spotify and Apple Music so it's left to be seen.
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Aug 6, 2018 22:44:50 GMT -5
For those who might still not get how the predictions for this album keeps rising, Travis bundled his album with merch and the merch remains on sale for the rest of the tracking week. So each sale of merch also counts as a sale for the album. It's the reason why the pure sales numbers are so huge and keep rising. It will interesting to see if the merchandise-album becomes as common as ticket albums if it Astroworld does manage those levels of pure sales.
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Post by thegreatdivine on Aug 7, 2018 3:32:00 GMT -5
For those who might still not get how the predictions for this album keeps rising, Travis bundled his album with merch and the merch remains on sale for the rest of the tracking week. So each sale of merch also counts as a sale for the album. It's the reason why the pure sales numbers are so huge and keep rising. It will interesting to see if the merchandise-album becomes as common as ticket albums if it Astroworld does manage those levels of pure sales. It will. Didn't Ariana Grande add merch bundles to No Tears Left to Cry on the week of it's release? More and more artists will try different things to beef up their first-week figures now that pure sales are dead and in the grave. I especially expect this from artists who aren't streaming giants. I just hate bundles because I don't feel like they're a real reflection of who really supported your music. Also, the second week numbers of people who usually do bundles is so vastly different from the first week, it's almost silly. I get people wanting to have strong debuts, it just seems like a desperate attempt to me. At the most, make physicals available on your album release week. See how frontloaded reputation was. Did over a million first week, but couldn't even remain #1 for 5 straight weeks and quickly dipped out of the top 10.
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Post by Lux ◢ ◤ on Aug 7, 2018 3:34:44 GMT -5
It will interesting to see if the merchandise-album becomes as common as ticket albums if it Astroworld does manage those levels of pure sales. See how frontloaded reputation was. Did over a million first week, but couldn't even remain #1 for 5 straight weeks and quickly dipped out of the top 10. Wasn't it back in the Top 10 a few weeks ago, though?
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Post by Naos on Aug 7, 2018 3:59:01 GMT -5
It will interesting to see if the merchandise-album becomes as common as ticket albums if it Astroworld does manage those levels of pure sales. It will. Didn't Ariana Grande add merch bundles to No Tears Left to Cry on the week of it's release? More and more artists will try different things to beef up their first-week figures now that pure sales are dead and in the grave. I especially expect this from artists who aren't streaming giants. I just hate bundles because I don't feel like they're a real reflection of who really supported your music. Also, the second week numbers of people who usually do bundles is so vastly different from the first week, it's almost silly. I get people wanting to have strong debuts, it just seems like a desperate attempt to me. At the most, make physicals available on your album release week. See how frontloaded reputation was. Did over a million first week, but couldn't even remain #1 for 5 straight weeks and quickly dipped out of the top 10. Because albums on the charts because of one song being streamed is sure good reflection. At least people are actually redeeming and getting the album.
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Post by thegreatdivine on Aug 7, 2018 4:03:51 GMT -5
See how frontloaded reputation was. Did over a million first week, but couldn't even remain #1 for 5 straight weeks and quickly dipped out of the top 10. Wasn't it back in the Top 10 a few weeks ago, though? Yes, but a lot of albums crept back up into the Billboard 200 albums chart the last couple of weeks because of the rule change. I'm not sure, but Taylor might have also benefited from that. My whole point is that the album was crazy frontloaded because she was more concerned with having a huge debut than having an album that made a huge splash and then had a slow, steady decline. reputation's second week numbers were tragic. reputation had an 8-month lead, but Scorpion will surpass it in SPS in the next week or two. That says a lot about having a project that's frontloaded as opposed to one that slowly builds and adds up in numbers overtime. Then again, maybe Taylor wasn't confident in her pulling huge streams over multiple weeks, who knows? I don't know, I guess different strokes for different folks. For the artists who are huge streaming forces, though, the smarter choice as we go further and deeper into streaming being the defining means in which we consume our music will always be in favouring streams over pure sale numbers. It'll force everyone to play the long game, as opposed to just having a huge debut and promptly dipping out.
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Post by thegreatdivine on Aug 7, 2018 4:10:03 GMT -5
It will. Didn't Ariana Grande add merch bundles to No Tears Left to Cry on the week of it's release? More and more artists will try different things to beef up their first-week figures now that pure sales are dead and in the grave. I especially expect this from artists who aren't streaming giants. I just hate bundles because I don't feel like they're a real reflection of who really supported your music. Also, the second week numbers of people who usually do bundles is so vastly different from the first week, it's almost silly. I get people wanting to have strong debuts, it just seems like a desperate attempt to me. At the most, make physicals available on your album release week. See how frontloaded reputation was. Did over a million first week, but couldn't even remain #1 for 5 straight weeks and quickly dipped out of the top 10. Because albums on the charts because of one song being streamed is sure good reflection. At least people are actually redeeming and getting the album. In a lot of ways, streaming is a reflection of things the industry has gone through in some shape or form in the past. MC Hammer sold millions of copies of his Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em album because people were trying to listen to a song off the album and that was the only way they could get it. As for tour and merch bundles, it basically works as a buy one, get one free situation. People get tickets while getting an album on the side. They buy merch while getting an album on the side. Who wouldn't jump at an opportunity like that? Streaming works differently because whether people are streaming an entire album or only a few songs off it, they're still revisiting the artist's music. That means something - that people keep going back to your music months, sometimes years after an album's release.
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Post by Keelzit on Aug 7, 2018 14:20:23 GMT -5
Yes Travis. He's by far the best rapper out of the bunch. ASTROWORLD is full of purposeful catchy bops unlike the boring 'serious' albums of J. Cole, ASAP Rocky and Kendrick Lamar or Drake's fluffy releases.
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Post by Naos on Aug 7, 2018 17:48:23 GMT -5
'ASTROWORLD' is eligible for Gold status.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Aug 7, 2018 18:10:52 GMT -5
hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=312934Tuesday, August 7, 2018 TOP 20: GREAT SCOTTTravis Scott could be headed for the year’s second-largest debut, behind Drake’s 732k and just ahead of Post Malone’s 461k. The top eight titles this week are all hip-hop, with two soundtracks rounding out the Top 10. Among those soundtracks is The Greatest Showman, which has remained in the Top 10 since the movie came out in December of last year. 1. *Travis Scott (Cactus Jack/Grand Hustle/Epic) 455-470k Total, 175-185k Albums 2. Drake (YMCMB/Republic) 126-131k, 10-12k 3. Post Malone (Republic) 53-58k, 4-5k 4. *YG (Def Jam) 52-57k, 7-8k 5. *Mac Miller (Warner Bros.) 44-48k, 10-12k 6. Juice WRLD (Grade A/Interscope) 37-40k, <1k 7. XXXTentacion (Bad Vibes Forever) 35-38k, 1-2k 8. Cardi B (Atlantic) 33-36k, 1-2k 9. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Capitol) 27-30k, 16-18k 10. The Greatest Showman (Atlantic) 26-29k, 14-16k 11. *Moneybagg Yo (N-Less/Interscope) 23-26k, 6-7k 12. Luke Combs (River House/Columbia Nashville) 22-25k, 5-6k 13. Kenny Chesney (Blue Chair/Warner Bros. Nashville) 21-24k, 15-17k 14. Lil Baby (QC/Motown/Capitol) 19-22k, <1k 15. Post Malone (Republic) 19-22k, 1-2k 16. Wiz Khalifa (Atlantic) 18-20k, <1k 17. Maroon 5 (222/Interscope) 18-20k, 1-2k 18. XXXTentacion (Bad Vibes Forever/Empire) 18-20k, <1k 19. Imagine Dragons (Kidinakorner/Interscope) 17-19k, 5-6k 20. Ed Sheeran (Atlantic) 17-19k, 3-4k *DEBUTS
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