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Post by Choco on Nov 7, 2020 12:06:48 GMT -5
I'm gonna defend Ariana on the longevity thing. She's not really gunning for it. This album's campaign started two weeks ago and it's already on single #2.
She's not a strong album seller either, she has never been one. As much as streaming has grown it can't quite measure to the few people that can still move pure albums (it's why Scorpion by Drake posted record streaming numbers but still moved less units than Views by a decent margin on opening week, and it's why Taylor keeps dropping signed copies to be able to compete with hit-filled albums so successfully).
But that only makes the opening number more underwhelming because Ari's team has been gunning for the maximum debut possible on the charts for a while now.
She has already denied that another, "more commercial" album is coming any time soon. (LMAO at people thinking this is some sort of folk album that is not commercial btw).
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Post by kimberly on Nov 7, 2020 12:23:38 GMT -5
it is literally Taylor's most streamed and most acclaimed release yet?? she's AT her peak. she COULD outdo it. we won't really know until her next album's out. For most acclaimed agreed. For most streamed. She only has released 2 albums in the Streaming Era. Reputation was't released on streaming so it doesn't count. So you are saying folklore did better than Lover.
Taylor's commercial peak was 1989, you can't argue that. no one's arguing that. I even said that exact thing in this same thread before. folklore deserves the distinction though because it's second-only to TUN in terms of first-week streaming units among women, iirc.
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Post by strongerq on Nov 7, 2020 12:24:32 GMT -5
^^I would like to add: The terms "singles artist" & "album artist" are closer than ever.
Because if you have a hit single that is doing numbers on streaming your album will sell. "Singles artists" are able to move album units now more than ever.
Post Malone is the prime example of a singles artist. But his albums do numbers.
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Post by thegreatdivine on Nov 7, 2020 13:37:11 GMT -5
I think it's very difficult for artists to have 5+ smash albums with great longevity. Artists with large dedicated followings can get 5+ big album debuts but I think ultimately there's too much material in those cases for all of it to have amazing recurrent streams. Billie and Post have great recurrents but also only have 2-3 projects. Get back to me when they have 6... I can give you an easy example: Drake. He's been charting 6/7 albums every week on the Billboard 200 for years now and they all have excellent recurrent streams. It's difficult, but it's very possible. As for Billie and Post, if they can do it with 2/3 projects respectively, I have no doubt they'll be able to do it with 6.
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Post by thegreatdivine on Nov 7, 2020 13:43:20 GMT -5
Choco I'm referring specifically to the longevity of her albums, not her singles. People simply don't consume her albums entirely for more than a few weeks before moving on. That's the main problem. Several albums have dropped this year that had longevity in above average consumption with 0 hits. The albums still moving 400-600K units till date are doing so because of the hits of them (which have since burned out). They're doing so because people are still consuming the albums in full. If TUN was her biggest era and it burned out that quickly, I can only imagine how soon this era will be done with. It hasn't even been announced as the #1 album on the Billboard 200 and it feels like people are already over it.
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Post by NeRD on Nov 7, 2020 14:29:34 GMT -5
Choco I'm referring specifically to the longevity of her albums, not her singles. People simply don't consume her albums entirely for more than a few weeks before moving on. That's the main problem. Several albums have dropped this year that had longevity in above average consumption with 0 hits. The albums still moving 400-600K units till date are doing so because of the hits of them (which have since burned out). They're doing so because people are still consuming the albums in full. If TUN was her biggest era and it burned out that quickly, I can only imagine how soon this era will be done with. It hasn't even been announced as the #1 album on the Billboard 200 and it feels like people are already over it. Ariana had released three albums in 1.5 years. That needs to sink in before you you say her lack of longevity is due to people losing interest, and not due to her releasing albums on an insane pace directing the public to new projects soon as they get used to the one before.
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Post by Enigma. on Nov 7, 2020 14:38:56 GMT -5
We don't know yet how TU,N will do in the loooong run. It will probably become her "signature album" and as such have decent legs.
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Post by thegreatdivine on Nov 7, 2020 15:38:46 GMT -5
Choco I'm referring specifically to the longevity of her albums, not her singles. People simply don't consume her albums entirely for more than a few weeks before moving on. That's the main problem. Several albums have dropped this year that had longevity in above average consumption with 0 hits. The albums still moving 400-600K units till date are doing so because of the hits of them (which have since burned out). They're doing so because people are still consuming the albums in full. If TUN was her biggest era and it burned out that quickly, I can only imagine how soon this era will be done with. It hasn't even been announced as the #1 album on the Billboard 200 and it feels like people are already over it. Ariana had released three albums in 1.5 years. That needs to sink in before you you say her lack of longevity is due to people losing interest, and not due to her releasing albums on an insane pace directing the public to new projects soon as they get used to the one before. When did I ever say her lack of longevity was due to people losing interest? I never said that. She released 3 albums before those which also didn't have any longevity. Yours Truly (2013). My Everything (2014). Dangerous Woman (2016). Her releasing 3 albums in the last 3 years has nothing to do with why they aren't serving longevity. They simply aren't. Post Malone released Stoney in 2016, Beerbongs & Bentleys in 2018 and Hollywood's Bleeding in 2019, all of which have had longevity. Same with Drake and all the projects he drops yearly. Billie Eilish released an EP in 2017 and an album in 2019 that have served longevity since their release. Being able to demonstrate longevity with your albums is as simple as you can either do it or you can't. It's not that complicated. If Ariana's albums could serve longevity, we would have known that years ago because her older albums would have demonstrated that.
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Post by thegreatdivine on Nov 7, 2020 15:40:22 GMT -5
We don't know yet how TU,N will do in the loooong run. It will probably become her "signature album" and as such have decent legs. February 2021 will make it 2 years since it was released and it's already fizzled out in comparison to other albums released in the same year. I don't see it magically gaining streams and sales out of nowhere further down the line simply because none of her other albums have done that before. For her sake, though, I hope I'm wrong.
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Post by levitating on Nov 7, 2020 16:14:20 GMT -5
I feel like Taylor and Ariana both peaked at their 2nd and 5th albums. (fearless/my everything and 1989/thank u, next). folklore could also be seen as a third peak for Taylor. Either way i’m not really worried for Ariana, the album wasn’t received that well and it was released during a pretty crazy time. It could also end up being stable and continue to sell so we never really know.
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Post by nickd on Nov 7, 2020 17:36:54 GMT -5
I think it's very difficult for artists to have 5+ smash albums with great longevity. Artists with large dedicated followings can get 5+ big album debuts but I think ultimately there's too much material in those cases for all of it to have amazing recurrent streams. Billie and Post have great recurrents but also only have 2-3 projects. Get back to me when they have 6... I can give you an easy example: Drake. He's been charting 6/7 albums every week on the Billboard 200 for years now and they all have excellent recurrent streams. It's difficult, but it's very possible. As for Billie and Post, if they can do it with 2/3 projects respectively, I have no doubt they'll be able to do it with 6. Excellent compared to what? Compared to their debuts I'd say they're about average. Of course their debuts are almost always very big, which is why Drake's albums chart for so many years. Drake is the biggest artist on US streaming by far so all that makes sense. That doesn't mean his recurrent streams aren't affected by the fact that there's such a large selection of music of his to listen to. Have a large catalog probably won't affect streaming debuts too much, fans will still check out the new music, but after absorbing it for a few weeks, the new albums are going to be competing against the artist's several other albums that are fan favorites. Like Drake is the biggest US streaming artist by far, and Scorpion is his commercial peak so far imo (definitely his streaming peak), and correspondingly had his biggest streaming debut by a decent margin. And yet, it's being out-performed longevity wise by Beerbongs & Bentleys, even though that album had a debut that was a fair bit smaller, and Post Malone is still a smaller artist, and Beerbongs & Bentleys is arguably not even Post's biggest streaming album (HB seems a bit bigger?)... Scorpion isn't that far ahead of TUN on the Billboard 200 these days (lets say before Position's release and the associated boost) and it's not that much older of an album. Scorpion's US debut was significantly larger however, so that means relative to their debuts they're doing pretty similar. And Drake's fanbase is much more US based* so I suspect their current WW recurrent stats are pretty similar, maybe even slightly better for TUN? *Drake and Ariana get similar WW debuts for their new singles, but Drake's US Spotify debuts are about 50% greater. The proportion of Drake's Youtube streams that come from the US are more than 2.5x greater than Ariana's.
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Post by strongerq on Nov 7, 2020 18:54:02 GMT -5
Excellent compared to what? Compared to their debuts I'd say they're about average. How the fuсk did it turn to Drake.
But here i will explain why it isn't average.
Take Care (2011) has sold more in 2020 than every studio album released 2011 or before bar two - 'Rumours' by Fleetwood Mac & 'Abbey Road' by The Beatles. (not counting greatest hits)
Nothing Was The Same (2013) has sold less than these 3 (released 2013 or before) + 'good kid m.A.A.d. city' by Kendrick Lamar, 'Back In Black' by AC/DC, '2014 Forest Hills Drive' by J. Cole, 'Nevermind' by Nirvana & 'Doo-Woops And Hooligans' by Bruno Mars.
Views is selling great, More life is outselling albums in their second year and as you mentioned Scorpion is doing good. Why is beerbongs & bentleys selling better? It is a better album for starters, this is a major factor. In like 5 years time Take Care(2011) by Drake will be outselling Scorpion(2018) by Drake. It is THAT SIMPLE. Just like Take Care started outselling Views in 2019 (same in 2020). Take Care > Views in quality +fan apreciation.
This is everything but average. But anyways fuсk Drake he shouldn't even be THE TOPIC.
I will agree with what you said about artists having 5+ smash albums and streams getting distributed through the whole discography and all that (Take Care is great example).
But that was the whole fuсking point, Ariana Grande doesn't have 5+ smash albums.
Are the following albums smash albums? thank u, next - Yes Sweetener - No Dangerous Woman - Debatable, depends what you consider a smash album, but i will put a yes
My Everything - No, some would argue it is a yes
Yours Turly - NO
So when a Post Malone fan gets tired of HB he streams b&b. When Ariana fan gets tired of tun the streams don't go to another Ariana Grande album the just evaporate. - casual fan
Some artists that can also be mentioned:
The Weeknd has great longevity with his 2 smash albums (he added a third one by the looks of it). Kendrick Lamar has 2 - with gkmc being a popular modern day classic (TPAB is the not so popular brother :'( ) that will go strong for yearss and years to come. ....................
I will agree with the point that streams are distributed through the whole discography with recency bias of course, but something somewhat. too lazy to type :|
P.S: these few post make me look like some Ariana hater or something lol - just pointing out stats.
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Post by Caviar on Nov 7, 2020 19:14:07 GMT -5
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Post by thegreatdivine on Nov 7, 2020 19:50:10 GMT -5
nickd Scorpion has spent over 110 of it's 122 total weeks charting in the top 40 of the Billboard 200. It's charted way better than TUN. This week on the Billboard 200: Scorpion - #44. TUN - #53, up from #68 last week (courtesy of new Ariana music being released. It should rise significantly next week as well but it'll fall again right after that). I don't really know the overall point you were trying to make with your post (maybe detail it better in another post? Or not, depending on what you want to do) but Beerbongs and Bentleys outperforming Scorpion isn't at all surprising. It's a better album and Post Malone is a very consistent streaming artist and right now, his entire discography (as a lead/featured artist) consists of about 85 songs. Drake's entire discography consists of about 4 times that number of songs. With far more songs/albums for Drake fans to stream, it'll be impossible to have most of them focus on a single project the way Post Malone fans can. My point with bringing up Billie and Post (who have 2/3 projects out respectively) and comparing them to Ariana who has 6 albums out is that unlike them, none of Ariana's albums have demonstrated any long-term consistency in consumption, even TUN, her biggest era. Across Ariana's discography, she has less than 100 songs (which isn't that many songs for her entire fanbase to consume consistently), but from her debut album era when she had less than 20 songs for them to consume till now, they simply haven't shown any interest in listening to her albums weeks/months after their release. While I agree with your point that the more music you have out, the harder it is for your fanbase to consume most of the songs on each of the projects you have released, I don't believe Ariana lacking longevity with her last 3 albums (or the first 3 before that) is because they were released in quick succession. Her fanbase simply doesn't seem to engage with her music in that way.
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Post by Nick on Nov 7, 2020 19:57:43 GMT -5
Jesus Christ. I hope there's not another female album release for 6 months.
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Post by Caviar on Nov 7, 2020 20:28:41 GMT -5
Jesus Christ. I hope there's not another female album release for 6 months. Exactly. It's so exhausting watching people scrutinzing female artist's first week sales under the circumstances.
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Post by thegreatdivine on Nov 7, 2020 21:05:12 GMT -5
So, it's okay to scrutinize the numbers of male artists but we shouldn't do that to female artists as well? Especially the ones we consider the biggest? Lol.
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Post by nickd on Nov 7, 2020 22:33:26 GMT -5
Excellent compared to what? Compared to their debuts I'd say they're about average. How the fuсk did it turn to Drake.
But here i will explain why it isn't average.
Take Care (2011) has sold more in 2020 than every studio album released 2011 or before bar two - 'Rumours' by Fleetwood Mac & 'Abbey Road' by The Beatles. (not counting greatest hits)
Nothing Was The Same (2013) has sold less than these 3 (released 2013 or before) + 'good kid m.A.A.d. city' by Kendrick Lamar, 'Back In Black' by AC/DC, '2014 Forest Hills Drive' by J. Cole, 'Nevermind' by Nirvana & 'Doo-Woops And Hooligans' by Bruno Mars.
Views is selling great, More life is outselling albums in their second year and as you mentioned Scorpion is doing good. Why is beerbongs & bentleys selling better? It is a better album for starters, this is a major factor. In like 5 years time Take Care(2011) by Drake will be outselling Scorpion(2018) by Drake. It is THAT SIMPLE. Just like Take Care started outselling Views in 2019 (same in 2020). Take Care > Views in quality +fan apreciation.
This is everything but average. But anyways fuсk Drake he shouldn't even be THE TOPIC.
I will agree with what you said about artists having 5+ smash albums and streams getting distributed through the whole discography and all that (Take Care is great example).
But that was the whole fuсking point, Ariana Grande doesn't have 5+ smash albums.
Are the following albums smash albums? thank u, next - Yes Sweetener - No Dangerous Woman - Debatable, depends what you consider a smash album, but i will put a yes
My Everything - No, some would argue it is a yes
Yours Turly - NO
So when a Post Malone fan gets tired of HB he streams b&b. When Ariana fan gets tired of tun the streams don't go to another Ariana Grande album the just evaporate. - casual fan
Some artists that can also be mentioned:
The Weeknd has great longevity with his 2 smash albums (he added a third one by the looks of it). Kendrick Lamar has 2 - with gkmc being a popular modern day classic (TPAB is the not so popular brother ) that will go strong for yearss and years to come. ....................
I will agree with the point that streams are distributed through the whole discography with recency bias of course, but something somewhat. too lazy to type
P.S: these few post make me look like some Ariana hater or something lol - just pointing out stats.
I agree that Ariana doesn't have 5 smash albums, at least if you're looking at US stats and holding Drake's smash albums as the standard, but that doesn't mean that the fact that she has a bigger discography doesn't matter. Her fans are most definitely listening to My Everything, Sweetener and Dangerous Woman when they get tired of TUN, they're just much less numerous in the US than Drake's fans. This is reflected in stats such as their albums' debut weeks, Drake's debuts weeks are like 3-4x bigger... Drake does have 5 smash albums but idk about 5 smash albums with great longevity. Take Care, yes. Nothing Was The Same, sure. Views, More Life and Scorpion... depends how you define longevity I guess.
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Post by shayonce on Nov 7, 2020 23:44:46 GMT -5
from 2020 Top 100 US YTD Album SPS Week 43 by oldbloke 14 - 1,116,000 - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP WHERE DO WE GO by Billie Eilish (262k pure sales) 33 - 764,000 - LOVER by Taylor Swift (139k pure sales) 51 - 601,000 - CUZ I LOVE YOU by Lizzo (78k pure sales) 53 - 592,000 - DONT SMILE AT ME by Billie Eilish (126k pure sales) 65 - 489,000 - FREE SPIRIT by Khalid (31k pure sales) 68 - 476,000 - THANK U NEXT by Ariana Grande (42k pure sales) 77 - 446,000 - AMERICAN TEEN by Khalid (47k pure sales)
Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP WHERE DO WE GO (March 29, 2019) "All the Good Girls Go to Hell" - September 6, 2019 *last Main single from Album "Everything I Wanted" - November 13, 2019 "No Time to Die" - February 13, 2020 "Ilomilo" - May 26, 2020 *Visualizer Video on April,25 *last Alternative single from Album "My Future" - July 30, 2020
Taylor Swift - Lover (August 23, 2019) "You Need to Calm Down" - June 14, 2019 "Lover" - August 16, 2019 "Lover" Remix ft Shawn Mendes - November 13, 2019 "The Man" - January 27, 2020
Lizzo - CUZ I LOVE YOU (April 19, 2019) "Truth Hurts"- May 28, 2019 (still top 3 pop radio at the end of October) "Good as Hell (Remix)" - October 25, 2019 "Cuz I Love You" - January 28, 2020
Khalid - FREE SPIRIT (April 5, 2019) "Right Back" Remix with A Boogie wit da Hoodie - August 27, 2019 *last single from Free Spirit Album "Up All Night" - November 14, 2019 "Eleven" - January 9, 2020 "Eleven" Remix (ft Summer Walker) May 1, 2020
Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next (February 8, 2019) "Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" - February 8, 2019
we never saw big album having last single with album release like TUN. more singles = more streaming, especially for locals. so it did affect her second year's SPS when her last single was that far away. not to mention she didn't have any new solo singles. as someone mentioned TUN's SPS is going up since her new music announcement. avg around 10k SPS to 11.5k, 11.3k 12.5k(last week). new music do help catalogue streams.
all the others had Q3~4 Album singles, even extra solo singles and Grammy campaign/active promotions through year which helped their 2020 SPS.
so TUN's lack of single is definitely major factor. I'm sure If she had extra single in August and more out there like others, it would be at around 6~700k SPS ish.
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Post by thegreatdivine on Nov 8, 2020 0:11:21 GMT -5
nickdViews' Billboard 200 year-end placements since release: 2016: #2. 2017: #13. 2018: #47. 2019: #69. More Life's Billboard 200 year-end placements since release: 2017: #5. 2018: #33. 2019: #83. Scorpion's Billboard 200 year-end placements since release: 2018: #2. 2019: #6. All 3 projects have also never left the Billboard 200 since their release.
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Post by nickd on Nov 8, 2020 0:57:48 GMT -5
nickd Views' Billboard 200 year-end placements since release: 2016: #2. 2017: #13. 2018: #47. 2019: #69. More Life's Billboard 200 year-end placements since release: 2017: #5. 2018: #33. 2019: #83. Scorpion's Billboard 200 year-end placements since release: 2018: #2. 2019: #6. All 3 projects have also never left the Billboard 200 since their release. They are obviously all big projects, but if we're talking about their performance relative to their streaming debuts, I don't think they're doing particularly well. Like out of the 8 albums with 200-350k SEA debuts released in 2016-2019, More Life would rank 6th in terms of longevity, ahead of only KOD and Tha Carter V, which are both kinda notorious for their frontloaded streams. So I do think that Drake is an example of what I was talking about where the fans streams start to get spread thin across a very large discography. On the flipside, he does have a more steady/loyal fanbase than artists that had hit records that turned out to be passing fads, and he's not seen as a relic of the past yet, which helps his newer albums still have decent stability (again, relative to their debuts). I'd say that Ariana's fanbase/audience in the US is about half the size of Drake's right now and was about 3-4x smaller than his pre-TUN, so I don't think it's fair to expect her to pull similar numbers either in terms of debut weeks or in terms of longevity. And if we're comparing to Post and Billie, I think the size of her catalog is a factor (especially compared to Billie). If Ariana's catalog had some major duds, then maybe those wouldn't serve as effective competition, but I think a lot of her fans appreciate most of her catalog.
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Post by It's me, bitch. on Nov 8, 2020 3:16:34 GMT -5
What has Ariana Grande‘s first week sales been and total sales been for each album?
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Post by kierz7 on Nov 8, 2020 8:28:16 GMT -5
What has Ariana Grande‘s first week sales been and total sales been for each album? First Week / Overall (SPS): • Yours Truly. 138K / 1.080M • My Everything. 169K / 1.9M • Dangerous Woman. 179K / 1.6M • Sweetener. 231K / 1.4M • TU,N. 360K / 2.7M The first week sales of “YT” & “ME” are pure sales only. “DW” onward is SPS. This is the U.S only and her highest [pure seller] to date is “ME” with ~800K units.
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Post by jenglisbe on Nov 8, 2020 8:33:07 GMT -5
What has Ariana Grande‘s first week sales been and total sales been for each album? First Week / Overall (SPS): • Yours Truly. 138K / 1.080M • My Everything. 169K / 1.9M • Dangerous Woman. 179K / 1.010M • Sweetener. 231K / 640K • TU,N. 360K / 2.7M The first week sales of “YT” & “ME” are pure sales only. “DW” onward is SPS. This is the U.S only and her highest [pure seller] to date is “ME” with 800K units. Wow. I had no idea DW and S were such a step back commercially, and then TUN was a huge increase.
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Post by kierz7 on Nov 8, 2020 8:41:35 GMT -5
First Week / Overall (SPS): • Yours Truly. 138K / 1.080M • My Everything. 169K / 1.9M • Dangerous Woman. 179K / 1.010M • Sweetener. 231K / 640K • TU,N. 360K / 2.7M The first week sales of “YT” & “ME” are pure sales only. “DW” onward is SPS. This is the U.S only and her highest [pure seller] to date is “ME” with 800K units. Wow. I had no idea DW and S were such a step back commercially, and then TUN was a huge increase. I edited the total SPS of “DW” and “Sweetener”. I found these sales on her chart pages. I’m still surprised that her biggest pure seller didn’t cross 1M at its peak, especially for a 2014 release.
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Post by iHype. on Nov 8, 2020 12:02:57 GMT -5
What has Ariana Grande‘s first week sales been and total sales been for each album? First Week / Overall (SPS): • Yours Truly. 138K / 1.080M • My Everything. 169K / 1.9M • Dangerous Woman. 179K / 1.6M • Sweetener. 231K / 1.4M • TU,N. 360K / 2.7M The first week sales of “YT” & “ME” are pure sales only. “DW” onward is SPS. This is the U.S only and her highest [pure seller] to date is “ME” with ~800K units. These overall numbers are pretty wrong. "My Everything" was certified 2x Platinum in 2016 for example, so there's no way it's at 1.9 million in 2020. It's more like Yours Truly - 1.75 million My Everything - 4 million Dangerous Woman - 2.5 million Sweetener - 2 million Thank U Next - 2.75 million She's overall has never been a big album oriented artist like some other pop girls, she's always did decently in comparison to the hits/airplay she got (ala Rihanna). It's not really that surprising she's doing underwhelming now when TUN fizzled out too quickly, none of her droplets after became actual big lasting hits, and the lead single also wasn't a true event thus far. I think that should be pretty unanimous idk why there's so much disagreement and back and forth.
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Post by myhouse911 on Nov 8, 2020 13:23:52 GMT -5
^ If these numbers you're "correcting" kierz7 with are factual, than Republic would have certified those albums accordingly. There is no way My Everything is at 4M.
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Post by HolidayGuy on Nov 8, 2020 13:34:13 GMT -5
In terms of longevity on the Billboard 200, I'd say Grande's studio albums have enjoyed impressive longevity:
Dangerous Woman: 154 weeks Thank U, Next: 90 weeks* My Everything: 89 weeks Sweetener: 88 weeks* Yours Truly: 53 weeks
*-charted as of Nov. 7 chart
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Post by iHype. on Nov 8, 2020 13:43:36 GMT -5
^ If these numbers you're "correcting" kierz7 with are factual, than Republic would have certified those albums accordingly. There is no way My Everything is at 4M. What are you talking about? Nearly all her certifications are out of date, especially from that era. Problem - last certified in 2015 Break Free - last certified in 2015 One Last Time - last certified in 2015 Love Me Harder - last certified in 2016 Bang Bang - last certified in 2017 One Last Time is still 1x Platinum. NASA, an album track from 1 year ago, is certified 1x Platinum. That alone shows you how outdated the certifications from that era are.
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Nov 8, 2020 14:29:10 GMT -5
According to oldbloke @ UKMix for the Billboard 200 SPS Era up to a couple of weeks ago:
2,326,000 THANK U NEXT 1,801,000 DANGEROUS WOMAN 1,561,000 SWEETENER 1,037,000 MY EVERYTHING
That obviously doesn't include any SPS before that era for My Everything.
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