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Post by areyoureadytojump on May 29, 2021 15:13:56 GMT -5
hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=326689&title=YOUR-WEEKEND-FORECAST%253A-A-RODRIGO-REPEAT-%2526-%2527MORE-TAYLORSaturday, May 29, 2021 YOUR WEEKEND FORECAST: A RODRIGO REPEAT & 'MORE TAYLOROlivia Rodrigo continues her impressive start with SOUR, which will log a second week at #1. DMX is the sole new album we're looking at today thanks to a light holiday weekend release schedule. Vinyl shipments for Taylor Swift's Evermore will vault the album into the runner up spot as it more than doubles the modern record for LP sales in a single week with estimates somewhere between 80-100k. The current record for most vinyl sales in one week is held by Jack White's Lazaretto which moved 40k copies in June 2014. Juice WRLD's Goodbye & Good Riddance adds a "Lucid Dreams" remix feat. Lil Uzi Vert new cut "734" for its 3-year anniversary. Olivia Rodrigo (Geffen) 150-170k total, 15-20k albumsTaylor Swift (Republic) 110-130k, 100-120k Juice WRLD - Goodbye & Good Riddance - Anniversary Edition (Grade A/Interscope) 28-32k, 1-2kDMX (Def Jam) 28-32k, 12-14k
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Post by iHype. on May 29, 2021 15:25:04 GMT -5
Olivia's first 5~ weeks should clear six-digit units.
Unless we get a new album from a big star unexpectedly then she should have those weeks at #1....
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Post by kimberly on May 29, 2021 15:30:56 GMT -5
I believe the record among female artists was recently broken by Ariana Grande's positions shipments.
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Post by fridayteenage on May 29, 2021 15:34:45 GMT -5
I believe the record among female artists was recently broken by Ariana Grande's positions shipments. I mean, the OP already says she'll double the overall record, i don't see why we need to diminish it into just females.. Whew, Evermore sailing past half a million sales in the post-bundles era!
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Post by WolfSpear on May 29, 2021 15:41:05 GMT -5
I would have never guessed those numbers for a vinyl release, but great week for Taylor and an impressive start for Olivia.
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Post by kimberly on May 29, 2021 16:00:05 GMT -5
I believe the record among female artists was recently broken by Ariana Grande's positions shipments. I mean, the OP already says she'll double the overall record, i don't see why we need to diminish it into just females.. diminish? I'm just pointing out that she'll also be breaking that record that was recently broken (last month, if I recall correctly)
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Post by HolidayGuy on May 29, 2021 18:22:21 GMT -5
Holy turntable, Batman. Go Swifties.
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Post by kcdawg13 on May 29, 2021 19:26:08 GMT -5
Good, evermore is the better album of the two and it's great she's pushing it to have more longevity in an area it's sister record has had a better time in.
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Post by fridayteenage on May 29, 2021 19:27:58 GMT -5
last 3 albums with multiple 100k sales weeks, iirc: evermore. folklore. reputation.
what a great trinity (which will be interrupted whenever adele returns)
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Post by kcdawg13 on May 29, 2021 19:30:16 GMT -5
last 3 albums with multiple 100k sales weeks, iirc: evermore. folklore. reputation. what a great trinity (which will be interrupted whenever adele returns) Lover didn't manage to do it?
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Post by fridayteenage on May 29, 2021 19:34:45 GMT -5
last 3 albums with multiple 100k sales weeks, iirc: evermore. folklore. reputation. what a great trinity (which will be interrupted whenever adele returns) Lover didn't manage to do it? 86k second week. i blame me! being chosen instead of cruel summer.
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Post by higilo on May 29, 2021 20:13:40 GMT -5
That Lil Uzi Vert remix of Lucid dreams is so good, glad it finally came out
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Post by Future Captain on May 29, 2021 23:15:15 GMT -5
Olivia and Taylor in top 2 would be iconic
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Post by kimberly on May 31, 2021 14:30:57 GMT -5
She's already broken the all-time record over the weekend:
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on May 31, 2021 15:59:31 GMT -5
By Keith Caulfield 5/31/2021
The set breaks the record for the largest sales week for a vinyl album in the U.S. since MRC Data began electronically tracking sales in 1991.
In just three days, Taylor Swift’s Evermore has set the record for the biggest sales week for a vinyl album in the U.S. since MRC Data began tracking sales in 1991.
The vinyl edition of Evermore, released on May 28, sold over 40,000 copies in the U.S. through May 30, according to initial reports to MRC Data. That beats the record for an entire single-week of vinyl sales, held by the debut frame of vinyl devotee Jack White’s Lazaretto, when it launched with 40,000 copies in the week ending June 15, 2014. (MRC Data began electronically tracking music sales in 1991, when the company was known as SoundScan.) It’s presumed that Evermore’s vinyl sales sum will grow by the end of the tracking week on Thursday, June 3.
Evermore was initially released digitally and through streamers on Dec. 11, 2020, but its vinyl edition was not issued until May 28. Evermore’s vinyl sales are helped greatly by five months of banked pre-orders, as the vinyl version of the album was announced in mid-December, and went up for pre-order at the same time.
Evermore’s record-breaking vinyl sales add to the great music-on-vinyl comeback story for the once-dormant format. 2020 marked the single-largest year for U.S. vinyl album sales in MRC Data history (27.54 million copies) and the 15th consecutive year of growth for vinyl (up 46.2%). Further, vinyl LPs accounted for 27% of all albums sold in 2020. Vinyl albums were once the dominant format for album purchases in the U.S., up until the early 1980s. After that, cassettes took hold until the early 1990s, when the CD format flourished and became the leading format for album sales.
Evermore, again, was initially issued to streaming services and as a commercial digital album on Dec. 11, 2020, and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album's CD, cassette and vinyl editions followed on Dec. 18, 2020; Feb. 12 and May 28, 2021, respectively. The delayed release of Evermore’s physical formats is owed to the amount of time it takes to manufacture the products, with vinyl requiring the longest time to produce.
As Evermore was a surprise release (Swift announced its existence on Dec. 10), there was likely no time for her team and her record label, Republic Records, to coordinate the manufacturing of the physical editions of the album in time for the Dec. 11 streaming and digital release. So, the CD, cassette and vinyl editions hit retail later.
Not all albums these days have such delayed physical releases, but many do. Ariana Grande’s Positions is another such example. The album was released on Oct. 30, 2020, after Grande had teased the album’s existence Oct. 14. While Positions was released on Oct. 30 as both a digital album and as a CD, its cassette and vinyl LP were delayed until April 9. Like Evermore, Grande’s vinyl LP had months of pre-orders fueling its eventual arrival, when it sold 32,000 copies in the week ending April 15.
One superstar album on the horizon that will not have a delayed vinyl release is Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever. On July 30, the album will be released via streaming platforms; and commercially as a digital album, and on CD, cassette and vinyl formats (with at least six different color vinyl editions available in the U.S., in addition to its standard black vinyl edition).
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Jun 1, 2021 16:47:22 GMT -5
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR (Geffen) will spend a second week at #1 as her impressive streams remained strong through the holiday weekend. DMX’s posthumous album, Exodus (Def Jam), is the only new release in this week’s Top 20 as Taylor Swift’s evermore (Republic) and Juice WRLD’s Goodbye & Good Riddance (Grade A/Interscope) soar thanks to the vinyl and anniversary releases, respectively. If today’s rankings hold, UMG will land eight of the Top 10 titles.
In post-pandemic news, we can barely figure out which things not to go to first.
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Post by lucidruid on Jun 1, 2021 17:22:28 GMT -5
say what you will about Taylor but she can SELL. damn. 130k how many months after release..? i know yall hate it but i love when modern day artists have selling power lol, makes them powerful
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Post by kimberly on Jun 1, 2021 17:39:31 GMT -5
say what you will about Taylor but she can SELL. damn. 130k how many months after release..? i know yall hate it but i love when modern day artists have selling power lol, makes them powerful the reason why evermore is jumping into the Top 2 now is because all the vinyl order placed between December 2020-now are shipping this week. (Taylor Swift has selling power regardless of this chart rule thing, but I wanted to point this out because evermore isn't seeing a resurgence in popularity now.) Expect a similar spike for Fearless (Taylor's Version) in late August/September when those vinyl begin to ship out. I don't think anyone hates Taylor Swift's selling power. Or any album-seller, for that matter. Sales become annoying for the Hot 100, where even Taylor Swift failed to top 60k with her most-recent No. 1, and most songs on the chart sell 1-4k, but a fanbase can fundraise globally to purchase 250k of the same song like we're in 2010 and block a streaming-record-breaking No. 1.
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Post by lucidruid on Jun 1, 2021 17:49:33 GMT -5
say what you will about Taylor but she can SELL. damn. 130k how many months after release..? i know yall hate it but i love when modern day artists have selling power lol, makes them powerful the reason why evermore is jumping into the Top 2 now is because all the vinyl order placed between December 2020-now are shipping this week. (Taylor Swift has selling power regardless of this chart rule thing, but I wanted to point this out because evermore isn't seeing a resurgence in popularity now.) Expect a similar spike for Fearless (Taylor's Version) in late August/September when those vinyl begin to ship out. I don't think anyone hates Taylor Swift's selling power. Or any album-seller, for that matter. Sales become annoying for the Hot 100, where even Taylor Swift failed to top 60k with her most-recent No. 1, and most songs on the chart sell 1-4k, but a fanbase can fundraise globally to purchase 250k of the same song like we're in 2010 and block a streaming-record-breaking No. 1. oh. well i didn’t know that and it does change things, but still an impressive feat. also lol at now how my attempt to escape the never ending butter vs g4u bickering in the hot 100 thread end up with me still having to hear about butter and g4u :| i don’t see a difference in huge sales for singles or albums, they’re equal imo. taylor stans have been buying multiple copies for every release for years and yall know that majority of those 100k vinyls won’t even be touched bc most ppl probably don’t even have a record player lol. taylor, ari, even OLIVIA sell signed copies to increase album sales. nothing new, nothing groundbreaking. if artists have managed to somehow make people care about them enough to sell multiple copies, than that’s wonderful. ik people always bitch about taylor in this regard but the fact stands that she’s managed to have insane sales for like a decade, even after transitioning to streaming era. to me, that’s much cooler than having multiple streaming hits and little to no sales. but well this is my take on it, not expecting people to fully agree
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Post by kimberly on Jun 1, 2021 18:14:43 GMT -5
the reason why evermore is jumping into the Top 2 now is because all the vinyl order placed between December 2020-now are shipping this week. (Taylor Swift has selling power regardless of this chart rule thing, but I wanted to point this out because evermore isn't seeing a resurgence in popularity now.) Expect a similar spike for Fearless (Taylor's Version) in late August/September when those vinyl begin to ship out. I don't think anyone hates Taylor Swift's selling power. Or any album-seller, for that matter. Sales become annoying for the Hot 100, where even Taylor Swift failed to top 60k with her most-recent No. 1, and most songs on the chart sell 1-4k, but a fanbase can fundraise globally to purchase 250k of the same song like we're in 2010 and block a streaming-record-breaking No. 1. oh. well i didn’t know that and it does change things, but still an impressive feat. also lol at now how my attempt to escape the never ending butter vs g4u bickering in the hot 100 thread end up with me still having to hear about butter and g4u i don’t see a difference in huge sales for singles or albums, they’re equal imo. taylor stans have been buying multiple copies for every release for years and yall know that majority of those 100k vinyls won’t even be touched bc most ppl probably don’t even have a record player lol. taylor, ari, even OLIVIA sell signed copies to increase album sales. nothing new, nothing groundbreaking. if artists have managed to somehow make people care about them enough to sell multiple copies, than that’s wonderful. ik people always bitch about taylor in this regard but the fact stands that she’s managed to have insane sales for like a decade, even after transitioning to streaming era. to me, that’s much cooler than having multiple streaming hits and little to no sales. but well this is my take on it, not expecting people to fully agree I think the reason why I disagree with this is that sales are more "natural" for albums / both streaming and sales are inaccurate ways of measuring "album consumption" when you think about it. Someone can "buy" an album and never even open the package. Someone can stream "Love Story" over and over again without streaming anything else on the album and still contribute to the album's SPS units. So the difference between the accuracy of those two metrics aren't as stark as on the Hot 100, where streaming is obviously the dominant method of consumption for songs and outliers shouldn't be rewarded an easy No. 1 when a very small minority of the population has even heard the song.
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Post by ificanthaveyou on Jun 1, 2021 18:17:45 GMT -5
What a fail on Taylor’s label... couldn’t they have suppressed them a week to ensure a return to #1. In most other weeks it would have been an EASY way to return to #1.
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Post by kimberly on Jun 1, 2021 18:24:50 GMT -5
What a fail on Taylor’s label... couldn’t they have suppressed them a week to ensure a return to #1. In most other weeks it would have been an EASY way to return to #1. I mean, they also have to fulfill the orders in a timely manner lol. She would get so much shit if she didn't stick with the original date just because Olivia's performing better than they had projected. (I'm guessing their plan was to secure the No. 1 this week had Olivia's number fallen like most other artists' do.)
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Post by neverduplicated on Jun 1, 2021 19:01:10 GMT -5
What a fail on Taylor’s label... couldn’t they have suppressed them a week to ensure a return to #1. In most other weeks it would have been an EASY way to return to #1. I mean, they also have to fulfill the orders in a timely manner lol. She would get so much s**t if she didn't stick with the original date just because Olivia's performing better than they had projected. (I'm guessing their plan was to secure the No. 1 this week had Olivia's number fallen like most other artists' do.) Agree, keeping fans happy is more important than another week at #1 for the woman who already holds that record. What I’m curious about is how accurate HDDs predictions are for signed CDs which also shipped this week from website sales weeks ago and record stores that have been selling them this week. Folklore easily moved 50k+ several weeks due to signed CDs.
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Jun 1, 2021 19:48:22 GMT -5
With its projected pure sales this week, Evermore will become the top pure selling album this year surpassing you know whose album.
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Post by Choco on Jun 1, 2021 22:07:37 GMT -5
Yeah the Taylor number is a bit misleading because it's basically months of sales being shipped now... but that's the rules. It makes for a bit of a weird resurgence, but I don't think we'll see it on a huge scale unless it's Taylor or BTS.
And moving so many copies of what is still basically her least successful album to date is impressive (and a testament to how strong her discography is)
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Post by Eloqueen™ on Jun 2, 2021 2:51:19 GMT -5
Imagine Taylor's *least successful* release, an album with one single and almost no promotion blowing past 1 million SPS, when even top streaming artists would love to have these figures so effortlessly. The steadiness of her success and longevity in this industry is unparalleled these days tbh.
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Post by HolidayGuy on Jun 2, 2021 8:42:18 GMT -5
Evermore also is selling well at iTunes and such, thanks to the $6.99 sale. So it's not just the vinyl. ;)
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Post by phieaglesfan712 on Jun 2, 2021 8:52:18 GMT -5
What a fail on Taylor’s label... couldn’t they have suppressed them a week to ensure a return to #1. In most other weeks it would have been an EASY way to return to #1. It would have not made it to #1 either way. This was supposed to be the release week for Lil Baby & Lil Durk’s album, but they pushed it back a week in respect for DMX. It wasn’t going to beat out Lil Baby & Lil Durk if it waited a week.
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Post by WolfSpear on Jun 2, 2021 15:40:08 GMT -5
I would have been more upset if Taylor had peaked at #2. I’m actually quite impressed by her numbers nearly 6 months down the line.
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Post by kimberly on Jun 2, 2021 16:29:31 GMT -5
Evermore also is selling well at iTunes and such, thanks to the $6.99 sale. So it's not just the vinyl. idk how much the #8 album on iTunes sells but we know that of the 130k album sales this week, 80-100k of them are going to be vinyl shipments. another (unknown, likely to be 25k+) portion is the signed CD orders being shipped, so I don't think the iTunes discount is that big of a factor here. the main reason this album (which moved less than 13k total units last week) is jumping to 130k pure sales this week is old purchases shipping now, not iTunes.
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