HITS 4/26: #1 Taylor Swift 2.6M/1.92M pure, #5 Pearl Jam 60k

[iHype.]

The complaining about Billie's Rolling Stone interview and trying to dissect every single statement into something that can be framed as problematic, 'shady', or try-hard is literally exactly why the superstars of Taylor/Beyonce/etc caliber no longer due any traditional interview promotion lmao.

You all complain that popstars don't promote like they used to when in today's era 1. Live performances have barely any effect on sales 2. Interviews always get twisted into becoming drama or a way to hate someone.

If you didn't like the interview or whatnot then simply keep it moving, sitting here actively rooting for her era to fail because she said 1 statement about wanting to be more eco-friendly with physical sales is the pinnacle of stan-rotted brain. Most of the people complaining about that interview also literally did not even actually read the interview lmao. 

You all get 1 sentence out of context on the Twitter timeline from PopCrave and then go rampant. Example being I'm seeing people consistently complaining about her saying she didn't take typing classes growing up.... of all things to get in an uproar and criticize someone about lmao. Just miserable. 

[clsvltn]

Apr 26, 2024 12:00:36 GMT -5 avamaxstan said:

Apr 26, 2024 11:53:34 GMT -5 HEADOFTHEPACK said:

No. This has been discussed before. Billie Eilish does not need to bring in specific names to get a point out there. The point stands whether it's Taylor or any other artist releasing vinyl variants.

It feels like we're talking in circles, so this will be my final comment on this. I agree that the point is valid and correct regardless of whether it involves Taylor. I remarked that Billie - like most major celebrities - knows how the press operates and that they'll salivate over any possible reference to Taylor, no matter how vague, and she cleverly leveraged that to get an important message into the headlines.

You are assuming that Billie had these intentions in mind.  Who is to say she truly didn't mean that?  Not everyone has Taylor on their minds 24/7.  It makes it seem like she had these sinister intentions to try and slyly drag Taylor to make a point when she specifically said she wasn't doing that so we should take her for her word.

[@DiegoMarcondes_]

Pearl Jam's debut surprised me. It's the same as "But Here We Are" by Foo Fighters debuted and I thought FF had lot of more hype than Pearl Jam nowadays.

[fengyu]

taylor 2.6m/1.9m sales

[areyoureadytojump]

^ hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=340993&title=CHART-PREVIEW%253A-A-SWIFT-SIZED-DEBUT

Friday, April 26, 2024

CHART PREVIEW: A SWIFT-SIZED DEBUT

Republic’s Taylor Swift has notched the second-biggest album debut of all time with THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Her 31-track marvel moves an astounding 2.6m units in its opening week, knocking NSYNC’s No Strings Attached out of the #2 spot (Adele’s 25 remains the all-time #1 with 3.4m+).

Physical sales account for 1.9m of the total, with record-setting vinyl sales contributing nearly half. As we reported earlier today, Swift also set a new first-week streaming record, logging 865m streams.

Stay tuned to see the full HITS Top 50 later today.

[strongerq]

hitsdailydouble.com/sales_plus_streaming

LW	TW	Artist	Title	Label	Total	Change	Albums	TEA	SEA
--	1	TAYLOR SWIFT	THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT	REPUBLIC (UMG)	2,600,238	--	1,915,964	13,500	670,774
3	2	FUTURE & METRO BOOMIN	WE DON'T TRUST YOU	BOOMINATI/FREEBANDZ/REPUBLIC/EPIC (UMG/SME)	69,201	-17%	244	313	68,644
2	3	BEYONCE	COWBOY CARTER	PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA (SME)	66,110	-34%	11,284	1,072	53,754
4	4	MORGAN WALLEN	ONE THING AT A TIME	BIG LOUD/MERCURY/REPUBLIC (UMG)	63,059	-13%	1,329	564	61,166
--	5	PEARL JAM	DARK MATTER	MONKEYWRENCH/REPUBLIC (UMG)	60,248	--	52,102	359	7,788
1	6	FUTURE & METRO BOOMIN	WE STILL DON'T TRUST YOU	BOOMINATI/FREEBANDZ/REPUBLIC/EPIC (UMG/SME)	54,841	-58%	240	139	54,462
5	7	NOAH KAHAN	STICK SEASON	MERCURY/REPUBLIC (UMG)	46,716	-10%	11,071	352	35,293
7	8	BENSON BOONE	FIREWORKS & ROLLERBLADES	NIGHT STREET/WARNER (WMG)	39,520	-7%	918	1,094	37,508
12	9	TAYLOR SWIFT	LOVER	REPUBLIC (UMG)	38,370	0%	14,588	572	23,210
9	10	SZA	SOS	TDE/RCA (SME)	38,332	-4%	2,103	151	36,078
10	11	MORGAN WALLEN	DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM	BIG LOUD/MERCURY/REPUBLIC (UMG)	36,248	-9%	342	210	35,696
8	12	ARIANA GRANDE	ETERNAL SUNSHINE	REPUBLIC (UMG)	35,252	-12%	4,482	210	30,560
13	13	ZACH BRYAN	ZACH BRYAN	WARNER (WMG)	34,731	-4%	2,899	235	31,597
15	14	TAYLOR SWIFT	1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION)	REPUBLIC (UMG)	34,642	2%	14,355	417	19,870
11	15	OLIVIA RODRIGO	GUTS	GEFFEN (UMG)	32,969	-14%	4,153	197	28,619
14	16	TAYLOR SWIFT	MIDNIGHTS	REPUBLIC (UMG)	32,819	-5%	12,025	542	20,252
16	17	DRAKE	FOR ALL THE DOGS	OVO/REPUBLIC (UMG)	29,773	-7%	37	80	29,656
19	18	ZACH BRYAN	AMERICAN HEARTBREAK	WARNER (WMG)	27,015	-5%	828	249	25,937
20	19	TRAVIS SCOTT	UTOPIA	CACTUS JACK/EPIC (SME)	26,129	-5%	709	77	25,344
21	20	TAYLOR SWIFT	FOLKLORE	REPUBLIC (UMG)	26,107	-5%	11,381	249	14,477
22	21	POST MALONE	THE DIAMOND COLLECTION	MERCURY/REPUBLIC (UMG)	26,096	-4%	399	291	25,407
6	22	LINKIN PARK	PAPERCUTS	WARNER (WMG)	25,853	-41%	6,624	253	18,976
18	23	HOZIER	UNHEARD	COLUMBIA (SME)	23,168	-21%	520	642	22,006
25	24	FUERZA REGIDA	PA LAS BABY'S Y BELIKEADA	RANCHO HUMILDE/STREET MOB (SME)	22,012	-7%	13	33	21,966
23	25	GLORILLA	EHHTHANG EHHTHANG	CMG/INTERSCOPE (UMG)	21,478	-17%	22	340	21,117
28	26	PESO PLUMA	GENESIS	DOUBLE P/PRAJIN PARLAY (THE ORCHARD)	21,194	-4%	28	39	21,127
36	27	CHAPPELL ROAN	THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS	ISLAND (UMG)	21,133	2%	2,356	97	18,681
29	28	21 SAVAGE	AMERICAN DREAM	SLAUGHTER GANG/EPIC (SME)	20,929	-4%	303	103	20,523
33	29	BAD BUNNY	UN VERANO SIN TI	RIMAS (THE ORCHARD)	20,890	-2%	130	45	20,715
27	30	LUKE COMBS	GETTIN' OLD	RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE (SME)	20,814	-6%	615	364	19,836
17	31	J. COLE	MIGHT DELETE LATER	COLE WORLD/INTERSCOPE (UMG)	20,200	-36%	412	77	19,711
26	32	BRYSON TILLER	BRYSON TILLER	TRAPSOUL/RCA (SME)	20,028	-11%	65	54	19,909
31	33	BOSSMAN DLOW	MR BEAT THE ROAD	ALAMO (SME)	19,580	-10%	30	72	19,478
37	34	LUKE COMBS	THIS ONE'S FOR YOU	RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE (SME)	19,506	-4%	452	181	18,873
--	35	NICKI MINAJ	PINK FRIDAY 2	REPUBLIC (UMG)	19,357	--	1,429	1,621	16,307
44	36	BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS	LEGEND	TUFF GONG/ISLAND (UMG)	19,343	3%	3,940	328	15,076
24	37	CHRIS BROWN	11:11	RCA (SME)	19,220	-22%	224	209	18,787
42	38	TEDDY SWIMS	I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING BUT THERAPY (PART 1)	WARNER (WMG)	19,085	-2%	1,712	952	16,422
--	39	FLEETWOOD MAC	RUMOURS	WARNER (WMG)	18,963	--	5,014	217	13,732
38	40	KANYE WEST & TY DOLLA SIGN	VULTURES 1	YZY (INDIE)	18,379	-10%	163	77	18,138
39	41	BAD BUNNY	NADIE SABE LO QUE VA A PASAR MANANA	RIMAS (THE ORCHARD)	18,183	-9%	179	45	17,960
35	42	DOJA CAT	SCARLET	KEMOSABE/RCA (SME)	17,974	-13%	167	165	17,642
41	43	OLIVIA RODRIGO	SOUR	GEFFEN (UMG)	17,949	-9%	2,998	80	14,870
--	44	BAILEY ZIMMERMAN	RELIGIOUSLY. THE ALBUM.	WARNER NASHVILLE (WMG)	17,701	--	236	187	17,278
34	45	EAGLES	TO THE LIMIT: THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION	ELEKTRA/RHINO (WMG)	17,604	-17%	2,892	287	14,425
--	46	SZA	CTRL	TDE/RCA (SME)	17,275	--	2,073	23	15,180
50	47	DRAKE	TAKE CARE	YMCMB/REPUBLIC (UMG)	17,178	-5%	1,701	30	15,448
46	48	KENDRICK LAMAR	DAMN.	TDE/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE (UMG)	17,055	-6%	1,427	37	15,591
49	49	LIL BABY	MY TURN	QUALITY CONTROL/MOTOWN (UMG)	17,046	-6%	15	18	17,014
43	50	TAYLOR SWIFT	RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION)	REPUBLIC (UMG)	16,993	-11%	7,307	353	9,333

[ificanthaveyou]

Pure insanity… she does it again.

I’m so curious to see where Reputation (TV) lands…

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

TTPD is now the #1 album in the HITS' YTD SPS chart, about 475k ahead of OTAAT.

[Caviar]

Iconic

[👑 Eloquent ™]

Legendary, iconic, magnificent, etc

[Nick]

Unreal. Congrats Taylor!

[GW]

😎

[clsvltn]

Does anyone have that all time best sales list ?

[Envoirment]

Do we think the album will get a second week over 1 million? Would be amazing if Taylor could also do that! Although I assume that might be quite difficult? What were the seocnd week drops of Midnights and 1989 (Taylor's Version)?

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

Apr 26, 2024 17:38:03 GMT -5 clsvltn said:

Does anyone have that all time best sales list ?

1. Adele - 25 3.480M (2015)
2. Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department 2.6M? (2024)
3. NSYNC - No Strings Attached 2.416M (2000)
4. NSYNC - Celebrity 1.88M (2001)
5. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 1.76M (2000)
6. Taylor Swift - 1989 (Taylor's Version) 1.653M (2023)
7. Backstreet Boys - Black & Blue 1.591M (2000)
8. Taylor Swift - Midnights - 1.578M (2022)
9. Eminem - The Eminem Show 1.322M (2002)
10. Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again 1.319M (2000)

biggest weeks every year since 2000:

2000 - No Strings Attached (NSYNC) 2.416M
2001 - Celebrity (NSYNC) 1.88M
2002 - The Eminem Show (Eminem) 1.322M
2003 - Get Rich or Die Tryin' (50 Cent) 872k
2004 - Confessions (Usher) 1.096M
2005 - The Massacre (50 Cent) 1.140M
2006 - The Breakthrough (Mary J. Blige) 727k
2007 - Graduation (Kanye) 957k
2008 - Tha Carter III (Lil Wayne) 1.005M
2009 - I Dreamed A Dream (Susan Boyle) 701k
2010 - Speak Now 1.047M
2011 - Born This Way 1.108M
2012 - Red 1.208M
2013 - The 20/20 Experience 968k
2014 - 1989 1.287M
2015 - 25 3.480M
2016 - 25 1.190M
2017 - reputation 1.238M
2018 - Scorpion 732k 
2019 - Lover 867k
2020 - folklore 846k
2021 - 30 839k
2022 - Midnights 1.578M
2023 - 1989 (Taylor's Version) 1.653M
2024 - The Tortured Poets Department 2.6M?

[👑 Eloquent ™]

Apr 26, 2024 17:50:43 GMT -5 Envoirment said:

Do we think the album will get a second week over 1 million? Would be amazing if Taylor could also do that! Although I assume that might be quite difficult? What were the seocnd week drops of Midnights and 1989 (Taylor's Version)?

Absolutely not. lol If it drops exactly like Midnights it should sell around 572k week 2, but I'm thinking the drop will be slightly worse personally (likely closer to 450-500k IMO). It is likely to pass 3 million on week 2 tho!

[Push The Button]

Apr 26, 2024 17:38:03 GMT -5 clsvltn said:

Does anyone have that all time best sales list ?

Albums with 1 million in weekly sales in the Soundscan era:

1. Adele: 25 (3.48 million)
2. Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department (2.6 million)
3. NSYNC: No Strings Attached (2.4 million)
4. NSYNC: Celebrity (1.88 million)
5. Eminem: The Marshal Mathers LP (1.7 million)
6. Taylor Swift: 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (1.658 million)
7. Backstreet Boys: Black & Blue (1.591 million)
8. Taylor Swift: midnights (1.578 million)
9. Eminem: The Eminem Show (1.322 million)
10. Britney Spears: Oops! I Did It Again (1.319 million)
11. Taylor Swift: 1989 (1.287 million)
12. The Beatles: 1 (1.258 million)
13. Taylor Swift: reputation (1.238 million)
14. Taylor Swift: Red (1.208 million)
15. Adele: 25 (1.190 million)
16. Adele: 25 (1.160 million)
17. 50 Cent: The Massacre (1.141 million)
18. Backstreet Boys: Millennium (1.134 million)
19. Lady Gaga: Born This Way (1.108 million)
20. Usher: Confessions (1.096 million)
21. Garth Brooks: Double Live (1.086 million)
22. Whitney Houston: The Bodyguard (1.061 million)
23. Limp Bizkit: Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (1.055 million)
24. Taylor Swift: Speak Now (1.047 million)
25. Norah Jones: Feels Like Home (1.022 million)
26. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III (1.006 million)

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

Apr 26, 2024 18:18:11 GMT -5 Push The Button said:

Apr 26, 2024 17:38:03 GMT -5 clsvltn said:

Does anyone have that all time best sales list ?

Albums with 1 million in weekly sales in the Soundscan era:

1. Adele: 25 (3.378 million)
8. Backstreet Boys: Black & Blue (1.5 million)

25 did 3.48M (3.37M is pure sales) and Black & Blue 1.591M.

[Push The Button]

Apr 26, 2024 18:36:44 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

Apr 26, 2024 18:18:11 GMT -5 Push The Button said:

Albums with 1 million in weekly sales in the Soundscan era:

1. Adele: 25 (3.378 million)
8. Backstreet Boys: Black & Blue (1.5 million)

25 did 3.48M (3.37M is pure sales) and Black & Blue 1.591M.

Thanks! Adjusted.

[theycallmedualian]

anyone have a record of how many Nsync and adele's are CDs, vinyls vs itunes?

[eyeofthestorm]

^ I would say NSYNCs are all cds because iTunes didn't exist yet and vinyls weren't a thing then.

[WolfSpear]

Well... 1.9 million in sales and 2.6 in SPS. Still the 3rd best sales week and 2nd in terms of SPS!

[clsvltn]

Apr 26, 2024 18:18:11 GMT -5 Push The Button said:

Apr 26, 2024 17:38:03 GMT -5 clsvltn said:

Does anyone have that all time best sales list ?

Albums with 1 million in weekly sales in the Soundscan era:

1. Adele: 25 (3.48 million)
2. Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Society (2.6 million)
3. NSYNC: No Strings Attached (2.4 million)
4. NSYNC: Celebrity (1.88 million)
5. Eminem: The Marshal Mathers LP (1.7 million)
6. Taylor Swift: 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (1.658 million)
7. Backstreet Boys: Black & Blue (1.591 million)
8. Taylor Swift: midnights (1.578 million)
9. Eminem: The Eminem Show (1.322 million)
10. Britney Spears: Oops! I Did It Again (1.319 million)
11. Taylor Swift: 1989 (1.287 million)
12. The Beatles: 1 (1.258 million)
13. Taylor Swift: reputation (1.238 million)
14. Taylor Swift: Red (1.208 million)
15. Adele: 25 (1.190 million)
16. Adele: 25 (1.160 million)
17. 50 Cent: The Massacre (1.141 million)
18. Backstreet Boys: Millennium (1.134 million)
19. Lady Gaga: Born This Way (1.108 million)
20. Usher: Confessions (1.096 million)
21. Garth Brooks: Double Live (1.086 million)
22. Whitney Houston: The Bodyguard (1.061 million)
23. Limp Bizkit: Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (1.055 million)
24. Taylor Swift: Speak Now (1.047 million)
25. Norah Jones: Feels Like Home (1.022 million)
26. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III (1.006 million)

It always still shocks me to see how big Norah Jones was for moment there lol. 

Also want to give a special notice to EMinem since technically he should be on it again for ENCORE.  It was leaked and released early to combat that and sold 710,000 in the first 3 days---then the albums next full week/7 days it moved another 871K for a 10 day total of 1.582 million ,

[Acid Eyes]

The Adele numbers are just absurd lol. The untouchable 3.5 million is one thing... but two additional weeks over 1.1 million? And another over 800k right? If it was the early 2000s when album sales were huge, I don't think I'd blink. But for 2015? It's mind-boggling.

[Envoirment]

Apr 26, 2024 20:21:40 GMT -5 Acid Eyes said:

The Adele numbers are just absurd lol. The untouchable 3.5 million is one thing... but two additional weeks over 1.1 million? And another over 800k right? If it was the early 2000s when album sales were huge, I don't think I'd blink. But for 2015? It's mind-boggling.

Week 1 - 3,480,000
Week 2 - 1,110,000
Week 3 - 695,000
Week 4 - 790,000
Week 5 - 1,160,000
Week 6 - 307,000

5 weeks over 500k/6 weeks over 300k. It wasn't just its debut week but how it sustained itself throughout the holiday period and increasing sales in week 4 and 5 in the run up to Christmas, just amazing.

The UK numbers are just as absurd, if not even more so considering the population if 5x less than the US:

Week 1 - 800,307
Week 2 - 439,337
Week 3 - 353,765
Week 4 - 376,716
Week 5 - 449,870
Week 6 - 75,783

It was such a great time as a chart watcher!

Amazing to see Taylor get such high numbers as well. I hope one day we'll see another artist repeat what Adele & Taylor both managed to do despite doing it in a backdrop of declining album sales.

[Caviar]

Adele's NBC special definitely helped increase it to over 1MM in the 5th week.

Plus, "Hello" sold 1.1M in digital sales in its debut week breaking the record at the time. That's a record that will almost certainly never be broken.

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

Apr 26, 2024 18:54:37 GMT -5 theycallmedualian said:

anyone have a record of how many Nsync and adele's are CDs, vinyls vs itunes?

for 25:

1.71M CDs - 38% of CDs sold that week
1.64M digital albums - almost 50% of all digital albums sold that week
22k vinyls

[clsvltn]

Starting off her comeback song that was so highly anticipated with ....Hello....it's me..... was such an iconic moment. SNL did a hilarious spoof of the video as well themed around Thanksgiving

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2zyjbH9zzA

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Apr 25, 2024 12:25:57 GMT -5 👑 Eloquent ™ said:

Apr 25, 2024 11:36:04 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

I find it so funny that like people are still trying to say Taylor making "non-upbeat music" means she isn't making music that won't be replayed or revisited by people who aren't her core audience. folklore still gets good streams to this day and that album's coming in at being three years old, still being talked about.

Will TTPD have that same longevity? Time will tell but let's not act like she created this avant-garde experimental art project like The Beatle's White Album that's completeley devoid of commercial appeal. As Ling-Ling said, it's just a long Taylor Swift projeect. If you're really crying about her squandering her momentum, then about how the woman who's led the most successful concert tour of all time (even adjusted for inflation) and has had two projects open to 2M units sold in the streaming age, feel free to write about how she's somehow "not fulfilling her commercial potential"

I think there is a median here. I'm not going to say TTPD is a whole new sound and completely alternative, but at the same time it's not obvious radio fodder. This certainly isn't anywhere NEAR as accessible as 1989, Reputation, Lover, Midnights, Red etc and that absolutely can be noted and still be sensible, while also noting it isn't distinctly avant-garde.

I mean I'd argue jts a middle ground between Midnights and folklore. I would push back on there nor being any other radio singles. 

Even just looking at the first half: Down Bad, Florida!!!!, But Daddy I Love Him, I Can Do It With A Broken Heart, and My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys all have catchy hooks and melodies throughout. I get Taylor against downtempo Jack Antonoff production is getting old and I am clamoring for her to work with someone else. But both of them can still create catchy melodies even without going overly poppy. 

[HEADOFTHEPACK]

Apr 26, 2024 14:59:56 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

Republic’s Taylor Swift has notched the second-biggest album debut of all time with THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Her 31-track marvel moves an astounding 2.6m units in its opening week, knocking NSYNC’s No Strings Attached out of the #2 spot (Adele’s 25 remains the all-time #1 with 3.4m+).

Physical sales account for 1.9m of the total, with record-setting vinyl sales contributing nearly half. As we reported earlier today, Swift also set a new first-week streaming record, logging 865m streams.

Limited commercial viability.