charts discussion Top 50 Albums YTD (HDD)

[getinthezone]

5 minutes ago, liberalmusiclover said:

Only 13 albums that did over 1M and 2 albums over 2M. 

 

WITH streaming.  I guess the content this year just wasn't what the GP wanted.

 2017 and 2018 didn’t look much different, neither did 2016 other than Adele 

[KillingYourCareer]

1 minute ago, iHype. said:

What do y'all remember cause the numbers have actually been pretty similar...

 

 

2019 will end up pretty similar to 2018. Only the #1 is gonna be low compared to past standards.

 

A market like UK has numbers that are actually getting considerably lower -- probably due to their idiotic streaming weighing with albums.

Uh, it's probably the top 2-3 being much stronger back then having this effect

[iHype.]

1 minute ago, KillingYourCareer said:

Uh, it's probably the top 2-3 being much stronger back then having this effect

Well yeah... 21 & 1989 as the point of comparison. Two albums ranked in Billboard's all-time top 10 albums.

 

A year like 2013, where there wasn't an anomaly album holds up exactly similar to 2018 including the top 2.

[KillingYourCareer]

1 minute ago, iHype. said:

Well yeah... 21 & 1989 as the point of comparison. Two albums ranked in Billboard's all-time top 10 albums.

 

A year like 2013, where there wasn't an anomaly album holds up exactly similar to 2018 including the top 2.

The problem is that the five weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas would boost the sales a lot. It's not like that anymore, so we'll be stuck with relatively low sales at the top.

[Thuggin]

6 minutes ago, SkinnyGaga said:

Taylor doing the same single sales as Ariana despite being in her flop era

also lovers streams are doing really decent compared to what everyone thought she’d do, I wonder if she can get to 1.3ish before the year is over 

Taylor released three singles and one promo single - all pre-album. Ariana only released two singles this year and only one was pre-album.

[Armani?]

31 minutes ago, FAME. said:

INDIGO R&B ALBUM OF THE YEAR

STREAM IT LIKE RIHANNA GIRLIES 

R&B deserves better.

 

The only one R&Bish higher is Khalid.

 

2 albums in the top 40 3 if you're grasping at straws with XXXTENTACION's album

 

 

[iHype.]

3 minutes ago, KillingYourCareer said:

The problem is that the five weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas would boost the sales a lot. It's not like that anymore, so we'll be stuck with relatively low sales at the top.

Hollywood's Bleeding is gonna finish around 2.75-3m, and Billie will do around 2.25m. 

 

And the lack of a Q4 boost is replaced with albums having much more longevity in the streaming era. The first few weeks just don't make up as large ratio to the overall total anymore.. which I don't think is necessarily bad. 

[NMiguelCosta]

Let me be CNN and say that Lover is in a strong 4th place.  

[Mariano]

21 minutes ago, HolyYoursTruly said:

But I thought A Fad Is Born stomped on MemePG Ariane Big's TUN? What happened?

Did you think it stomped in the USA or WW? That matters, because if you thought it stomped on TUN WW, then you were correct dear  

OT: Congrats to the top 10  

Edited November 4, 2019 by Mariano

[Rev8]

Billie being twice in the top 20


surprised Drake isnt higher

[HolyYoursTruly]

3 minutes ago, Rev8 said:

Billie being twice in the top 20


surprised Drake isnt higher

And with an album from summer 2017 too  She's become so huge on streaming so quickly

[liberalmusiclover]

Indigo has like 40 songs and still could pull 1M? 

[NewRihannaStan]

This list just stinks. Music was pretty blah this year tbh

[Mitchell]

56 minutes ago, HolyYoursTruly said:

But I thought A Fad Is Born stomped on MemePG Ariane Big's TUN? What happened?

ASIB release date was October 5th, 2018

 

50 minutes ago, HolyYoursTruly said:

The soundtrack was released at the end of last year and was heavily promoted in 2019.

ASIB had two televised performances in its entirety 

 

[mcohen]

Taylor 

 

2 hours ago, Thuggin said:

Taylor released three singles and one promo single - all pre-album. Ariana only released two singles this year and only one was pre-album.

It's really irrelevant but the only difference between Lover and TUN is that the third single was released a week before, not on album release week 

 

So Lover didn't really have this drastic advantage. It was also released 6 months after 

Edited November 4, 2019 by mcohen

[Thuggin]

6 minutes ago, mcohen said:

Taylor 

 

It's really irrelevant but the only difference between Lover and TUN is that the third single was released a week before, not on album release week 

 

So Lover didn't really have this drastic advantage. It was also released 6 months after 

TUN (single) was released two months before 2019 and promo single Imagine was released one month before 2019 so those sales aren’t included and there’s still a 70k difference, so that’s not nothing 

[mcohen]

23 minutes ago, Thuggin said:

TUN (single) was released two months before 2019 and promo single Imagine was released one month before 2019 so those sales aren’t included and there’s still a 70k difference, so that’s not nothing 

This really should have been your initial argument and not the "But but, Lover had 3 singles and a promo single before release day" one that made no sense 

Edited November 4, 2019 by mcohen

[Ivan_brit]

Ariana & Billie x2 at the Top 50

 

Post album already #1 that was fast!

 

Khalid   Jonas Brothers & Lizzo coming for Top 10