5 hours ago, pieuxvu said:

15th week vs 2nd week 

 

200k to 20k in one week? So 2k in 2 weeks?

are you 11? very concerning behavior  

For comparison with recent pop albums

 

2nd week total:

Lover - 1,045,000

Hollywood's Bleeding - 687,000

After hours - 582,000

Chromatica - 329,000

Manic - 296,000

Rare -150,000

Romance - 119,000

Future Nostalgia - 104,000

 

 

Edited June 10, 20206 yr by mcohen

8 hours ago, LewisK said:

Which other artist has had to completely erase her album existence the day after it dropped? Like, really.

 

I'm not expecting Chromatica to be a smash neither ever claimed it to be so, but OGHs are doing the most on this woman 

Eminem

Drake

Future

 

26 minutes ago, mcohen said:

For comparison with recent pop albums

 

2nd week total:

Lover - 1,045,000

Hollywood's Bleeding - 687,000

After hours - 582,000

Chromatica - 329,000

Manic - 296,000

Rare -150,000

Romance - 119,000

Future Nostalgia - 104,000

 

 

Except most of the above had promo going on, a working website, open stores and a stable nation that wasn’t plagued by a massive health crisis and violent riots. 

 

Lover though  

Imagine without ariana, kpop, and bundles "RePEakIng!!"

4 hours ago, lightstheyblindme said:

chile ROM is #1 right now what are you saying

No it's not, it dropped four places to #5. "Rockstar" is #1 right now.

Lil baby's album had 20 tracks plus a 6 tracks bonus deluxe edition reissued on the first of May.

 

 

I wouldn't be surprised if Gaga's team re-releases the album with more tracks in the upcoming months since they did it with Rare.

Ok, so this is bad in the context of how Monsters legitimately call this kind of performance bad to every other artist. If anybody else debut #1 and fell to #5 on their album release week, Monsters will be the first in the thread. If anybody else primarily got boosted by bundles + your top streams come from heavy collaboration support, Monsters will be the first to point out the other album cuts / solo songs are absolutely bombing. If only one song was keeping an album afloat, Monsters will highlight that instead of now saying things like “Rain On Me” will keep Chromatica T10.

 

So yeah, in that context it’s bad. Because the fanbase has said it themselves about everyone else.

 

Personally can’t stop playing the album, but would like to add that despite the pandemic/riots it’s not like this album was primed to be gigantic or anything. Stupid Love was not doing good well before COVID shutdown and it isn’t wrong to realize why Rain On Me and Sour Candy will carry this album to a certification.

 

But this is fine for her. Lady Gaga peaked a very long time ago. BTW went from 1.1 million to less than 200,000. Artpop, Joanne and now Chromatica will “only” be Gold. She doesn’t have a string of huge, classic hits - only from her debut. She was apart of a huge freaking musical movie, that wasn’t gonna warrant 2010 slayage pandemic or not. ROM and maybe if she can manage another hit will carry this fine, though.

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The album was delayed and re-started with Rain On Me already, why are monsters talking about another re-start? 

 

Rain On Me dropped 1 spot again on Apple Music btw

AM US - #20

 

11 hours ago, Caesar said:

Selenas and Camilas  

Those drops are actually standard for pop girls. 62% and 66% are not bad. 

11 hours ago, eduxedu said:

well if this is good than monsters should stop saying that eil (59k) and homecoming (57k) are flops since both did more than chromatica second week 

 

Umm nice to know those figures. I’ve never understood why monsters continue to call Homecoming a flop. 

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It’s not that bad tbh, it’s expected. It only looks bad if you focus on the fact that it had two top 5 hits but SL was not exactly an enduring hit. 
The streams will stabilize but it is obvious that the longevity of the album relies solely on ROM and Sour Candy. Both songs need to keep pulling numbers, as of now they contribute to half of the streams of the entire album. 

I wasn’t expecting Lil Baby to block the biggest pop star 

13 hours ago, slw84 said:

Lil baby has promo in his 15th week?

 

 

I fell out 

Well it's over  

 

Hope ATRL is finally happy 

i think the numbers are still decent?

Best selling female albums of the year (with added predictions of this week)

 

1. BILLIE EILISH | WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? 734,000
2. HALSEY | MANIC 689,000
3. JHENE AIKO | CHILOMBO 552,000
4. DOJA CAT | HOT PINK 500,000
5. TAYLOR SWIFT | LOVER 465,000    
6. DUA LIPA | FUTURE NOSTALGIA 456,000
7. SUMMER WALKER | OVER IT 453,000
8. LADY GAGA | CHROMATICA 433,000
9. SELENA GOMEZ | RARE 418,000
10. MEGAN THEE STALLION | SUGA 394,000
11. LIZZO | CUZ I LOVE YOU 391,000    
12. BILLIE EILISH | DONT SMILE AT ME 355,000    
13. CAMILA CABELLO | ROMANCE 345,000

Welp atrl got their wish I guess. Considering she will be 2 this just shows the state of the industry right now 

1 hour ago, wehan6 said:

i think the numbers are still decent?

Ofcourse those are decent sales considering everything, OGHs are just THIRSTY to drag since their narrative prior to the album release are in shambles

disappointing. I thought #1 was in bag as there was no big albums coming.

damn  if she would’ve done more first week then the 80% drop would be cool but she did a measly 274k. to drop 80% from the lowest of lows is just...yikes!

2 minutes ago, littlebodybigheart said:

damn  if she would’ve done more first week then the 80% drop would be cool but she did a measly 274k. to drop 80% from the lowest of lows is just...yikes!

is 274 measly?   most of the top ten is selling under 1k this week. Let's be humble. 

Not that great the second week number, but the 2-week total is still great

 

1 hour ago, infrared said:

is 274 measly?   most of the top ten is selling under 1k this week. Let's be humble. 

the people that are really doing well are doing over 300k+. harry styles and billie are deadass doing 300k+, harry doing over 400k. literally harry styles. even eminem that’s been around for decades now. and i didn’t even mention the post, drake, taylor and company because it just wouldn’t be a fair comparison.

 

these sales are on par with halsey and katy perry. 274k isn’t horrible for her since that’s what she’s been doing for a while but the way they amp her up on here you’d think she’d be doing more than harry styles and billie’s debut album.

 

and then to drop 80% from that already low number...is not good!

 

Edited June 10, 20206 yr by littlebodybigheart

2 minutes ago, littlebodybigheart said:

the people that are really doing well are doing over 300k+. harry styles and billie are deadass doing 300k+, harry doing over 400k. literally harry styles. even eminem that’s been around for decades now. and i didn’t even mention the post, drake, taylor and company because it just wouldn’t be a fair comparison.

 

these sales are on par with halsey and katy perry. 274k isn’t horrible for her since that’s what she’s been doing for a while but the way they amp her up on here you’d think she’d be doing more than harry styles and billie’s debut album.

 

and then to drop 80% from that already low number...is not good!

 

Girl Witness debuted with 180k, 100k less. That's certainly not on par, especially when 162 of came from pure sales. 

The way you guys keep making up the false narratives. You're comparing her to artists who are in their peak or rap artists who have a significant advantage to pop artists. You realize it's the 5th biggest sales week this year despite literally everything it has going against it. 

 

A) She postponed the era once and only had promo the week before the album after a terrible first single 

B) She shut down her store 3 days into the sales week, cancelled all interviews and press, Target and Walmart closed a majority of physical stores due to lootings and protests (or they were already closed because of COVID)

C) Harry's base is literally the streaming demographic, having his breakout era. His bundles include a massive tour date and he was able to promote significantly more. 

 

like you guys keep having unrealistic expectations for someone who at this point has posted more about political issues than the actual album she just released 

 

All of those selling less than 1,000. I know it's streaming era but it's still so unfair.

31 minutes ago, infrared said:

Girl Witness debuted with 180k, 100k less. That's certainly not on par, especially when 162 of came from pure sales. 

The way you guys keep making up the false narratives. You're comparing her to artists who are in their peak or rap artists who have a significant advantage to pop artists. You realize it's the 5th biggest sales week this year despite literally everything it has going against it. 

 

A) She postponed the era once and only had promo the week before the album after a terrible first single 

B) She shut down her store 3 days into the sales week, cancelled all interviews and press, Target and Walmart closed a majority of physical stores due to lootings and protests (or they were already closed because of COVID)

C) Harry's base is literally the streaming demographic, having his breakout era. His bundles include a massive tour date and he was able to promote significantly more. 

 

like you guys keep having unrealistic expectations for someone who at this point has posted more about political issues than the actual album she just released 

 

billie was literally a new artist when she debuted with 300k+, halsey is not a rap artist either. and i said i wouldn't put her in the same league as post and drake (the rap artists you mentioned) or taylor (that isn't at her peak either way). like i said, if little monsters weren't amping her up like she's this success monster then nobody would be dragging. but all this talk to not even compete with people like harry, billie and halsey is just crazy.

 

a) who's fault is it she released a terrible first single? and we both know the era was delayed because she thought she'd have greater commercial success. it just backfired.

 

b) like i said, she could've released her album on schedule. she chose to believe that COVID-19 wasn't gonna be a thing by this time and she took her chances. that being said, i would believe you if you told me the pandemic was a factor in all of this but even with her previous album when she did promotion, interviews, stores were open and yada yada yada, she still wasn't able to sell over 300k first week. so i honestly don't have any indicator that with all of that she would've done better.

 

c) so what's gaga's demographic then? cause if you told me she's more of a digital/pure sales artist then i'd believe you but those aren't great either. and she has a bundle as well, which reminds me that she still hasn't given her fans their money back for those tickets that are 100% going to be rescheduled/cancelled just so they could count towards the first week.

 

300k opening week for a major popstar isn't unrealistic. literally anybody that has any bit of a fanbase + gp support is doing it. and we're expecting more because little monsters had us under the impression that she was this big sales + streaming monster.