charts discussion HDD: Adele 833k (biggest debut of the year), Taylor 165k

[allforyou]

I'm not an Adele stan but even I'm embarrassed  800K would be fantastic numbers for everybody else but for her it’s… underwhelming. Before the era started I was expecting her to do 2.1M (which seemed reasonable to me since it would be a 1.3M drop from 25).

[fridayteenage]

27 minutes ago, Cruel Summer said:

Yeah, at the very minimum this clearly establishes them as the current big three in the US. I can't even remember last time someone who isn't one of them saw 800k off the top of my head.

sps era, they're the only ones with even 700k points, per ukmix:

25

reputation

views

lover

folklore

scorpion

 

I wonder if sales prediction will go up while streaming prediction will go down.

[Tylerbv]

Great sales  

 

OMG and TBL will give it legs too

[RobynYoBank]

15 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

The more I read the worse it gets... 300k SEA is NOT happening 

I was curious about that number...it seems unlikely, unless it's performing much stronger on AM than we assume. But I would think it would do over 500K physicals, so maybe she'll make up for it elsewhere.

[Sesame]

32 minutes ago, Kool_Aid_King said:

Omg y’all lying in here. These are bad numbers. 77% decrease from 25!!!!

Literally. These are ABYSMAL for her standards. All that promo and those expectations only for her to flop 

 

I guess a lot of her fans died in the past six years or something since geriatric seems to be her primary fanbase.

[Ampersand13]

I think the numbers will gradually increase over the next couple days. I was thinking just north of 1 million which is probably not happening but could, who knows. Either way, these numbers are legendary as are Taylor's as are Drake's. We love multiple artists who are slaying the game 

[brenda-walsh]

not a pop emergency 

[Daddy]

That's why I didn't get my flop faves vinyl earlier? 

 

 

[Synchronicity]

Why are people bringing up Taylor Swift in every single Adele thread? They are both successful artists, if you go to almost all the Adele threads, the chart predictions, Spotify thread and even her album discussion thread, half the posts are about Taylor Swift and her fans arguing with Adele fans, it’s so off-topic. She only releases every 6 years let her fans enjoy this moment.

 

OT: she is not flopping, her sales have just dropped back down to earth, before it was unreachable numbers and she was selling like it was the 90s, this just confirms that sales are truly dead for everybody and no one buys albums anymore. 

[slw84]

323 members.

Lemme favorite this eventual iconic thread.

 

Mama Adele STILL slays and Tay wins the day.

 

Adele has the benefit of easy on me not being hello sized big so that her next 3-4 singles can have its moment and carry the era to an eventual 3rd diamond certification.

 

Giving Shania's Up! era teas.

[Cap10Planet]

9 minutes ago, DreamGlow said:

her fans are confident that prediction might increase to 3M   

 

That's not what he meant. He's saying that these are the preliminary numbers and they COULD go up. Not necessarily to 3 million. Stop being stupid.

[TheFameCurse]

Poor swifties- they ****ing tot. A few more months and 30 will outsell Folklore + Evermore all together. 

[Wondy Lust]

8 minutes ago, Starkboy said:

the swifties anger and obsession is very concerning. they make you think Adele has just come for their fave. like wtf? it reminds me of their hatred against Katy, but that was somehow understandable. Now they just don't like the fact another popstar is selling.

It's simple really.

 

1. trolls/OTH use Adele to bait low IQ Swifties

2. low IQ swifties fall for it and try to drag Adele

3. then actual Adele stans are bought into it and try to drag Taylor

4. constant back and forth.

 

 

meanwhile High IQ stans of Taylor and Adele watch the shitshow, knowing perfectly well they're both icons. 

[Assassin]

9 minutes ago, Brando said:

I'm almost convinced the positive reviews were paid for. Like how do you give an album that has dead-eyed, soulless songs like I Drink Wine, Hold On, and Love is Game each of which just drags and drags absolutely nowhere for nearly 7 minutes.... and then also has absolutely cringe uptempo attempts like Cry Your Heart Out and Can I Get It a positive review like 90 or even 100. This album is a 6/10 at the absolute max

Why are you always in Adele threads? Get a hobby.

[Toxicity.]

The narrative went from wait for the monster streaming numbers to wait for the pure sales to BUT THE SWIFTIES

[kawk]

23 minutes ago, Juanny said:

Here we goo… *issues first WP*

[Brodie]

I'm disappointed... I was hoping that one more person could do 1M+ after Reputation, and that Adele would be the one to do so... I hope that HDD's estimates are lower than the final numbers like just they were for Red 

[Diarrhoea]

4 minutes ago, Cz! said:

Great numbers!

 

Wow, I did not know that Folklore was the catalyst for Billboard to change their stance on cheap chart manipulation tactics! Interesting.

No, Folklore was just one of the last to use chart manipulation tactics and was rushed out so it could x

[Pop]

Didn't they produce over 800K vinyls alone? 

 

"They shipped it but it got shipped back." teas 

[PopFan1996]

Anyone who thinks this is bad is delusional 

Those are factually great numbers and probably the last time we will see an artist getting closer to 1M without BUNDLES.

 

[ineedboxinggloves]

Omg 324 members?

 

These numbers are extremely impressive I can’t at some users acting as if it’s not 

[Kyoto]

c'mon Adele

[By the Water]

10 minutes ago, Starkboy said:

the swifties anger and obsession is very concerning. they make you think Adele has just come for their fave. like wtf? it reminds me of their hatred against Katy, but that was somehow understandable. Now they just don't like the fact another popstar is selling.

Are you really gonna pretend that this came out of nowhere? 

[Brando]

I thought she'd be doing these numbers with her next project. She wouldn't even get close to 500k next time

[Swirl900]

36 minutes ago, Kool_Aid_King said:

Omg y’all lying in here. These are bad numbers. 77% decrease from 25!!!!

It's a massive tank omg. Literally selling like 3-4x less than 25 first week