29 minutes ago, Starshine said:

Rennie

 

121k CD 
43k Digital
26k Vinyl
142k Streaming
-332k debut

 

I kinda see Cowboy Carter doing

 

70-90k CD (2 box sets, but maybe people find 2 sets more appealing than buying all 4 Renaissance sets)
50k Digital (this era is doing well digitally)
50-60k Vinyl (more variants)
150-160k Streaming
-320k to 360k range 

 

CC has 4 CD variants plus 2 box sets. Stock left rom Reddit 2 days ago: CD 🤍: 46935 CD 💙: 21095 Box Set CD 🖤: 33503 total, sizes have differing amounts Box Set CD ♥️: 28578 total, sizes have differing amounts

act ii: First Week Predictions

 

232K - satellites™

250K - Matangi

275K - sillycilla

300K - Armani?, Cbreezy, Jai, futuresuperstar2023

305K - PrettyHurts

315K - QueenB

320K - Starshine

330K - Lovett

335K - trainsskyscrapers

345K - Burn, luxurious, suneclipse121

350K - Massive_Teardrop, Beyle Street, ReneighIsHere

360K - Tripthelight

365K - Hallad173, Jon Snow, Aristotle

366K - kimberly

370K - Erotica

375K - Lose My Breath, YellowRibbon, BGKC

385K - cuteboyzay

388K - benyonce

392K - Rafael

397K - Slamless

400K - Devin, QueenDiva, Havoc, SoundsandSongs, Punch, Mr. Specialist, Bey’Knight

401K - Redporus

404K - ShouldersSideways

410K - ToraeGilt

412K - Kristie Kuwa 

415K - Kalmanta

420K - SashaDevachelli

425K - pieuxvu

440K - V$

444K - Crayzik, OnMyCoolJ

450K - MrPiggyMoka, gisellecarter4, Space&Time

475K - cloudbusting

515K - Blue Rose

540K - PrudenceHCharmed

550K - Chris, Mitsouko 

 

Spotify Global Artist Charts (today):

 

#10 Ireland

#12 UK

#12 The Netherlands

#13 Belgium

#15 South Africa

#20 Australia

#26 Norway

#27 Sweden

#27 Iceland

#30 Switzerland

#30 Denmark

#33 Austria

#40 France

#45 Germany

#45 USA

#48 Israel

 

 

I feel like this tells the whole Story. Bey is comparatively speaking bigger in Europe than in the US

It’s a lot of discourse for something that is out of her/her team hands imo.

 

All they can truly control is promotion of physicals which they seem to do better than Ren cause they’re not limiting it as much as they did with Ren. Everything else will come down to if the album/music connects with the GP. That will determine if it will do 300K-400K+. The hype is absolutely there though. She’s everywhere in a way that she wasn’t with Renaissance. She, the transition to country, and the album are discussed constantly on TV. TxHE is everywhere (yes even in the US). Longevity will come down to the GP connecting to the material. 

 

If there’s a visual film this time around, that would certainly help.

Edited March 16, 20242 yr by FSXP

26 minutes ago, benyonce said:

The tour felt huge there when I was travelling around, far bigger than it did for the FWT. I think there would be more demand for an Act II tour there than there would be another in the US right now.


Can someone from the US please update the stock numbers? 

I just did on the last page, at least for the vinyls, and in the CC thread I updated all of it yesterday

From yesterday that I posted in the CC thread

Quote

 

Box Sets  - They had to have added inventory, because they were lower before

 

(RED)

 

S: 1,421

M: 7,226

L: 6,804

XL: 8,746

XXL: 1,852

 

(BLACK)

 

S: 372

M: 9,503

L: 8,661

XL: 9,630

XXL: 3,876

 

 

CD

 

White: 46,608

Blue: 20,623

 

 

Vinyls that I posted an hour ago

 

 

Quote

Available

 

Blue: 17,544

Red: 13,640

White: 12,012

Black: 44,474

 

28 minutes ago, Devin said:

act ii: First Week Predictions

 

232K - satellites™

250K - Matangi

275K - sillycilla

300K - Armani?, Cbreezy, Jai, futuresuperstar2023

305K - PrettyHurts

315K - QueenB

320K - Starshine

330K - Lovett

335K - trainsskyscrapers

345K - Burn, luxurious, suneclipse121

350K - Massive_Teardrop, Beyle Street, ReneighIsHere

365K - Hallad173, Jon Snow, Aristotle

366K - kimberly

370K - Erotica

375K - Lose My Breath, YellowRibbon

385K - cuteboyzay

388K - benyonce

397K - Slamless

400K - Devin, QueenDiva, Havoc, SoundsandSongs, Punch, Mr. Specialist, Bey’Knight

401K - Redporus

404K - ShouldersSideways

410K - ToraeGilt

412K - Kristie Kuwa 

415K - Kalmanta

420K - SashaDevachelli

440K - V$

444K - Crayzik

450K - MrPiggyMoka, gisellecarter4, Space&Time

475K - cloudbusting

515K - Blue Rose

540K - PrudenceHCharmed

550K - Chris

 

360K 

@Art-Hive: Do you LOATHE these constant updates on charts and vinyls and do you miss ranking her hair?

 

Asking for a friend

 

I’ll go with 375k 

 

Her monthly listeners are at an all time on Spotify and her direction into country seems to be peaking more interest than her move into dance/house. Ren didn’t have anywhere near the same amount of media attention as she does now, so it’s safe to assume she’ll pull better numbers this time compared to act 1. 

23 hours ago, swissman said:

HELLO! A QUESTION!!!!!
 

 

What are some writers out there who have written about Beyoncé's style before that you like?
Or writers about style that would write well about her?

bumping this

I'm also worried about how Parkwood will go about picking the next single.

 

Renaissance was a MESS in that regard.  

 

Heavy playlisting Summer Renaissance > ignoring Alien Superstar > trying to push Church Girl > finally jumping on Cuff It

 

392K... she'll start the week lower than that and will reach this after holding nicely throughout the week

Double whatever I said the last time

 

7 minutes ago, Red Velvet said:

I'm also worried about how Parkwood will go about picking the next single.

 

Renaissance was a MESS in that regard.  

 

Heavy playlisting Summer Renaissance > ignoring Alien Superstar > trying to push Church Girl > finally jumping on Cuff It

 

they should select the most single worthy track thats picking up the most steam. it worked for CUFF IT

 

+ every artist does this now in the streaming era.

10 minutes ago, Red Velvet said:

I'm also worried about how Parkwood will go about picking the next single.

 

Renaissance was a MESS in that regard.  

 

Heavy playlisting Summer Renaissance > ignoring Alien Superstar > trying to push Church Girl > finally jumping on Cuff It

 

The Church Girl push was really... sth. Like it was serving detached from reality on a GRAND scale

 

2 minutes ago, Mitsouko said:

Double whatever I said the last time

 

oh wow 550K?

 

17 minutes ago, swissman said:

bumping this

dont want this to go unnoticed.

 

are u saying style in her music or fashion?

Baby, all she did was air a Verizon commercial at an event that was NOT even her MAIN audience.

 

Yall are about to get a wake up call lol.

 

The state of the world in general right now is different, RENAISSANCE gagged me lowkey, but that could mean she is gonna outdo the one before like Bday and DIL.

1 hour ago, Devin said:

act ii: First Week Predictions

 

232K - satellites™

250K - Matangi

275K - sillycilla

300K - Armani?, Cbreezy, Jai, futuresuperstar2023

305K - PrettyHurts

315K - QueenB

320K - Starshine

330K - Lovett

335K - trainsskyscrapers

345K - Burn, luxurious, suneclipse121

350K - Massive_Teardrop, Beyle Street, ReneighIsHere

365K - Hallad173, Jon Snow, Aristotle

366K - kimberly

370K - Erotica

375K - Lose My Breath, YellowRibbon

385K - cuteboyzay

388K - benyonce

397K - Slamless

400K - Devin, QueenDiva, Havoc, SoundsandSongs, Punch, Mr. Specialist, Bey’Knight

401K - Redporus

404K - ShouldersSideways

410K - ToraeGilt

412K - Kristie Kuwa 

415K - Kalmanta

420K - SashaDevachelli

440K - V$

444K - Crayzik

450K - MrPiggyMoka, gisellecarter4, Space&Time

475K - cloudbusting

515K - Blue Rose

540K - PrudenceHCharmed

550K - Chris

 

425k

444k

11 hours ago, sillycilla said:

There are plenty of smash hits in the streaming era with mid first week sales. I’m honestly confused as to how you all expect differently. 

This wouldn't apply to Beyonce-- who is a legend with an established fanbase. The interest for the album is absolutely there. You are also underestimating the impact the RWT had, so to think she's gonna do less than Ren does not make sense. She's MUCH bigger now then she was in 2022. 

Edited March 16, 20242 yr by Havoc

26 minutes ago, satellites.™ said:

Baby, all she did was air a Verizon commercial at an event that was NOT even her MAIN audience.

 

Yall are about to get a wake up call lol.

 

The state of the world in general right now is different, RENAISSANCE gagged me lowkey, but that could mean she is gonna outdo the one before like Bday and DIL.

I think you could be right

317,296

 

2 hours ago, Kristie Kuwa said:

Just checked: music comsumption is indeed by 5-10% lower on Easter Friday and Saturday than on comparative weekends. We are ******.

 

let me change my prediction to 302k instead of 412k 

Beyonce is an outlier. You also have to factor in the conversations this album is going to generate. People will be talking about it at family functions and everything.

 

She's not some pop star dropping a 22 track album with generic songs.