45 minutes ago, KatyPrismSpirit said:

it sold 3M pure copies in the US..

1.6 million

I really only like a few songs from the album. 2 of which are some of her best Love Is A Game and To Be Loved are incredible but the rest is kinda mid/boring, also the voice recordings over a lot of the tracks ruined them making them unlistenable nobody wants to hear those over and over.

Not enough people streaming. 

1 hour ago, CaptainMusic said:

True but Taylor hasn’t promoted Lover and Folklore in years yet they’re still in the Top 100.

Well yes, but Taylor's primary audience also consumes their music almost solely through streaming which is a theoretically endless “sale” metric. Adele's primary audience still tends to buy physical media which very much is a finite sales metric. 

 

This is Adele's first album in the streaming era, and she didn't adapt to that. Her emphasis remained where it always has and that was physical sales. The issue that creates for her is that people tend to only buy an album once so longer an album is out, the more it's sales go down. In streaming, a stream is a “sale” so the sales possibility is essentially unlimited which allows Lover and folklore and the like to have longevity. Notice those album’s physical sales are now incredibly low since they’ve been out for so long, but they chart well because streaming continues to carry them. 

 

30's streams on non-singles are mediocre and it's because she made no effort to get the streaming audience to stream the album. 

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OMG killed the era

We have been over this.  It is not a good album.  Let’s move on because the public sure has.  

Easy on Me was great but also didn’t expand her into new territory.

 

I think a lot of Adele’s sales came from bandwagoners who wanted their iTunes library/music choices to be seen as “legitimate”.

 

They no longer need to fake it in the streaming era though. You can just pretend you listened to the album on release week when you really didn’t.

27 minutes ago, Mr. Mendes said:

Notice those album’s physical sales are now incredibly low

Huh? Folklore sold more pure copies than 30 in US. 

She didnt even try. After the OMG video dropped, she's like "I'M OUTTA HEREEE!"

17 minutes ago, Steve Johnson said:

Huh? Folklore sold more pure copies than 30 in US. 

I didn’t say it didn’t? I said:

 

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In streaming, a stream is a “sale” so the sales possibility is essentially unlimited which allows Lover and folklore and the like to have longevity. Notice those album’s physical sales are now incredibly low since they’ve been out for so long, but they chart well because streaming continues to carry them.

 

In other words, at this moment, folklore’s pure sales are much, much lower than they were when the album was new because that’s what pure sales do over time. And yet, the album is still charting very well because streaming continues to carry it even when pure sales go down which is not happening with Adele. 

 

I never made any claim that Adele outsold Taylor. 

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1 hour ago, bad guy said:

Nobody cares about Adele in 2022. Pre-30 I wouldn't have believed it if someone said that but here we are.

She literally had a 10 week number 1 hit that easily could have been 15 weeks. 

2 hours ago, Mr. Mendes said:

Contrary to what many seem to believe, you've got to actually promote and push an album for it to sell. 

You definitely don't. 

6 minutes ago, aesthetic bih said:

She didnt even try. After the OMG video dropped, she's like "I'M OUTTA HEREEE!"

And that's not an excuse 

50 minutes ago, Mr. Mendes said:

30's streams on non-singles are mediocre and it's because she made no effort to get the streaming audience to stream the album. 

Yep, she made sure she was not releasing "music for tiktok" 

2 hours ago, KatyPrismSpirit said:

it sold 3M pure copies in the US..

Girl, it's at 1.6m right now. It sold less than Folklore, an abandoned era that didnt even have a single 

No fats no longevity. It's giving giving Katy's black hair.

because she gave up on it

 

but her hyde parks could give it a boost. its weird they left OMG out to dry like that and hope they release CIGI but the window might have passed on that one

And yet, 30 probably outsold that album by that 2013 relic in its first week alone.

 

Also...

 

 

It's getting tiring.

Easy On Me only get you so far i fear

how much did melodrama sell against 30 tho? exactly

2 hours ago, Badgalbriel said:

And that's not an excuse 

Idk, I feel like she could've promote more 

I Drink Wine hasn’t released as a single. 

6 minutes ago, aesthetic bih said:

Idk, I feel like she could've promote more 

Artists of Adele's caliber don't have to promote, girl. 

1 hour ago, Katamari said:

because she gave up on it

Not an excuse. If the music was good, people would be streaming it. 

Can't release the same album 4 times and expect them all to stick