HDD final numbers: 'Midnights' vs. 'SOS' for #1 – only separated by 200 (!) units

[PopFan1996]

5 minutes ago, Headlock said:

You have again failed to answer why Taylor isn’t allowed to be #1, or how this is in any way petty  Do you understand what that word means? Have Taylor and SZA ever interacted for there to be any context to this other than both artists seeing an opportunity to be #1, which happens constantly. When has artists needing to “let” others’ albums get more weeks at #1 than them ever been the way the music industry has operated?

 

And SZA is older than Taylor 

young in the music industry! 

[georgechxng]

SZA fighting to keep a black female at #1 despite desperate attemps to take her out of the top, we love to see it 

[ToMmY]

I'm sick of Taylor but I hope she blocks that homophobic rat. Let me stream Midnights.

Edited January 6, 2023 by ToMmY

[simmnfierzig]

12 minutes ago, PopFan1996 said:

Didn't Midnights already spend like 5 or 6 weeks at #1? While SOS spent only 3 weeks at #1. Plus this is her first ever #1 album of her career. She's black, young and new in the music industry. I am sorry but  I think this move was her pettiest move ever. Very n-asty from her. No excuse here. Let other artists shine. And that extra week at #1 she will get won't even be organic and we all know that

Midnights has 5 weeks and this would the 4th week for SOS. Very unlucky timing for Midnights, given how much bigger it is.

 

And the difference was only 6k in the early prediction. Not like SZA was cruising to an easy #1 

 

 

[Clauss]

21 minutes ago, PopFan1996 said:

Didn't Midnights already spend like 5 or 6 weeks at #1? While SOS spent only 3 weeks at #1. Plus this is her first ever #1 album of her career. She's black, young and new in the music industry. I am sorry but  I think this move was her pettiest move ever. Very n-asty from her. No excuse here. Let other artists shine. And that extra week at #1 she will get won't even be organic and we all know that

Ok PopFan1996

[Cesar]

21 minutes ago, PopFan1996 said:

Didn't Midnights already spend like 5 or 6 weeks at #1? While SOS spent only 3 weeks at #1. Plus this is her first ever #1 album of her career. She's black, young and new in the music industry. I am sorry but  I think this move was her pettiest move ever. Very n-asty from her. No excuse here. Let other artists shine. And that extra week at #1 she will get won't even be organic and we all know that

this

[Reflektor_Creep]

Go SZA! 

[Headlock]

48 minutes ago, PopFan1996 said:

young in the music industry! 

[WildHeart]

1 hour ago, PopFan1996 said:

It was all organic and no fraudulence in sight

Too bad it is not anymore. 

 

1 hour ago, PopFan1996 said:

And that extra week at #1 she will get won't even be organic and we all know that

So much for "i only support the artists i like, i don't care about Taylor's performance" 

[family.guy123]

Are the clocks available outside USA? Don’t want to support a homophobe 

Edited January 6, 2023 by family.guy123

[pride4jc1222]

1 hour ago, Cloröx said:

You all weird, back in 2010-2015 we all celebrated when pop girls went all out with promo. Nowadays, it's all "Petty, so desperate..!!!"

 

 

Our consumption habits of music has changed since the first half of the 2010s. During those years, streaming wasn't mainstream. But now that streaming is the main form of consumption, those sales tactics are totally unnecessary.

[Cloröx]

17 minutes ago, pride4jc1222 said:

Our consumption habits of music has changed since the first half of the 2010s. During those years, streaming wasn't mainstream. But now that streaming is the main form of consumption, those sales tactics are totally unnecessary.

??? Billboard still count sales, and it's legit and legal so?

[spree]

why does Taylor need to pull gimmicks AGAIN to be #1?

[B-Luke]

Yes SZA love this energy

[Karla Cabello]

sza 

[MEGA]

On 1/3/2023 at 6:21 PM, Hot Volcano said:

Historically, January always had the LOWEST album sales during the digital era, and now you are telling me this girl is pulling 46k pure sales in her 11th week in freaking 2023 ?

 

How is this NOT suspicious?! Call me an obsessed hater, delusional, psycho, I dont care, bring it on, but who the **** is still buying this album? Almost 50% of its total activity from album sales

 

I mean, if these are legit sales and not something her stans keep pulling week after week, then this is hands down the biggest female album since 25.

easy Taylor using that dam black card to purchase her album 

[Katy V.!]

1 hour ago, Cloröx said:

??? Billboard still count sales, and it's legit and legal so?

It's not only odd that ATRL is suddenly switching from "only sales matter" to "selling your music is actually fraud" in under 3 years, but they're using it against Taylor, like she isn't also the most streamed female artist  It's embarrassing at this point.

 

Anyway, still rooting for SZA to make the AOTY race more interesting.

[Ger]

3 hours ago, ToMmY said:

I'm sick of Taylor but I hope she blocks that homophobic rat. Let me stream Midnights.

What, gays love her, what are you saying.

[Thelightiscumin]

4 hours ago, Green said:

 

SZA released it too late though. Taylor had the whole day

Even if SZA released it 5 days earlier she wouldn’t win, she is not a big seller. Also her streams are going down so Taylor can have next week too.

 

3 hours ago, PopFan1996 said:

Didn't Midnights already spend like 5 or 6 weeks at #1? While SOS spent only 3 weeks at #1. Plus this is her first ever #1 album of her career. She's black, young and new in the music industry. I am sorry but  I think this move was her pettiest move ever. Very n-asty from her. No excuse here. Let other artists shine. And that extra week at #1 she will get won't even be organic and we all know that

Yes, Taylor is petting and she likes playing the game that’s why she still relevant. Plus how could having an extra week make SZA shine, instead of whining her team should put the work. Promote of Radio (they already missed a #1 song), release videos, promote….Not every young artist is guaranteed success specially when they don’t put in the work…

[Thelightiscumin]

13 minutes ago, Ger-55 said:

What, gays love her, what are you saying.

SZA tweeted something homophobic 10 years ago. Something like “I want to genetically program my baby to be a girl. I am tired of seeing so many gay black guys”

[Brishka]

15 minutes ago, Ger-55 said:

What, gays love her, what are you saying.

Gays also love Nicki Minaj. Some gays have zero self-respect. 

[Planet Mars]

24 minutes ago, Brishka said:

Gays also love Nicki Minaj. Some gays have zero self-respect. 

The irony of white gays screaming "HOMOPHOBIC" over that one SZA tweet yet clamoring to praise women like Paris Hilton as "gay icons" despite far more disgusting commentary on gay men will always be perplex me

 

SZA isn't homophobic and you as well as anybody else knows that, simmer down babe.

Edited January 6, 2023 by Planet Mars

[spree]

1 hour ago, Thelightiscumin said:

SZA tweeted something homophobic 10 years ago. Something like “I want to genetically program my baby to be a girl. I am tired of seeing so many gay black guys”

10 years ago? 

[Thelightiscumin]

4 minutes ago, spree said:

10 years ago? 

Her tweets and opinions are generally messy and uneducated, she also tweeted anti vax stuff 2 years ago. 
 

 

[Brishka]

1 hour ago, Planet Mars said:

The irony of white gays screaming "HOMOPHOBIC" over that one SZA tweet yet clamoring to praise women like Paris Hilton as "gay icons" despite far more disgusting commentary on gay men will always be perplex me

 

SZA isn't homophobic and you as well as anybody else knows that, simmer down babe.

 

I don't care if they are white, black or purple. Both Paris and SZA are homophobic trash.