charts discussion Pop Emergency: Ed's new album debuts with 15.9M streams; only 3/18 songs charting

[cat1867]

The album is actually good and not annoying like his others.

 

Its sad what happens to artists that never nurtured a strong fanbase. GP will drop an artist if they don't keep delivering hits.

[Dula Peep]

[By the Water]

Lavender Haze outdebuted 

[Taylor fanboy]

FAD OF 2016

[State of Grace.]

42 minutes ago, By the Water said:

Lavender Haze outdebuted 

 

 

Almost 3M less than Lana with more songs, TTH and x10 the playlist reach, promo, etc. Even his small cult following vanished 

[family.guy123]

5 hours ago, Bethenny Frankel said:

dear god...he should pack it up and start a family I guess then

 

He has one.

Edited May 6 by family.guy123

[Shinning]

[ChrisTheLoner]

Being dropped by the GP cuz he never built a strong fanbase

 

The male Katy Perry

 

Edited May 6 by ChrisTheLoner

[Lady Claire]

A mess but knowing Ed, be ready cause he'll do whatever it takes to get a smash with something of this album. Not sure if it'll work but he's just starting 

[its_britney_bitch]

Not Buzzjack jumping me because I dared to call Ed’s new album a flop  “it’s not a flop it’s an underperformance!!11!!!1!”. He has 6 songs in the top 200; every song from his last album made the top 30. It’s a ******* flop!

[Steve Johnson]

Curtains is a smash thou. 

[Mitsuki]

[Smarticle]

4 hours ago, drivers license said:

Charlie Puth i guess

Didn't he recently release an album that bombed too

[Zaynsus]

It's probably just the GP not connecting to his new music, when he comes back with the hits, he'll start smashing again. He's out there selling out stadiums and arenas for his tour, I don't think people dropped him.

[More Than A Melody]

Ed had a fanbase with + and X but steadily lost it with his following releases. His fanbase is now the GP. This album made no noise so the GP doesn't even know it exists to push it along, and he doesn't have a fanbase, so who's gonna stream it or buy it? That's why it's important to always build both. The same thing would happen to Bruno Mars if his next output didn't make noise, but I doubt that's gonna happen. I remember writing something very similar about Katy a few years ago.

 

The difference is that Ed was appreciated by the public and he can still sell out stadiums like it's nothing. So if his next album does make noise (a big single will do that, like it happened with Shivers and Bad Habit), then he'll go back to selling well. And this probably has to do with the fact that Ed is a musician with an ear for hooks and Katy relied more on having the hot producers to work for her. 

[Raspy]

his familia

[iknowplaces]

Curtain.

[Katy V.!]

I didn't even know he had an album out

[Safe&Sound]

He really subtracted his streaming numbers

[Theluckyone]

Really flopped. Even the thread on his floppage is flopping on ATRL.. 

[Blade Runner]

6 hours ago, By the Water said:

Lavender Haze outdebuted 

I can't believe this artwork. It's like he's still living in 2017. 

[brenda-walsh]

what is going on?  its not like he even faced backlash or anything, its just bombing on its own 

[MonsterNavy]

I user to pray for times like this

the most basic white man to ever exist

[Marry Illusion Glory]

These streams are ABYSMAL

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 7 by Marry Illusion Glory

[fridayteenage]

5 minutes ago, Marry Illusion Glory said:

These streams are ABYSMAL

 

 

 

 

 

 

i don't think 70s on metacritic is a critical failure...