charts discussion HDD: 'TORTURED POETS' to debut at #1 with 2.60M units | 1.92M pure sales & 671k SEA

[greeneyedsoul]

Come on HDD, don't be shy. 

 

 

[Nova_23]

HDD is unsure of what to make of the slayage 

[Cruel Summer]

8 minutes ago, Nova_23 said:

HDD is unsure of what to make of the slayage 

There's a small but real chance that this is actually true 

[PopFan1996]

9 hours ago, CaptainMusic said:

840k

 

Really puts into perspective how big her decline was. 

What decline? 840k in 2021 is insane.. Especially considering she doesn't even have a big fanbase.

[liquiddiamonds]

39 minutes ago, PopFan1996 said:

What decline? 840k in 2021 is insane.. Especially considering she doesn't even have a big fanbase.

People just say anything. Adele just failed to have momentum after Easy on Me and didn't transition as well from sales to streaming. EOM is the only thing that kept that album afloat. It's still the highest female debut after every Taylor release since then. Nothing to look down upon

[family.guy123]

12 minutes ago, liquiddiamonds said:

People just say anything. Adele just failed to have momentum after Easy on Me and didn't transition as well from sales to streaming. EOM is the only thing that kept that album afloat. It's still the highest female debut after every Taylor release since then. Nothing to look down upon

On Spotify she's the 58th most streamed artist of all time with … 71 tracks. Does anybody above her have less than that? 
 

She's transitioned fabulously. 

[liquiddiamonds]

Just now, family.guy123 said:

On Spotify she's the 58th most streamed artist of all time with … 71 tracks. Does anybody above her have less than that? 
 

She's transitioned fabulously. 

Context matters, we're speaking about albums released already during the on-going streaming era. We all know her catalogue does great. Back in the digital era Adele could score multiple worldwide hits from one project and she didn't with 30. That's what killed the era. Easy on Me did what it had to do, but there was nothing left to hook audiences past that in the long run. There was little streaming interest on the album overall. Then on top of that her promo schedule was super weird. 

[Renan90]

 

NEW RELEASES: SWIFT UPS THE ANTE

With expectations already sky-high for Taylor Swift's THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, the Republic megastar upped the ante when she decided to drop a secret double album at 2am on Friday. Based on first-day activity, it is clear that TTPD will debut north of 2m units, surpassing incredible opening weeks from 1989 (Taylor's Version) and Midnights to become Tay's biggest debut of her career.

 

By even the most conservative projections, TTPD will shatter the first-week streaming record held by Drake's Scorpion for nearly six years. The 31-track Anthology is projecting to more than 800m first-week streams, with upside. Scorpion opened in July 2018 with 746m on-demand plays. All-in first-day U.S. streams for TTPD topped a quarter of a billion while the album set a global record at Spotify with 314m opening day listens.

 

TTPD will be Swift's seventh album to open at 1m+ and the third over 1.5m—the latter figures all occurring within the last two years. Not too shabby.

 

Taylor Swift, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT (Republic) 2m+
Pearl Jam, Dark Matter (Monkeywrench/Republic) 55-60k

 

https://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=340907&title=NEW-RELEASES%3A-SWIFT-UPS-THE-ANTE

Edited April 20 by Renan90

[Squall]

So they don't want to try  

 

Your thread will get merged with the one opened on... Tuesday  

Edited April 20 by Squall

[Feanor]

Quote

Taylor Swift, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT (Republic) 2m+

2 million. (HDD)

[Taylena]

THAT'S IT?  

[Hunter_13]

So same numbers from yesterday 

[wastedpotential]

Oh yeah they're scared to budge from that 2 number... I wonder why

 

800M streams also seems quite conservative to me mostly because I want to hit 1B 

[greeneyedsoul]

A bit more specific please

 

[Carry My Heart]

The way it's gonna keep rising throughout the week 

[family.guy123]

If she hasn't already done enough to break the record, Taylor will do whatever it takes to get it done this week using whatever tricks she has ready. She's had over 2.5 months of presale data available to her, you think she's just going to see what happens? Nah, she's got this planned out. 

[UnusualBoy]

I doubt it will get to 3 million but hope it does 2.5-2.7 to pass NSync

 

And I was doubting she was gonna pass the 2 million part a few months ago 

Edited April 20 by UnusualBoy

[shookspeare]

2m+ leaves lots of room for growth 

[Dear Reader]

Go girl give us nothing @HDD 

[georgechxng]

that's weird. don't they have direct access to real data? the numbers from 1st day should be more than enough to give them a range and some sort of "nearly spot on" projection. 

Edited April 20 by georgechxng

[TROPICUM]

are y'all not seeing that 2m +

it's gonna increase throughout the week

 

 

 

[Nico Robin]

2B here we go

 

[Maroonx]

C'mon Swifities, new challenge, try to beat N*SYNC's 2.4m number... do your diligence x 

[byzantium]

Soooooo….they have no actual data?

[Squall]

1 minute ago, byzantium said:

Soooooo….they have no actual data?

They are tired of being wrong on first predictions so they decided they wouldn't try this one out