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

[UnusualBoy]

9 minutes ago, penguintim said:

ou smashlor.....

The graphic  

[pride4jc1222]

Surprised Lover is the only other Taylor album in the Top 10. I thought we would see more Taylor albums in the Top 10.

 

One Thing at a Time is going to break that Top 10 weeks record.

[Space Cowboy]

She failed to out-debut Utada and Ayu. That's embarrassing if you ask me.

[RobynYoBank]

16 minutes ago, pride4jc1222 said:

Surprised Lover is the only other Taylor album in the Top 10. I thought we would see more Taylor albums in the Top 10.

 

One Thing at a Time is going to break that Top 10 weeks record.

TTPD sucked like 50% of the streams off all her other albums.

[Aethereal]

This the biggest opening ever for an American act actually. Since Adele is British. 

 

After heavily publicized legal battles with their former manager Lou Pearlman and former record label Bertelsmann Music Group, the group's second album, No Strings Attached (2000), sold over one million copies in one day and 2.4 million copies in one week, which was a record for over fifteen years.^[5][6]

[Loroy]

And Lover #9 almost 5 years later 

Even MJ didn't have that kind of consistency but on the other hand he took the time between albums, She just doesn't stop working even for a moment 

[Aethereal]

1 minute ago, Loroy said:

And Lover #9 almost 5 years later 

Even MJ didn't have that kind of consistency but on the other hand he took the time between albums, She just doesn't stop working even for a moment 

because streaming

[Da Vinci]

2 hours ago, penguintim said:

ou smashlor.....

Not two Taylor Swifts in the top 10

 

[Monster Queen]

2 minutes ago, Da Vinci said:

Not two Taylor Swifts in the top 10

How is this surprising? Last Christmas she has 6 in the top 10 

One month ago she had 3, now she only has 2, she is flopping actually

Edited April 26 by Monster Queen

[Loroy]

Just now, Aethereal said:

because streaming

Yep, there is no doubt that in the streaming era everything is completely different but the album still sold 15K pure this week, which is pretty crazy...

[Støned]

Wait, so did Lover surpass 1989's top 10 weeks already? I wouldn't be surprised if it manages to surpass MIDnights

[LegaMyth]

How does an artist sell 1.9 million (pure) in a single week... in any era?

[KeshaSwift]

what a legend, no words 

[mael]

There is no word to describe how big, massive, monumental etc. this is. A peak of peaks

[Enrique523]

2 hours ago, RobynYoBank said:

TTPD sucked like 50% of the streams off all her other albums.

Yeah i have to say the streaming drop for her other albums is quite nasty, i hope she'll recover soon because Evermore need to do more than what its doing right now 

[NoName]

31 minutes ago, Loroy said:

And Lover #9 almost 5 years later 

Even MJ didn't have that kind of consistency but on the other hand he took the time between albums, She just doesn't stop working even for a moment 

When MJ was smashing catalogue albums weren't allowed to chart on the Billboard 200. Unless you meant something else. MJ took years between albums and still managed record-breaking numbers. 

[Enrique523]

1 hour ago, NoName said:

When MJ was smashing catalogue albums weren't allowed to chart on the Billboard 200. Unless you meant something else. MJ took years between albums and still managed record-breaking numbers. 

And i guess you think that make Taylor's achievements not that impressive somehow right?

[Cruel Summer]

And with this incredible week, it remains true that Taylor Swift is the biggest and most consistent act in American chart history - it's clear she's on her way now to surpassing the Beatles in lifetime chart points and will easily be Billboard's 2020s Artist of the Decade. What a legend 

[NoName]

6 minutes ago, Enrique523 said:

And i guess you think that make Taylor's achievements not that impressive somehow right?

They are impressive but why compare her to stats of artists that weren't as privileged? 

[PopFan1996]

2 hours ago, Loroy said:

Even MJ didn't have that kind of consistency

MJ is not from the streaming era to have streaming units keeping up the stability on the charts. Back then, people were buying CDs until it gets saturated and most people own the CDs.. You can't compare

[Kitboga]

1 hour ago, NoName said:

When MJ was smashing catalogue albums weren't allowed to chart on the Billboard 200. Unless you meant something else. MJ took years between albums and still managed record-breaking numbers. 

Taylor in the US alone will sell around 25 million albums in this year alone, (& est. 35M in the rest of the world). Either figure will be more than what MJ sold in his biggest sales year, the whole world combined. and he only set that record in the year he died. 
 

Just stahp. 

Edited April 27 by Kitboga

[Miracle]

1.9m...how

[DoubleRainbow!]

3 hours ago, RobynYoBank said:

TTPD sucked like 50% of the streams off all her other albums.

Why is this? Is it because people are streaming the new album?

[Kitboga]

Hey, how come I don't see any efforts setting the 670k SEAs as the new holy grail? It's as unbeatable for everyone as 3.38m is. Considering sales is dead, this might as well be the only record that matters. 

[Selfloathingpoet]

wow