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

[AngelSwift13]

5 hours ago, Cruel Summer said:

I feel like such a clown saying this, but I think the 1m-2m range prediction is a little bit of a classic HDD lowball.

They always do that. I still think about how their initial projection for 1989 was around 600-700k and she doubled it 

[Feanor]

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Industry prognosticators are now fearlessly predicting that Taylor Swift's latest Republic rocket, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, will soar into the rarefied air of 2 million+ in first-week activity. 

 

As you probably know, the new set was expanded to 31 tracks mere hours after its arrival in an "ANTHOLOGY" edition that will inevitably supercharge the already-frenzied consumption underway by Swifties. POETS quickly blew past Spotify and Amazon Music records for single-day album streams; expect more records to be set very soon.

 

So if 2m is now considered a floor, what's the ceiling? For the time being, we'll content ourselves with reiterating that this thing is big. Very, very big.

HDD (Update 3)

 

[TayDuaStan]

https://x.com/chartdata/status/1781386002583437508?s=46&t=N3uUwnl7bgcp2T3PjWa5xw

[wastedpotential]

OH 

[wastedpotential]

Some of y'all were doubtful but it was destiny 

[ALA]

... insanity. And her projections always go up. Oh lord

[Dear Reader]

OMG 

[Sad Beautiful Tragic]

 

[eli's_rhythm]

3 hours ago, PopFan1996 said:

Double album count as 1 album on billboard.

It's RIAA that count them as 'double'

So it is not a good argument

I see this doing around 1,9-2,1M tho

It will still be getting crazy streams due to the track count which will inflate the numbers

[KatyPrismSpirit]

WOW

 

but topping adele is out the window now confirmed. 

[Squall]

The fact it's not even the first predictions and they are already saying 2M+  

[Kylie Jenner]

2M is ******* wild!!!

[KOMH]

They're lowballing I fear

[Cruel Summer]

It's DAY ONE and 2 million is officially the MINIMUM, holy **** Taylor 

 

[Yog]

Amazing, but is Adele's record safe? I don't see Taylor pushing 3M+

Edited April 19 by Yog

[family.guy123]

Just now, eli's_rhythm said:

It will still be getting crazy streams due to the track count which will inflate the numbers

Billboard needs to do something about these 30+ track playlists 

[Blood Magic]

This is massive already and I feel like it's only gonna go up from there

 

[TitanicSurvivor]

gonna pretend i'm surprised, legend moving legendary numbers

[Dear Reader]

[Klein]

2M being the absolute floor just on day 1 which is usually very very conservative is beyond crazy. 

[Arrows]

Predicting minimum 2m on the first day is insane for HDD Is it really breaking the record?

[family.guy123]

2 minutes ago, KatyPrismSpirit said:

WOW

 

but topping adele is out the window now confirmed. 

No it's not. She's beating ADELE. Don't be fooled. 

[TheArgonaut]

6 minutes ago, Feanor said:

POETS quickly blew past Spotify and Amazon Music records for single-day album streams; expect more records to be set very soon.

 

[Isaiah]

They said OVER 2m but left it open-ended beyond that, this album is clearly blowing past that mark. 

[SleepingTigers]

2 million prediction and the first day isn't even over