charts discussion Billboard: TTPD sold 1.4M pure sales first day in the US

[KingWitch]

2 hours ago, Kitboga said:

I guess there's a shot for the record, if we apply a bit of hopium… : 

 

midnights first day physicals were 620k, and ended with 1.14M physicals first week. That's a 1.83x multiplier from 1st day to 1st week. 
 

if we apply that 1.83x multiplier to TTPD: 

1.4M x 1.83 = 2.56M, then + 600K SEAs = 3.16M   
 

so depending on the boost from record store day sales and some potential tricks that she should totally use, it's not impossible..

Except im pretty sure most people that wanted the album already pre-ordered this time, the multiplier will be lower this time around. 

[Asscatchem]

is a last minute bundle with an access code to Eras encore NA leg possible

[MatiRod]

44 minutes ago, Gaia said:

Not Swifties trying to belittle Adele's monstrous 25 when it ALSO came out on the streaming era which started in 2014. She also did so without the vinyls being trendy yet or having multiple variants. No sorry, Adele's is still more impressive.

 

Adele is the only artist to sell more than 1M digital sales of a song in a week and the only artist to hit 3M+ album units in a week for a reason. No amount of delusional Swiftie logic will change those historic feats. 

25 (other than "Hello") wasn't available on streaming when it had its record breaking first week……

[Jpkun]

It's hard to interpret since they have decided to do preorders this way (once it gets to customer's door step I guess? Vs shipped). All my vinyl/cd got delivered on Saturday so I guess I wasn't counted. 

[eli's_rhythm]

4 hours ago, Ms. Togekiss said:

scorpion moved 572k units in SEA (record). I'm just being conservative in case the album has a weaker hold than 1989 tv (which had a weaker hold than midnights)

It won't. 31 brand new songs vs. like 5.

[Støned]

1 hour ago, Gaia said:

Adele is the only artist to sell more than 1M digital sales of a song in a week and the only artist to hit 3M+ album units in a week for a reason.

And one of the few albums that have multiple 1M selling weeks too..

[CaptainMusic]

I was hoping she would break Adele's record but maybe she still can if she has some tricks up her sleeve.

 

Either way amazing numbers  

 

I remember the days when I was a Britney stan and was praying she wouldn't break Britney's (old) record now a decade later she's blown past that 3 times.  

 

Her career really is for the books!

[Kitboga]

1 hour ago, Gaia said:

Not Swifties trying to belittle Adele's monstrous 25 when it ALSO came out on the streaming era which started in 2014. She also did so without the vinyls being trendy yet or having multiple variants. No sorry, Adele's is still more impressive.

 

Adele is the only artist to sell more than 1M digital sales of a song in a week and the only artist to hit 3M+ album units in a week for a reason. No amount of delusional Swiftie logic will change those historic feats. 

LOL. 1.5M of 25's first week sales were puny iTunes downloads. The cheapest and most effortless type of sales that's worth like 1/5th of a vinyl disc plus shipping. Not to mention casual listeners in 2015 would just pick up CDs in store, a long dead tradition today. Casual listeners will just stream on Spotify now to contribute their 1/15000 of a sale. 
 

 

25 had it much easier compared to TTPD under today's market. Stop trying to deny objective reality.
 

2M physical sales, with 1M+ being 50 buck vinyls, + 600K SEAs >>> 2M CD sales + 1.5m itunes sales. 


 

Edited April 21 by Kitboga

[chiliam]

Lets Adele keep that record.

Anything above 2m in 2024 is already massive massive. And hope this will serve longevity and become another diamond album for her.

[Galah]

This woman surprise released a double album at 2am on release day. You just know she's gonna have something up her sleeve at the 4, 5, or even 6 day mark to get her over the line.

[taylor__fan]

To think that after 1989 I was thinking that it was going to be werid that her biggest opening week ever was a re-release, and I wasn't sure if she was going to be able to beat that number in the future... Then she comes and does it in ONE DAY.

I'm so proud of her

[KeshaSwift]

Why do y'all care so much about Adele's record? It's not gonna be broken lmao. And that's fine

 

absolutely incredible numbers. She's such a powerhouse 

[Gaia]

1 hour ago, MatiRod said:

25 (other than "Hello") wasn't available on streaming when it had its record breaking first week……

That has nothing to do with the fact that it came out in the streaming era as well. Taylor also wasn't on streaming for years. That doesn't mean she didn't release music in the streaming era. 

[newaespa]

Release more signed copies

[Green]

3 hours ago, Aurora said:

This woman surprise released a double album at 2am on release day. You just know she's gonna have something up her sleeve at the 4, 5, or even 6 day mark to get her over the line.

 

Taylor released a 3am version for Midnights the same day of Midnights release. She already has done that, I don't think she did it thinking on Adele's record at that moment so I doubt she's just going to release more songs on day 4,5 or 6 just to get a few more streaming units that won't make a difference lol.

[Green]

3 hours ago, Kitboga said:

LOL. 1.5M of 25's first week sales were puny iTunes downloads. The cheapest and most effortless type of sales that's worth like 1/5th of a vinyl disc plus shipping. Not to mention casual listeners in 2015 would just pick up CDs in store, a long dead tradition today. Casual listeners will just stream on Spotify now to contribute their 1/15000 of a sale. 
 

 

25 had it much easier compared to TTPD under today's market. Stop trying to deny objective reality.
 

2M physical sales, with 1M+ being 50 buck vinyls, + 600K SEAs >>> 2M CD sales + 1.5m itunes sales. 


 

 

Some of you talk as if multiple artists were opening with over 3 million or even 2 million in the mid 2010s lol. We are talking about the 2010s not the 90s/early 00s

 

After Adele's 3.5 million the closest was Taylor's 1.3 million with 1989 a year before (her 1989 album wasn't on streaming neither).... There's no need to bring down what Adele did with 25, especially considering that Adele isn't a fan driven artist.

[Margaux]

shes gonna be so untouchable now. 

[liquiddiamonds]

The same people asking her to pull tricks to try a hand at the record will drag her for filth if she fails just like whenever she tried to score a #1 or remain at #1 by pushing remixes and alt-versions. I_Can__see_you.mp3

 

Let's hope that she just has another video in the vault like she had for Bejeweled when Midnights came out. Or a performance, but that's highly unlikely since she's been using her tour as her main promo stage for live performances

[Green]

33 minutes ago, liquiddiamonds said:

The same people asking her to pull tricks to try a hand at the record will drag her for filth if she fails just like whenever she tried to score a #1 or remain at #1 by pushing remixes and alt-versions. I_Can__see_you.mp3

 

Let's hope that she just has another video in the vault like she had for Bejeweled when Midnights came out. Or a performance, but that's highly unlikely since she's been using her tour as her main promo stage for live performances

 

Anyone that tries to drag a 2 million openning (no matter which decade it was done) is highly delusional lol

[brazil]

5 hours ago, Gaia said:

Not Swifties trying to belittle Adele's monstrous 25 when it ALSO came out on the streaming era which started in 2014. She also did so without the vinyls being trendy yet or having multiple variants. No sorry, Adele's is still more impressive.

 

Adele is the only artist to sell more than 1M digital sales of a song in a week and the only artist to hit 3M+ album units in a week for a reason. No amount of delusional Swiftie logic will change those historic feats. 

Its quite amusing. Also with Adele it was mostly different people buying the album, unlike Taylor who is pushed by stans buying 50 variants and streaming the songs 300 times.

[liquiddiamonds]

Just now, Green said:

 

Anyone that tries to drag a 2 million openning (no matter which decade it was done) is highly delusional lol

ATRL is highly delusional

[SwiftLover]

over 3 Million total units (Singles + Albums) from one day. 

 

[Patient Zero]

25 was a mediocre album, and this one is too.

 

Another the masses are asses situation. 

[simmnfierzig]

57 minutes ago, brazil said:

Its quite amusing. Also with Adele it was mostly different people buying the album, unlike Taylor who is pushed by stans buying 50 variants and streaming the songs 300 times.

The album has way fewer variants than most have these days and it had a tiny filter rate on Spotify 

[Hunter_13]

1 hour ago, brazil said:

Its quite amusing. Also with Adele it was mostly different people buying the album, unlike Taylor who is pushed by stans buying 50 variants and streaming the songs 300 times.

This album has less variants than what most acts have but okay. It also had very small filtered streams so no, most of her streams are organic.