official chart Billboard Charts (Week of May 11, 2024)

[Squall]

2 minutes ago, brenda-walsh said:

i really loved 30, everyone said she rehashed her work but i loved that she was very inspired by jazz and the album felt like much more of a lounge + cocktail album than just her standard piano ballads 

My wildest dreams are pretty wild too I must admit

[PoisonedIvy]

Who gives a **** about 25, she couldn't sustain that momentum whereas Taylor has continuously grown hers  Adele did the damn thing in 2015 and Taylor has been doing the damn thing for her entire career. Celebrate them both and quit fighting you inbred ingrates 

 

 

[PoisonedIvy]

3 million in 2 weeks is insane, the fact Midnights took 8 weeks to get there puts that into perspective. TS12 coming for 3M first week  

 

(jk )

[brazil]

Big flop, her stans were saying 700k lol 

[family.guy123]

WHY ARE WE STILL DISCUSSING PHYSICAL SALES IN 2024? 
 

Get with the times and talk about streaming ONLY. 

[tomo]

2 hours ago, Kern said:

Though the set declines by 83%, it still logs the biggest second-week, by units, for any album since Adele's 25 tallied 1.162 million units in its second week 

 

I just realised both albums are in sepia color. Intentional?

 

 

[Hunter_13]

Amazing numbers 

[brazil]

Jokes to get the swifities triggered aside, this is a great achievement. 

[chaklux]

Taylor success and peak right now is massive , and one for history books. She is definitely the biggest artist in this century cumulatively. However, the issue people have with the Swifties is them trying so hard to downplay Adele's peak and painting Taylor as the biggest peak ever, which is simply not true.

 

Adele 21/25 era will always remain the biggest peak for an artist in this century . Selling above 1 million in three different weeks. 17.4 million sales worldwide in just 6 weeks and 8 million in the US! . That's just crazy , and no one is ever touching that. She also slayed in the single department too. RITD, SLY, Hello are bigger than any Taylor songs . 

Edited May 5 by chaklux

[NEUTRON]

2 hours ago, family.guy123 said:

WHY ARE WE STILL DISCUSSING PHYSICAL SALES IN 2024? 
 

Get with the times and talk about streaming ONLY. 

because actual sales will always trump streaming.

 

 

[Shelter]

2 hours ago, Klein said:

No, it's the total units that went down 69%. The pure sales went down 88%. 

 

 

It wasn't in stores so it's not really the same  

 

Still decent numbers 

[Migs30283]

439K album units on 2nd week is still amazing

[naval23]

It just puts into context how absolutely massive 25 was with 3 weeks of selling 1 million+ and having the same # of 1st week sales as first 3 weeks of Poets 

[Taylena]

 

6 hours ago, brenda-walsh said:

i think this just shows how insane it was for Adele to do her first 3 weeks at 1m sales each

 

8 minutes ago, naval23 said:

It just puts into context how absolutely massive 25 was with 3 weeks of selling 1 million+ and having the same # of 1st week sales as first 3 weeks of Poets 

 

 

just highlighting these two comments for anyone who comes into this thread and believes that Swifties are trying to downplay Adele unprovoked. 

[family.guy123]

3 hours ago, NEUTRON said:

because actual sales will always trump streaming.

 

 

Let's get you to bed 

[chiliam]

3 hours ago, chaklux said:

Taylor success and peak right now is massive , and one for history books. She is definitely the biggest artist in this century cumulatively. However, the issue people have with the Swifties is them trying so hard to downplay Adele's peak and painting Taylor as the biggest peak ever, which is simply not true.

 

Adele 21/25 era will always remain the biggest peak for an artist in this century . Selling above 1 million in three different weeks. 17.4 million sales worldwide in just 6 weeks and 8 million in the US! . That's just crazy , and no one is ever touching that. She also slayed in the single department too. RITD, SLY, Hello are bigger than any Taylor songs . 

Swifties is not downplay Adele peak success, in fact no Swifties mention about her until some random THOTS hide behind Adele and bring her up to drag Taylor.

Adele`s peak is impressive, we all know that. 

But even 25 peak can be compared to 1989 peak. 25 has bigger initial sales but in the end 1989 is doing more units and has better cataloge stream/sales now.

 

So maybe Adele has bigger peak moment but Taylor longevity is more notable in this century or even all time, like i can not name any artist who can smash this hard with their 11 studio albums.

 

 

[naval23]

48 minutes ago, Taylena said:

 

 

 

 

just highlighting these two comments for anyone who comes into this thread and believes that Swifties are trying to downplay Adele unprovoked. 

When you've been making comments much before these "provoked" comments 

 

Not you exposing yourself

[Gaia]

7 hours ago, PoisonedIvy said:

Who gives a **** about 25, she couldn't sustain that momentum whereas Taylor has continuously grown hers  Adele did the damn thing in 2015 and Taylor has been doing the damn thing for her entire career. Celebrate them both and quit fighting you inbred ingrates 

 

 

"Celebrate them both" while belittling Adele to make Taylor look better. Worms for brains

[raisetheroof]

7 hours ago, Twizzy said:

Cowboy Carter went down by 69%, not 88%... You are correct about Eternal Sunshine.

Spoiler

Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter holds atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated April 20), after debuting at No. 1 a week ago, as the set earned 128,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending April 11 (down 69%), according to Luminate

 

Spoiler

Of  Cowboy Carter's second-week unit sum of 128,000, SEA units comprise 105,500 (down 53%, equaling 136.08 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs), traditional album sales comprise 20,500 (down 88%) and TEA units comprise 2,000 (down 70%).

… but why should I assume reading comprehension

[fridayteenage]

1 hour ago, chiliam said:

So maybe Adele has bigger peak moment but Taylor longevity is more notable in this century or even all time, like i can not name any artist who can smash this hard 

well, the only artist who can compete with 12 multi-week #1 albums is The Beatles. hopefully surpassing them this decade

 

Of artists with most #1 albums, multi-week:

Beatles 16

Stones 8

Elvis 8

Jay 7

Eminem 7 

Garth 7

Bruce 6

Barbra 6

Drake 5

Kanye 3

Madonna 3

Future 0 

Kenny Chesney 0

Edited May 6 by fridayteenage

[dumbsparce]

7 hours ago, Rep2000 said:

Would you say the same thing about Adele too I wonder. Stay true to your namesake I guess.

Yes I would?!!?? The **** are you talking about? 

[Lille]

Indubitably the most successful artist of our generation, she is one of one.

[Life Savers]

Billboard 200 Queen 

[Arrows]

6 hours ago, chaklux said:

Adele 21/25 era will always remain the biggest peak for an artist in this century . Selling above 1 million in three different weeks. 17.4 million sales worldwide in just 6 weeks and 8 million in the US! . That's just crazy , and no one is ever touching that. She also slayed in the single department too. RITD, SLY, Hello are bigger than any Taylor songs . 

21/25 eras is two different peaks, not one. Release month of 25 is definitely bigger than any single month in Taylor's career. But is Adele's 2015-2016 or 2011-2012 bigger than Taylor's 2023-2024? I don't think so.

[Mr. Duff]

Insane second week  

I think this album will have better legs than Midnights, it has better streaming than Midnights for the first two weeks. I hope this sustains. The album has a lot of replay value especially given how there's a lot of tracks with quality.