2 hours ago, Doctor Dick said:

True. Some have massive organic hits on those albums as well while others have 1-week wonder inorganic #1s and tactics for bulk-buying along with not being able to hold a note.

Omg this is some next level delusion

5 hours ago, PoisonedIvy said:

Less than:

1. The Life of a Showgirl

2. The Tortured Poets Department

3. 1989 (Taylor's Version)

4. Speak Now (Taylor's Version)

5. Midnights

6. Red (Taylor's Version)

7. folklore

8. Lover

9. reputation

10. 1989

11. Red

12. Speak Now

13. Fearless

More than:

1. Taylor Swift

2. evermore

3. Fearless (Taylor's Version)

This type of completely irrelevant bragging about Taylor in a thread not about her at all is why people can't stand Swifties.

I don't get why ppl are saying his lead was a flop. It debuted at #1

Not all #1's have to spend 20+ weeks at number to be a considered a hit

1 hour ago, SleepNoMore said:

This type of completely irrelevant bragging about Taylor in a thread not about her at all is why people can't stand Swifties.

Who tf are you calling a Swiftie

1 hour ago, Lemonaade said:

I don't get why ppl are saying his lead was a flop. It debuted at #1

Not all #1's have to spend 20+ weeks at number to be a considered a hit

Those who can't get a solo top 10 these days are so loud about this.

These numbers are very good considering that there is no collaboration (with artist like Bruno Mars, Ariana Grande etc), and lead single isn't doing that great as expected!

Hope he will have longevity though! Though he probably will be busy preparing for his sold out tour.

2 hours ago, Lemonaade said:

I don't get why ppl are saying his lead was a flop. It debuted at #1

Not all #1's have to spend 20+ weeks at number to be a considered a hit

I mean, no one was asking for 20 weeks at number one. But if the song couldn't even stay 2 weeks in the top 10 then I'm not sure we can call it a hit

He did all that with a polarizing lead and will be doing an incredibly successful tour. He won

1 hour ago, Toxic Love said:

I mean, no one was asking for 20 weeks at number one. But if the song couldn't even stay 2 weeks in the top 10 then I'm not sure we can call it a hit

That's a hit. Only the chronically online who spend their life obsessing over charts and Stan wars would try to lead you to believe it's not. A #1 is a #1.

Good debut numbers but clearly this is going to be a very frontloaded era for him unless something randomly takes off organically. He probably shouldnt wait too long for his next album. Max 2 years AT MOST cuz this isnt the type of album that holds the fan base over for long unlike Harry's House.

8 minutes ago, Lemonaade said:

That's a hit. Only the chronically online who spend their life obsessing over charts and Stan wars would try to lead you to believe it's not. A #1 is a #1.

Only the chronically online would know it's a #1 to begin with so...

These are amazing numbers. He probably would've done a bit better with a more "conventional" choice for a lead single but I can never fault an artist for trying something different.

He's such a star. I need to listen to the album, I really like Aperture

So he's THE main pop boy now.

Does he have a hit on the album to carry it out?

went to the streaming thread first where they're saying its a flop and instinctively thought "that's what ATRL always says isn't it", this seems a bit more realistic

17 hours ago, PoisonedIvy said:

Less than:

1. The Life of a Showgirl

2. The Tortured Poets Department

3. 1989 (Taylor's Version)

4. Speak Now (Taylor's Version)

5. Midnights

6. Red (Taylor's Version)

7. folklore

8. Lover

9. reputation

10. 1989

11. Red

12. Speak Now

13. Fearless

More than:

1. Taylor Swift

2. evermore

3. Fearless (Taylor's Version)

Swifties STOP doing this in threads not about her. It is actually crazy. It is weird af and I don't see any other artist' fanbase do this as much.

4 hours ago, Just a Gay on ATRL said:

Swifties STOP doing this in threads not about her. It is actually crazy. It is weird af and I don't see any other artist' fanbase do this as much.

Make me

King of Pop

really good numbers - you'd think Aperture would've killed the hype a bit but it's there

Not it doing less than originally predicted

A shame he underperformed predictions, but still excellent numbers of course.

I assume he is repeating next week as well.

424k is a really solid debut. I wonder if it will have legs

It's interesting that he sold more than Harry's House everywhere except the US, but these numbers are still impressive! And he did it without alternative covers, signed copies...

On 3/10/2026 at 8:01 PM, Digitalism said:

This just proves that bubbles exist and even when everybody hates an album stans will still buy.

Exactly, and some bubbles are just bigger and yield better results than others. Ideal for a musician these days.

Amazing. The only ones beating these sales are Taylor, Adele and beyonce anyway. Such a huge accomplishment, and truly the start of 1D.