Maybe I'm delusional but I think UK sales are going to be high. I feel like 85k seems low for US estimates but maybe I just don't fully understand what sales are like in US

I wish they did different covers for their vinyls, they'd have easily made thousands of more sales.

Edited August 15Aug 15 by WERKER

2 minutes ago, WERKER said:

Maybe I'm delusional but I think UK sales are going to be high. I feel like 85k seems low for US estimates but maybe I just don't fully understand what sales are like in US

I wish they did different covers for their vinyls, they'd have easily made thousands of more sales.

I'm actually quite surprised by their UK numbers? I don't think we've had a girl group do numbers like this here since Little Mix. I don't think even 5H had this level of popularity here.

4 minutes ago, WERKER said:

Maybe I'm delusional but I think UK sales are going to be high. I feel like 85k seems low for US estimates but maybe I just don't fully understand what sales are like in US

I wish they did different covers for their vinyls, they'd have easily made thousands of more sales.

85k is practically double of last year's EP, it's higher than I expected tbh (but idk how reliable nora is?) I doubt they'll pull huge sales in the UK + there's quite a few other (actual full length) releases this week too.. if they wanted to maximize #s they also could've added the single droplets from this year per example they seem pleased with where they're at

Bel Air is so cute. Overall I enjoyed this EP. This type of music lands outside of my comfort zone so as an outsider I don't get the hate these girls and their music get all the time, people sometimes take things way too serious

1 minute ago, okgo said:

85k is practically double of last year's EP, it's higher than I expected tbh (but idk how reliable nora is?) I doubt they'll pull huge sales in the UK + there's quite a few other (actual full length) releases this week too.. if they wanted to maximize #s they also could've added the single droplets from this year per example they seem pleased with where they're at

For a group that already gets payola allegations, I'm so surprised that there was no radio deal for Animal during the first week….

Now they're sabotaging a potential #1 by not adding the droplets to this + unloveu

6 minutes ago, The Prophecy said:

For a group that already gets payola allegations, I'm so surprised that there was no radio deal for Animal during the first week….

Now they're sabotaging a potential #1 by not adding the droplets to this + unloveu

at least get a deal for this week since you bothered with the tth #1 but today's pop update was practically the same as yday

Just now, okgo said:

at least get a deal for this week since you bothered with the tth #1 but today's pop update was practically the same as yday

If BBH100 hadn't removed YouTube Streams, we'd be sitting here with 3 top 10s now

36 minutes ago, WERKER said:

Maybe I'm delusional but I think UK sales are going to be high. I feel like 85k seems low for US estimates but maybe I just don't fully understand what sales are like in US

I wish they did different covers for their vinyls, they'd have easily made thousands of more sales.

85k+ is really good for an EP. Also it's are a really great upgrade since BC numbers (44k). I think they are really competing for the #1 for the BB200.

I don't know about the UK numbers and as of the variants they have 3 diff.covers for cds, plus inviduals version and Vinyls

25 minutes ago, okgo said:

85k is practically double of last year's EP, it's higher than I expected tbh (but idk how reliable nora is?) I doubt they'll pull huge sales in the UK + there's quite a few other (actual full length) releases this week too.. if they wanted to maximize #s they also could've added the single droplets from this year per example they seem pleased with where they're at

I'm not saying they're bad / saying I'm unhappy with the numbers I just thought they'd be slightly higher based on the the amount of vinyl variants, CDs and other physical formats which have been released.

I myself have bought 9 copies, the 5 members versions, 2 vinyls and 2 of the UK exclusive cassettes. They haven't included randomised photocards with the UK physicals (so they can count towards the charts) so if multiple people bought multiple versions then I do think UK numbers could be impressive for a 5 song EP but regardless they're doing amazing over here without having had a major UK chart hit yet.

this mini is kinda excellent for their standards

Animal is the only real chop for me

31 minutes ago, Velvet said:

Nora saying it could do more, we need the HYBE payola now more than ever

The EP should've been all in the vein of ROTY Up and Hootie SOTY, no1curr about the generic radio fodder. do we live in a post-braincells world or no

13 minutes ago, The Prophecy said:

Nora saying it could do more, we need the HYBE payola now more than ever

like can they take full advantage of the fraud reputation for once

(I still think this prediction feels a bit too high tho? )

..but see now this is what pisses me off why are they giving fans hope with this stuff

https://x.com/DkslDanon/status/2088656630497857886

This EP is so cute and fun. That Way is a huge bop.

Love being Gen Z because I'm on the perimeter of their target audience which lets me appreciate their #youthfultunes

Edited August 15Aug 15 by KKW

have they announced an opening act for the tour yet? will it just be random/local artists for each date? a labelmate? nobody?

also could they include some sort of solo version of Iconic by Mistake? cuz it's pretty popular? but they didn't perform it on these last two headlining festival sets and like, they could finally remove the Monster High song or a SIS track for it...

it's insane how basic daniela looked during the SIS era

like they really turned her from a brandy melville model to a standout star

That Way kinda growing is it? and that bel air is definitely there for a sack of being there imo. objectively not bad for their standard but hootie fruitti is one of their best song and good that thread seems to agree with that.

But I was told they wouldn't hit 100K?

"HYBE/Geffen's KATSEYE is tracking to an opening of 120-140K on the next HITS Top 50. The six track set will land at #1, with pure sales driving the total"

https://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/charts/katseye-wild-sales-projections-2026

"KATSEYE will always win in the end. Why?"

2 hours ago, kendoll2001 said:

But I was told they wouldn't hit 100K?

"HYBE/Geffen's KATSEYE is tracking to an opening of 120-140K on the next HITS Top 50. The six track set will land at #1, with pure sales driving the total"

https://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/charts/katseye-wild-sales-projections-2026

"KATSEYE will always win in the end. Why?"

are their predictions usually accurate?

See this is the prediction that I was expecting. I knew 85k seemed too low. 120k with an 5 song EP is crazy!

You've got some fans that'll collect every variant, buy multiples to get specific photocards etc.

Katslay potentially doing these numbers with an EP in the middle of a boycot and extreme hate campaigns

8 minutes ago, WERKER said:

See this is the prediction that I was expecting. I knew 85k seemed too low. 120k with an 5 song EP is crazy!

You've got some fans that'll collect every variant, buy multiples to get specific photocards etc.

Katslay potentially doing these numbers with an EP in the middle of a boycot and extreme hate campaigns

We need the UK numbers

6 hours ago, The Prophecy said:

are their predictions usually accurate?

Yes

130k and a #1 for an EP by a girlgroup is ******* great. so happy for them