iHype.

We need a new global hit QUICK

Again -- it's almost like the album that did 5x more first week should have higher total sales Much higher proportion of its total sales were in the first week(s) though. That's literally what frontloaded is. Having the highest pure sales week in history and now selling 1k pure a week in less than 1 year is literally an unprecedented frontloaded run.

Going from 4 million to 20k is more frontloaded than going from 850k to 10k. This is objective.

Which still is not what frontloaded refers to. An album that debuts with 1 million first week and charts for 5 weeks total is less frontloaded than an album that debuts with 20K first week and charts for 4 weeks total using your logic. Frontloaded refers to how absolutely fast sales collapsed after first week, not by the total weeks charting.

Why do y'all keep directly comparing chart runs with pre-streaming albums... A Gracie Abrams album has more weeks charted than LOUD, Born This Way, Dangerously in Love, and every Britney album. 30 had a worse chart run the TLOASG, but frontloaded is relative to a debut. If an album is selling 10K second week after debuting with 100K, it is not "more frontloaded" than an album selling 11K after debuting with 1 million simply because its selling less. TLOASG still hasn't doubled its first week in total numbers, and selling 20k weekly at this point after debuting with 4 million is more frontloaded than Adele selling 10k weekly at this point after debuting with 850k.

Doing 39k first week after a huge #1 was still a bomb. It showed Unholy did not give a new fanbase and if anything further turned off existed fans. Mind you, the Gloria album also had a deluxe version with Stay With Me/Not the Only One/Too Good At Goodbyes/How Do You Sleep/Dancing With a Stranger tacked on Billboard gives the streaming units to whichever album with a song has the highest pure sales that week. Unholy + 5 other past smash hits resulted in 23K streaming units first week.

The random lives they put on your feed with guys purposely showing their print the entire time

Ofcourse, but as decades go by just as what happened to Eartha Kitt, their fanbase gets smaller and they become more of a "relic" in time. I wonder if in 50+ years many pop girls will face the same fate and a just few stans from their time + a few later on ones will be the ones single-handedly keeping their legacy alive.

To put this into perspective I wonder if in 50-60 years Beyonce/Gaga/Rihanna/Katy/Adele/etc's labels will release random compilations with an unreleased song or two and nobody will care but a few random old gay stans online while the young ones laugh at them and act confused Could very well be a possibility, crazy how time changes everything

Being annoyed someone isn't being torn apart enough for flopping really encapsulates the misery/bitterness on this forum

Say you were born in 2010 without saying it

Jacquees def peaked with B.E.D. (all-time classic) and Your Peace

There's actually so many careless small things that annoy me with this release Why was Morning Dew, a BEY era song tacked on this let alone the single Why is she using the Renaissance/Cowboy Carter font on the back for the tracklist. USE THE B'DAY FONT Why remove songs that were previously on the album for an "ultimate anniversary edition"

Okay so clearly I was right she wasn't working on some elaborate B'Day Anniversary for 4 years + that this collab doesn't exist and was simply a database error.