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Uh, maybe a little? Vinyls brought in $1.2 billion last year. I don't know how much that has to do with Lana...is she indie-rock? Article says: Vinyl’s resurgence has been years in the making, fueled mainly in the U.S. by indie-rock fans convinced of LP’s superior sound quality and young people attracted to the nostalgia of playing records.

"About 41 million vinyl albums sold last year, compared with 33 million CDs" in 2022 says RIAA" Revenue from vinyl records rose 17% to over $1.2 billion last year, the 16th straight year of growth for the format and nearly double what it was two years ago. Vinyl albums accounted for 71% of physical format revenue, which includes items like CDs, cassettes and DVDs, and 7.7% of overall revenue, RIAA said. CD revenue fell 18% last year to $483 million. Vinyl’s resurgence is coinciding with continued growth in streaming...which made up 84% of the industry’s revenue. Source: RIAA Graph Source:RIAA Article Source: Vinyl Records Outsell CDs for the First Time Since 1987 - WSJ Are you guys buying vinyls?

The beat> On a loop

Who do we blame for Fair? Rameer? RCa for not promoting it? RCA for releasing it Brandon for hooking her up with dud production from S10 Normani Or all of the above?

Ps no shade but imo wild side is wildly overrated by her fans because it’s her last hit and her only promoted release in the past three years im starting to feel like the industry defeated her :/(

I miss fifourth harmony

I’m sorry but I’m not going to let y’all flatten Normani’s resume to be identical to Ally’s or Chloe’s. Many people can match Normani’s lows (bubble Under, top 90) but few can put together a handful of top 40s before an album like she has If Chloe had 4 top 40 hits I bet she’d have an album out. Ally or Lauren are better comparisons to Chloe in terms of where they’re at musically. Normani gets compared to Chloe because 1. they’re both black 2. Chloe wants people to compare her to Normani and it’s easy to fall into. Yet Normani has achieved more and it’s low key an insult to her in the way it’s being done Now if Normani with her handful of prior hits defended Chloe having reached success in the music industry before her w/o an album and said ‘oh it’s hard out here’ that would be appropriate, but Chloe doing it when Normani has billions more streams etc is bad faith.

One is albumless because the implication is that she has no hits. She has been on one top 40 song by 24. One is albumless DESPITE having two top tens, a top 14 and a top 30s hit, and 4 top 40s in a group. So they’ll never be in the same boat in that way or have the same reasons for having no album. It’s kind of an insult to lump one with the other. Normani’s label imprint dissolved and her management professionally neglects her, but she’s had much more musical success. There have been inconsistencies but points at which she had enough momentum musically to release an album. One has never had that momentum, is on a Beyoncé imprint after being found on YouTube, and never had the same magnitude of hit, or any big hits plural to string together.

There is typically a low correlation between engagement on twitter photo sets and single success. If her songs are not on TTH, don’t have a video, or radio campaign then that’s what you should worry you. Photo sets from the song with Megan did 100k+ and the song bubbled under.

Normani Debut a couples photo and then debut CP Thank you ?

They can’t be going through the same thing if Normani has been a part of 8x as many hits. They’re also on different labels and have different profiles so that’s a stretch. All she said is Normani is a hard worker and probably has her own set of difficulties being a black woman in the industry. Not that they’re going through the exact same thing.

Hey there! HER has or had the same management that Alicia Keys used to. I've personally never seen the rumors about her father substantiated though. Here are some other artists who released albums through RCA this year. Lucky Daye Buddy Three Day's Grace UMI Steve Lacy Black Party Blood Orange Protoje Buddy Guy Tyler Childers None of them produced or were preceded by hits.

A. This is why you have to look at how weak her representation is because most managers could have made this work. B. This is also why Chloe's situation can't be compared

What logic is this? H.E.R. - Come Thru with Chris Brown peaked at 64 yet RCA still released her album last year SZA's - I Hate You reached top 7and RCA has yet to release a follow up to CTRL Normani's - Wild Side hit top 14 ft. Cardi last year and RCA hasn't promoted anything since It has to be something other than the overall performance of their singles, otherwise SZA and Normani would have albums out before HER... (and most the other RCA album releases this year for that matter). Billboard YE charts indicate Giveon, BLEU, Summer Walker, Khalid, and Jhene Aiko are the other top R&B artists of 2021 sans big pop radio entries that year. Heartbreak Anniversary is Giveon's most successful single which peaked at just 16 in 2020 - Columbia still released an album despite nothing hitting since. Summer and Drake did a remix to her breakout single that peaked below 30 and Interscope still released her debut album. Now of course, those two are on different labels but their situation is comparable to Normani's unless you consider Normani a prisoner of her own success. She has lead credits on a top 7 hit a top 9 hit a top 14 hit and a top 33 hit and still no album. The logic is not consistent with the reality of her performance. The others have released for less, some on her own label.

No shade but Normani has achieved more musically than it seems Chloe will ever be allowed to. RCA could have released an album closer to Love Lies, DWAS, and Motivation. They could have began rolling out an album after Wild Side. They really don't have the excuses Chloe's label does. And yes, it's obvious by now that Normani is being left behind by her label and there's no one to fill in the gap on the management end. She needs a shark of a manager more than anyone else in the pop space, but she's sticking with a novice who operates like a slum lord and used car salesman.

Also, her team seems to be running a new twitter photos account (little late for that) and she goes viral off fan pages that are probably promotion bots but whatever. Engagement extends beyond her account. Look through the top posts with her name on it, not from her account

I was just looking through the top #Normani tweets recently and it struck me how cool she is seemingly with all her peers Cool with rap girls like Cardi, Megan, Doja, Lizzo, Latto Cool with the actresses like Ryan, Chloe, Cool with the models Cool with the A listers: toured with Ari, invited to every B party, Fashion for Rihanna, collabs with Calvin and Sam, pics with Billie, etc Even made up a little with the antiblack bandmate online And just contrast that to the amount of HATE Normani receives on social media from fanbases. It's weird as hell actually. There are 3 artists and fanbases driving the hate train over her brand, and I just wonder how much each artist is involved. I don't see how her godawful management can look at the way her image is treated on social media and not lift a finger to improve it. They don't care. It's just that simple.

Normani, get a new management team to revitalize your career. Plus so many people would give you another chance.

He has a school. Yikes

I feel like there’s something in between being the “next supreme” and being a Bonafide star. That’s where Normani could land if her team took her seriously or if her team were overhauled. She would be a bonafide star. We’re not in the age of supremes anymore. Thats the age when radio and tv had hegemonic control of exposure. Now that labels are racing to sign the hottest viral acts and abandoning artist development, it’s not about supremacy anymore (in terms of talent or traditional publicity). It’s about who is trendy at the moment which ultimately leads to more turnover at the top. I wouldn’t even consider Normani’s most commercially successful peers “supremes” like Summer, Megan, or Doja. Normani has embodied the aura of a star since her days in fifth harmony. It was always clear that she had something but it’s all about access.

AHHHhhhhhH looks are crazy! By the way, she's trending And her mom's on twitter telling it like it is lol

Social media knows her. A lot of the music industry knows her. But to be truly well known to the general public, she’d have to be consistent imo.

Can you imagine if Ally was landing brand deals with Nike, if Dinah was doing voiceover work for Disney, or if Lauren was sitting front row at Versace? Their fans would lap it up and rightfully so. Normani’s doing all these things and she doesn’t get proper credit. Normani is currently back in one of the world’s fashion capitals, getting inspiration for her next visual masterpiece. I like it.

I don’t know but this is a 10 Honestly, there’s this man who mentored her as a teen who hates her now because she switched to working with A-listers. he’s been subtweeting her for years so that’s where I got the idea. RCA liked her latest pic so I guess she’s still signed there. Can’t tell by current music releases. Let’s be real

Do we know for sure if Normani is still signed to RCA? @WheresJay