grandewhispers

Great numbers - consistency is key It won't match the long-term success some of her previous albums have had, but to be pulling these numbers on your 8th album is still impressive. Like others said, she relies more on stability rather than huge debuts. And even if the albums flops completely, it already has a successful lead single and the 2nd single seems to be stable so far.

Are the rest of the songs' positions THAT bad?

right?? i'm so in love with nowhere, nobody. it's so beautiful

Which songs do y'all think she wrote exclusively in a relationship perspective?

Listening to this masterpiece

It's definitely hitting harder for me but it's making me fall in love with it even more... Makes the songs and lyrics even more necessary.

Plus, the online hate discourse surely isn't helping. Maybe once the dust settles down a bit it will also help the stability, idk.

This is crazy because it's shaping up to become my favorite album by hers I guess I really can't trust the critics... I do agree some of them are probably biased with stuff beyond the music itself, but oh well.

Already is to me.

It's kinda freefalling (at least on Spotify) but it might find stability eventually. Petal (the single) seems relatively stable. The lead also had huge drops during the first 3 days and then became a big hit - so that might still happen with the album. If it doesn't, I think an underperforming album will do no wrong to her career at this point. She will be fine, she continues to be extremely successful and still pulls huge debuts. And the era still has a huge hit after all, HTIMYLM.

Bad numbers but at least Petal (the single) is looking relatively stable.

So how were the 3rd day streaming numbers, specially compared to Positions and ES, worldwide and in the us?

That's what gives me comfort.

And then I'll use the tissue when the 3rd day numbers come out as well

Let me to this to see if it finally grows on me.