Discussion: How did Halsey beat Lana's debut first week?

NOW

Halsey's debut album BADLANDS is set to pull in close to 100k in pure album sales this week.

To compare, Lana's debut album Born to Die debuted with 77k albums sold.

How did Halsey manage to outsell Lana in her first week debut album release? Is there more hype surrounding her right now? Did the student surpass the teacher? Is she coming for Lana's queen of alternative throne?

What do you think?

DownBoy

This is gonna be interesting

Shamser

In b4 the mess.

Caesar

Tumblr is bigger now than it was a few years ago

BlackAura

See ya in a year making the thread why did Halsey's debut album otsold Lana's. Good luck with that.

KillingYourCareer

To be honest I don't even know

Beethoven

Rainsford

Because she is the new americana, raised on Iggy and Ariana.

Caesar

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Originally posted by ianBK4

Because she is the new americana, raised on Iggy and Ariana.

I died

chilicheese01

Neither of them makes alternative music.

Halsey has some good tracks, but her album is uneven overall. It's strange, because it seems like Lana had more buzz and sales were better back then. The only logical explanation is that tumblr is growing more powerful (which is also evident in other facets of life).

DownBoy

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Originally posted by Beethoven

SPS.

She has 98k pure sales, so no. SPS is 112k.

Dalai

Is she going to end up selling 5 million copies with this debut though? That's the real question.

Aqua

Will said album sell over 5 million tho?

Afferty

how is this even possible

has she even have a hit song right now?

i heard her name 2 days ago for the first time

NOW

Quote:

Originally posted by Dalai

Is she going to end up selling 5 million copies with this debut though? That's the real question.

New Americana is tipped to become a pop hit in coming months, so the album probably won't be dropping off the charts right away

MarryTheMonster

Isn't January a very weak month for sales compared to August?

Joyride

ask the 5SOS stans.

Luma

I don't know, maybe she has a bigger fan base?
It really isn't that hard to outsell that amount though.

Instant

No one cares. Just because more indie Tumblr hipsters decided to buy Halsey's album don't mean anything. Her album won't end up selling 5m WW. Lana wasn't big in US just like in Europe and as far as I know Halsey won't even sell 100k in Europe in the long run

JEWRJEWR

was lana ever queen of alternative? lmao

St vincent been there alone for quite some time now