[MusicTalker]

Originally posted by Vini

The decrease was just 46%, the usual decrease is 55-70%

Or were you expecting her to outsell her first week or pull the same numbers? That doesn't happen that often...

Exactly (well, a little more than 50%). But her seond week drop is relatively soft, compared to other albums this year, where the average second week drop was 60-70%.

Her second week sales are great.

[tcatron565]

Originally posted by RudeBoy

I just bought the physical copy, damn it smells good.

Yes! I just got it in the mail today and when I opened it up, it was like a whiff of a carnival!

[love100]

tbh i don't see other huge hits in katy perry

[Mixirox2727]

I didn;'t have high expectations for GGD's album tbh, I expected them to sell about 40K. And I'm happy Disturbed is #1 for if it is only 1 week.

[Яeo.]

Originally posted by tcatron565

Yes! I just got it in the mail today and when I opened it up, it was like a whiff of a carnival!

I kept sniffing it for like an hour It smells more like gum than cotton candy, though. Actually, I didn't know cotton candy had an unique smell anyway.

And Katy's drop is just fine.

Also, my copy has the font. I thought it was supposed to be only a picture?

And it also says "Features the hit singles: California Gurls & Teenage Dream (Smaller letters: Firework & Peacock)

I guess we know what the fourth single is. LFN is probably the fifth.

The album would do just fine, and with an EP it should do better.

[Cap10Planet]

Well, Katy has an outside chance at 100k depending on how the holiday weekend goes.

[Nirvaηa]

I don't know what they're expecting, she's not Taylor Swift..

[bobbymfw]

Katy really seems proud of "Peacock" (no pun intended) but it's not really that catchy or deserving to be a single. It just sounds desperate. I hope she makes the wise choice and goes with LFN.

[Mixirox2727]

Peacock, I doubt will put her over the top. There's no way she'll reach Taylor's sales.

[NEUTRON]

Katy is no Britney Spears...whats so disappointing?

She quadrupled her first week sales this go round.

[Bibliotheque]

According to sources, EMI shipped 1 million units of the album prior to its U.S. street date of Aug. 24, which indicates that big-box retail chains like Walmart, Target and Best Buy were expecting the album to post robust first-week sales, as was Starbucks, which featured the title in its stores.

It would also be roughly in line with typical industry practice of shipping about twice as much product as anticipated first-week sales for a major album release. But prerelease shipments of "Teenage Dream" turned out to be about seven times debut-week sales.

[Яeo.]

Originally posted by Bibliotheque

Wow, so the album is already certificated Platinum. Now I suddenly see why the music industry was disappointed with the sales.

I don't think it's really anything wrong with Katy Perry. It's just that she is a Pop artist and the date is problematic.

[Vini]

Originally posted by RudeBoy

Wow, so the album is already certificated Platinum. Now I suddenly see why the music industry was disappointed with the sales.

I don't think it's really anything wrong with Katy Perry. It's just that she is a Pop artist and the date is problematic.

No.

[Яeo.]

Originally posted by Vini

No.

Yes.

EMI shipped 1 million units of the album prior to its U.S. street date of Aug. 24,

[Vini]

Originally posted by RudeBoy

Yes.

No

[Katy V.!]

lol @ this YES-NO thing

[Vini]

The album is eligible. Not certified.

So, No.

[Яeo.]

Originally posted by Vini

No

Yes.

Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies

1,000,000 units: Platinum album

according to sources, EMI shipped 1 million units of the album prior to its U.S. street date of Aug. 24

Originally posted by RudeBoy

Wow, so the album is already certificated Platinum. Now I suddenly see why the music industry was disappointed with the sales.
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[Nicole]

They clearly overestimated its 1st-week sales by shipping so many copies.

So for the sake of argument, if they had been even more bullish and shipped 10M copies, would it be Diamond?

[teeth]

Originally posted by Bibliotheque

Her drop isn't really good enough for me to think that the album will have crazy longevity or anything :-/

Especially since CG and TD will probably be the biggest hits the album will have :-/

I love her first 2 singles but her sales really are disappointing. Especially when you consider what Ke$ha debuted with earlier this year in the worst sales month with just 1 single.