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Stats: All CMP singles are GOLD | Luke Bryan The Receipts
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Wow Crash My Party outdid T&T in Canada. Time for it to do the same in the US
Congrats to Luke for winning Best Male Country Artist at the AMAs. Also him being nominated for the Artist of the Year at the AMAs, his power
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So let me catch everyone up.
So in the OP I have noted separately (so far) the amount of sales/streams Crash My Party has been tracked to date.
This past week Crash My Party sold 22,000 over the Black Friday sales
The album was also streamed 6,000 times this past week.
Also Luke's single I See You has now sold 143,000 copies
updates I've been behind on:
This Is How We Roll has sold 2,215,000 copies as of October 29th
Play It Again has sold 1,885,000 copies as of November 19th
Roller Coaster has sold 536,000 copies as of November 19th
All sources are in the OP if anyone had any inquiries about that.
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Now including Album Streams Sales!
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I'd like to make a complaint
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I know Luke Bryan has had a death in the family, a brother in law I believe. This will cause him to miss an appearance this coming week that would have given him more exposure, but family comes first, and he has made the right decision.
I am really pulling for "Play It Again" to hit 2 million, but its rate has slowed down so much. Rarely does the album's fourth release turn out to be the biggest song. Also, I would love Crash My Party, the CD/Album, to go triple platinum, but it has to reach 2.5 million first. It has been quite some time since a CD has had the lifespan at just one format, including Country, to go six songs deep. I would love to see the album go for seven or eight releases. That will be needed to get this CD up to Triple Platinum so he can match Jason Aldean's achievement.
I still blame Bryan's label for not promoting that song to AC and Hot AC when stations were already giving the track unsolicited airplay and promoting that awful "This Is How We Roll" remix in its place. The only good that came out of the remix was making "This Is How We Roll" 2X Platinum, while the far superior "Play It Again", which I think is the best Country song of 2014, is stuck at 1.9 million.
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I know Luke Bryan has had a death in the family, a brother in law I believe. This will cause him to miss an appearance this coming week that would have given him more exposure, but family comes first, and he has made the right decision.
I am really pulling for "Play It Again" to hit 2 million, but its rate has slowed down so much. Rarely does the album's fourth release turn out to be the biggest song. Also, I would love Crash My Party, the CD/Album, to go triple platinum, but it has to reach 2.5 million first. It has been quite some time since a CD has had the lifespan at just one format, including Country, to go six songs deep. I would love to see the album go for seven or eight releases. That will be needed to get this CD up to Triple Platinum so he can match Jason Aldean's achievement.
I still blame Bryan's label for not promoting that song to AC and Hot AC when stations were already giving the track unsolicited airplay and promoting that awful "This Is How We Roll" remix in its place. The only good that came out of the remix was making "This Is How We Roll" 2X Platinum, while the far superior "Play It Again", which I think is the best Country song of 2014, is stuck at 1.9 million.
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Aww that is unfortunate to hear about
Well considering Luke has sold 2245000 copies of Crash My Party and streaming will help his sales #'s (with a whopping 6,000 copies of that), he will get to 2.5 Million in no time thanks to I See You still encouraging any album buyers to get the album (so keep an eye on its sales over the next few weeks leading up to Christmas).
Currently the highest sales for each song off CMP is:
1. That's My Kind of Night
2. Play It Again
3. Crash My Party
4. Drink A Beer
5. Roller Coaster
6. I See You
What Jason Aldean achievement do you speak of? 7/8 singles from this album? I mean maybe but I would love to see a new album this coming spring (so he can stay on track for having 2 year studio album releases (not counting his yearly EPs hihi).
I didn't see AC airplay for PIA, but you saw my frustration with Luke's label since PIA was #42 without an add date on Hot AC I swear I sound like a broken record from the amount of times I've had to tell members my frustration over Luke not getting 1 song added onto another radio format. It would only make him more successful in his career, like Mainstream radio formats or something
BTW I don't think it was Luke's choice for TIHWR to get released to Hot AC/Pop tbh. ch.
We know that PIA was slaying TIHWR on country radio hence why PIA blocked TIHWR on the country charts
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No. Jason Aldean has had a Triple Platinum CD, while Bryan has reached Double Platinum twice, but not Triple Platinum. I want Bryan to reach Triple Platinum.
Of course, Aldean also had a Top Ten and a Quadruple Platinum single with "Dirt Road Anthem".
I agree it was not Bryan's choice to choose to promote the remix of "This Is How We Roll" over "Play It Again". That is why I blame his label.
All three of these accomplishments could already be met had Bryan's label went for ads on non-Country stations with " That's My Kind Of Night" and or "Play It Again".
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Basically had Luke's song been allowed to crossover, we could infact be talking about him getting near the 3x platinum mark IN SALES Its not fair
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I haven't done a proper update in a while:
Album/EP update
His Spring Break EP sold ~10,000 copies this week and ~164,300 copies overall
A while ago, the Zinepak for the Spring Break EP sold 9,200
In a recent report, Crash My Party (Album) sold 4,500 copies this past week and 2,416,000 copies overall
Songs update
For the Spring Break EP album cuts:
Games sold by April 15th 121,000 copies
Spring Breakdown sold by March 25th 52,000 copies
You and the Beach sold by March 25th 19,000 copies
My Old Bronco sold by March 25th 16,000 copies
Checkin' Out sold by March 18th 8,000 copies
As for CMP singles:
I See You sold by April 15th 505,000 copies, thus enough to go GOLD!
All CMP singles have sold Gold!
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His label is behind on certifications though. PIA has yet to be certified Double Platinum. I don't know if they're trying to wait for the streaming to allow a Triple Platinum cert like TIHWR or what. If so, TMKON and PIA would both go 3X Platinum. It's a shame neither crossed over due to inaction on the part of his label, or we'd be talking about a 3X Platinum cert for CMP album too.
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Luke Bryan should get a boost this week which will reflect on next week's charts following his EOTY win at the ACMs.
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King coming for 10M albums sold this decade. I expect sales to go down for KTL but I'm still so excited
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I wish Bryan's label would catch up on the certifications. He had at least one song pass 3 million two weeks ago. Play It Again crossed 2 million in January, and there are songs that sold and streamed less than PIA certified 2X Platinum.
But PIA is still only Platinum and neither of the last two songs from CMP were ever certified Gold. I know he has to be one of that label's biggest artists, but he sure gets the short end of the stick from them a lot of times.
Refusing to release one more song from CMP and not putting Games on this regular CD instead of a Spring Break CD where it got limited attention are still other examples of poor planning by his label.
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King coming for 10M albums sold this decade. I expect sales to go down for KTL but I'm still so excited
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Games would've been the perfect leadoff single from this full length album. Why did his label basically waste a song that good on a Spring Break CD where they knew it would get limited traction at best?
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Originally posted by brianc33616
I wish Bryan's label would catch up on the certifications. He had at least one song pass 3 million two weeks ago. Play It Again crossed 2 million in January, and there are songs that sold and streamed less than PIA certified 2X Platinum.
But PIA is still only Platinum and neither of the last two songs from CMP were ever certified Gold. I know he has to be one of that label's biggest artists, but he sure gets the short end of the stick from them a lot of times.
Refusing to release one more song from CMP and not putting Games on this regular CD instead of a Spring Break CD where it got limited attention are still other examples of poor planning by his label.
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The single certifications are only useful when the label wants to boast. As long as we get album certifications, which really matter, I'm happy.
Now that streaming affects single certifications I could care less if any of my faves had them.
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Games would've been the perfect leadoff single from this full length album. Why did his label basically waste a song that good on a Spring Break CD where they knew it would get limited traction at best?
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I don't think "Games" is single material, if I'm being honest. It's a good song and I can totally understand why he'd put it on a throwaway EP.
Btw, you need to join the Luke Bryan base! We could always use more opinionated posters!
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His selling power
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Originally posted by Eternium
The single certifications are only useful when the label wants to boast. As long as we get album certifications, which really matter, I'm happy.
Now that streaming affects single certifications I could care less if any of my faves had them.
I don't think "Games" is single material, if I'm being honest. It's a good song and I can totally understand why he'd put it on a throwaway EP.
Btw, you need to join the Luke Bryan base! We could always use more opinionated posters!
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I didn't know there was one! I'd be happy to! Is that the exact name of the thread here on ATRL?
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Luke Bryan is the biggest star in country, having sold more than 7.6 million albums (nearly 2.5m of those for his 2013 set, Crash My Party) and close to 30 million tracks
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Why can't Bie's fave be like him?
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