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Originally posted by PULSE.
No, what I'm saying is TTT and UA numbers are very underwhelming in the US and WW taking in the fact they had big hits. Which again brings us back to the point of this thread. She's selling 3M with hits, imagine what she would sell without them.
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you're really uneducated on this topic, i can tell
rated r sold just under 2 million with russian roulette and hard under its belt, the former of which started huge but fell off FAST and the latter of which was only successful in select territories (like the us) and definitely was not successful on the level of her other hit singles. rude boy didn't "save the era" like people pretend it did, it actually sold more before than it did after.
ttt had wfl which was big from september-december and whyb which had its time from may-july. ydo was overshadowed by how huge wfl was and it also was not greatly pushed, ttt was barely pushed at all, and birthday cake was successful exclusively on urban radio. the era was basically in limbo between december and may, and for that reason selling 3 million is anything BUT underwhelming.
unapologetic was on track to sell in the 4-5 million range if compared to the sales trajectories of gggb and loud, but because promotion was completely cut off for the album after february and right now did not even receive so much as a video, its sales were completely stunted at just over 3 million.
what you're doing is saying a hit is a hit is a hit is a hit, and it is NOT that way
gggb and loud had way more/bigger hits than ttt and unapologetic and DUH, they sold more. they also were more promoted and were better-handled, which factors into that being the case.
and if you look at ANY other popstar, you'd see the same thing.
