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Chart News: Final: PRISM sells 287k; almost matches the predictions
Member Since: 4/21/2011
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Originally posted by SebaMonster
Not when the improving artist still fails to sell more than the declining artist.
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The "declining" artist's album hasn't even leaked yet, how do you know that Katy failed to outsell her ? Are you perhaps a prophet ?
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Member Since: 5/6/2010
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Kind of disappointing. I was expecting at least 500k, to be honest.
But it might be higher than anything RIhanna's ever done, so 
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Member Since: 12/16/2008
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Originally posted by CakeLike
Sis born this way sold over a million first week, so technically its about a third. Also even without the amazon deal Gaga still sold over twice as much as this. Its a bad first week compared to Born this way no matter how you look at it. And this is in the US, katys strongest continent  |
But unlike Gaga, Katy will see an increase of almost 50%, which is ironic because that's the same % that Gaga will see but in decrease 
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Member Since: 4/12/2008
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I just can't at the Katy fans saying this is an improvement because of a 100k raise to an already mediocre debut.  she's supossed to be big now, she's a girl with 9 #1 hits. After the Bad era, MJ had a #1 album that stayed on top for 4 weeks and sold 7 million in 2 months, Katy can't even sell 500k.
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Originally posted by Eternium
BTW had more promo than my fave has done in almost a decade. Your argument would be stronger if BTW actually had a lack of promo.
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Even Rihanna does more promo than Britney so, let's not.
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Originally posted by atrlster
But if we want to be fair and treat TD like BTW, then that would mean a 99 cent discount too  |
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Originally posted by Я×R
and BTW wouldn't have reached 2XP either if we remove those $0.99 copies from Amazon
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TD:TCC was also sold at 0.99 in Amazon.
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Originally posted by sGabe4
BTW had 5 (FIVE) singles
so obviously people are gonna see some parallels
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It only had 2 singles after the album release, you can't expect it to stay in the charts by itself.
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Member Since: 10/10/2011
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Originally posted by CakeLike
But weren't her fans saying shes the biggest pop star in the world. Weren't they claiming she's bigger than gaga now? Yet she is only going to manage Miley cyrus numbers and basically about a quarter of born this way sales. I don't understand why aren't people buying her album
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What does her being or not the biggest popstar in the world has anything to do with the topic in hand when we are clearly talking about US first week album sales. 
If you really expected huge numbers considering she has never been a big first week seller then you are clearly delusional. You all cling to "But the "massive" promo!!1111" when in reality she has never been that kind of artist that people rush to buy their albums as soon as they hit the stores. Doing promo and hit singles doesn't guarantee AMAZING album sells, it depends on the artist, so I'm happy shes getting great promo so she can best her first week sales, which she's clearly gonna do. Longevity is her strongest point, so I hope she can maintain that.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Originally posted by Ryan
She is the biggest pop star in the world. She has 5 #1 singles from one album. Teenage Dream is almost triple platinum. "roar" went platinum in 2 weeks, dethroned the song of the summer and is still doing well.
Why does her success bother you? She accomplished an almost 300K debut with no trickery, no apps, no special promotional rate. She told 192K last album. This is a MAJOR improvement. Stay mad though.  |
Biggest pop star in the world yet can't even get 500,000 first week, ok sis. It's funny cause her fans were coming for Gaga with her first week sales, and now it's hitting them back twice as hard.
Also no special promo rate? Sis pepsi were giving out roar literally for free as a means of special promo, don't tell me you actually believe what you just wrote.
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Member Since: 2/6/2010
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Originally posted by Nicole
Decent #s but never in my life have I seen this much time, effort, money and talent being invested into someone as basic as Katy Perry. This bitch is coming off the most promoted era of all time with billions of AI not to mention a movie devoted to how awesomely relatable and talented she is, she has a safe, eager-to-please-everyone image and music professionally engineered for the masses, she has 200M+ AI from Roar alone, her "cure cancer and buy Prism" radio ads have been nonstop all month, her TV commercials for Walmart aka the biggest music retailer in the US have been nonstop all month, iTunes even gave her a countdown to Prism on its front page all month, every radio station literally dropped everything all day yesterday and made it Katy Perry Day…and she's struggling to hit 300K? Total media saturation: radio, TV, print, billboards…and she's struggling to hit 300K?
I mean: http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=448414 |
The lack of mercy
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Originally posted by CakeLike
Sis born this way sold over a million first week, so technically its about a third. Also even without the amazon deal Gaga still sold over twice as much as this. Its a bad first week compared to Born this way no matter how you look at it. And this is in the US, katys strongest continent |
While you're busy worrying about katy's numbers ,you might want to grab an atlas to better "express youself"
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Member Since: 6/1/2010
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I can't wait for Monsters' reactions if ARTPOP sells less. 
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Member Since: 2/26/2006
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Originally posted by SebaMonster
Not when the improving artist still fails to sell more than the declining artist.
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Well we'll have to wait until the end of their runs to see who sells more because first week sales can't really tell what will happen in the end.
There are so many examples of albums which almost half of their total sales came in the first week
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Member Since: 7/22/2010
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You don't own my album but, do what you want, what you want with my body of work.
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Member Since: 12/22/2009
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Originally posted by Amaru
lol @ the katy stans saying only the monsters were predicting high for PRISM, when even Bill Werde (Billboard Editor) had a personal prediction of 500k first week, just a couple weeks ago.
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She's such a ****ing joke omg
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On one hand, I want it to flop so hard and for ARTPOP to win in this sales battle.
On the other hand, it's a generally nice album and I want it to do well.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Let's see if it really has the longevity like her fans say. 
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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The sad thing about this thread is how well the Katy fans are taking it and how upset Monsters are
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Member Since: 5/13/2011
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Originally posted by Nicole
Decent #s but never in my life have I seen this much time, effort, money and talent being invested into someone as basic as Katy Perry. This bitch is coming off the most promoted era of all time with billions of AI not to mention a movie devoted to how awesomely relatable and talented she is, she has a safe, eager-to-please-everyone image and music professionally engineered for the masses, she has 200M+ AI from Roar alone, her "cure cancer and buy Prism" radio ads have been nonstop all month, her TV commercials for Walmart aka the biggest music retailer in the US have been nonstop all month, iTunes even gave her a countdown to Prism on its front page all month, every radio station literally dropped everything all day yesterday and made it Katy Perry Day…and she's struggling to hit 300K? Total media saturation: radio, TV, print, billboards…and she's struggling to hit 300K?
I mean: http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=448414 |
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Member Since: 1/7/2012
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Originally posted by UnusualBoy
But unlike Gaga, Katy will see an increase of almost 50%, which is ironic because that's the same % that Gaga will see but in decrease
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Yeah and relatively if Artpop does 50% of BTW it will still have around 200% of PRISM first week.
You need to look objectively at sales otherwise even Ciara can be shown as better seller than Gaga
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