[Gui Blackout]

Ariana is **** so she derserve **** numbers.

[Monster Boy]

Ms. Grande's new album is being launched with a marketing push that ties together her coming live performance on MTV, her music videos and new ads for Target Corp. and Apple Inc.'s Beats Electronics LLC, according to Charlie Walk, executive vice president of Republic Records.

Welp.

But her numbers aren't that bad tbh.

[RoarRiteNow1]

Kii at Shake It Off not beating Roar's first-week sales. Queen Katy STAYS winning

[MusicTalker]

Originally posted by Cap10Planet

"I predicted 400-500k

I'm so shocked, though. She's a MUCH bigger star than she was last year + Problem sold 4x as much as The Way first week. How did this mess happen?"

ATRL is such an alternate universe from the real world.

Yeah, 400-500K wasn't happening.

I predicted 250-300K though.

[katyperryismylife]

Originally posted by RoarRiteNow1

Kii at Shake It Off not beating Roar's first-week sales. Queen Katy STAYS winning

WANEGBT sold 623K during its first week. Stop.

[Cap10Planet]

Originally posted by MusicTalker

Yeah, 400-500K wasn't happening.

I predicted 250-300K though.

Ariana was never doing it, people.

[satellites.™]

Originally posted by Nialler

Katy's album sold 6.5M.

Nah son.

[Praise Mariallah]

Originally posted by Cap10Planet

150k is what I would have given her with or without promo. Compare her to Rihanna, Katy, Ke$ha, etc. around this time in their careers, and it's about the same or damn close. She's right on par with them.

Or just compare her to her actual peers, Demi Lovato/Selena Gomez. Demi opened with 110k her last album and Selena did around 100k.

Ppl on here overestimated Ariana's album selling power due to her iTunes movement, but they forget that tween white girls can easily push iTunes whereas album sales and especially longevity are completely different. One, two, three top 10's does not a Taylor/Miley make.

Ariana did a lot of promo and had smash singles so I did expect her to do at least 200k. Her numbers are but are actually reflective of who she is and where she is as an artist, there are a lot of people that still don't know her, a 5SOS tea. & if the GP isn't on your side, you can forget about your album having legs.

[Gui Blackout]

200k+ was an OBLIGATION for her.

[RoarRiteNow1]

Originally posted by katyperryismylife

WANEGBT sold 623K during its first week. Stop.

But still hasn't even scanned 4-times platinum That front-loaded redneck skank stays losing

[Austin]

Originally posted by Cap10Planet

Ariana was never doing it, people.

I mean Katy didn't even sell 300k Ari's numbers are good for an artist like her

[lancelovesgaga]

Beyonce didn't stage the elevator incident...highly doubt it was staged.

the man who leaked the footage got fired too.

[Cap10Planet]

Originally posted by Praise Mariallah

Or just compare her to her actual peers, Demi Lovato/Selena Gomez. Demi opened with 110k her last album and Selena did around 100k.

Ppl on here overestimated Ariana's album selling power due to her iTunes movement, but they forget that tween white girls can easily push iTunes whereas album sales and especially longevity are completely different. One, two, three top 10's does not a Taylor/Miley make.

Ariana did a lot of promo and had smash singles so I did expect her to do at least 200k. Her numbers are but are actually reflective of who she is and where she is as an artist, there are a lot of people that still don't know her, a 5SOS tea. & if the GP isn't on your side, you can forget about your album having legs.

She has never distanced herself from other artists. Her "starpower" was INCREDIBLY overrated on here. Damien and I win again.

[Nialler]

Her whole album release campaign is built around the first week success. There is only one semi-hit left on that album. She should be doing much bigger numbers, people overrated her too much.

[Kool_Aid_King]

Originally posted by Praise Mariallah

Or just compare her to her actual peers, Demi Lovato/Selena Gomez. Demi opened with 110k her last album and Selena did around 100k.

Ppl on here overestimated Ariana's album selling power due to her iTunes movement, but they forget that tween white girls can easily push iTunes whereas album sales and especially longevity are completely different. One, two, three top 10's does not a Taylor/Miley make.

Ariana did a lot of promo and had smash singles so I did expect her to do at least 200k. Her numbers are but are actually reflective of who she is and where she is as an artist, there are a lot of people that still don't know her, a 5SOS tea. & if the GP isn't on your side, you can forget about your album having legs.

Completely agreed.

I honestly did think that at least 1/3 of the people who bought Problem would buy the album too.

IDK. I still think she has a shot of breaking 200K. I hope at least

[Allstar]

aRih for real

[MusicTalker]

Originally posted by Allstar

aRih for real

Hoping she has Rihanna-like longevity.

[RoarRiteNow1]

Originally posted by Nialler

Her whole album release campaign is built around the first week success. There is only one semi-hit left on that album. She should be doing much bigger numbers, people overrated her too much.

True. The gerls were desperate for someone to "replace" Katy

[satellites.™]

Originally posted by lancelovesgaga

Beyonce didn't stage the elevator incident...highly doubt it was staged.

the man who leaked the footage got fired too.

Like wouldn't it be more beneficial to have Bey hitting Jay if it was fake.

Why use Solange. People are so dumb, literally dumb.

[Kool_Aid_King]

Ari has at least 3 sure-fire singles on the album.

LMH, BYHRB & HOM. (Excluding BMB of course)