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Originally posted by RihannasVeryOwn
That's what we're all trying to do? Except you keep prematurely calling everything a flop before it's even had a chance, which is extremely embarrassing since everything your fave released was a flop too? Glass houses sis, and a surprise release doesn't exempt her from anything.
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d. Actually a surprise release exempts her from everything.
Because she's paving new ground. The road isn't as clear.
-Releasing on a Friday
-Releasing the entire album
-No promotion
-Releasing exclusively to one vendor...and a digital one at that...when
A) Most of your sales usually comes from physical copies
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After reviewing the sales figures, it was discovered that over 75% of Beyonce's 4 album sold this past week were physical CDs, not digital copies. Of the 310,000 copies, 240,000 actual CDs were bough in stores and online.
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B) It pissed off other vendors
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In news that will be sure to make Apple executives jump with joy, Amazon and Target are refusing to stock the CD version of Beyoncé's new album in protest over the fact she released it first on iTunes, according to Billboard.
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These are all kind of high stakes risks.
I though it hit #1 because of preorders