Just brag about it being summer when its neg 10 here with sooo much snow
It's gonna be interesting to see how the song does with little promo because her tour starts and its pretty much every other day. I see it hard for them trying to fit. Doing interviews, talk shows, perfomances on late night shows, game shows, reality tv shows. All of that.
We had a 4day heatwave of 41degrees (106F) the other day Ill send some sunshine to you
Agreed. With the international promo she did for mkia, doubt there will be much time. She should focus on this smashing in the US & the tour. Stronger is strong (pun intended) enough to hold out on its own
We had a 4day heatwave of 41degrees (106F) the other day Ill send some sunshine to you
Agreed. With the international promo she did for mkia, doubt there will be much time. She should focus on this smashing in the US & the tour. Stronger is strong (pun intended) enough to hold out on its own
Please do
Do tours really do much for sales?
I mean I always think of it as, anyone who is going to her tour must be a fan and must have heard her new album and hopefully would have bought it already. Otherwise, they may have got it for free online, but for the most part, to me, its hard to imagine that a tour does help album/single sales a lot. Or am I totally dead wrong
So I was listening to Eric Hutchinson's version of Why Don't You Try. Kinda interesting how Kelly changed a bunch of the lyrics. She easily could've gotten writing credit if she wanted to. She's such a flawless and kind queen. <3
So I was listening to Eric Hutchinson's version of Why Don't You Try. Kinda interesting how Kelly changed a bunch of the lyrics. She easily could've gotten writing credit if she wanted to. She's such a flawless and kind queen. <3
I like his version a lot as well.
She could have had writing credits on a lot of songs.
-My Life Would Suck Without You
-What Doesn't Kill You
And are we certain that Kelly was the one who changed the lyrics to Stronger?
I don't think she changed Suck herself. I remember her saying a bunch of times it didn't fit what she would say so she asked them to change it. And then during this era, she said the lyrics were a mess. They were talking about smoking pot and ****.
She said herself that she re-worked the lyrics to Stronger and MKIA during that interview where she threw shade at writing credit stealing bitches.
I don't think she changed Suck herself. I remember her saying a bunch of times it didn't fit what she would say so she asked them to change it. And then during this era, she said the lyrics were a mess. They were talking about smoking pot and ****.
She said herself that she re-worked the lyrics to Stronger and MKIA during that interview where she threw shade at writing credit stealing bitches.
oh ok thanks! I'm glad she changed the lyrics to Stronger. The original lyrics are a hot-ass mess.
And are we certain that Kelly was the one who changed the lyrics to Stronger?
Not that we ever heard, but Kelly said it org had lyrics about smoking weed and stuff like that. She said that she changed it more into one of those love/hate relationships and more into a KC pop/rock song.
"You didn't think i'd come back, i'd come back swinging, you tried to break me but you see" Please that has Kelly all over it.
This thread is so off-topic. Take it to the Base thread before yall all get WPs.
I saw the Idol Chatter numbers posted, but here are the actual numbers for this week and last week.
12/31/11 Kelly Clarkson, Since U Been Gone (?,???, +??%, 2,180,687 total)
01/07/12 Kelly Clarkson, Since U Been Gone (5,426, +??%, 2,186,113 total)
01/14/12 Kelly Clarkson, Since U Been Gone (10,300, +90%, 2,196,413 total)
12/31/11 Kelly Clarkson, Breakaway (?,???, -??%,6,193,098 total)
01/07/12 Kelly Clarkson, Breakaway (2,662, -??%,6,195,760 total)
01/14/12 Kelly Clarkson, Breakaway (2,504, -06%,6,198,264 total) (#117 Top Catalog Albums)
Week 01 09/24/11 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (106,983, debut, 107,538 total) (#18 Hot 100)
Week 02 10/01/11 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (43,292, -60%, 150,830 total) (#35 Hot 100)
Week 03 10/08/11 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (~32,000, -27%, ~183,000 total) #38 Hot 100)
Week 04 10/15/11 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (~44,000, +39%, ~227,000 total) (#30 Hot 100)
Week 05 10/22/11 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (~48,000, +9%, 275,320 total) (#27 Hot 100)
Week 06 10/29/11 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (52,340, +8%, 327,660 total) (#24 Hot 100)
Week 07 11/05/11 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (64,804, +24%, 392,464 total) (#19 Hot 100)
Week 08 11/12/11 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (103,960, +60%, 494,424 total) (#10 Hot 100)
Week 09 11/19/11 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (74,999, -28%, 571,423 total) (#15 Hot 100)
Week 10 11/26/11 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (57,121, -24%, 628,544 total) (#19 Hot 100)
Week 11 12/03/11 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (52,549, -8%, 681,093 total) (#20 Hot 100)
Week 12 12/10/11 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (60,074, +14%, 741,167 total) (#16 Hot 100)
Week 13 12/17/11 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (37,835 weekly, -37%, 779,002 total) (#18 Hot 100)
Week 14 12/24/11 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (36,518, -3%, 815,520 total) (#30 Hot 100)
Week 15 12/31/11 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (36,012, -1%, 851,532 total) (#21 Hot 100)
Week 16 01/07/12 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (79,196, +120%, 930,728 total) (#32 Hot 100)
Week 17 01/14/12 Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (110,201, +39%, 1,040,929 total) (#20 Hot 100)
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Week 01 11/12/11 Kelly Clarkson, What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) (39,608, debut, 40,280 total) (#64 Hot 100)
Week 02 11/19/11 Kelly Clarkson, What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) (9,741, -75%, 50,021 total)
Week 03 11/26/11 Kelly Clarkson, What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) (13,749, +41%, 63,770 total)
Week 04 12/03/11 Kelly Clarkson, What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) (24,393, +77%, 88,163 total) (#99 Hot 100)
Week 05 12/10/11 Kelly Clarkson, What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) (18,317, -25%, 106,480 total)
Week 06 12/17/11 Kelly Clarkson, What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) (7,945, -57%, 114,425 total)
Week 07 12/24/11 Kelly Clarkson, What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) (7,982, no change, 122,407 total)
Week 08 12/31/11 Kelly Clarkson, What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) (11,331, 42%, 133,738 total)
Week 09 12/07/11 Kelly Clarkson, What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) (19,561, 73%, 153,299 total)
Week 10 01/14/12 Kelly Clarkson, What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) (29,645, +52%, 182,944 total) (#?? Hot 100)
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Week 01 12/24/11 Kelly Clarkson, I'll Be Home for Christmas (23,907, debut, 23,907 total) (#93 Hot 100)
Week 02 12/17/11 _?_
Week 03 01/07/12 _?_
Week 04 01/14/12 _?_
Beyonce's "Love On Top" charted at #86 with less downloads, so I'm wondering why WDKY isn't charting Maybe they are having a problem with the two different names?
Adele's '21' Claims 14th Week Atop Billboard 200
by Keith Caulfield, L.A. | January 04, 2012
As predicted, Adele's "21" album jumps back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, marking its 14th non-consecutive week at the top of the tally.
The set sold 144,000 copies last week (down 64% according to Nielsen SoundScan) and continues to be the album with the most weeks at No. 1 since the "Titanic" soundtrack sailed with 16 weeks at No. 1 in 1998.
Among all albums by women, "21" now ties Whitney Houston's self-titled 1986 debut for the third-most weeks at No. 1. Only Houston's own soundtrack to "The Bodyguard" (20 weeks in 1992-1993) and Carole King's "Tapestry" (15 weeks in 1971) have earned more among the ladies.
Last week's No. 1 album, Michael Buble's "Christmas," drops to No. 24 with 21,000 (down 96%). It's the fourth album to fall from No. 1 to outside the top 20 in the past year, following Mac Miller's "Blue Slide Park" (1-23), Amos Lee's "Mission Bell" (1-25) and Cake's "Showroom of Compassion" (1-24).
A sudden drop for Buble's holiday effort isn't surprising -- even if it did spend five straight weeks at No. 1. Once Christmas has passed, holiday albums all suffer greatly.
As is often the case in the week after Christmas, few albums post a sales gain. The entire top 25 this week all decline. So, those sets with the smallest fall in sales often post big positional leaps up the tally.
Keeping in tradition with hip-hop and rock albums generally performing well post-Christmas (as iTunes gift cards are redeemed for what kids really wanted), Drake's "Take Care" moves 5-2 (72,000, down 45%) and Young Jeezy's "TM103: Hustlerz Ambition" is steady at No. 3 (67,000; down 71%).
Lady Antebellum's "Own the Night" rises 6-4 (54,000; down 51%) while LMFAO's "Sorry for Party Rocking" reaches the top 10 for the first time, zipping 16-5 with 49,000 (down 34%).
Florence + the Machine also jump into the top 10 with "Ceremonials" (20-6 with 47,000 -- down 25%). It's the first time the album has been in the region since its debut week on the tally -- Nov. 19, 2011.
Florence, LMFAO and Lady Antebellum's albums were all discounted to $6.99 in the iTunes Store last week and prominently promoted, which is no doubt the main reason for their moves up the chart. In terms of download album sales, "Ceremonials," "Sorry" and "Own" are up by 35%, 81% and 377%, respectively.
The Black Keys' "El Camino" rises 9-7 (45,000; down 51%), Coldplay's "Mylo Xyloto" moves 12-8 (44,000; down 48%) and Rihanna's "Talk That Talk" falls 7-9 (42,000; down 58%). Rounding out the top 10 is the "Now 40" compilation, holding at No. 10 with 41,000 (down 53%).
Adele almost nabbed two top 10 sets this week, as "19" bounds 17-11 with 35,000 (down 50% overall, but up 225% in downloads). It was also included in iTunes' limited-time $6.99 sale, which ran from Dec. 29 through Jan. 1.
iTunes' promotions also impact a number of sets outside the top 10, as Foster the People's "Torches" and Michael Jackson's "Number Ones" both see mighty jumps. The former rises 35-14 with 32,000 sold (down 24% overall but up 94% in download sales) while the King of Pop's hits set zooms 156-27 with 19,000 (up 79% overall and 681% in downloads). Also, Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger," which received front-of-store placement and $7.99 sale pricing, bounds 39-17 with 25,000 (down 40% overall, but up 232% in downloads).
Over on the Digital Songs chart, unlike the albums tally, all but three songs on the 75-position list sport sales increases. In fact, the top 33 songs all sold at least 100,000 last week.
LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" continues to party at No. 1 with 417,000 sold (up 6%) -- the tune's biggest sales week yet. LMFAO also has the No. 4 download this week with "Party Rock Anthem" rising four slots (296,000; up 38%). It's not unusual to see older hits -- like "Anthem" -- climb in sales in the week after Christmas, as consumers fill up newly-gifted electronic devices with the year's most popular tunes.
Rihanna's "We Found Love" (featuring Calvin Harris) rises 3-2 (319,000; up 16%), Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away" falls 2-3 (308,000; up 4%) and Bruno Mars' "It Will Rain" slips 4-5 (280,000; up 5%). Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain" marches 7-6 (267,000; up 23%), Flo Rida's "Good Feeling" moves 6-7 (257,000; up 18%) and Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Ni**as In Paris" descends 5-8 (244,000; up 8%). Adele's "Someone Like You" (10-9 with 215,000; up 18%) and Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa's "Young, Wild & Free" (11-10 with 210,000; up 16%) round out the top 10.
Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Jan. 1, 2012) totaled 7.71 million units, down 49% compared to the sum last week (15.11 million) and down 1% compared to the comparable sales week of 2010 (7.42 million). 2011 finishes with 330.57 million album sold, up 1% compared to 2010's tally of 326.15 million. It is the first year where there has been a gain in album sales since 2004.
Digital track sales this past week totaled 46.42 million downloads, up 21% compared to last week (38.25 million) and up 10% stacked next to the comparable week of 2010 (42.07 million). 2011 concluded with 1.27 billion tracks sold, up 10% compared to 2010's sum (1.17 billion).
Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2011 when: Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" was No. 1 for its sixth and final week atop the chart, selling a rather low 52,000 (down 32%). The chart's highest debut came in at No. 48 by the "More Music From 'Country Strong'" sequel soundtrack (9,000).
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Originally posted by tell_me_a_lie
I've witnessed your fights.
Yea yea, I don't appreciate being picked on just because he doesn't like the flawless human being in my avi. Especially since I've been stanning for Kelly since before he was born.
I don't think she changed Suck herself. I remember her saying a bunch of times it didn't fit what she would say so she asked them to change it. And then during this era, she said the lyrics were a mess. They were talking about smoking pot and ****.
She said herself that she re-worked the lyrics to Stronger and MKIA during that interview where she threw shade at writing credit stealing bitches.
But didn't she say in a couple interviews with the AIEW promo that she changed the song. I remember her saying though something like I'll do the song but its going to have to be changed, but I think she meant it as in just lyric changes which she usually does herself.
We were talking about lyrics of songs on the album. You tried though.
That was written 2 pages ago when everyone was talking about their post count and their favorite AIEW songs, All of which can still be reported.It took a while to post cause I had to find the numbers for last week and the week before.
I'm just trying to give yall a heads up. You tried it though.
That was written 2 pages ago whenever every was talking about their post count and their favorite AIEW songs, All of which can still be reported.It took a while to post cause I had to find the numbers for last week and the week before.
I'm just trying to give yall a heads up. You tried it though.
So we can't even post about the contents of this thread? Where else would we discuss how many posts each of us has? Try not to be so uptight sweetie.
That was written 2 pages ago when everyone was talking about their post count and their favorite AIEW songs, All of which can still be reported.It took a while to post cause I had to find the numbers for last week and the week before.
I'm just trying to give yall a heads up. You tried it though.
Well we are able to post our post count here since it is on topic for this thread.
As for the AIEW songs, sure its not about stronger, but it got brought up while talking about it and its not like everyone is going to switch over to base for a few posts. Then it came back on topic again. They seriously cannot expect a current/ fairly new album to be going back and forth from Base to Album Thread. I see Base as more for when the end of an era comes you don't fill the thread with off topic randomness. As for a current album its hard to go back and forth when overall they are for the same artist. It would be like having a thread for AIEW, MD, Breakaway, and Thankful and having to go to every one of those threads anything wants to be brought up about them.
Well we are able to post our post count here since it is on topic for this thread.
As for the AIEW songs, sure its not about stronger, but it got brought up while talking about it and its not like everyone is going to switch over to base for a few posts. Then it came back on topic again. They seriously cannot expect a current/ fairly new album to be going back and forth from Base to Album Thread. I see Base as more for when the end of an era comes you don't fill the thread with off topic randomness. As for a current album its hard to go back and forth when overall they are for the same artist. It would be like having a thread for AIEW, MD, Breakaway, and Thankful and having to go to every one of those threads anything wants to be brought up about them.
I posted this in pulse as well. Past eras affect current eras. The release / pattern / diversity of music all have an effect on the current landscape. It's impossible to avoid discussion surrounding those factors.
For example..
When were the add dates for MLWSWY? I think it would of been a really smart idea to do the exact same thing for WDKY.