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Album: Angel Haze - 'Dirty Gold'
Member Since: 5/8/2012
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Member Since: 11/28/2011
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Originally posted by Willy.
RT @alftirado: Angel Haze's debut album sold 857 copies and reached #196 on Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart.
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Omfg
That... omg, Kreayshawn blew her out of the water.
Hopefully it does better in Europe.
And at least she has an album out. Others might never.
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Member Since: 2/13/2012
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Wasn't expecting it to debut high at all honestly.
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Member Since: 4/20/2012
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No way omfg. Well to be fair, nobody knew when the hell it ACTUALLY came out, 'nor when physical copies were on sale (are they even yet)
but still. yikes.
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Member Since: 1/11/2012
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I don't think she cares, but I pray the label doesn't crucify her even more for this.
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Member Since: 8/31/2013
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Exactly what the label needed to drop her...
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Member Since: 12/19/2010
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Do you think her label had extremely high expectations for the release week? They released the physical and digital copies on different dates, chose to release the album on a holiday week, etc. They could have chosen a different (yet still close) date after Angel had leaked it.
I genuinely doubt her label expected her to debut higher without any hit/following. They're gonna promote Battle Cry, which will likely stir up some relevance for her and the sales will increase over time.
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Member Since: 10/13/2005
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Angel Haze’s Dirty Gold sold 857 copies first week in the UK, not the Billboard charts
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There’s a rumour flying around that Angel Haze‘s Dirty Gold has proved a monumental sales flop, charting at #196 on the Billboard album chart and only selling 857 copies.
This isn’t quite true. Haze’s #196 spot, in fact, came in the UK albums chart last week. You can read the stats here, copied from Music Week. In the US, Dirty Gold is yet to be eligible for the latest Billboard 200, due to the ways that sales are tracked (explained here), so we won’t know about her US chart position until Thursday (that is unless Haze, incredibly, has scored the exact same amount of copies and exact same position in the US).
Either way, in the UK at least, the decision to rush-release the album on December 30 after Haze’s leak earlier in the month doesn’t seem to have worked for label or artist. Read FACT’s recent interview with Angel Haze here.
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http://www.factmag.com/2014/01/07/an...ard-200-chart/
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Member Since: 5/8/2012
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i thought 857 000
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Member Since: 12/15/2011
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Originally posted by ~ joão.
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Member Since: 11/28/2011
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Originally posted by ~ joão.
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****. She actually gets AirPlay there...
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Member Since: 1/5/2014
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She didn’t deserve this. It’s such a good album.
EDIT: Apparently it’s just the UK so it isn’t THAT bad... although it’s still really bad.
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Member Since: 12/19/2010
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Deep Sea Diver is at 94k digital downloads though, so idk why you all are complaining. Did you guys really expect Angel to garner 95099595409k first week?
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Slayngel Haze slaying the charts with her 857 copies.
on a serious note that sucks. i figured she would do a lot better considering the buzz around her. idk how natalia kills & kreayshawn managed to get better first week sales than her considering that she has more hype than either of them (i love natalia tho don't get me wrong). I won't be surprised if she gets dropped after that stunt she pulled didn't even manage to work in her favor.
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Member Since: 1/11/2012
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Jay @_IRespectOnika 44m
@AngelHaze pls tell me that you selling 857 copies was a big lie ......
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Ala$ka Yxxng @AngelHaze 43m
@_IRespectOnika I sold a thousand and something. It was expected tho. We didn’t go into this stupidly expecting to sell with no promo
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Ala$ka Yxxng @AngelHaze 43m
@_IRespectOnika we did it because we believe that with time and proper promo the album will do what it’s supposed to. X
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Ala$ka Yxxng @AngelHaze 36m
@_IRespectOnika it’s all a part of the plan babe.
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At least she's aware
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Member Since: 5/4/2011
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Listened to this today, and it's a pretty cool album. Some heavy stuff on here.
"Angel & Airwaves" especially moved me, and then Natalia's speech in "Black Dahlia" also got me.
Angel is an awesome person, I see this album has gotten off to a slow start but I hope one of her singles blow up and the era starts getting some traction. She deserves a lot of success.
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Member Since: 10/12/2010
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She'll sell more as time goes by, it's actually better this way.
Now the fans actually have the album and it won't get pushed back so there's no chance of never hearing it so the only thing they have to do now is promote it to make it sell more.
And it deserves to sell a lot cause it's a really good album !
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Member Since: 10/13/2005
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Angel Haze's Debut Sells Just Over A Thousand Copies
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Earlier this week, rumors started swirling about the monstrous loss Angel Haze suffered after deciding to rush-release her debut album, Dirty Gold. After months of fighting with her label - Island/Republic Records - Haze took to her personal Soundcloud to leak her own album, prompting the label to put out the LP before year's end, in accord with Haze's wishes.
Releasing a new album on December 30, however, just as Haze and her label did, proved to be a death wish of sorts, as the majority of album sales from the past week have gone to either yearlong high-sellers (Drake, Lorde, Eminem, Miley Cyrus) or recently-released offerings from major artists (R. Kelly, Beyonce). Haze falls in neither category, and so, her Dirty Gold bombed pretty hard.
Things seemed dire when there was talk of Haze somehow selling less than a 1,000 copies of her album, but yesterday it became clear that she'd sold 857 copies, only in the U.K., which is also pretty rough considering her close kinship with London and her regular performances across the pond. Still, the moment of truth came earlier today, when the U.S. Billboard charts surfaced, and they don't look much better for the rapper-singer.
According to Billboard, Haze's Dirty Gold sold a mind-numbingly low 1,115 copies in its first week available, including just 187 copies on its first official day out. And while these numbers are sure to bump up in the coming weeks, especially since critics across the board have been pretty positive about the eclectic 12-track offering (which includes no features besides a hook from songwriting powerhouse Sia), it's a bit shocking how much Haze's gamble didn't pay off.
As it turns out, releasing an album the day before New Year's Eve is a bad idea. Either way, take a look at Haze's explanation for the early leak below.
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http://revolt.tv/news/angel-hazes-de...C-32F19910306F
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Doesn't bother me, let's hurry up and send Battle Cry to radio.
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