[Rigalo]

Are people playing like this is bad when 1 MILLION free downloads of the album were given out just prior? Lol atrl doin the most

[MikeFenty]

Originally posted by collin

"ANTI had the worst debut in HISTORYY! 460!!!!!!!"

This will be remarkably funny when she goes #1 in most markets next week. This lame ass reach of a drag.

Who even knew TIDAL had a store? Yet she managed to sell 460 copies during a glitch, that allowed people to purchase the album for less than 30 minutes.

[POKER]

Originally posted by liberalmusiclover

Do you honestly think Rihanna can't just drop another Loud or Good Girl Gone Bad if she wants hits?

not the navy claiming that Rihanna doesn't want commercial success and that ANTI is now an avant-guard work of art that was not meant to sell

[Hector]

Incredible sales for SIA.

[Monster]

This whole album release has just been messy and ridiculous. I feel like she wanted to be a game changer a la Bey, but it's just been one sloppy disappointment after the next. Welp at least she got some type of paycheck out of it.

[collin]

460 copies during an accidental leak on Tidal in a period less than an hour.
Gee, what a true SHOCK.

[Marvin]

Originally posted by MikeFenty

Who even knew TIDAL had a store? Yet she managed to sell 460 copies during a glitch, that allowed people to purchase the album for less than 30 minutes.

Wasn't it on the Tidal store all day Thursday? The 460 copies were sold in 1.5 days.

[Teneo]

What does the "460" number people keep posting mean? 460 copies sold? Not even 5k? Where?

[collin]

Originally posted by POKER

not the navy claiming that Rihanna doesn't want commercial success and that ANTI is now an avant-guard work of art that was not meant to sell

You really don't get it, do you?

She rejected Lean On AND Same Old Love, both of which went on to become smash hits.

She rejected a plethora of Stargate/Ester Dean songs and a David Guetta song.

She rejected a Mike Will Made It song and several Sia songs (which are now released and suck).

Put 2 and 2 together.

[Lithium9]

Originally posted by collin

"ANTI had the worst debut in HISTORYY! 460!"

Didn't know it was doing THAT bad

[collin]

Originally posted by Teneo

What does the "460" number people keep posting mean? 460 copies sold? Not even 5k? Where?

During the accidental Tidal leak when it was for sale for like 15 minutes.

[collin]

Originally posted by Marvin

Wasn't it on the Tidal store all day Thursday? The 460 copies were sold in 1.5 days.

No, it was not.

[POKER]

Originally posted by Teneo

What does the "460" number people keep posting mean? 460 copies sold? Not even 5k? Where?

yes, it's true only 460 people were willing to but the album when it was up for sales for multiple hours exclusively on Tidal

[Monster]

Can we just stop with the month excuses? Other than Black Friday, no one is seeing a dramatic jump releasing in June versus January. If people want to buy your album, they will.

[Praise Mariallah]

Originally posted by M A R C

BEYONCE (the album) was leaked a month before it's release?

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[MikeFenty]

Originally posted by Marvin

Wasn't it on the Tidal store all day Thursday? The 460 copies were sold in 1.5 days.

It wasn't. There was a slight glitch on Wednesday night, and it allowed people to buy for a few minutes. Then it was gone (I tried to purchase my own copy, and the album was gone once I clicked to pay) then Samsung FREE downloads arrived on TIDAL on Thursday, and TIDAL allowed purchases again around the same time as iTunes on Friday, Those sales will be for next week.

[istan4badgalriri]

Originally posted by POKER

I'm afraid that while you think repeating those invalid excuses will result in people cosigning with you quite the opposite is happening and it's called "Semantic satiation"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation

But maybe these excuses are....valid.
Don't you think surprise dropping the album on iTunes (with a banner) instead of Tidal for free, would've resulted in bigger sales?
She's the most streamed artist on Spotify, don't you think she would've had bigger SPS numbers if the album was on there? Even AO was streamed 80M times.
And don't you think physical copies would've increased total sales? Half of Unapologetic 1st week sales came from CDs.

[Teneo]

Originally posted by collin

During the accidental Tidal leak when it was for sale for like 15 minutes.

So she debuted with 4'5k by accident then
All the times I prayed for this moment since antidiary started woo lord, God exists. The bitch was punished, everything is right in the world now.

[M A R C]

Originally posted by Marvin

No, I was saying that there actually was a promo campaign.

Basically meaning that you're claiming you expected big numbers because of the promo, but really you didn't.

So promo shouldn't even be brought up because y'all weren't bringing up promo when you were making your shady predictions.

[Artemisia]

The navy continuing that 15 minute leak lie when the album was available for purchase on tidal for more than a day