I blame Beyonce's vmas performance. People planning to buy ariana's album changed their minds when they saw the performance. Another vicitm of beyonceitis.
Beyoncé in the top15
The pressed souls bring up JT's # when his album was newer, had more promo, was still in the top10, was discounted on iTunes and at Target (and probably other physical retailers)
Beyoncé in the top15
The pressed souls bring up JT's # when his album was newer, had more promo, was still in the top10, was discounted on iTunes and at Target (and probably other physical retailers)
6 months versus 8 months isn't exactly newer.
But everything else, yes cannot compare. She'd be pulling a lot more numbers if the price was slightly reduced. Even to just $11-12.99.
but they didn´t had 3 hit singles during the week their album was released
Okay, and?
The user I was addressing didn't say anything about hits. They talked about promo.
There's nothing wrong with Ariana's sales. Especially when some of the main pop girls have barely reached this threshold with the same amount/bigger hits.
When will you people learn that single success =/= album sales
Singles help album sales or at least they should - i mean during the week Lorde's "Pure Heroine" was released - "Royals" was number one on the Hot 100 and "Team" was rising on the hot 100.
+ Ariana is a bigger "name" than Lorde + she has two songs on the top ten of the iTunes right now.