The boys deserve so much success. The EP is my favorite release so far this year + Disconnected is probably my favorite song released in the past year. Shame it's only on the American physical copies.
I was wondering if they were overestimating due to high pre-orders, and it looks like that's the case. This was forecasted to break the 200k mark originally; we'll see if this trends upwards and if they make that mark or not.
Well, they were an opening act that apparently attracted at least 170k Americans who liked them enough to fork over money to support them. Wiki says their first tour had North American opening acts Manika, Olly Murs, and Camryn, and I don't see their US album success.
I mean, you could have said the same of Justin Bieber or 1D a few years ago, "Like who are these boyz?" Or any artist really.
What reason is there to dismiss an artist for having fans just because you don't like or haven't heard of them?
I certainly haven't heard of a bunch of artists who have had good sales weeks, and I don't think "****...bye" but rather "How impressive, good for them for having success esp in this terrible sales climate."