AP was deemed a flop because it debuted with 1/4 of what BTW did in the US/BTW sold more first week than AP managed to sell overall.
4 was an underperformance.
ANTI still has time to sell, but it definitely isn't doing well at the moment. However, it isn't free-falling off of the charts. We'll see how much it sells in total.
No it was deemed becuase it sold only like 700k (if not less) in the US with all that promo. It's sold 2M copies thanks only to Japan and the UK. Without the support of these two countries it would have sold 1.5M copies AT BEST!
Gaga and Bey have huge stanbase hence why their sales are often frontloaded cause of huge base buying it right after its released
Bey's sales are often frontloaded? You could only maybe argue that about one of her albums and it's not 4. That slooooowly creeped its way to 1.5M in the US and 3M WW.
If you weren't feeling guilty u wouldn't need to run and defend urself like this
Two people (Gags fans) managed to answer your question in 3 pages.
Everyone else disagreed. Out of 50 odd people in here, I'd say some wall posting is in order since no one but a few agreed with the statement in the title.
Two people (Gags fans) managed to answer your question in 3 pages.
Everyone else disagreed. Out of 50 odd people in here, I'd say some wall posting is in order since no one but a few agreed with the statement in the title.
Still less than ARTPOP's first week WW. thanks for further proving my point.
D @ 80% of her claimed "album sales" not being actual sales
ARTPOP had an actually healthy pre-album rollout, it wasn't given away for free and was released in a slightly better climate for album sales. I don't think it's a very fair comparison