I expected Cheryl to be top 5 and I get that she's got some rivals but still I thought she'd sell more than this.
Even her fans must agree that this IS under-performing after 2 #1 singles that announced the album. She might be giving the "UK Queen of 2014" crown to Ella after all. She had a #1 and #7 single and still debuted at #1.
Here's some advice for Cheryl: if you want to save the album sales, release Only Human next.
I agree with the Only Human part but this isn't the debut week sales its been out for a day (Monday)
Cheryl's numbers aren't that bad tbh. she has a lot of competition this week. a little underwhelming but i'm more interested to see if it has longevity. she's still got 2 #1 singles out of this era so either way i wouldn't consider it a flop.
OH is underperforming but it's not a big decline in album sales for her, AML did 29k in 2012 with a lot of promo and the second biggest hit of her career, OH will do like 24k cause she has a Children In Need performance which usually boost sales in 2014.
Only 5k decline in sales with the huge decline in the market ain't that bad.
The fact that she's #6 isn't that bad but the fact that she's not selling much is tbh. Even though she has some rivals, she was expected to sell more than that following the big success of the previous 2 singles.
Its not selling brilliantly, but its not actually doing that much worse than A Million Lights, hopefully the difference this time is, the album won't be abandoned and she will actually help it sell a decent number in the long run.
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