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Chart Listings: Christina Aguilera's "Bionic" Bombs. First Week Sales...
Member Since: 1/13/2004
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Originally posted by NickLacheyFan
It's Christina, we all thought that alone get her that 100k, KGB sold almost 80k for cryin' out loud.
So an actual new studio album sellin' only 20-40k more with tons of promo?
We didn't expect for 1m but we all thought the 150-200k is somethin' she would reach to.
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The fact that her GH album sold 80k only shows that Christina still CAN reach 200k with an album, the problem is that she's still trying to sell it with a song that people didn't like. If they actually had released singles that people liked she would be selling more and would have a Rated R kind of run. But at this moment she has no songs on the radio (and no push from label for a second single), no hits, nothing to hold on to except the promo she's been doing.
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Member Since: 10/8/2009
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DEATH at people expecting higher sales than this
you dont have to be smart to predict this would flop.
Its RCA's mess.
I agree with RudeBoy and Vithors comments.
Katia thinking she has psychic powers, with her knowlage of how many people 'bought' the album.
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Member Since: 10/8/2009
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NickLachey, why are you even still here
You dont like christina, yet you waste your life away in her thread.
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Member Since: 5/7/2009
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Originally posted by Vithor
The fact that her GH album sold 80k only shows that Christina still CAN reach 200k with an album, the problem is that she's still trying to sell it with a song that people didn't like. If they actually had released singles that people liked she would be selling more and would have a Rated R kind of run. But at this moment she has no songs on the radio (and no push from label for a second single), no hits, nothing to hold on to except the promo she's been doing.
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Might I add, that promo has been for Stripped, also.
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Member Since: 10/8/2009
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Originally posted by Katia
yeah, nowhere near 100,000 people bought it. some of the stans bought 10 copies.
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yeah, you dont know that.
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Member Since: 10/8/2009
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She may be flopping in the US but worldwide she is huge. Number 1 in the UK, that's the only place i've checked but she is number 1 almost everywhere on iTunes.
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People think this will end her career.
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Member Since: 6/25/2008
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Originally posted by PopBoi
NickLachey, why are you even still here
You dont like christina, yet you waste your life away in her thread.
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Who said I don't like Christina?Show me one post that says I don't.
Just cuz' I'm not a fan of Bionic Christina and I think she's kinda done cuz' I was expectin' more doesn't mean I don't like her.
Fighter is like one of my all time fav'.
She started to lose me @ the B2B and got me back a little with KGB but than came Bionic and well, I'm on the fance.
Def' not a fan anymore, just not a hater, the fact I got a reality check and I know she's doin' bad right now doesn't make me a hater.
Sorry if my words hurt you .
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Originally posted by HotNCold
Might I add, that promo has been for Stripped, also.
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And Stripped also didn't reach #1 and "only" sold 330k on the first week (considering that album sales weren't weak 8 years ago as it is today, that's not huge either), but then Beautiful came out and saved the album. If they want Bionic not to flop, they absolutely HAVE TO release something that general people like and it has to be NOW.
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Member Since: 6/25/2008
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Originally posted by Vithor
The fact that her GH album sold 80k only shows that Christina still CAN reach 200k with an album, the problem is that she's still trying to sell it with a song that people didn't like. If they actually had released singles that people liked she would be selling more and would have a Rated R kind of run. But at this moment she has no songs on the radio (and no push from label for a second single), no hits, nothing to hold on to except the promo she's been doing.
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Sometimes labels **** things up but I just don't see this album as a great one, def' not near of one of her best and what's sure is, I don't see any hits comin' from that album.
Don't think anythng can save this album, esp' not Rated R kinda style, which, btw, got a few hits Rihanna could pull off and even so, Rihanna sold more and you're basiclly sayin' something I agree with it, the album got nothing to hung on to, which means it will most likely drop kinda fast out of the Top 200.
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Member Since: 1/13/2004
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Originally posted by NickLacheyFan
Sometimes labels **** things up but I just don't see this album as a great one, def' not near of one of her best and what's sure is, I don't see any hits comin' from that album.
Don't think anythng can save this album, esp' not Rated R kinda style, which, btw, got a few hits Rihanna could pull off and even so, Rihanna sold more and you're basiclly sayin' something I agree with it, the album got nothing to hung on to, which means it will most likely drop kinda fast out of the Top 200.
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Right now I don't see any big hits coming out of it either. I loved the album, but if the US people didn't like NMT, there not much else on the album that people could like, except for a ballad (Lift Me Up), but it's wrong time to release one, and they waited too long to release something. The album will fall fast and if they manage to release something that general people like, it may climb up and reach top 50 again, but that's it. WW, it'll probably have a decent run and some big hits here and there.
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Originally posted by nodoubt2010
• "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" soundtrack is going up against both Christina Aguilera's first studio release in nearly four years, "Bionic," and the latest EP from the cast of Fox TV's "Glee," "Journey to Regionals."
• Industry prognosticators think "Eclipse" will debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, with possibly as much as 140,000 to 160,000 copies sold by week's end on June 13. The last "Twilight" release, "New Moon," was released on a Friday and sold 115,000 in just three days, debuting at No. 2. In its first full week, it sold 153,000 and moved to No. 1.
• Sources also predict that the "Glee" album might sell around 110,000 to 130,000 while Aguilera's "Bionic" could move 100,000 to 120,000 copies.
• Aguilera's sales projection could change, considering the number of high-profile TV appearances she has lined up this week. She played NBC's "Today" yesterday (June 8), and will visit "Late Show With David Letterman" tonight and "Live With Regis & Kelly" tomorrow (June 10). She'll finish up the work week with a Friday (June 11) visit to CBS' "Early Show." On Sunday (June 13), she'll be the focus of new episodes of VH1's "Behind the Music" and "Storytellers."
• Aguilera's last effort, the 2006 double-album "Back to Basics," bowed at No. 1 with 346,000 copies sold. The week of the set's debut, she was riding high on the Billboard Hot 100 with the top 10 single "Ain't No Other Man," the album's lead track. However, the first single from "Bionic," "Not Myself Tonight," has so far underperformed on the Hot 100, peaking at No. 23 the week of its release back in late April.
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/conte...79cefd3d1ff682
Wow.
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Words cannot express the look of joy on my face. Christina has been such a bitch lately - GaGa dissing, gum throwing, lippy....she deserves this big ass pile of **** paste that is Bionic. No song on that album is smash single worthy, she's freaking 29 years old and instead of returning with grace, maturity and SENSUALITY - she returns like a 19 year old booty shaker discovering her sexuality who acts like she owns ****, and she's still the ****. This may not be the end for her, but she needs to rethink quickly...she cannot afford another hiatus to find herself, but she can't wait too long either.
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This is just one week sales. She will promote this album and with the right single choices it can go platinum.
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She needs to release Bionic or You Lost Me or Lift Me Up as singles!!
At the end of the "day" I'm sure this album will be a worldwide sucess
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LOL @ everyone on the Internet rejoicing. I didn't realize how much hate this girl gets.
These numbers are not shocking.
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*chuckles to self*
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Member Since: 4/21/2010
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WEll.. lets see what xtina have to show us
And BTW I think notmyself tonight was a great first single
When a 1st single is okay, a singer must release a realyl good song as 2nd single and I dont think at all Woohoo is her best option
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Member Since: 8/6/2003
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Originally posted by PopBoi
She may be flopping in the US but worldwide she is huge. Number 1 in the UK, that's the only place i've checked but she is number 1 almost everywhere on iTunes.
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DEAD at you so sure the album's "huge worldwide" and right after admitting you only checked ONE country besides the US.
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Member Since: 8/6/2003
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Originally posted by Vithor
LMAO! After that monumental flop single and no singles released after that and the fact that she's promoting the album with the monumental flop single, were you guys expecting what? a 400k first week? I'm sad for Christina, but I'm incredibly happy because RCA deserves it. lol
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400k? No, cause she NEVER had such a big opening, even when backed up by hits. But for someone like her 200k was mandatory, and I was expecting 170-180k due to the 1st single flopping and they releasing nothing else to keep the album alive in people's minds instead... But 100k? That's a DISASTER.
Also, it doesn't help that she's been promoting STRIPPED instead of 'Bionic', and considereing it annoys ME, a casual fan, I can only imagine how it must be for her hard core fans.
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Member Since: 2/16/2010
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SMH at people who wanted her to fail
Bionic deserved to at least open with 175K. If only Prima Donna had been the first single
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