And I see you ignoring me pointing out that all the Midnight Memories singles + promo singles did exactly the same on iTunes... yet that album ended up selling 4m by the end of 2013. Only SOML later rebounded after radio picked it up.
But Four will debut with around 500k while Billboard was told not to publish Journals' numbers by his camp because they would have hurt his career even more.
It is, but with the way it's performed so far it likely won't get back ahead of All About That Bass / Shake It Off.
#3 and below on Digital Songs for a long time now have been doing below 200k. Which would put 'Steal My Girl' in the same level of performance 'Heartbreaker' had digitally. (182K)
Florida Georgia Line and Jason Aldean will see a similar drop tomorrow as pre orders are keeping them afloat. But the fact that the ancient Shake it Off and All About That Bass so easily dethroned it
Same with Carrie who released on the same day.
Boy Bands just can't last for more than a few years
But Harry