At this point, industry forecasters are predicting a debut for Interscope’s Lana Del Rey in the 175-200k range, with Capitol’s Sam Smith in the 125-150k range and Warner Bros.’ Linkin Park around 100k.
At this point, industry forecasters are predicting a debut for Interscope’s Lana Del Rey in the 175-200k range, with Capitol’s Sam Smith in the 125-150k range and Warner Bros.’ Linkin Park around 100k.
At this point, industry forecasters are predicting a debut for Interscope’s Lana Del Rey in the 175-200k range, with Capitol’s Sam Smith in the 125-150k range and Warner Bros.’ Linkin Park around 100k.
Even though I'd prefer Sam as No.1, I applaud Lana and like this outcome, as long as LP is No.3
These numbers for Sam, as a debut artist, would be amazing!
At this point, industry forecasters are predicting a debut for Interscope’s Lana Del Rey in the 175-200k range, with Capitol’s Sam Smith in the 125-150k range and Warner Bros.’ Linkin Park around 100k.
At this point, industry forecasters are predicting a debut for Interscope’s Lana Del Rey in the 175-200k range, with Capitol’s Sam Smith in the 125-150k range and Warner Bros.’ Linkin Park around 100k.
Yes! I'm so proud of Lana, and hopefully these predictions come true.
Sam currently leads in preorders with about 50k; Lana has about 30 or 40k. Sam, however, benefits from a longer preorder window, having been available for 14 weeks, compared to Lana’s two weeks. Linkin continues to trail the other two, in the vicinity of 20k.
I don't think so, there is hardly any media attention surrounding their release, I had no clue they had an album on it's way until they posted about Lana....
Linkin Park was supported a lot more by Alternative Rock radio and their lead singles actually did some decent damage on the Hot 100 for those first two albums. Their latest lead single didn't do much, even on alternative.
I think that HDD is highly underestimating Linkin Park's album selling power. There's no way they are going to do less than 150k, let alone only 100k. I also believe that Lana has a chance to do more than 200k. Sam's prediction seems right though. My own thoughts regarding next week's releases:
1. Lana (220-275k)
2. Linkin Park (150-190k)
3. Sam Smith (125-150k)