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Music News: Britney Spears - 'Femme Fatale'
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Originally posted by JonnyϟLightning
Icant.
All this fighting over a single.
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Originally posted by evan93
7. BRITNEY SPEARS - I Wanna Go: 93.649 (+ 0.843)
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
"TTWE" nor "IWG" helped FF ship more copies, so I mean it don't matter what single is chosen, REALLY. What will ship copies is a legitimate performance and a consistent moment of promotion.
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Even if we do get six singles, I don't think they will help the album sales as much as stans think. They need to deal with it ASAP.
Her albums are usually front-loaded fourth quarter releases, and they released “Femme Fatale” during a dead season with no promo prior to the release week, and the only promo the album got were two half-assed performances aired only in the US. The album can't sell without promo. It has sold 650,000 copies in the US and 1.31 million worldwide so far and she never even left the US to do even minimal worldwide promotion. The album will top the 1 million mark in the US when it's all said and done, and I'm expecting it to sell around 2.4 million worldwide, which is good.
We can only hope for one at the VMAs. If she doesn't bring her A-game, I don't want her to perform.
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Originally posted by Duca
We can only hope for one at the VMAs. If she doesn't bring her A-game, I don't want her to perform.
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If she doesn't bring her A-game she better not go, PERIOD.
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Originally posted by Duca
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Even if we do get six singles, I don't think they will help the album sales as much as stans think. They need to deal with it ASAP.
Her albums are usually front-loaded fourth quarter releases, they had released “Femme Fatale” during a dead season with no promo prior to the release week, and the only promo the album got were two half-assed performances aired only in the US. The album can't sell without promo. It has sold 650,000 copies in the US and 1.31 million worldwide so far and she never even left the US to do even minimal worldwide promotion. The album will top the 1 million mark in the US when it's all said and done, and I'm expecting it to sell around 2.4 million worldwide, which is good.
We can only hope for one at the VMAs. If she doesn't bring her A-game, I don't want her to perform.
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Yes. The VMAs is the only opportunity to give the album a good boost for about 2-3 weeks. That's if she's even performing herself. Some stans need to really get off the delusional boat that a slower song will suddenly make the general public want her album. She needs to get her phat ass on some viewerships and tell people she had an album released 5 months ago.
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Originally posted by hector.adriel
I'm sure Britney has little or nothing to do with DDB being released.
If it was 100% her choice I'm sure she would go with a mid-tempo.
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It's DDB?! Where did you get that?!
NO. JUST
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And Rico's right. Only constant promotion would bring the album back from the dead. I don't even know how she's managed to sell 750K outside the US without even leaving LA
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
"TTWE" nor "IWG" helped FF ship more copies, so I mean it don't matter what single is chosen, REALLY. What will ship copies is a legitimate performance and a consistent moment of promotion.
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I'm not sure about that. I have a friend who doesn't like Britney. She has TTWE, HIAM and IWG on her iPod, but that's about it. Then one day she was asking me why I like Britney so much & that I can stan for Ke$ha or Rihanna and I can get the same *****-dancing songs on my iPod, I told her Britney's albums are solid and tell a story. She laughed, then I made her listen to Criminal. She bought the album the next day.
Almost the same thing happened with my brother. When Femme Fatale came out, I told him to check it out and tell me what he thinks, he said he's heard HIAM and TTWE and that he doesn't like her new stuff. I made him listen to Criminal and Inside Out and then he copied the album from me and started whoring it.
I don't know why only the UK stans understand this....
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Originally posted by SarahWalker
It's DDB?! Where did you get that?!
NO. JUST
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Martian said it's the 4th single. And that the Music Video will be the performance from the tour
Cheap bastards
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Originally posted by evan93
7. BRITNEY SPEARS - I Wanna Go: 93.649 (+ 0.843)
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Yay for snatching Toxic.
does anyone know why are the updates going down n up n down?
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Originally posted by Louie
I'm not sure about that. I have a friend who doesn't like Britney. She has TTWE, HIAM and IWG on her iPod, but that's about it. Then one day she was asking me why I like Britney so much & that I can stan for Ke$ha or Rihanna and I can get the same *****-dancing songs on my iPod, I told her Britney's albums are solid and tell a story. She laughed, then I made her listen to Criminal. She bought the album the next day.
Almost the same thing happened with my brother. When Femme Fatale came out, I told him to check it out and tell me what he thinks, he said he's heard HIAM and TTWE and that he doesn't like her new stuff. I made him listen to Criminal and Inside Out and then he copied the album from me and started whoring it.
I don't know why only the UK stans understand this....
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I don't care about your friend or brother. It's still delusional to think just because she releases a slower song = her album will start selling a lot more. If anything, it'll do the same the current singles have done, keep it in the same area. Which is where my point of any single can do that, cause they're mostly friendly enough to keep a minimal interest going.
Promotion is the only thing to give us a significant difference. So if she did release "Criminal", she'd need to still go perform it and give it attention. But, it's not even performed on the tour so that's really asking for a lot.
And trust, I understand the idea of a mid-tempo showing a "different side of Britney" to the public. But no promotion = no matter. Deal.
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Originally posted by hector.adriel
If she doesn't bring her A-game she better not go, PERIOD.
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Miss the tribute?
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
Yes. The VMAs is the only opportunity to give the album a good boost for about 2-3 weeks. That's if she's even performing herself. Some stans need to really get off the delusional boat that a slower song will suddenly make the general public want her album. She needs to get her phat ass on some viewerships and tell people she had an album released 5 months ago.
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If she's not going to promote (which she won't,) we can at least hope they don't screw up this era single-wise.
I'm starting to think "Inside Out" would flop. Her biggest chance at getting a mid-tempo hit is "Criminal." We all know Jive won't even consider bonus tracks as potential singles, so goodbye "Up N' Down" and "He About To Lose Me." They should release "Criminal," followed by "Trouble For Me" and "Big Fat Bass" (or vice versa.) I can see them doing pretty good without promotion.
She’s already shined in the albums department many, many times before, so I’m not bothered by the sales. Six #1 albums before turning 30. What more can you possibly want? I’m so here for US continuing to redeem itself for the previous lack of interest for her singles.
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
I don't care about your friend or brother. It's still delusional to think just because she releases a slower song = her album will start selling a lot more. If anything, it'll do the same the current singles have done, keep it in the same area. Which is where my point of any single can do that, cause they're mostly friendly enough to keep a minimal interest going.
Promotion is the only thing to give us a significant difference. So if she did release "Criminal", she'd need to still go perform it and give it attention. But, it's not even performed on the tour so that's really asking for a lot.
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I see what you mean, but this isn't about my friend or brother. Look at Fergie and Beyonce. They were promoting their albums everywhere, and their albums were doing OK. When they released Big Girls Don't Cry and Irreplaceable, their album sales EXPLODED. It might have something to do with promotion, but they were promoting their albums in big award shows even before they were released.
& I'm not saying Criminal is going to boost FF back to the top 10. It will keep it hovering around 40-60 for a long time. DDB will just sink it next to Bionic. I'm not here for that.
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Originally posted by Louie
I'm not sure about that. I have a friend who doesn't like Britney. She has TTWE, HIAM and IWG on her iPod, but that's about it. Then one day she was asking me why I like Britney so much & that I can stan for Ke$ha or Rihanna and I can get the same *****-dancing songs on my iPod, I told her Britney's albums are solid and tell a story. She laughed, then I made her listen to Criminal. She bought the album the next day.
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But that's one in a million.
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Originally posted by Louie
Almost the same thing happened with my brother. When Femme Fatale came out, I told him to check it out and tell me what he thinks, he said he's heard HIAM and TTWE and that he doesn't like her new stuff. I made him listen to Criminal and Inside Out and then he copied the album from me and started whoring it.
I don't know why only the UK stans understand this....
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Your stan card.
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Originally posted by Duca
She’s already shined in the albums department many, many times before, so I’m not bothered by the sales. Six #1 albums before turning 30. What more can you possibly want? I’m so here for US continuing to redeem itself for the previous lack of interest for her singles.
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Criminal was born a #1 smash.
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Originally posted by Louie
I see what you mean, but this isn't about my friend or brother. Look at Fergie and Beyonce. They were promoting their albums everywhere, and their albums were doing OK. When they released Big Girls Don't Cry and Irreplaceable, their album sales EXPLODED. It might have something to do with promotion, but they were promoting their albums in big award shows even before they were released.
& I'm not saying Criminal is going to boost FF back to the top 10. It will keep it hovering around 40-60 for a long time. DDB will just sink it next to Bionic. I'm not here for that.
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It's because they heavily promoted them. Beyoncé was performing "Irreplaceable" everywhere she could.
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Originally posted by hector.adriel
Martian said it's the 4th single. And that the Music Video will be the performance from the tour
Cheap bastards
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No one's gonna buy that crappy song
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Member Since: 10/14/2008
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Originally posted by Duca
But that's one in a million.
Your stan card.
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I already bought 3 copies of Femme Fatale & gifted one to my Mom on her birthday.
Not one in a million. Try making your friends listen to Criminal & let me know if its one in a million.
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Member Since: 3/30/2009
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
I don't care about your friend or brother. It's still delusional to think just because she releases a slower song = her album will start selling a lot more. If anything, it'll do the same the current singles have done, keep it in the same area. Which is where my point of any single can do that, cause they're mostly friendly enough to keep a minimal interest going.
Promotion is the only thing to give us a significant difference. So if she did release "Criminal", she'd need to still go perform it and give it attention. But, it's not even performed on the tour so that's really asking for a lot.
And trust, I understand the idea of a mid-tempo showing a "different side of Britney" to the public. But no promotion = no matter. Deal.
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Right! No matter what she releases, it will only be enough to keep the album out there, for it to keep on selling something.
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we just need to keep the singles coming.
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