[KarlosVzla]

Originally posted by elliotis19

But she's on a world tour, after completing the US leg of the tour. Is that different from traditional promo?

Yes, of course.

[CaptainMusic]

Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2

This is the place to mope about that? Rated R had four singles, and passed 1 million after 13 months. Femme Fatale has sold 691k* in 7 months, with no major promotion outside the day of it's release on March 29th. Guaranteed if it had been released on Black Friday, it'd had done much more than 181k-207k and more than what it debuted with during the slowest quarter for sales.

Yea exactly.

Femme fatale would've done like 350 - 400K had it been released on black friday.

[HogwartsExpress]

Really glad to hear this, Femme Fatale is the best album of the year.

[elliotis19]

Originally posted by KarlosVzla

Yes, of course.

Oh, how so? Do please explain.

[HIAM2.0]

Almost 700,000

I can see 750,000 by the end of the year

[REALiTi]

Originally posted by Nicole

If she's too lazy/uncomfortable/whatever to promote, they should really have looked into other means of promo like Target, etc.

That's the thing, you'd expect her team to be doing something like that or doing other forms of promotion since the artist themselves aren't promoting, but Britney's team are as lazy as Britney when it comes to promotion!

[saaby11]

This album deserves so much more. Stupid Leak

[Amaru]

Originally posted by saaby11

This album deserves so much more. Stupid Leak

I can't believe how early it leaked....

[Chemist]

We should let this thread die, just for the sake of it

[Drais.]

Originally posted by Mr.Dream

I love how people call Rated R a flop when it sold 1M with only 2 main singles Hard and Rude Boy.
Femme fatale sold only 600k with already 3 hit singles.

Gerl I'm so tired of you trolling everywhere, and why haven't y'all reported this mess?

[Deemy]

Originally posted by Hi.Def

Gerl I'm so tired of you trolling everywhere, and why haven't y'all reported this mess?

I skip over them.

[Loghen]

Originally posted by elliotis19

Oh, how so? Do please explain.

"Traditional promo" includes Tv performances/interviews and/or award ceremonies performances, I assume. In those you reach to the general public. Being on a tour, you reach to your fans, they're the ones buying tickets. Hardly a casual listener will go to the tour not knowing much about the new music to eventually consider buying the album.
It's simple logic actually.

[saaby11]

Originally posted by Amaru

I can't believe how early it leaked....

Yeah , such a shame

[supaspaz]

Well, it's been a long road, but I'm glad she finally got there. Hopefully "Criminal" can help things pick up a little bit...

[£100]

Ouch.

[rihannabiggestfan]

why is it only selling 2k??? look at loud and teenage dream sales ... *confused*

[unbothered]

yikes!!!

[Monroe]

Originally posted by CaptainMusic

Yea exactly.

Femme fatale would've done like 350 - 400K had it been released on black friday.

Hell if she released the album now it likely would have sold around 450k first week. The market is up like 60% from when she released her album in March. Releasing the album in the deadest part of the year really hurt it's total sales. I don't think Britney needs to release in the fourth quarter persay but I would definitely highlight that all further releases from her should occur after July and not before. Sales are down in general, but I really think if they delayed the album release until late October that could have fixed everything. But if it is true that her team wanted a "longer" era I can understand why they would release earlier. Still though it sucks that the album most likely could have sold much better had there been a better release date.

[iamvladd]

[Britneyfan09]

Originally posted by unbothered

yikes!!!

I've seen much scarier chart runs in the past year or two. Trust me.