ultraviolence:
Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[148] Gold 35,000^
Brazil (ABPD)[149] Platinum 40,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[150] Gold 40,000^
France (SNEP)[151] Platinum 100,000*
Germany (BVMI)[152] Gold 100,000^
Mexico (AMPROFON)[153] Gold 30,000^
Poland (ZPAV)[154] Platinum 20,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[155] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[156] Gold 500,000^
Glitter:
France (SNEP)[74] Gold 100,000*
Japan (RIAJ)[75] Platinum 450,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[76] Gold 20,000x
United States (RIAA)[77] Platinum 652,000[43]
Just from those few countries alone. Don't make me include even more countries
At you being proud of 100k in France / 652k in US in 2001.
Capital isn't a station it's a network brand. Radio 1 is bigger than every individual Capital.
And she was on Zane Lowe and was on their playlist and had support from them. Plus Radio 1 fits her demographic more. If Capital doesn't play you, you can still get a hit from Radio 1 alone. Their impact is much higher.
We also had the mess of the preorders being cancelled as the single was deleted on iTunes affecting its chart entry.
But honestly - I listen to Radio 1 everyday - and I hear hardly anything from the charts.
The music was not nearly as commercial as Born to Die. UV was never going to be a huge album. I don't think Lana even wanted it to be, since she cancelled so many promo spots around its release.
Yet Lana is an artist now that is making music just for the purpose to satisfy her ideas and she's receiving critic acclaim for that and then we have you who unfortunately decided to open a thread about her most critically acclaimed album cause it didn't for you sold a lot ? well hopefully it will be enough to buy you a new ****ing brain