THIB 🦌Oct 26, 2020·1 reply
I AM LOVESales Didn’t Decrease, People’s Perception of Numbers Decreased
- I AM LOVE
@Brave they biting your style
Oct 26, 2020·2 repliesTHIB@Brave they biting your style
I say let the people have it
- EVERYONE
Oct 26, 2020
NDL DOOMLiterally since the inception of iTunes and pirating music, yes.
Not Adele.
Oct 26, 2020BRAVEI say let the people have it
- EVERYONE charitable king
- Oct 26, 2020
drake collabs 😭
- Oct 26, 2020
safeBy nature because the way we consume music changes so often, the amount of album sales is gonna change over time
In 5-10 years time I’d put money that we’re gonna start to see albums doing 800k+ off streaming alone and maybe even some 1m+ albums just from streaming
In the meantime though I think Adele is now the only artist who can hit 1m
hmm 🤔
- safe 🪩Oct 26, 2020·2 replies
In terms of people hitting 1m in the near future yall need to look at Scorpion to understand where sales are gonna be with the new bundle rules
I’m of the opinion that Scorpion is the biggest album of the 2010s. Adele is the exception but she’s almost in a different category given the pure sales/streaming divide.
Scorpion was streamed 746m times first week. The second highest ever is Carter V with 433m. There is a gap between these two that is larger than any album other than 12 in history has ever had first week. Scorpions SECOND week is the 6th highest streaming week ever.
And scorpion didn’t break 800k
We aren’t getting a 1m plus album (other than Adele) for a long long time
- Oct 26, 2020·1 reply
btw Travis is still gonna do good pure #'s
signed CD's the new wave, y'all saw his latest single was still doing some big ass pure #'s and that was without bundles.
- Oct 26, 2020·1 replysafe
In terms of people hitting 1m in the near future yall need to look at Scorpion to understand where sales are gonna be with the new bundle rules
I’m of the opinion that Scorpion is the biggest album of the 2010s. Adele is the exception but she’s almost in a different category given the pure sales/streaming divide.
Scorpion was streamed 746m times first week. The second highest ever is Carter V with 433m. There is a gap between these two that is larger than any album other than 12 in history has ever had first week. Scorpions SECOND week is the 6th highest streaming week ever.
And scorpion didn’t break 800k
We aren’t getting a 1m plus album (other than Adele) for a long long time
I think a few artist will hold good pure numbers
- safe 🪩Oct 26, 2020·1 replyDEL_245
btw Travis is still gonna do good pure #'s
signed CD's the new wave, y'all saw his latest single was still doing some big ass pure #'s and that was without bundles.
Franchise was pre bundle rules wasn’t it?
- Oct 26, 2020·1 replyBRAVE
I say let the people have it
- EVERYONE @CilviaDemo I aint bitin , I’m paying homage to a young goat
- Oct 26, 2020·2 repliessafe
Franchise was pre bundle rules wasn’t it?
for albums yes, not for singles, bundles for singles (digital bundles) have been gone for a minute now.
he got to #1 off of signed CD sales.
- safe 🪩Oct 26, 2020Delejayn
I think a few artist will hold good pure numbers
Not enough to get 1m+ pure sales are still declining every year
Even someone like Taylor is only gonna pull in 500k pure at absolute complete best case from now and she’s nowhere near big enough on streaming to get 500k
And as streaming grows more pure sales decline more
Oct 26, 2020·1 replyDEL_245for albums yes, not for singles, bundles for singles (digital bundles) have been gone for a minute now.
he got to #1 off of signed CD sales.
I love that cd singles are a thing again lol. And travis dropped instrumental too
- Oct 26, 2020·1 reply
It’s pretty cyclic, album sales relative to however people consume at the time
The streaming “era” as we know it didn’t really start until 2017, so give it a couple more years (or even just a year and a half) and we’ll be settled in to the point where huge first week sales are multiple instances of 600-800k in one year
Also, we don’t have a fresh crop of “trusted” superstars in music yet, it’s still only the established names from the early 2010s that can capture the zeitgeist in that way. It’s still a transition period for the new superstars. Again, give it a couple years and the next group of superstars will do those huge numbers I’m sure
- BRAVE
- safe 🪩Oct 26, 2020·2 repliesDEL_245
for albums yes, not for singles, bundles for singles (digital bundles) have been gone for a minute now.
he got to #1 off of signed CD sales.
Interesting
I think artists are gonna find ways round the bundling rules
Stuff like forcing a pop up to add a copy of the album “for only $3.99” and etc - Oct 26, 2020
Hip hop is more streaming based now
- Oct 26, 2020martian master
I love that cd singles are a thing again lol. And travis dropped instrumental too
yup, it's how Taylor has been going #1 every other week, she drops a bunch of signed CD's whenever the charts look weak enough.
- Oct 26, 2020safe
Interesting
I think artists are gonna find ways round the bundling rules
Stuff like forcing a pop up to add a copy of the album “for only $3.99” and etcdef can see this happening 😭😭
travis gonba bring stormi and kylie to a meet and greet to sell his album
- Oct 26, 2020BRAVE
It’s pretty cyclic, album sales relative to however people consume at the time
The streaming “era” as we know it didn’t really start until 2017, so give it a couple more years (or even just a year and a half) and we’ll be settled in to the point where huge first week sales are multiple instances of 600-800k in one year
Also, we don’t have a fresh crop of “trusted” superstars in music yet, it’s still only the established names from the early 2010s that can capture the zeitgeist in that way. It’s still a transition period for the new superstars. Again, give it a couple years and the next group of superstars will do those huge numbers I’m sure
- BRAVEi dont see anyone doing 600k off streans alone scorpion didnt even do that
- Oct 26, 2020·1 replysafe
In terms of people hitting 1m in the near future yall need to look at Scorpion to understand where sales are gonna be with the new bundle rules
I’m of the opinion that Scorpion is the biggest album of the 2010s. Adele is the exception but she’s almost in a different category given the pure sales/streaming divide.
Scorpion was streamed 746m times first week. The second highest ever is Carter V with 433m. There is a gap between these two that is larger than any album other than 12 in history has ever had first week. Scorpions SECOND week is the 6th highest streaming week ever.
And scorpion didn’t break 800k
We aren’t getting a 1m plus album (other than Adele) for a long long time
I definitley dont think a rap artist we know of right now will do a M (slight chance Post Malone - inb4 argument about him being rap)
But I think someone will come up in the decade with one of those iconic runs that do a M first week
- THIB 🦌Oct 26, 2020I AM LOVE
@CilviaDemo I aint bitin , I’m paying homage to a young goat
respect
- Oct 26, 2020·1 replysafe
Interesting
I think artists are gonna find ways round the bundling rules
Stuff like forcing a pop up to add a copy of the album “for only $3.99” and etcTrippie redd for pegasus has 2 target bonus songs on the CD version ONLY also instead of pre orders of vinyls they're shipped first week of the album now and have been incentivizing fans to buy it more (he sold out on them a few days ago), I've also been noticing his team getting fans used to merch drops as a source of income for him because of no shows right now and its working, he legit sold out of majority of his drops for the last 5 months.
It will be interesting to see what else they do and what other artist will do, maybe even bring the CD or itunes exclusive back.