Feb 9, 2025
Plight2why are people hype about sales when no one listens to the album
Streams can be manipulated, sales can be inflated
There is no singular metric for what makes an album successful anymore. Each has flaws
But if you have established a reputation for quality over time that's led people to want to spend money on your product, that is something worth celebrating.
Feb 9, 2025·1 reply
thegreatdivineOf Hurry Up Tomorrow’s 490,500 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 359,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 130,500 (equaling 171.5 million on-demand official streams of the songs on the streaming edition of the album; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 1,000. ___
Hurry Up Tomorrow’s launch of 490,500 units marks The Weeknd’s biggest week by units earned (since the chart began measuring in units in December 2014). The set’s sales of 359,000 claim The Weeknd’s largest sales week ever.The set was released as a nine-song standard album, widely available through digital download retailers. It was alternatively available as an 11-song edition across all of its physical formats (CD, vinyl and cassette) and a 22-track digital download and streaming edition. It was also available in two further digital download editions, both exclusively sold via The Weeknd’s HurryUpTomorrow.Club site. Each sold for $4.99, boasted alternative cover art and had the 22 tracks available on the deluxe digital/streaming edition, but each had at least one additional track. One included “Closing Night,” with Swedish House Mafia. The other included “Runaway” and “Society,” which were also included on all of the physical formats, but not any of the other digital or streaming editions.
In total, the album generated 183,000 in digital album sales; 99,000 in CD sales; 77,000 in vinyl sales (The Weeknd’s best week on vinyl) and 1,000 in cassette sales.
Hurry Up Tomorrow’s first-week sales were aided by its availability across eight vinyl variants (including a signed edition), eight CD variants (including multiple signed editions), a cassette tape, and nine deluxe boxed sets containing a branded piece of clothing and a CD.
https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/the-weeknd-hurry-up-tomorrow-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235896581/
He kept releasing digital "signed copies" of the album and kept adding various variants. That's why the pure sales kept jumping. If people truly enjoyed the album, it would have performed a lot better on streaming in the US.
Ain't nobody listening to no damn digital albums or CDs in the streaming era lol
I'll allow the vinyl listens even tho half the people that collect vinyls don't even have vinyl players
Feb 9, 2025·1 replyI really wonder why he never gets streamed so heavily during the first week? His pure sales indicate a huge fan base, he’s a stadium force now and became popular just when streaming started to really pop off in the mainstream.
Feb 9, 2025Doing Rod Wave type numbers on streaming. Who’s the real king of R&B
- Feb 9, 2025
Not necessarily. Morgan Wallen went from debuting with 290M US streams with his sophomore album in 2021 to debuting with 498M US streams with his third album in 2023. Harry Styles went from debuting with < 100M US streams with his debut album, 109M US streams with his sophomore album and 247M US streams with his third album.
- Feb 9, 2025·1 replyKalmanta
I really wonder why he never gets streamed so heavily during the first week? His pure sales indicate a huge fan base, he’s a stadium force now and became popular just when streaming started to really pop off in the mainstream.
The simply answer is that he's clearly more of a singles artist than an album artist. He needs huge singles to drive traffic on his albums and the albums he has that don't score huge hits usually don't perform well.
Feb 9, 2025Plight2why are people hype about sales when no one listens to the album
Cuz it’s a great album that the hardcore fans are loving that ends his career as The Weeknd on a high note
- Feb 9, 2025·1 replyquadra
Ain't nobody listening to no damn digital albums or CDs in the streaming era lol
I'll allow the vinyl listens even tho half the people that collect vinyls don't even have vinyl players
Basically. All physicals act as collector's items in this day and age. Everyone listens via streaming so it you debut with low streams, you know people aren't really listening to the music like that but loyal fans will always show support however they can, hence the huge sales figures.
Feb 9, 2025thegreatdivineOnly 16 songs on the Hot 100 despite moving 450k units.
https://twitter.com/talkofthecharts/status/1888409507052572799This is awful 💀
- Feb 9, 2025
AntidoteDamn, she is having a moment
https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1888221866734604421Incredible
- Feb 9, 2025
wee500knd 🐐
Feb 9, 2025
TheFader
https://twitter.com/chartdata/status/1888682959156486508
Where’s that one dude that’s dedicated to hating The Weeknd ITT
Feb 9, 2025·2 repliesNice numbers but streaming is bad for his Standard
Feb 9, 2025YourMumsDadNice numbers but streaming is bad for his Standard
he needs prior hits and consistent promo for that, the streams are on par with dawn lol
Feb 9, 2025Updated estimate, Kendrick doing 175K+ this week.
- Feb 9, 2025
I guess he just stay one week at #1
Kendrick Next
Then Drake & PND - Feb 9, 2025
Need Kenny to push those physicals for next week.
I don't trust Abundle, he'll never let his album have the horrific drop it's expected to have.
Feb 9, 2025for sure breaking this record after tonight
- Feb 9, 2025·1 replythegreatdivine
That's a silly distinction. It's technically a new release because it'll chart as a separate album on the Billboard 200.
It technically is sure, but no one actually considers those Taylor’s Versions to be new releases in her discography; they’re glorified reissues
- Feb 9, 2025thegreatdivine
Of Hurry Up Tomorrow’s 490,500 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 359,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 130,500 (equaling 171.5 million on-demand official streams of the songs on the streaming edition of the album; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 1,000. ___
Hurry Up Tomorrow’s launch of 490,500 units marks The Weeknd’s biggest week by units earned (since the chart began measuring in units in December 2014). The set’s sales of 359,000 claim The Weeknd’s largest sales week ever.The set was released as a nine-song standard album, widely available through digital download retailers. It was alternatively available as an 11-song edition across all of its physical formats (CD, vinyl and cassette) and a 22-track digital download and streaming edition. It was also available in two further digital download editions, both exclusively sold via The Weeknd’s HurryUpTomorrow.Club site. Each sold for $4.99, boasted alternative cover art and had the 22 tracks available on the deluxe digital/streaming edition, but each had at least one additional track. One included “Closing Night,” with Swedish House Mafia. The other included “Runaway” and “Society,” which were also included on all of the physical formats, but not any of the other digital or streaming editions.
In total, the album generated 183,000 in digital album sales; 99,000 in CD sales; 77,000 in vinyl sales (The Weeknd’s best week on vinyl) and 1,000 in cassette sales.
Hurry Up Tomorrow’s first-week sales were aided by its availability across eight vinyl variants (including a signed edition), eight CD variants (including multiple signed editions), a cassette tape, and nine deluxe boxed sets containing a branded piece of clothing and a CD.
https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/the-weeknd-hurry-up-tomorrow-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235896581/
He kept releasing digital "signed copies" of the album and kept adding various variants. That's why the pure sales kept jumping. If people truly enjoyed the album, it would have performed a lot better on streaming in the US.
He released literally one extra digital deluxe post-album release. One digital version did not make the projections jump from 340K to 490K
- Feb 9, 2025Freight
Y’all can count this as a win cause of the pure sales but those streaming numbers are nasty
171M is nasty?
- Feb 9, 2025·2 repliesthegreatdivine
The simply answer is that he's clearly more of a singles artist than an album artist. He needs huge singles to drive traffic on his albums and the albums he has that don't score huge hits usually don't perform well.
Not true whatsoever.
He is a slow burn artist; he is not a singles artist whatsoever
- Feb 9, 2025·2 repliesYourMumsDad
Nice numbers but streaming is bad for his Standard
What standard man.
After Hours debuted with 220M streams.
Starboy debuted with 175M streams.
Dawn FM debuted with 173M streams.
HUT debuted with 171M streams.
What is this standard y’all speak of