Katy's Witness sold 62K, first week (no tour bundles)

[Runway 27,876]

1 minute ago, ViviLittleM said:

since some concertgoers would have bought the album if there hadn't been a bundle, it's unfair to say "XX would have sold..."

“That said, the extreme week two drops we've been seeing suggest these bundles *are* definitely lifting first week sales”

[kabirartfling 9,063]

Stop throwing stones at your sisters and ur brothers 

[Jinzo 9,618]

[migamiga 12,067]

To be fair, these no-bundles numbers aren't exactly indicative of what the sales would've been. Who's to say those people who bought the bundle wouldn't have bought the album anyways? Just like people says gaga got an extra 400k in sales from the $0.99 Amazon deal. Who's to say those 400k copies wouldn't have been sold without the sale? 

Does that make sense? 

[monsterdino 31,813]

4 minutes ago, ViviLittleM said:

since some concertgoers would have bought the album if there hadn't been a bundle, it's unfair to say "XX would have sold..."

you see they could've also streamed it or illegaly downloaded and they can do both for free while ticker for a show "u can't cheat" or get it for free

it wouldn't go over 100K 100%

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2 minutes ago, F AM E said:

To be fair, these no-bundles numbers aren't exactly indicative of what the sales would've been. Who's to say those people who bought the bundle wouldn't have bought the album anyways? Just like people says gaga got an extra 400k in sales from the $0.99 Amazon deal. Who's to say those 400k copies wouldn't have been sold without the sale? 

Does that make sense? 

“That said, the extreme week two drops we've been seeing suggest these bundles *are* definitely lifting first week sales”

What they said after seems to neglect that theory. I'm sure some would've bought the album, but not in every case. Not all 100K would've bought the album. 

[datlastfam 4,392]

[Mana Mahad 1,749]

Omg this is beyond tragic ........

 

[migamiga 12,067]

1 minute ago, ZacharyMark said:

“That said, the extreme week two drops we've been seeing suggest these bundles *are* definitely lifting first week sales”

What they said after seems to neglect that theory. I'm sure some would've bought the album, but not in every case. Not all 100K would've bought the album. 

I'm not denying that it helps sales, but people just automatically assume that the no-bundle numbers are what that artist would've sold without the deal. Also huge 2nd week sales drop seem pretty commonplace nowadays anyways

ps i didnt read the article 

[Avenues 4,370]

Well everyone has flop eras 

And I've always said this and I'll say this again, Witness is not the best but its definitely not bad. I would be lying if I said I don't love it. 

[Mana Mahad 1,749]

On atrl they talk about 62k without bundles

[HauntingHollow 4,310]

Bionic who ?

 

[monsterdino 31,813]

To show how great the power of tour bundles is

The Truth About Love (2012)       #1,   first week sales 281,000
Beautiful Trauma (2017)               #1,   first week sales 408,000

This is P!nk's 1st and 2nd highest first week sales of her WHOLE CAREER, Beautiful Trauma who had no hit became her highest first week sales album bc of the tour bundles with 408K, WHILE The Truth About Love who was previously highest 1st week sales did 281K and had a MAJOR #1 HIT with "Just Give Me A Reason"

 

[monsterdino 31,813]

1 minute ago, Monster Boy said:

On atrl they talk about 62k without bundles

oh messed up the number, 2K less lmfao

[MonsterPaws 2,631]

I don't keep up w/ this stuff tbh

but how bad is it?