MonsterOfSpain 8,275 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 How Top Solo Female Artists Have Fared at Retail With Capitol’s Katy Perry selling 287k in her debut weekâ€â€and several blockbuster Q4 releases still in the pipelineâ€â€now seems an opportune time to take a look at Katy’s diva peers. By which we mean solo female artists whose album releases in the past few years bowed with 200k or moreâ€â€and also those who grew that first-week number into astronomical cumulative sales. For giant first-week sales, the gold, er, platinum standard of recent times is Big Machine’s Taylor Swift, whose Red debuted with 1.2m way back in 2012 and has moved a mighty 3.8m to date. Lady Gaga, whose 2011 Interscope set Born This Way bowed with 1.1m, gets an asterisk in the record book thanks to a 99-cent price point (see below); it’s sold 2.3m so far. In any case, Gaga’s forthcoming ARTPOP is likely to place her in the upper tier regardless of its suggested listâ€â€the current first-week forecast is 375k. XL/Columbia’s Adele also put out a pretty successful record in 2011. It was called 21, and in March 2011 it had an impressive 353k bow. It’s had a decent run since, as we recall, selling … wait, we had it here somewhere … ah, right: 10.8 million freaking records. So although she’s only the fourth-highest-selling in terms of recent debuts by a solo female, Adele sets the diamond standard for long-run sales in the diva games. Perry’s prior release, 2010’s Teenage Dream, bowed with 192k but has gone to do about 2.8m. Her first-week number for PRISM puts her squarely in the pack of solo female superstars, alongside such fierce competitors as Interscope’s Madonna, RCA’s P!nk and Miley Cyrus, Columbia’s Beyonce, Def Jam/IDJ’s Rihanna, YM/CM/Republic’s Nicki Minaj and 19/Arista Nashville’s Carrie Underwood. Let’s take a look at these divas’ figures. Um, their sales figures, of course. ARTIST STREET DEBUT RTD TAYLOR SWIFT 9/12 1.2m 3.8m LADY GAGA 5/11 1.1m* 2.3m MADONNA 4/12 359k 553k ADELE 3/11 353k 10.8m BEYONCE 7/11 313k 1.3m KATY PERRY 10/13 287k -- P!NK 9/12 280k 1.8m MILEY CYRUS 10/13 270k 386k C. UNDERWOOD 5/12 267k 1.5m NICKI MINAJ 4/12 253k 869k RIHANNA 9/12 237k 1.1m *Sold for 99 cents at Amazon on Tuesday and Thursday of release week. The 300k threshold is tough to break for solo females, even if they’re riding the momentum of a big hit (or, in Miley’s case, two). That said, it should be underscored that (a) selling 200-300k records in one’s first week is an impressive feat in any case, and certainly these days, and (b) from such first-week seeds mighty sales oaks can grow. The 2013 diva games continue with Columbia’s Celine Dion (due out 11/5; prior first week 214k) Gaga (11/11) and RCA’s Britney Spears (12/3; last debut 276k). Source: http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi?news09593m01 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hello Mr. Radio 45 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Welp, still better than PRISM. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor 964 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Is that a high number? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desperado 2,439 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 lol x.x hoping for 400k Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
poker face 3 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Is that a high number? for gaga it's pretty low. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weasel 12,525 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 A 60% drop :nooo: album artist. Inb4: ''she's always been a touring artist''. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illuminati Freak 2,432 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 She should have done some .99 cents deal again just to piss off the haters. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hell0samuel 59 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 is it good or not? im not very good with this kind of stuff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illuminati Freak 2,432 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 A 60% drop :noo: Realistically if there was no 99 cents deal BTW would have done between 400-500k. I'm thinking she would have done 475 maybe if she was lucky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarryTheSequins 976 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 just buy ARTPOP both physically + through the app, and then any extra copies that you're getting people as xmas presents and things Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hello Mr. Radio 45 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Where the hell is Amazon and why haven't they announced a deal yet? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weasel 12,525 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Realistically if there was no 99 cents deal BTW would have done between 400-500k. I'm thinking she would have done 475 maybe if she was lucky. Didn't BTW sell 600k without the deal though? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sexxx 5,473 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 that's almost the same as Adele. If it can keep steady Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora 162 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 99c deal pls Idk how to feel about this but whatever happens, happens I suppose.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GagaMyBlood95 9,808 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 A 60% drop :nooo: album artist. Inb4: ''she's always been a touring artist''. you can't compare 99 cent deal with real prices... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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