Arturo 40,746 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I want to know why Fearless and Speak Now are so high on iTunes and they was released more than two years ago and they sold very well and BTW isn`t even on the chart Isn't it obvious The hype of the new album release results in further interest in her other albums Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorPrince 1 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 From Hits: Taylor Swift's Red now looks solidly north of 1 million in first-week sales, with a chance to possibly top Lady Gaga's 1.1 million-selling debut for Born This Way in May 2011. But that album, of course, included more than 400k in 99-cent sales from Amazon MP3. How about that, boys and girls?! That discount will forever haunt this fanbase. Still it's pretty nice that she sold 700k in her first week without it. :nails: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad 32 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 That discount will forever haunt this fanbase. Still it's pretty nice that she sold 700k in her frist week without it. Yeah, people seem to forget that her numbers were impressive with or without the discount. 700k for a non-4th quarter release is really good. HDD is predicting 200k for Kendrick Lamar :party: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 680 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I believe Taylor's last album was discounted to $3:99 on Amazon for an entire week, not just two days. That's why I'm skeptical she can increase her sales without similar or new sales gimmicks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phlop 4,773 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Yeah, people seem to forget that her numbers were impressive with or without the discount. 700k for a non-4th quarter release is really good. HDD is predicting 200k for Kendrick Lamar She probably would have sold more tbh. Those people would have probably bought the album later throughout the year, and she'd have higher sales. If you think about it, a dollar an album? So 400k individual people bought it. I'm assuming half those would have bought it full price later, thats another 2.8 mil dollars by the end of the year. And the sale was only for ONE day. Imagine if it were longer. And no one I know even knew about the sale. Only the online gay music community knew about it tbqh. So technically she LOST sales with the deal. BYE Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klou 2,414 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 That discount will forever haunt this fanbase. Still it's pretty nice that she sold 700k in her frist week without it. The predictions on the Monday/Tuesday were that it was going to sell about 850K before the Amazon deal happened. So roughly 150K of the people who bought it on Amazon would have purchased it at full price anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavymlover 340 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 She probably would have sold more tbh. Those people would have probably bought the album later throughout the year, and she'd have higher sales. If you think about it, a dollar an album? So 400k individual people bought it. I'm assuming half those would have bought it full price later, thats another 2.8 mil dollars by the end of the year. And the sale was only for ONE day. Imagine if it were longer. And no one I know even knew about the sale. Only the online gay music community knew about it tbqh. So technically she LOST sales with the deal. I'm sure she doesn't really care about album sales. I mean, she posted the entire album on her youtube channel, which in a certain way affects her sales as well. At the end I think Gaga's strategy was to reach as many people as possible with the album, and then the tour sales would compensate what the album didn't. And yet it was a successful album. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad 32 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Billboard reports: According to industry sources, first-day sales for "Red" (Monday, Oct. 22) surpassed 500,000 units, including a record opening day sum at Target, as the mass-merchant scored exclusive rights to the album's deluxe version which includes three additional songs and three remixes. According to sources, Target shifted more than 160,000 units. Though not confirmed, unit sales at the iTunes Music Store appears to have also been record-setting. The digital retailer reportedly accounted for nearly half of all units sold on "Red's" first day of availability. With that start, "Red" should break the first-week iTunes sales mark, recently set by Mumford & Sons "Babel," which moved roughly 390,000 units just three weeks ago, according to those in the know. I can't deal :deadbanana: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausofmike 127 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Taylor Swift’s Album Will Debut with More Than One Million Sold Next Week October 23, 2012 Taylor Swift’s fourth Big Machine studio album Red came out yesterday accompanied by an unprecedented marketing campaign that promises to send first-week sales past 1 million. The release topped the all-genre albums chart at iTunes within 36 minutes of release, and first-day sales alone topped 262k albums, according to label sources. Taylor scored 13 of the Top 20 songs on iTunes, with the song “Everything Has Changed†taking the #1 position on the Top Songs chart. Red has sold 4.5 million song downloads to date at iTunes in the U.S. alone. At Target, Taylor’s Speak Now album had the highest one-week sales in the retailer’s history. Red has now set the record for one-day sales and is on pace to exceed Speak Now’s one-week results. Worldwide, Red reached #1 at iTunes on the first day of release in 32 countries, including the UK, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Canada, Italy, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Denmark, Venezuela, Thailand, and Ireland. With Red, Taylor has set a new record for the most rapid accumulation of 50 Top 100 hits in history, reaching the milestone only six years and one month after her 2006 chart debut, topping Aretha Franklin’s record, with her stretch of just over 14 years and six months. Taylor is one of only five women in the 54-year history of the chart to reach this milestone, joining Franklin, Madonna, Connie Francis and Dionne Warwick. Red has also received critical acclaim. Rolling Stone calls her “a turbine of artistic and ambition and superstar drama… a 16-song geyser of willful eclecticism.†Entertainment Weekly raves, “Sublime…Red should be required listening.†The L.A. Times says: “Red burns with confidence. She seems to have crossed some sort of emotional threshold to the assured words and music of a star… There are no bumps on Red...only clean, perfectly rendered American popular music.†The Washington Post called the album “another winner… She connects with clear, concise, relatable love songs that are thrown like punches and steeped in everyday details.†Taylor is making multiple television appearances this week in support of Red. Her Times Square Concert this morning was the largest in the history of Good Morning America, and tonight she appears on the Late Show with David Letterman. Tomorrow, she will be live on ABC’s The View, and on Thursday she will make a special concert appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Friday, she will be a guest on ABC’s Katie with Katie Couric, and that night she will be featured on ABC’s All Access Nashville with Katie Couric A Special Edition of 20/20. On Tuesday, Oct. 30, Taylor will perform on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars and also on the network’s 41st Annual CMA Awards Nov. 1. Taylor is featured on the covers of the current issues of Rolling Stone and Glamour magazines. :clap: Billboard reports: According to industry sources, first-day sales for "Red" (Monday, Oct. 22) surpassed 500,000 units, including a record opening day sum at Target, as the mass-merchant scored exclusive rights to the album's deluxe version which includes three additional songs and three remixes. According to sources, Target shifted more than 160,000 units. Though not confirmed, unit sales at the iTunes Music Store appears to have also been record-setting. The digital retailer reportedly accounted for nearly half of all units sold on "Red's" first day of availability. With that start, "Red" should break the first-week iTunes sales mark, recently set by Mumford & Sons "Babel," which moved roughly 390,000 units just three weeks ago, according to those in the know. I can't deal Flopga just lost that record Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryhanna 3,507 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Do we know how much Taylor is expected to sell first week at this stage? Obviously it looks like 1million+ :party: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausofmike 127 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Do we know how much Taylor is expected to sell first week at this stage? Obviously it looks like 1million+ 1-1.1m+ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo 326 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Wow. My Queen's record got dragged, snatched, and thrown away. :cry: Her album is already critically claimed! Go Taylor! :clap: :cry: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryhanna 3,507 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 1-1.1m+ That's excellent! I'm very surprised that she can sell so well, though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorPrince 1 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 She might be big in the US, but only about 5%-10% of her album sales come from outside of it. Gaga in the other hand sells a lot more worldwide. At least that's a fact we can rely on. :sweat: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausofmike 127 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 She might be big in the US, but only about 5%-10% of her album sales come from outside of it. Gaga in the other hand sells a lot more worldwide. At least that's a fact we can rely on. RED is doing good WW :coffee: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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