HDD: Solar Power to debut at #3, Olivia's SOUR to sell over 80k vinyls

[elijahfan 26,630]

4 minutes ago, ororo munroe said:

I really think some people were just waiting for a chance to drag her lol

I try to remind myself that people are allowed to have different tastes and opinions, but yeah, it feels biased as **** here. It's sad.

Then again, it's just noise on the internet. Down the road, none of this will matter or even be remembered. The art, on the other hand, will remain.

[Hyperobject 66,771]

3 minutes ago, elijahfan said:

I try to remind myself that people are allowed to have different tastes, but yeah, it feels biased as **** here. It's sad.

Then again, it's just noise on the internet. Down the road, none of this will matter or even be remembered. The art, on the other hand, will remain.

Can’t wait for the same music magazines that trashed album release “Why Solar Power was so misunderstood” articles in 5 years 

[elijahfan 26,630]

2 minutes ago, ororo munroe said:

Can’t wait for the same music magazines that trashed album release “Why Solar Power was so misunderstood” articles in 5 years 

Exactly my thoughts

[Teletubby 153,569]

[Bling 31,543]

A lot of yall are forgetting your fav released Joanne huh?

[Runway 27,876]

7 minutes ago, WheresMy911Alice said:

A lot of yall are forgetting your fav released Joanne huh?

A platinum certified album that debuted at #1 with 201k sales despite having no hit singles pre-release

not everyone can do it it seems

[tylerjs 5,951]

Taylor Swift will go and make the same music that Lorde just put out 400 times in a row and y’all will go absolutely feral. Lorde stops making sad dance music for one album and it’s torches and pitchforks. Inchresting indeed 

[Juanlittlem 47,248]

You're telling me there's albums on the Top 20 that sold 50 copies?

[ignotus 1,404]

This album deserves #1, no matter what the critics say about it. 

it’s still a solid Lorde album 

[Bling 31,543]

8 minutes ago, Runway said:

A platinum certified album that debuted at #1 with 201k sales despite having no hit singles pre-release

not everyone can do it it seems

I meant more of the shift in the artists' signature sound, rather than the sales

[gypsy101 5,453]

On 8/21/2021 at 7:07 PM, RAMROD said:

LMAO no, it is all Lorde decision, because she decides she doesn't wanna sell CD anymore, but vinyl only. But not a lot of people want to buy vinyls, or afford to, so there's that. 

except for how many artists vinyls are selling out almost immediately and have a months long wait for more copies to be available?

[BlondeQueenOfGGD 25,454]

18 minutes ago, Juanlittlem said:

You're telling me there's albums on the Top 20 that sold 50 copies?

Welcome to the streaming era 

[Teletubby 153,569]

On 8/22/2021 at 1:07 AM, RAMROD said:

LMAO no, it is all Lorde decision, because she decides she doesn't wanna sell CD anymore, but vinyl only. But not a lot of people want to buy vinyls, or afford to, so there's that. 

Now people buy more vinyls than CDs and when artists have vinyls and CDs they sell more on vinyls
Happier Than Ever 73,000 on vinyl, 46,000 on CD in the 1st week
Evermore 102,000 on vinyl,  69,000 on CD in the 1st week

[CyanDante 6,184]

It's funny how some of y'all are complaining about Lorde's sales figures. 

She doesn't care, and neither should you, especially if you are not a fan! 

[Ziggy 12,241]

On 8/21/2021 at 4:20 PM, Jill said:

Melodrama came out four years after PH and still got 109k first week. PH got 129k first week, which means a 15.5% fall across four years. Solar Power came out four years after Melodrama, and is projected, at best, to have 60k first week - a 44.95% fall. So, apart from the general fall of sales across the board and all (which doesn't make it impossible to crack 100k still), it's quite obvious Lorde is losing sales. Not that there's anything bad in that, just interesting to see.

Not super shocking. Bear in mind Royals was HUGE so melodrama had that behind it even if it didn’t have a huge lead single. Just like TFM would have done well even without Bad Romancr because JD and PF had come before it so the name was there. Lorde hasn’t had a huge hit since royals AND keeps dipping for years. Of course, this only matters if she cares about that but I have a hunch she doesn’t lmao