Can Love For sale debut at No.1 #BB200?

[Ivy 12,649]

I hope so, but I'm concerned..

C2C had the benefit of Gaga and Tony doing promo together on talk shows and stuff. I'm not sure as many people are aware of L4S?

Are they gonna have some promo in places that older people will be aware of? Like morning talk shows or something? Are Tony's fans being reached?

[Anderson123 38,613]

I think it's possible because this time there's the Tony Bennett jazz fans along with the newcomers after Cheek To Cheek, Joanne and A Star Is Born. But of course times have changed and streaming has pretty much killed physical copies so who knows, depends on Drake numbers and whoever else releases these couple of weeks.

[ThisGuyTony 30,989]

We’ll have to see Drake’s second and third week sales because he has the advantage of streaming. 

[LDGA 1,260]

Lets be real, it wont debut at #1, Taylor with her vynils will be the winner. She will secure at least 100k sales in vynils and 20-30k with streaming. Then Drake, will do around the same since no one really actually buys his music, but he is a streaming force. And lastly Love For Sale will debut with 100k and probably, a second or third place. 

 

[tappy3 699]

1 hour ago, IllusionLover said:

I can see this happening but do people actually buy Drake's music in physical?  idk but I always feel only locals listen to him and that's the kind of people who think CDs are obsolete or don't know what a CD is

Do we have like a number or something that shows how good he does with physical copies?

I just did some research on Drake's last album, Scorpion. It was released on June 29, 2018. On its third week (July 13, 2018), a physical CD was released. According to Billboard, the CD debuted with 13,000 copies sold in the week ending July 19, while the digital album sold 16,000. I don't think him releasing CDs would be a threat to Gaga & Tony. 

However, Scorpion spent its first 6 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard 200. On its fifth week, it sold 145,000 units. Love For Sale will be released on Oct 1st, 2021, which is the fifth week for Certified Lover Boy. Therefore, Love For Sale would have to sell around 145,000 units in order to beat Drake's new album assuming Certified Lover Boy performs as well as Scorpion. 

[tyler k 5,330]

2 minutes ago, tappy3 said:

Therefore, Love For Sale would have to sell around 145,000 units in order to beat Drake's new album assuming Certified Lover Boy performs as well as Scorpion. 

yeah this is 1000000% doable

I genuinely don't think Tswift's vinyls is gonna guarantee her a #1 debut, maybe a top 5 debut, but not #1.

 

[tappy3 699]

25 minutes ago, LDGA said:

Lets be real, it wont debut at #1, Taylor with her vynils will be the winner. She will secure at least 100k sales in vynils and 20-30k with streaming. Then Drake, will do around the same since no one really actually buys his music, but he is a streaming force. And lastly Love For Sale will debut with 100k and probably, a second or third place. 

 

Don't give up yet!

2 minutes ago, tmo13 said:

yeah this is 1000000% doable

I genuinely don't think Tswift's vinyls is gonna guarantee her a #1 debut, maybe a top 5 debut, but not #1.

 

On the vinyls releasing week for Evermore (the week ending June 3), the vinyls sold 102,000 copies with three different versions. They were also heavily discounted (20% on web store). There are only two versions for the Fearless vinyl and no discount yet. I expect less than 100k vinyl sales for Fearless. 

However, if Taylor Swift pulled another signed CDs strategy (69,000 copies sold for Evermore), then Love For Sale will probably not snatch number 1. 

[Meredith Grey 3,161]

It’s really a toss-up. I’d be way more afraid of Taylor than Drake. It is only Vinyls but if she releases a single from Red that week it might spark people to start listening to Fearless again. Gaga definitely has a chance but these 3 will prob take the top spots. Unless Rihanna decides that week is the best to release her new album LMAO

[IllusionLover 6,815]

19 minutes ago, tappy3 said:

I just did some research on Drake's last album, Scorpion. It was released on June 29, 2018. On its third week (July 13, 2018), a physical CD was released. According to Billboard, the CD debuted with 13,000 copies sold in the week ending July 19, while the digital album sold 16,000. I don't think him releasing CDs would be a threat to Gaga & Tony. 

However, Scorpion spent its first 6 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard 200. On its fifth week, it sold 145,000 units. Love For Sale will be released on Oct 1st, 2021, which is the fifth week for Certified Lover Boy. Therefore, Love For Sale would have to sell around 145,000 units in order to beat Drake's new album assuming Certified Lover Boy performs as well as Scorpion. 

Okay first, only 13k CDs?  

And second CLB is not scorpion, I saw people in twitter talking about that this new album doesn't hold the power his last album had, and someone said that his streams went down a 50% the next day or week (i don't remember well) so that won't be a threat for Gaga and Tony, but Taylor will.

5 minutes ago, Meredith Grey said:

It’s really a toss-up. I’d be way more afraid of Taylor than Drake. It is only Vinyls but if she releases a single from Red that week it might spark people to start listening to Fearless again. Gaga definitely has a chance but these 3 will prob take the top spots. Unless Rihanna decides that week is the best to release her new album LMAO

I don't think Taylor would release a Red (tv) single the same day as her vinyls I think she wants to get rid of everything Fearless (tv) related before officially starting Red, however I haven't seen signed Fearless CDs yet so she might pull those the same week as the vinyls like she did with evermore.

LMAO October first is the hunger games  i don't want to be on twitter the day the BB200 is revealed.

[pachinko 10,447]

We have at least #3 debut guaranteed. They should really push out the album a week. 

[Chromatix 2,860]

i think they'll finish at no. 2 during their debut week. ofc i will buy the CD and stream it on Spotify, but i'm not in the US.

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

It's just a Jazz standards album. The only reason C2C was number 1 lat time was the it was up against Barbra Streisand 2nd week and who ever Kenny Chesney country artist. 

Also back then streams didn't contribute to the Bb200 chart and with the new bundle rule limits physical and digital sales. 

It's literally a different era in music. 

[ALGAYDO 32,759]

12 hours ago, gabeoz said:

If LFS doesn’t go #1 it’s gonna end Gaga’s #1 streak 

DOC already broke her streak tho 

[gabeoz 7,915]

5 minutes ago, ALGAYDO said:

DOC already broke her streak tho 

Remix albums dont count  BTW remix album didnt go #1 but BTW is still considered part of the streak. (since its not a main release)

[ALGAYDO 32,759]

12 minutes ago, gabeoz said:

Remix albums dont count  BTW remix album didnt go #1 but BTW is still considered part of the streak. (since its not a main release)

Ohhhhh, you’re right. My mistake haha