HDD: ABBA’s Voyage with 75-85k in the first week in th US

[Teletubby 153,728]

ABBA (Capitol) 75-85k total activity, 70-80k albums
Summer Walker (LVRN/Interscope) 185-210k total activity, 9-12k albums
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[AndiGaga 6,941]

I expected a looooot more

[weed 75,197]

FLOPPA

[Babel 41,530]

is the album any good?

[Joaco95 1,631]

i ****ing hate streaming rules but at least they outsold everyone else

[androiduser 7,438]

I couldn't be more surprised by the lack of success for this project, both the singles and the album. The comeback ABBA album has probably been one of the most anticipated comebacks in history... and now this...

[RAMROD 111,558]

Truth be told nobody asks for them to return except for their boomer fans, and many of them don't buy music like they used to anymore, and a handful of millennials who grew up with The A*Teens. 
 

The writing's on the wall when their new singles after years to promote this album were barely getting lukewarm welcome. 
 

People like their older hits, but that doesn't seem to extend to wanting something new from them. And as for USA, they are never really that big anyway. Nobody even knows Madonna samples one of their song until someone in the room say it out loud.

[Economy 50,838]

3 hours ago, androiduser said:

I couldn't be more surprised by the lack of success for this project, both the singles and the album. The comeback ABBA album has probably been one of the most anticipated comebacks in history... and now this...

They didnt hype it that much and the first singles came too early before the album maybe thats why. 

[Joaco95 1,631]

10 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

Truth be told nobody asks for them to return except for their boomer fans, and many of them don't buy music like they used to anymore, and a handful of millennials who grew up with The A*Teens. 
 

The writing's on the wall when their new singles after years to promote this album were barely getting lukewarm welcome. 
 

People like their older hits, but that doesn't seem to extend to wanting something new from them.

The USA didn't asked for them*

Both first singles were top 15 on the UK charts and #1 and #2 on their hometown. The virtual residency is selling good and I bet they are going to have good number sales across europe, why would they care on a market that never understood their music and just care about Mamma Mia musical? The album wasnt even promoted on the US compared to all the promo on Europe

[PunkTheFunk 124,835]

ABBA was never that big in the US anyway... I'm curious to know how their numbers are in the UK and Australia.

[Ivy 13,054]

I wonder if the fact so many of their fans are older affects this because they're not gonna run out and buy it right away or purchase online.. more like "next time I go shopping I'll look for that new ABBA"

[Joaco95 1,631]

1 minute ago, Ivy said:

I wonder if the fact so many of their fans are older affects this because they're not gonna run out and buy it right away or purchase online.. more like "next time I go shopping I'll look for that new ABBA"

well the number are most for pure sales. If you look at Summer Walker sales, around 85% of her sales are from streaming and her actual sales are too low compared to ABBA.

Old people just don't care for streaming services + new generations don't care for ABBA at all

[Original Diva 4,989]

55 minutes ago, Babel said:

is the album any good?

Yes! You should totally give it a listen. Some real bops on there

[Anderson123 39,510]

43 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

Truth be told nobody asks for them to return except for their boomer fans, and many of them don't buy music like they used to anymore, and a handful of millennials who grew up with The A*Teens. 
 

The writing's on the wall when their new singles after years to promote this album were barely getting lukewarm welcome. 
 

People like their older hits, but that doesn't seem to extend to wanting something new from them. And as for USA, they are never really that big anyway. Nobody even knows Madonna samples one of their song until someone in the room say it out loud.

They weren't big in the USA but their new music is getting the attention it deserves in the UK. I'm part of that Facebook fan group and I'm seeing like A LOT of them posting their vinyl, cassette and CD collections. A lot of them are buying like the standard ones + all the 4 alternate covers. Like there are so many collectors out there, especially the ones over 40. As we can see from those prediction numbers, 90% of whatever they debut with is going to be by sales, not streaming.

[Red 98,427]

The gheys have been begging ABBA to come back for decades and now they let them flop? Tragic.