Olivia's Guts to return to #1, Doja Cat's Scarlet to debut with 68k in the US

[Teletubby 137,456]

After surrendering the top spot last week to Rod Wave, Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS is projected to a return to #1.

[Dr Fudge 8,599]

I’m literally so confused. Isn’t doja on top of the world? Shouldn’t she be pulling like 100s of thousands?

[sexy 3,164]

3 minutes ago, Dr Fudge said:

I’m literally so confused. Isn’t doja on top of the world? Shouldn’t she be pulling like 100s of thousands?

Same thing happened with Planet Her, peaked at #2 with barely over 100k first week.

I feel like she's similar to Katy Perry in this respect – huge singles that don't translate into album sales 

[Zaskar 3,789]

Wasnt she selling merch trolling her fan base yet can't cross 100k with all that hype???

 

[Stupid Oreo 14,196]

No vinyl on release definitely has an impact:

 

Guts had like what, 12 variants?

[Teletubby 137,456]

2 minutes ago, Stupid Oreo said:

No vinyl on release definitely has an impact:

even if she sold 20k vinyl it is very unlikely that she would be in the top 3 and i'm not sure if she could sell 20k. Planet Her sold only 16k in the first week when it became available on vinyl.

[FATCAT 59,112]

58 minutes ago, Dr Fudge said:

I’m literally so confused. Isn’t doja on top of the world? Shouldn’t she be pulling like 100s of thousands?

Besides Paint the Town Red, her promo singles really aren't performing that well. Attention got panned and Demons has largely been criticized for a number of reasons. I feel like a lot of the hype was probably people hoping for songs they liked more than the singles, so that won't really translate to pre-orders and first week sales.

[Leoj305 3,106]

1 hour ago, Dr Fudge said:

I’m literally so confused. Isn’t doja on top of the world? Shouldn’t she be pulling like 100s of thousands?

Demons had a Judas ish effect on her along with her bad press this era. Even tho the album and the work is probably her most authentic yet. 

[Anderson123 36,074]

I don't think she has the fanbase that would buy all CDs, vinyl and cassette. Doja is relying pretty much on just streaming numbers and people who have listened to Say So, Kiss Me More, Woman and a couple of the other hits. Or does she ? Idk. I'm just looking at her wikipedia page and Scarlet is the first album she tours for ?

[nATAH 43,349]

50k?!

[TortureMeOnReplay 5,830]

1 hour ago, Teletubby said:

even if she sold 20k vinyl it is very unlikely that she would be in the top 3 and i'm not sure if she could sell 20k. Planet Her sold only 16k in the first week when it became available on vinyl.

That'd be 32% more of her sales though. Not world changing but definitely better. I'm personally waiting on her vinyl release, which probably means the deluxe edition release. 

1 hour ago, FATCAT said:

Besides Paint the Town Red, her promo singles really aren't performing that well. Attention got panned and Demons has largely been criticized for a number of reasons. I feel like a lot of the hype was probably people hoping for songs they liked more than the singles, so that won't really translate to pre-orders and first week sales.

Me hoping that more songs sounded like Demons 

[Chlorine 47,975]

Well it's for sure not another cash grab. 

[Guillaume Hamon 6,027]

16 minutes ago, Wallach said:

Well it's for sure not another cash grab. 

[Dennis 8,391]

Doja Cat = Radio + TikTok, which doesn't translate to good album sales.

[FATCAT 59,112]

1 hour ago, Leoj305 said:

Demons had a Judas ish effect on her along with her bad press this era. Even tho the album and the work is probably her most authentic yet. 

It didn't help that the lyrics were pretty weak, the beat was fire tho