Morgan Wallen's I'm The Problem debuts with 493k units

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15 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

This made me realize how iconic Billie Eilish is.

339K first week with 10 songs

 

Oh yup, she's a force, and with her it's not only 1st week numbers, the longevity is actually insane, it's the most daily streamed female album on Spotify with just 10 tracks after 1 year. 

Edited May 25 by lastpopicon

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Girls and gays we need to rally behind our pop girls in the same way the maga crowd do the second a white male singer says the n word  

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Biggest US album debuts of 2025:

#1 I'm the Problem 493K: 37 tracks
#2 Hurry Up Tomorrow 490K: 11 tracks
#3 MUSIC 298K: 17 tracks
#4 $OME $EXY $ONGS 4 U 246K: 21 tracks
#5 MAYHEM 219K: 14 tracks

the weekend numbers are much more impressive despite being #2. 

Gaga is the only female on the top 5, and doing it with only 14 tracks, this also shows the bias the US market has towards male artists.

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3 hours ago, Teletubby said:

no, there is no limit. 
In December 2024, SZA added 19 tracks to her 2022 album, and now this album has 42 tracks and they all count.

Sos deluxe should be considered a separate album atp. Its 2 years later with 20 songs

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4 hours ago, lastpopicon said:

She's cooking up something right now to extend the era

I doubt it  it’s Gaga we’re talking about 

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8 hours ago, lastpopicon said:

This is not good.

He has 37 tracks, with this logic gaga would have opened with +500K, but she only has 14 tracks so 219K doesn't seem so impressive.

Opening numbers are a joke nowadays, artists just release a 40 album track and enjoy the headlines, Gaga is one of the few who still does it the proper way.

I dont think u can make the conversion exactly proportional like that

 

After a certain point I think you innevitably start to get diminishing returns as a really long album means fans have less time to replay as many of the songs, some of the more casual gp may loose interest and start skimming thru album and not listen to all of them etc

 

100% more tracks may result in just 50% more streams for example

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6 hours ago, lastpopicon said:

She's cooking up something right now to extend the era

Cooking some leftover pasta I think. 
 

 

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I just don't get how Morgan Wallen gets so many streams, country fans (including the maga ones) hate him because he's considered too "pop".

I can kind of understand it in the sense that they are basic songs and easy to listen to for a wider range of people, same way DWAS and Billie Eilish's music is really popular even though I don't understand it at all. I'm just hoping the trend of slow songs being mainstream continues to fade.

But Wallens music doesn't have any redeeming qualities, it's just objectively bad.

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3 hours ago, Anderson123 said:

Cooking some leftover pasta I think. 
 

 

wouldn't mind eating some leftover gaga pasta

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11 hours ago, lastpopicon said:

She's cooking up something right now to extend the era

Ready for Frankensteined.

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How can you even sit through one album listen of 30 to 40 songs. Who has the free time for a 3 hour non-stop music listening? Dafuq

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Just now, Pandacadabra said:

How can you even sit through one album listen of 30 to 40 songs. Who has the free time for a 3 hour non-stop music listening? Dafuq

Especially in this age of no attention span and tiktok song lengths 

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58 minutes ago, Pandacadabra said:

Who has the free time for a 3 hour non-stop music listening? Dafuq

Me