You don't get my point. In the golden age of streaming and illegal downloads, people who are "paying" for albums are people who want to support an artist's career and feel the "need" to pay for it.

Whether it's free on TIDAL or not, EVERY single album can be listened to for free. Sia's album is available for free too (streaming or illegal downloads), it's not just Rihanna.

That is true, but in this instance people who want a legal download were able to do so for free. No one has mentioned streaming, it's about owning a copy on iTunes and it being free gave people who would've paid for a download a chance to snatch it for free. Of course Sia's album is free to listen to also but that's not the point for legal/free downloads affecting 'ANTI' sales. :unsure:

yeah, you didn't see Sia telling everyone on twitter to go download her album for free, but that's what Rihanna did and people obviously took advantage. I'm sure many would've illegally downloaded anyway but it's definitely had an affect on the album's first week sales.

To me people who want to pay for music will pay for it even if the music is up for streaming, for illegal downloads or for free on Tidal. But I guess that's just my perception of things.

Tbh, are album downloads even still that high? The fact she's sold 13k purely on downloads so far is amazing (maybe not that much, but it's very good isn't it? :unsure:) The physical will boost it a fair bit I imagine?

To me people who want to pay for music will pay for it even if the music is up for streaming, for illegal downloads or for free on Tidal. But I guess that's just my perception of things.

 

What? I know that if I'm given the chance to download something legally for *free*, I will most definitely do that rather than pay for it, and it's what I did in the case of ANTI. Why pay for something you can get for free without breaking the law?

If I wanted to support my favourite artist then I'd pay for it. In fact, I own several albums despite the fact that they are available on Spotify. I think the entire release is a bit of a mess to be honest.

 

Anyway... Yay for Sia and Yay for the not-as-good-as-the-original Fast Car thing not being #1

Yeah the only other reason I can see is to help towards its chart position :kink: otherwise if it's for free you're pretty much just wasting money paying for it (or unless you want to pay for the physical which isn't free)

If I wanted to support my favourite artist then I'd pay for it. In fact, I own several albums despite the fact that they are available on Spotify. I think the entire release is a bit of a mess to be honest.

 

It's nothing to do with streaming though :heehee: Most albums are out there for streaming, but very few are given away as free downloads, especially ones as high profile as this Rihanna album.

Rihanna isn't out on *all* streaming anyway, only streaming on TIDAL which hardly anyone has because it costs a bomb.

 

Sia on the other hand is on Spotify which everyone and their mother seems to have (and presumably, similar services) which will give her 'sales' a hefty bump this week.

 

For Rihanna to be at #3 while only reaching a fraction of the overall music-consuming market is on the one hand a very good result.

To me people who want to pay for music will pay for it even if the music is up for streaming, for illegal downloads or for free on Tidal. But I guess that's just my perception of things.

Like Joseph says that's not necessarily true, I buy a lot of physical albums to add to my collection but won't be buying Anti until it's discounted anyway because why would I when I got it for free last week legally and already have it on my computer/iPod and actually own it at the same time.

Edited February 1, 201610 yr by •Josh•

So Sia has a new album but it's a song from her previous one that is surging on the charts again?

Wow at that lead for Zayn :cheer: actually supporting him over Fast Car this week! (I'm more confident now that will get there anyway at a later date as Rihanna isn't as strong a contender as I thought).

 

Craig David & Lukas Graham top 10 for now, shaping up to be a brilliant top 10 this Friday ^_^

Most people are probably glad they didn't pay for it judging by the reviews

So Sia has a new album but it's a song from her previous one that is surging on the charts again?

It was mentioned previously in the thread about Chandler climbing.

Most people are probably glad they didn't pay for it judging by the reviews

The reviews have actually been quite good. It has a metacritic score of 71 (Higher than Sia, Katy's PRISM and Teenage Dream etc.)

Yeah, this has been Rihanna's best received work for a while, it's generally seeming to be much preferred to her previous two albums.

Album sales looking relatively stronger than anyone would've predicted they would be for the start of 2016.

 

The top end of the singles chart is looking particularly depressing. Zayn really doesn't deserve his success. He's too naive to realise he shoudn't criticise his One Direction past. He would be nowhere today without it. The Jonas Blue cover of Fast Car is unforgivabley bad. Rihanna sounds extremely intoxicated on "work". It would be really difficult for anyone to make it sound any worse.

 

Maybe I'm just getting old!

Craig David finally looking to go top 10! Please hold on!!

To me people who want to pay for music will pay for it even if the music is up for streaming, for illegal downloads or for free on Tidal. But I guess that's just my perception of things.

With all do respect, nobody cares about "to you". We care about the reality, which you clearly don't have a grasp of.

So are we expecting Rihanna to be #1 next week? With the CD release and I'm assuming it will get put on Spotify as well, plus still decent download sales it should be another 30k next week. Is there any big competition?