July 12, 20196 yr I absolutely love the Em track, not what I expected at all. The Skrillex, Stormzy and Travis Scott tracks are all good. Thought a few of the later tracks were a bit bland.
July 12, 20196 yr That Eminem/50 Cent song is garbage :drama: 'South of the Border' is perfect for the summer :wub:
July 12, 20196 yr I knew the Eminem track would be the highest but it’s not that great tbh. South Of The Border and Blow were my favourites. Watch them both not chart at all though! Edited July 12, 20196 yr by Jordan Lee
July 12, 20196 yr South of the Border is very good! It's also basically another version of SOY but Camila sounds amazing on it.
July 12, 20196 yr Yeah I am liking this as well, lots of different sounds used as opposed to very safe Ed Sheeran which is usually released. Must say I think the Stormzy track is probably the highlight.
July 13, 20195 yr Only just had the misfortune of being exposed to 'Beautiful People'. The lyrics... I genuinely loathe him.
July 13, 20195 yr I tried listening but it's beyond bad, the lyrics are getting worst and worst... there's no quality control at all he needs someone to tell him, look this one is shit, write something better :D sometimes I have to go and doublecheck the lyrics online cos I think it's impossible he wrote such crap... like in the Stormy one can't believe he sings "Grossed half a billion the Divide Tour " :/
July 13, 20195 yr Not heard the album in full yet (will be this weekend) but South of the Border is EXCELLENT, easily better than any of the singles!
July 13, 20195 yr So according to Mint Royale on Twitter, this is unsurprisingly leading for number one on the albums but not with the gigantic sales people would be expecting. 'South of the Border' is probably the worst thing he's ever done, but I quite like 'Beautiful People'.
July 13, 20195 yr Don't know which one to put on TOTW :P Antisocial, Take Me Back to London or Remember The Name?
July 13, 20195 yr I'm really loving South of the Border and Take Me Back to London. :wub: Still need to listen to the rest of the album.
July 13, 20195 yr Antisocial as it’s the single? But Take Me Back to London is the more popular one on Spotify - usually that's the single also. But not in this case.
July 13, 20195 yr UK wise it’s predicted to be #1 but not with huge sales. I’m surprised tbh I thought he’d easily get the biggest first week sales of the year to date. I do feel that his next solo album will perhaps fair better albums wise though. A lot of the tracks on this are like huge sounding singles but not what would push an album. Tbh it’s doing great he just has a very big sales track record so it’s an underperformance.
July 13, 20195 yr 170k in the USA doesn't seem that bad relatively speaking - the same dropoff from the debut of '÷' in the UK would put him at around 250k and he's clearly not gonna do anywhere near that. And that's with his singles making a lot less impact in the US than they did here as well. (although I don't know if he has some kind of shady bundling going on to bolster his sales like 80% of other albums do in the US) He will very likely do a lot better again when he drops another more traditional album, this is really more of a 'mixtape' than an album.
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