If even Adele only makes 200k then frankly the album chart is dead.

 

To think the predications were for 500k just a month ago! After the under performance of Ed Sheeran, 200k must be the new high point.

I think 250-300k is still possible, I think she’ll have steady sales like Abba did in the physicals the next few days. Plus the streaming, which I reckon could be 30-40k.

There’s a lot of people now regretting laughing at Ed now these figures are in.

Omg after listening to this album and hearing how great it is, I think it might be able to match Easy Like Me's first week sales!! So it might ve avle to get 201k. Matching a single's first week sales with an album is a HARD ASK in today's climate, as singles sell more but I think she can do it!!! Between 201k-213k, which is the Abba limit, which is the new hard limit of where sales can reach I think.

 

I wss right AGAIN!

 

I was reet aboot Abba, Taylor's Red (the ONLY persoon reet about Taylor's Red being yuuge and her biggest album, betwen 70-90k!), nd I ws ree about Adele too!

I wss right AGAIN!

 

I was reet aboot Abba, Taylor's Red (the ONLY persoon reet about Taylor's Red being yuuge and her biggest album, betwen 70-90k!), nd I ws ree about Adele too!

Mystic Meg was reet!

I wonder how many buzzjack posters will call this album a flop if it becomes the fastest selling album for 4 years but doesn't break, say, 300k

 

 

This is mega flop for her standards sadly for me.

 

I've started the count :D

 

I don’t think Adele has flopped, more the album market has!

Ok there are first numbers from her sales… and yay you all gonna say I’m dramatic but she did 86k physical sales and 24k digital. 300K is not happening. It’s official that no one can sell anymore. Please save the words on me being dramatic or over the top. This is mega flop for her standards sadly for me.

Interesting stats, thanks.

 

Although it’s not a flop! Just like ABBA and Ed weren’t flops. I think I said at the time with Ed that these three releases would give us a sense of what was actually going to class as a high selling week in the streaming era.

 

It’s just not possible to compare sales figures from 6 years ago to now, without factoring in the almost complete collapse of the market.

So it sold 112k pure? That’s absolutely amazing! Your also forgetting there isn’t vinyl sales included either, so depending how many of those she has sold it’s likely she might be on 150k pure on day 1! That’s enormous with streams she might have done 170k

 

300k is possible

The floppage though :cheeseblock:

 

Even Adele cannot break the new 200k-ish market limit, and thr album eill collapse to 60k next week! :o Taylor could have run her close-ish this week.

 

The good thing about this an flop is that her next album will have to come out in a couple years, as her mega rich American record company will pressure her for more VOLUMR now, likr Cheesy Fad Sheeran, AND the next album can be purely experimental, start to finish.

So it sold 112k pure? That’s absolutely amazing! Your also forgetting there isn’t vinyl sales included either, so depending how many of those she has sold it’s likely she might be on 150k pure on day 1! That’s enormous with streams she might have done 170k

 

300k is possible

Why would vinyl sales not be included?

So it sold 112k pure? That’s absolutely amazing! Your also forgetting there isn’t vinyl sales included either, so depending how many of those she has sold it’s likely she might be on 150k pure on day 1! That’s enormous with streams she might have done 170k

 

300k is possible

 

of course vinyl is included, everybody got their vinyl yesterday

You can’t compare Ed who is the biggest act on Spotify who set streaming records with his last album to then fall massively short to Adele who hasn’t really been around for several years. She’s still likely sold as much as Ed did in an entire week in one day.

 

I think she may still get 300k but yeah the physical market is dead. Unless they tweak how streaming is counted towards the albums market, we are never going to get back to how big the sales ever were.

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the saddest part is that it shows the physical market is dead

 

so to put it into perspective, she's on 112K, ABBA was on 102K at the same point...

how much had Ed sold at the same point? anyone knows? cos I only remember the Monday figure of 80K

 

so this is not an underperformance of the same magnitude as Ed... in 1 day she's done 50% more than Ed did in 3 days

What's the point in buying albums, except for your absolute favourite act, when it's a waste of money and plastic? You can just stream and get the album, plus every other song ot there (minus This Groove by VB).

the saddest part is that it shows the physical market is dead

 

so to put it into perspective, she's on 112K, ABBA was on 102K at the same point...

how much had Ed sold at the same point? anyone knows? cos I only remember the Monday figure of 80K

 

so this is not an underperformance of the same magnitude as Ed... in 1 day she's done 50% more than Ed did in 3 days

 

It was more me comparing the first set of data we have for Adele against Ed’s whole week. So with the missing streaming data and vinyls she’s probably done around 130-140 I would have thought.

I think 30 can very well exceed 300k by Friday with all streaming and sales counted.

 

Abba did 204k with a very little streaming support.

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what vinyls? vinyls are in already

Also having to pay £38 for a vinyl doesn’t help.

The floppage though :cheeseblock:

 

Even Adele cannot break the new 200k-ish market limit, and thr album eill collapse to 60k next week! :o Taylor could have run her close-ish this week.

 

The good thing about this an flop is that her next album will have to come out in a couple years, as her mega rich American record company will pressure her for more VOLUMR now, likr Cheesy Fad Sheeran, AND the next album can be purely experimental, start to finish.

 

How could Taylor have run her close this week - she's already beat her opening week in one day :lol: