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Ed Sheeran - “=“ first week sales predictions

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“=“ sales prediction 156 members have voted

  1. 1. How many sales will ?=? do in its first week?

    • Fewer than 20,000
      4
    • 20,000-30,000
      0
    • 30,000-40,000
      0
    • 40,000-50,000
      1
    • 50,000-60,000
      0
    • 60,000-80,000
      3
    • 80,000-100,000
      2
    • 100,000-120,000
      6
    • 120,000-150,000
      18
    • 150,000-200,000
      18
    • 200,000-250,000
      19
    • 250,000-300,000
      23
    • 300,000-350,000
      18
    • 350,000-400,000
      13
    • 400,000-450,000
      1
    • 450,000-500,000
      4
    • 500,000-600,000
      3
    • 600,000-700,000
      0
    • 700,000-800,000
      0
    • 800,000-900,000
      0
    • 900,000-1,000,000
      1
    • More than 1,000,000
      6

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Maybe we are seeing the end of massive week 1 opening numbers for the big hitters? I guess Adele will give us a clearer picture on that but this could be the days of 300k+ opening weeks are behind us
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He talked about this on Johnathan Ross the other week too regarding how he looks up to Coldplay because so far into their career they are still maybe not always number one but are still in the conversation in terms of charts!

Apart from the parts where a) it would have been #1 without the CD sales and b) it was #1 for a further 10 weeks after that :P

 

(I'm not sure what he is on about being 'midweek like #4 or something' though, it was definitely #1 in all of the midweeks, just by a smaller margin than expected :kink: took a few days to reach #1 on Spotify but it was #2 before that!)

Apart from the parts where a) it would have been #1 without the CD sales and b) it was #1 for a further 10 weeks after that :P

 

(I'm not sure what he is on about being 'midweek like #4 or something' though, it was definitely #1 in all of the midweeks, just by a smaller margin than expected :kink: took a few days to reach #1 on Spotify but it was #2 before that!)

 

Christ knows what he's on about https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singl...20210712/7501u/

 

Debuted at No 1 on the update.

we get updates on Mon, but labels get updates after each day so they know how they did on Friday, when BH had a slower than expected start
That first midweek update would have had (close to) no streaming data in it at all, so he would have been #1 by miles in that.
It took 8 years then, wish I had the same kind of self-reflection :lol:

 

Or maybe he should start making music just for music and not charts.

 

How do you know he isn’t?

Ed Sheeran said in an interview years ago that he'll never get a hit as big as Thinking Out Loud ever again (which I agreed with at the time, a hit that big is almost impossible to top). But as we know he surpassed that in the end, somehow. So really in a sense his peak lasted longer than he probably expected.
Maybe he just wanted to make that song, reality is you don’t know.

Ed is a commercial artist so will go with the latest trends, I actually thought that 'Shape of You' was extremely similar to The Weeknd's 'Starboy' too (although they were released close to each other timewise). He generally does it well though.

 

However, "Shivers" you can argue is a solid no.1 which isn't obviously borrowing from other artists..and I thought the resulting album'=' is nowhere near as commercial as '÷' though which felt like listening to Michael Jackson's "Bad" or something in that virtually every track could have been a single.

I saw more people comparing Shape Of You to Cheap Thrills at the time. I don't think it's really similar to Starboy, except the vocal melodies where I do see some similarity now I think about it, but I would have never noticed if it wasn't pointed out.
yes it was Cheap Thrills that was similar to, not Starboy.

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