July 22, 20222 yr According to a recent tweet by the 25 year old this is a concept album that's "so different to what [she's] done before"
July 22, 20222 yr Disappointing outcome in Ireland, debuts at 39, i expected way more as high expectations went top 5 here and done really well. Pretty sure the vast majority of physicals were uk only for pre orders + this week
July 22, 20222 yr Happy for Mabes, it even outsold High Expectations by about 300 despite the horrific rollout so a great success considering the past year or so
July 22, 20222 yr When you hold 4 intimate gigs with capacity of 1 000 but have to buy an album to gain entrance for a ticket. That makes up half the sales? Â Surely the occ won't let this continue?
July 22, 20222 yr When you hold 4 intimate gigs with capacity of 1 000 but have to buy an album to gain entrance for a ticket. That makes up half the sales?  Surely the occ won't let this continue? I think if there is a "no purchase necessary" link, it doesn't matter.
July 22, 20222 yr When you hold 4 intimate gigs with capacity of 1 000 but have to buy an album to gain entrance for a ticket. That makes up half the sales?  Surely the occ won't let this continue? getting an album with a ticket was only optional and most of them were around 500 capacity Realistically people who are fans enough to go to an intimate gig would most likely have bought a physical album anyway
July 22, 20222 yr When you hold 4 intimate gigs with capacity of 1 000 but have to buy an album to gain entrance for a ticket. That makes up half the sales?  Surely the occ won't let this continue? They’ve allowed it for 3+ years already. Also as long as a certain amount of tickets are available to purchase without buying the bundle then I believe it counts - record labels get around this by charging £11.50 for a ticket or £12 for the bundle.
July 22, 20222 yr Honestly sales would be even worse without the ticket / album bundles... Give the industry a break they’ve had to adapt new ways of getting sales.
July 24, 20222 yr Mabel's manager said the album was nearly scrapped 24hrs before it was announced to be released.. View this post on Instagram
July 24, 20222 yr Mabel's manager said the album was nearly scrapped 24hrs before it was announced to be released.. ex manager* but how could that even be true surely they had already printed thousands of vinyls and CDs etc by that point? the whole post is a bit odd Edited July 24, 20222 yr by plebhead8
July 25, 20222 yr Lies! No way would they scrap an album that they had pressed vinyls for, sold ticket/cd bundles, pressed picture discs and had booked all the TV appearances and Banquet signings etc... Also, In no way disregarding her feelings in terms of being a person of colour but that narrative doesn’t sit true with me in this situation when all sorts of POC have been recognised alongside this album (Including Mabel herself recognising people who helped put the album together) so it’s clear there’s some sort of fallout or storyline behind this given her need to put up that post throwing some subtle shade.... Edited July 25, 20222 yr by Mr. C. Joel
July 25, 20222 yr so it’s clear there’s some sort of fallout or storyline behind this given her need to put up that post throwing some subtle shade.... Judging by this and posts by other members of her old team (who also don’t appear to be on good terms) it seems Mabel left them as she felt they couldn’t manage singles properly/get hits to stick in the charts, while they’re arguing that no one can predict/manage this due to the changes in the industry.. but that’s kinda their job? #idk  I think she’s well within her right to make a decision like that to further her career but ig they’re pissed since they’ve been together for like 5/6 years and she just dipped. Mabel probably should have acknowledged them for the album release but maybe there’s reason for that who knows? but the way the post is phrased.. ‘I made her a multi platinum brit award winner’ comes across as quite conceited after her moaning about not giving other people credit lmao- especially when Mabel is her most successful client by far and she refuses to even mention her name.. but credit to her for the work anyway Edited July 25, 20222 yr by plebhead8
July 25, 20222 yr I think it just happens sometimes that certain artists have their 15 minutes in the sun, same happened with Zara. Considering she's not exactly oozing with star quality she probably was always going to have a fairly limited shelf life.
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