September 20, 20222 yr Truly fantastic that she's already exceeded 10k :wub: I was quietly confident that this would do nicely for her, in the sense she could go Top 10, but I really wasn't expecting those sales. Go Rina!
September 21, 20222 yr Author Her Birmingham and Nottingham signings have been rescheduled for dates when she's touring those cities, due to illness </3 She's been working so hard in the album build up so I'm not surprised it's caught up to her. Wishing her a speedy recovery!
September 22, 20222 yr I bought the CD just now, was going to wait for a bit but in the mids she's barely 100 copies clear of No.2, I'd kick myself if she missed that by 1 sale, as unlikely as it is to be that close. It's such a good album.
September 22, 20222 yr Author @1572947579570356225 #1 on UK iTunes after discounting to £4.99! Suede are also £4.99...... but good to see she's in the lead on there and pushing it on her socials.
September 23, 20222 yr Author 30,990 sales for her debut album 'SAWAYAMA'. She missed out on #2 by 77 sales tho... that's crushing, but better than if she missed the #1 by that many copies! I presume this will free fall this week, which will be a shame, but hoping for 2nd week top 75 at least?
September 23, 20222 yr Such a shame she missed out on #2 by just a few sales. Rina Sawayama is officially the highest charting Japanese artist in history in the UK (via PopCrave)
September 23, 20222 yr 30,990 sales for her debut album 'SAWAYAMA'. She missed out on #2 by 77 sales tho... that's crushing, but better than if she missed the #1 by that many copies! I presume this will free fall this week, which will be a shame, but hoping for 2nd week top 75 at least? Those sales are quite decent for her debut considering it spent 1 week at #80 in the charts. Perhaps it spent quite a long time in the 100-200 range. With her profile increasing due to her recent successes perhaps it could eventually go silver? She debuted higher and with more sales than I thought she would originally for her second album! Great achievement. :wub: I hope the album can manage another week or two in the top 100 and won't completely bomb out. Although with it having hardly any streaming support, that's going to be a big ask. Maybe TikTok could make a track go viral or something?
September 24, 20222 yr I'm sure Jay can confirm but I believe it only had 2 weeks in the top 200 (first week and the week the vinyl came out), plus another week just outside the top 200 the week after the vinyl release as it seems some of those sales leaked into the following week for some reason, indicating that it probably should have been higher than #80 that one week. (Digging up the Discord message that Jay mentioned this in, the week of its top 100 entry it only had 176 streaming sales, that's nowhere near enough to place it in the top 200 in any normal week) Its total in those 3 weeks was 3,628 which means it's sold 27,362 in the remaining weeks, it's been out for ~29 months so a very rough estimate from that without counting the exact number of weeks places its average weekly sales excluding those 3 weeks somewhere around 250 (a little less than that I think) which seems reasonable, but again definitely not enough to make it a top 200 staple. It'll probably trickle to silver eventually but I don't know if I'd say her profile has really increased that much with this album, she's mostly just consolidated her fanbase more into one week and played the game smarter to maximise the sales out of that fanbase. This album still didn't really do particularly well on streaming.
September 24, 20222 yr Yep, it only managed 2 weeks in the Top 200! #106 on 24th April 2020 (1,162 sales) and #80 on 12th November 2021 (1,608 sales). Its total was 23,370 on 19th November 2021, and now it's 30,990 on 24th September 2022 - that is 7,620 more sales in 44 weeks, which works out as 173 sales a week on average (specifically 173.1818)! So that's certainly way below a typical #200 which tends to require about 850 each week. If it managed to keep adding 173 to its total every week then it would go Silver in December 2025, argh x By the way, so thrilled for her getting to #3 :wub: View this post on Instagram thank u pixels 😭😭😭😭😭 kind of a historic week in the UK charts 😭😭😭 growing up I would have loved to have seen east asian girls dominating the top 3 in the UK album charts like this 😭😭😭😭 anyone who has bought or streamed the record thank u so SO much ❤️❤️❤️❤️ could not have dreamed this 🥺🥺🥺🥺 thank u thank u thank u ❤️❤️❤️ we made history !!!!
September 24, 20222 yr Author Just got around to hearing 'Flavour Of The Month'... definitely see why it was only a bonus track. vCYcvYmM4Bw It's decent though. Reminds me of 'Money Honey' by Gaga.
September 26, 20222 yr A shame she didn't bag the #2. Still though, what an achievement and WHAT AN ALBUM!! My favourite track is changing constantly. Currently hooked on Minor Feelings. Not had this love for an album in a while
September 29, 20222 yr Author Her version of 'Happier Than Ever' in the live lounge was so good! c4Sa3Fx9Ss8 I love her so much.
September 30, 20222 yr 3-92 :drama: I know this is the norm now and Rina is performing the same as most other new releases but I thought/hoped it might have held up slightly better in week 2.
October 19, 20222 yr Just back from seeing her live, she was great fun :wub: I was there too, she was incredible! (you weren't the guy that photobombed my pic, were you? :lol:) My only gripe was that she didn't do 'Chosen Family' which is my absolute fave of hers but she made up for it with the surprise setlist inclusion of 'Beg For You', and hearing most of the new album live has got me into the songs even more!
October 19, 20222 yr Yeah I loved so many of the live renditions… the rockier section in particular sounded so much more amazing live, Your Age was possibly my highlight of the whole thing with that amazing build up into the song. Frankenstein was also amazing. Would have loved to hear Free Woman in an ideal set but everything else was pretty much perfect for me. The worst bit for me was when she asked us all to crouch down… I was like OMG you have no idea how difficult this is at my age! :lol:
October 19, 20222 yr Looks like she's filming a halloween video for "Frankenstein"! @1582771218599784448 Please go viral and become a hit. :cheer: Edited October 19, 20222 yr by Envoirment
October 19, 20222 yr Author I saw her at Rock City too! *.* What a STAR. The album was pretty much performed start to finish (except with This Hell being the final song obvz) and Forgiveness being the only song she didn't perform from it! Was very happy with the 'SAWAYAMA' song selections particularly Bad Friend! Wasn't expecting to hear that. But I would have LOVED to have heard Dynasty live! She utilised the stage so perfectly and performed her ASS off! Frankenstein, Your Age, Hold The Girl, Comme Des Garçons, XS & This Hell were all particularly incredible and my highlights! Especially the latter! My ears popped off when the crowd screamed "FUCK WHAT THEY DID TO BRITNEY, TO LADY DI & WHITNEY"... it was so loud lmaooo! Amazing! I also loved the middle 8 chant back! Just amazing stuff. I'd absolutely LOVE to see her utilise a bigger stage and a bigger budget. She's an absolute STAR! (She was also so nice when I met her earlier in the day - although we were being rushed through so it was hard to talk properly lmao)
Create an account or sign in to comment