Yeah. I don't see how 175k is "dire". :heehee: Especially given the current sales climate.

Tis growinggggg.

this is a brilliant album

 

I thought I'd be disappointed after reading some of the reviews/comments but maybe it seemed ten times better because I listened to it directly after finishing Mariah's new borefest for the first time...

 

I don't agree that it lacks hooks either...sure, the songs are more subtle to Good Girl Gone Bad, but not so much that there are no melodies evident here...great stuff :D

Yeah. I don't see how 175k is "dire". :heehee: Especially given the current sales climate.

 

Susan is about to do 600k and GaGa 350k and ADAM LAMBERT doing bout 275k... Rihanna's coming off a HUGE album that sold 2.5million copies in the US. 175k is POOR, very poor. Plus we're going into the holiday season now, she should be sailing with about 250k by now.

Didnt Rihanna's last album only sell 162k in the first week? and that was off the back of Umbrella one of her biggest hits to date, yes it sold over 2.5 million but how many singles did she have to get out there to get that figure? and dont forget the re-release.

#9 debut for the album in ireland this week.

Susan is about to do 600k and GaGa 350k and ADAM LAMBERT doing bout 275k... Rihanna's coming off a HUGE album that sold 2.5million copies in the US. 175k is POOR, very poor. Plus we're going into the holiday season now, she should be sailing with about 250k by now.

Compared to them 3, yeah, but this is Rihanna's biggest opening sales isn't it? It's hardly anything to call "dire" :P Considering this era has been a bit of a mess in the US so far, I for one am happy she's managed to rope in quite healthy debut sales. I for one, wasn't expecting anymore after 'Russian Roulette' bombing as much as it has been doing. I just hope it's a slow burner and manages to keep a steady pace of sales.

On Rude Boy when she sings "toooniight" she sounds like Beyonce.

The reason the last album did so well and sold consistently wasn't necessarily because it was her, but it was an album packed full of killer hits, the material on this album isn't as hooky/appealing, I only see this album struggling in future after getting off to such a shaky start. :(

 

I'm not dissing the album, it's decent enough but that's the way it is.

Hmmm ... I think it could do okay with the right singles picked. 'Rude Boy' and 'Fire Bomb' would especially go down well over here I should imagine.

 

But yeah it won't do anywhere near as well as GGGB. :( It should do a little better than the first two though, well, hopefully.

Charted at #16 this week. :(

32k though, obviously worse than I expected, but it's okay I guess. :(

Good sales but crappy chart position. Hopefully it'll climb next week.

32k is NOT good, I do hope by some kind of miracle this can pick up at some point though...

It should pick up after X Factor tonight. I hope so anyway.

Hits Daily Double - US Top 50 Albums

 

LAST UPDATE: 12/01/2009 13:38:43 PST

NOW IN: 100%

 

LW TW artist label power index % change

album

 

-- 1 SUSAN BOYLE COLUMBIA 669,843 --

I DREAMED A DREAM

2 2 ANDREA BOCELLI DECCA 215,002 +12%

MY CHRISTMAS

-- 3 ADAM LAMBERT 19/RCA/RMG 195,974 --

FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT

-- 4 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 181,279 --

FAME MONSTER (EP)

-- 5 RIHANNA DEF JAM/IDJ 180,198 --

RATED R

29 6 MILEY CYRUS HOLLYWOOD 151,653 +391%

TIME OF OUR LIVES

34 7 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 144,622 +398%

FAME

11 8 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 122,848 +48%

FEARLESS

9 9 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 114,393 +34%

PLAY ON

8 10 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 106,050 +8%

THIS IS IT

:cheer: 180k! I'm happy with that :D But check Boyle! :o

She managed to pip GaGa for number 4 in the end :D

 

-- 1 BOYLE*SUSAN I DREAMED A DREAM 700,779 999 632 701,411

2 2 BOCELLI*ANDREA MY CHRISTMAS 217,569 18 184,791 687,068

-- 3 LAMBERT*ADAM FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT 198,466 999 437 198,903

-- 4 RIHANNA RATED R 180,890 999 552 181,442

-- 5 LADY GAGA FAME MONSTER (8 TRK) 173,515 999 411 173,926

34 6 LADY GAGA FAME 151,393 429 28,600 1,809,786

 

:cheer:

Not bad in the US at all! :D

Edited December 3, 200915 yr by Jack

I'm so surprised at how much I love this, by far my most listened to and loved album this week...it's such a huge grower

 

I don't understand the hate at all, it's stunning - it's good that she's diversified in my opinion! did we really want a carbon copy of Good Girl Gone Bad? I hate it when artist bring out the same sort of thing over and over

 

and unlike GGGB, I actually like every single song on here whereas there were about four tracks on there that didn't interest me in the slightest, even though the rest of the album more than made up for it :wub:

45 pounds to see her on tour.

 

She can go f*** herself.