First Week Album Sales
Like you said this album was for their supporters and that’s just THAT. If I were them I wouldn’t care at all about sales. They make their money other ways PLUS still have a HUGE demand over seas. KARA’s first week sales were not the highest ever recorded by a K-pop artist, but their album was the most recent to reach the milestone of 250,000 units sold in the first week.
Who else kinda upset our boy only sold 17k (4k pure). I really thought this was the album that did it for him, I guess I overestimated his reach. Do you guys really think the 3 separate release dates for each act tanked his sales?
I cannot say for certain, but I do hope he comes back stronger than ever with a incredibly diverse and stellar feature list. I think high profile features is what he needs in order to boost his name. I'm happy for him and I can't wait to see any upcoming songs hes featured on, his ep with IDK, and his next solo album. ULT • • • • •. The 3 day release hurt his album sales substantially but artistically it was definitely the right move. There's no money in album sales anymore, that's a fact.
He did the rounds on his promo run which will get his name out over time. The world tour he is going on will gain him A LOT of new fans (and it is really where the money is at).
First Week Album Sales
All he needs to do now is keep at it, collab with bigger artists, keep putting out content and keep true to himself. End of Year lists will boost his reputation too. As long as he keeps putting out quality content there's nothing to worry about. I think for an artist with Denzel’s following he’s lucky to have sold this much. He hasn’t had a huge song since Ultimate which most mainstream listeners write off as meme rap. The three acts helped with streams and sales since it gives more time for the singles/songs to gain streams before it all comes out and gives time for more listens.
It also helped build hype even after Clout Cobain (which will most likely be the largest song from the project). I think his sales have been pretty solid for this album overall, more than I had expected.
First-Week Album Sales Account For 24 Percent According to a recent Nielsen report, sales during the first week of an album's release accounted for 24.5 percent of the album's total sales in 2010, representing a gradual yearly increase since 2005 when first-week sales represented 18.6 percent of the yearly total. First-week CD sales remained flat in 2010 at 22.1 percent compared to 21.9 percent in 2008. Digital sales for the year's top 500 albums experienced a 72.1 percent decrease in second-week sales, a greater decline compared to 2009 (70.8 percent), 2008 (66.9 percent) and 2007 (59 percent). There was a time in the not so distant past when hip-hop was likened to disco.
A flash in the pan genre defined by its hyperbolic expression of sound and style, disco fizzled out in the early '80s once the fashion and sonic trends attached to it expired. Hip-hop was presumably following in its footsteps, especially when so many break records were layered with disco samples to create the early framework of hip-hop's sound — think the Sugarhill Gang's 1979 hit 'Rapper's Delight' (, 2014), which Chic's 1979 No. 1 smash, 'Good Times.' But hip-hop persevered and brought with it an evolution of the R&B genre as well.
Eminem First Week Album Sales
Combined, the two genres became unstoppable, eclipsing a flimsy stigma of being confined to an 'urban' box. Now, four and a half decades since hip-hop's inception, the genre has seemingly taken the music industry over along with R&B, beating rock at its own game. How did we get here? Theoretically, the move has been gradual, though 2017 marked a quantifiable shift leaning in hip-hop and R&B's favor. First, there are the sales figures: Hip-hop and R&B accounted for of music consumption in 2017, with rock trailing at 23 percent.
First Week Album Sales 2017
Add to that an uptick in audio streaming in 2017 by 72 percent — with 29 percent of being hip-hop and R&B combined, matching rock and pop, which also combined for 29 percent of music streamed online. The two previously gigantic leaders in major genres are now neck-and-neck with the 'underdogs' of R&B and hip-hop. But per Nielsen's 2017, eight of the top 10 albums were, in fact, hip-hop or R&B albums, including and for More Life and DAMN., respectively. Meanwhile, Drake and Lamar held down the top two spots on the list of most popular artists based on total consumption (sales and streaming), while,, Future,, and Lil Uzi Vert were also among the other artists that proved hip-hop and R&B were the most widely consumed collective genres this past year. The further punctuated that claim, as artists like and found homes in the General Four categories, with Mars — who earned Record, Album and Song Of The Year — and Lamar sweeping wins across the board. Jan 28, 2018 – 10:50 pm Watch: Bruno Mars Wins Album Of The Year Phrases like 'the death of rock and roll' have been continually tossed around since this cycle of news arrived. The latest strike against rock came when Coachella announced that for the first time in its 19-year existence there wouldn't be a rock act headlining the festival.