It’s the sales figure we’ve all been waiting for.
Yes, after weeks of anticipation, tonight saw the release of Justin Bieber‘s first week sales for his latest album ‘Believe‘.
Want to know how many units the Pop Prince pushed?
Figure below…
373, 456
Debuting at #1, ‘Believe’ is now the highest selling LP in the US, outselling releases by Kenny Chesney and the ‘Rock Of Ages’ soundtrack.
Quite interestingly, this impressive sales figure is almost ten times as large as the second week sales for Usher‘s ‘Looking For Myself’, which suffered a sales dip of 61% with 48,242 copies sold this week.
Though it didn’t bring in the 500k it had been predicted to, Justin has much to celebrate tonight.
For, taking the competition he faced from his own mentor on a chart front, he has sold exceptionally well, bringing in one of the year’s highest first week totals.
Of course, while some may be quick to downplay this feat, we can’t but applaud both he and the well received project.
We just hope he realizes that staged stunts like this are unnecessary when stellar material like this proves just why he is deserving of his hype and his aforementioned sales.
82 COMMENTS
I Judge Flops
June 26, 2012 at 5:58 pm
DEF A FLOP BEING THAT IT WAS PROJedted to do 500k
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I Judge Flops
June 26, 2012 at 5:59 pm
*projected
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Noel
June 26, 2012 at 6:01 pm
Yeah SUCH a flop. People would be dying for those kinds of numbers. *rolls eyes*
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Guest
June 26, 2012 at 8:42 pm
@Noel
It was a flop. Don’t act like it wasn’t!
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Kween Ebony
June 26, 2012 at 7:38 pm
I HATE SEEING YOUR NAME ON HERE Saying artist flopped! Bitch why don’t you out out something so we can see it not even make the charts!
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Kween Ebony
June 26, 2012 at 7:42 pm
*Put out something
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nique
June 26, 2012 at 10:06 pm
thats not a flop, dont be mad cause your fave only pushed 250 something her first week
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RichnBlack11(Beyonce keep em MAD)
June 26, 2012 at 5:59 pm
Work
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monsterHive
June 26, 2012 at 6:07 pm
373K is not a flop, regardless of it’s projected sales. This is not 1999, only a handful of artists have sold over 500K first week since downloaded piracy albums came in to the picture. (Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Kanye West).
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BEYONCE'S WEAVE
June 26, 2012 at 6:40 pm
Don’t forget to include Drake on that list. Also, Beyonce’s “4″ sold LESS than 400K so scratch her off that list.
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therealone
June 26, 2012 at 6:50 pm
and dont forget Alicia Keys she always sold more than 400K in the first week
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Girrrl
June 26, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Yep Alicia Keys’ has an undying fan base!
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monsterHive
June 26, 2012 at 7:01 pm
@BEYONCE’S WEAVE I wasn’t referring to 4, B’Day sold well over 500K in 2007, & that was when LimeWire was still active!
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ard
June 26, 2012 at 7:12 pm
DONT FORGET TO ADD QUEEN MARY TO THAT LIST..SHE DID IT TWICE BACK TO BACK WIT BREAKTHROUGH N GROWING PAINS
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Um OK
June 26, 2012 at 7:30 pm
U forgot to mention Britney who sold 502,000k in 2008 w/ Circus
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OpD2
June 26, 2012 at 7:35 pm
Co-Sign.
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Kween Ebony
June 26, 2012 at 7:40 pm
UMMMMM WHERE IS LIL WAYNE! CATER 3 1,000,000+ first week carter 4 900.000+ first week!
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Kween Ebony
June 26, 2012 at 7:43 pm
*900,000+
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monsterHive
June 26, 2012 at 8:30 pm
Obviously I couldn’t mention everyone, we get the point.
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mr.m
June 27, 2012 at 8:08 am
STFU! Fatyonce’s is a FLOP too xD
FLOP FLOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
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Auntie_Jackie
June 26, 2012 at 6:10 pm
That’s amazing. Good for him. It doesn’t mean he’s going to make the transition to mature artist particularly well. I see that steam running out eventually…….
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Alex Thomas
June 26, 2012 at 6:14 pm
That’s huge! Fair play Justin!
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Facekick
June 26, 2012 at 6:15 pm
It’s definitely a flop. His record label promoted like crazy for this album and all he got was 350k when it was projected to bring in 500k. He’s all hype. a puppet of Usher running on his looks and squeaky voice. I can’t see him evolving in 5 years, His fan base will leave him so quick you just wait and see.
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DARREN
June 26, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Look at Usher’s sales 123 or 124k but this week he sold 48,242.
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MonsterDNA
June 26, 2012 at 6:21 pm
I’m not a fan, but i’m i feel a bit disappointed for him. I expected much more with all this hype over his album, ‘Boyfriend’, etc.
But that’s still very good. I don’t like the album (except 2-3 songs), but it’s really better than ‘My Worlds’ for sure…
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JJFan1814
June 26, 2012 at 6:23 pm
The haters are gagging on this fact. Har to swallow huh? An 18 year old stomping your fave.
Stay mad!!!!!!!
Kiiiiiiii
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Vandrea
June 26, 2012 at 8:04 pm
Damn. You’re annoying. Shut up. Bieber’s first week sales were better than Rihanna and Janet’s last albums too.
Just sayin.
Be mad about THAT.
Shut up.
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mr.m
June 27, 2012 at 8:10 am
FLOP!!!
his next album will sell less than 100k and the he will be a HAS-BEEN!!!
#Fact
#ByeBitch
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Um OK
June 26, 2012 at 6:29 pm
I thought he would do at least 400-450 k if not gold so this is disappointing.
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BEYONCE'S WEAVE
June 26, 2012 at 6:39 pm
373, 456 is not a flop. Anything below 200K is a flop. The Biebes did pretty well. Congrats to him and his team. Just showing how strong the Biebes still is in this music game. Congrats to the Biebes.
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MIND _IT
June 26, 2012 at 6:59 pm
anything below 200k is a flop? you sound stupid as FUCK , do you know how many album sold LESS the 200k, hell even 100k & still went on to become the best selling album at the end of the year…it’s called LONGEVITY say it with me…
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ADC143
June 26, 2012 at 8:06 pm
“BEYONCE’S WEAVE” is stupid as fuck. That’s just something we have to reconcile around here. He/she is an idiot.
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BEYONCE'S WEAVE
June 26, 2012 at 8:24 pm
@ MIND _IT I was talking about first week sales Genius. Record deals average about $1 Million USD to $3 Million USD and you have to make that money back. If you start off strong with 200K+ in sales, then the projection looks strong. I did not say anything about longevity, you brought it up so nice attempt at the strawman.
If you start off with 100K and stagnate the rest of the year then what exactly have you achieved?? Nothing right?
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Casual
June 26, 2012 at 6:49 pm
This is a huge achievement. Young artists who appeal to mostly young demographics (who don’t buy CDs anymore, preferring to download individual songs instead) have been doing progressively worse in terms of CD sales over the past couple of years.
Seriously, selling 373k in 2012 is like 500k in 2010.
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pat
June 26, 2012 at 6:55 pm
I’m not impressed. Damn. If THEE white teen heart throb can’t hit half a milli. Who will
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Nahjee
June 26, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Guys why are hating on him?? Even if he didn’t pull what people expected him to pull.. He still sold pretty good. There are artist that is dying to do those type of numbers like Ciara she probley giving him the (side eye) right now.
Azealia banks wish she can do those numbers
Monica wish she can do that
Shit even waka flocka flame wish he can pull some numbers like that
Every artist that is struggling wish they can do them numbers
So shut up please Justin is on his way to the bank
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MIND _IT
June 26, 2012 at 6:57 pm
wait with ALL that hype & anticipation his fans couldn’t even get him to 500k? let alone 400k? FLOP. but good. in terms of sales.
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the real xoxo
June 26, 2012 at 6:59 pm
its not a flop but definitely underwhelming considering this is the most hyped release since born this way.
where are the beliebers who were predicting 1 million? I expected around 500k.
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RITANATION
June 26, 2012 at 7:01 pm
He did well ya leave him along! Where is ya album at huh??? Where is ya records sells at??? Some of ya are still living with ya moms at 40 smh.
Most all of Rihanna Stan’s are mostly 40 years old living in there mom BASMENT eating all the chips drinking grape soda sitting on grapejuice.net hating on Rita Smfh
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Teacher
June 26, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Who is Rita?
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Suicide Blonde
June 26, 2012 at 7:08 pm
I don’t like him as an artist, maybe because i’m not a teenager but this is a great first week sales.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0f801MMIN1qm0kmzo1_r1_500.gif
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yeyay
June 26, 2012 at 7:13 pm
Good numbers but it signals that Bieber is reaching the oversaturation point…There SO much Bieber, people can lose interest out of being sick of Bieber very quickly…Good thing his team sold the tour out before the album…that will help with longevity as long as radio is on board…still don’t know if US radio wants to support him beyond Boyfriend…I’m sure they’ll find a way to get him on the Olympics…As for Usher, the POP (That Awful Scream Song) thing is the reason for his sales AND lack of PROMO (RCA WTF????)…shocked that he’ll still be under 200k as total album sales after 2 weeks, hope his BET Awards performance is Urban Vocal FIRE!!!!
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Janice
June 27, 2012 at 10:43 pm
I don’t like RCA! I think they have a side agenda against R&B artists. Usher’s promotion was better than most so I’m not really sure where he went wrong? Or is it just time to acknowledge the fact that R&B doesn’t sell like Pop, Country or Hip Hop?
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yeyay
June 26, 2012 at 7:16 pm
Also…I really thought Bieber was big in the UK…he’s No 1, but only like 38k and not that far ahead of Cheryl Cole…..Did One Direction take all his UK fans????
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kelly
June 26, 2012 at 7:17 pm
It is a flop. The LP was on sale for….$ 4.99c
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Janice
June 27, 2012 at 10:46 pm
Was it really? So the record companies and music distributers conspire to push some and not others. Why am I surprised?
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CBE
June 26, 2012 at 7:18 pm
Why are people hating who are yall trying to kid? if these first week sales went Biebers it would be all great, I dont like the kid but considering his albums had not surpassed 300k before this is an achievement for him BUT that ” Pop Prince” bullshit! TGJ be trippin sometimes.
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mob
June 27, 2012 at 3:17 pm
I agree with you to a point! I say good for him! I wont be buying it as I am not a fan. I must say however, I did expect him to sell a bit more as he is America’s Sweetheart! He is a MEDIA DARLING! He has been on every program across the globe giving mediocure performances and being hailed as the NEW KING of POP (as if)! But 300k plus isn’t bad at all or is it for a Pop star? I can’t keep track. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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bADU WEAVE
June 26, 2012 at 7:33 pm
FLOP FLOP FLOP….given all the hype and promos, this is a fail..Proof that people are tired of him. his fanbase is growing up… he’s just the next britney spears, famous in his teens, fading with age n time
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mob
June 27, 2012 at 3:31 pm
Do you remember the commotion involving Bieber not winning the New Artist Award at the Grammy’s 2 years ago? An irate reporter actually said “well they know he wont be around too long so they should have allowed him to win that award”!
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bADU WEAVE
June 26, 2012 at 7:34 pm
FLOP FLOP FLOP….given all the hype and promos, this is a fail..Proof that people are tired of him. his fanbase is growing up… he’s just the next britney spears, famous in his teens, fading with age n time
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Blackman
June 26, 2012 at 7:47 pm
FLOP!!!
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nini
June 26, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Shame !!!! i thought he would do better
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PrettigurlrockD
June 26, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Yawn. this belieber fad is finally burning out slowly. We all know he gonna come out the closet by the time he’s 20 years old. He will be another Jonas brothers and Aaron carter in a few years once he loses his looks. No real grown women like him. So sick of this dweeb and his dumb fans.
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Stephen
June 27, 2012 at 2:48 am
Are any of the Jonas Brothers gay? No. So, Justin Beiber isn’t gay, either
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mob
June 27, 2012 at 3:47 pm
The Powers That be have a formula that has worked in every industry especially film, television & the music industry for years.
The Jonas Brothers = Hanson Brothers
Justin Bieber = Justine Timberfake
Graycen Chance = Jesse McCartney
Brad Pitt = Robert Redford
Tom Cruise = Rock Hudson
They roll them in and out like a assembly line!
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CzarM
June 26, 2012 at 8:14 pm
Man, these #’s are very average. Anything under 500k is not especially impressive, and anything under 200k is an outright flop. Now couple that with all the promo AND how he has a fan base who has nothing else to spend money on but music and you’ll see how he still failed to create a wave with this. Stop acting like this is through the roof. I’ve seen some earth shattering first week sales, and this ain’t even in that zip code. Bieber ain’t owning shit.
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JER
June 26, 2012 at 8:38 pm
So Justin Beiber selling 200k less than he was projected to do is a hit? And BeYAWNce selling 100k less than what he’s projected to is a smash, but Rihanna selling what she was projected to is a flop?
#thatdownsyndrome
#youtried
#webadumad
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EJ
June 26, 2012 at 8:49 pm
Rihanna opened with 197k. Yes, that’s a flop. A big one. She’s supposed to be some kind of “It Girl” of the moment AND this all happened during Black Friday shopping week.
Sit down and don’t embarrass yourself by speaking again.
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Stephen
June 27, 2012 at 2:50 am
Ehm. Rihanna’s albums have legs I.e longevity. So first week sales don’t matter for her. She is just like Madonna who also never enjoyed huge first week sales
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Gilberto
June 27, 2012 at 5:08 am
A flop is to not have a Platinum album after a smash hit like We Found Drugs. A flop is Talk That Flop is already on the bottom of the charts. A flop is to not have a #1 album.
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army of queen Aaliyah
June 26, 2012 at 8:46 pm
Really Over 300k For Someone With A Non Existent Vocal Range ? #DEAD
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Stephen
June 27, 2012 at 2:51 am
“Non Existent Vocal Range”?! You’re kidding, right? Every singer has some range, and no singer’s range is unlimited.
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White girl mob
June 26, 2012 at 8:52 pm
I hear a lot of bitch ass n****s on here talking bout he did good for his first week sales and some n****s saying he flop.
What ya n****s don’t know is when kreayshawn album drop august 14, the world will never be the same again cause she is creative she knows what she doing when it comes to music. Everybody on twitter & Facebook is going ham over this debut album they calling it a classic and it not even out yet.
n****s in my hood is going ham kreayshawn ain’t shit to fucking play with. She diss nicki Minaj and her bitch ass didn’t respond to kreayshawn cause nicki Minaj see kreayshawn as a threat.
I’m telling ya when kreayshawn album sell 435,000 copies the first week I’m going be going ham on this site.
Kreayshawn got this in the bag and ya bitch n****s is hating
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CBE
June 26, 2012 at 9:42 pm
LOL! Kreayshawn must be popping that pussy huh? we dont want her floping ass… 435k bitch? LOL I am so in the mood for jokes today.
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GURL
June 26, 2012 at 9:27 pm
Congrats to the Biebs, and if he underperformed, well it’s better then nothing eh!
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aishaaguilerakeys
June 27, 2012 at 2:53 am
Those are big numbers, esp in today’s industry ! Lots of artists would love to pull those numbers. And Sam, leave Usher alone ! He’ll be fine !
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Gilberto
June 27, 2012 at 2:56 am
It’s pathetic to see these basic bitches talking about flop. His album sold very well. We’re in the middle of the year, the sales aren’t that great. If this were released around Christmas, it could’ve sold close to 500k.
Usher’s lastest album is a flop. It debuted selling 100k+. It is going to take forever to get a Gold certification. In other hands, Bieber’s album will probably get a Platinum certification. It sold more than the other top 5 together!!! This is quite impressive.
Neither Rihanna nor Katy Perry have ever put out these numbers (even during Christmas period).
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Kayla
June 27, 2012 at 3:08 am
those are good sells so if you think different, suck a big hairy uncut dick!! people would die for those numbers altho some people got higher. and twitter was ramshacked by #Believe TT…everybody loved the CD, from fans to critics to Mary H. Blidge to Taylor Swift to Meek Mill…the album gets a 8/10 from me just because he needs to find a NEW topic…like damn, make another song to/about a girl and imma start 2 question yo sexuality…
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Kayla
June 27, 2012 at 3:11 am
i swear @whitegirlmob be preachin 4 kreayshawn but the bitch is ghost…its like shes her only fan…
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Tbozfan10
June 27, 2012 at 3:52 am
I’m no fan of Bieber at all, but what kind of idiot calls the highest debuting album of the year a flop?! You sound stupid.
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Lolax
June 27, 2012 at 7:35 am
less than expected
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mr.m
June 27, 2012 at 8:06 am
LOL!!!!!!!
YAS! I ‘Believe’ .. believe it is A F-L-O-P xD
#FLOP
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KAT DELUNA FAN
June 27, 2012 at 9:11 am
great beibs’ killing them softly
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TAYLOR SWIFTS NUMBER 1 FAN!!!
June 27, 2012 at 9:26 am
waits for Taylors album to easily sell more then this!!!
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mob
June 27, 2012 at 3:56 pm
God I can;t wait for Shina Twain to drop a CD to shut this chick all the way down! Who is the nxt man she’s going to whine about Taylor Lautner? Did he too break her little heart?
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TAYLOR SWIFTS NUMBER 1 FAN!!!
June 27, 2012 at 5:17 pm
Atleast her music is her own an not just songs that are given to her by her record label. She isnt no puppet!
Mrs Twain has had her time. She’ll never outsell Taylor.
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JohnVidal(RIP Whitney-truegreat)
June 27, 2012 at 9:54 am
Those are not good sales. The industry is in a very bad position. Adele´s success was just an exception it seems. One of the artists whom never flopped before first week flopped last week (Usher). Mary J Blige flopped last fall and she always did good before. Britney´s and Beyonce´s last ones underperformed compared to their previous ones. Only people left are Alicia Keys and very very few more. But I think it´s coming for them too.
If Beiber (the phenomenom of the moment, an awful one I know haha) can´t do really huge numbers, I doubt anybody can, except for Xmas time maybe. This is going downhill too fast
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mob
June 27, 2012 at 3:54 pm
It’s a product of a controlled music industry & media constantly surpressing great artists while boosting their favorite media props. It’s sad when you just about know who will be on an award show & who will win in every category as everything appears to be fix & rigged for a ew to achieve!
The state of play is sad indeed!
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yeyay
June 27, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Sooo true…the controlled playlist for like only 10 artists and promo for only some artists has KILLED music…Great Artists do not have a chance or a an equal playing field…Soon, all they’ll have are a bunch of FloRida types…singles only…no artist development in the mainstream…Michael Jackson is turning in his grave over how The Powers That Be have destroyed POP music…
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TruthGiver
June 30, 2012 at 3:02 am
Yah i believe this album flopped big time, you guys have to remember he’s been talking about this album for like 6 months now, even before it came out, and every single day on his twitter he would bring it up, they spent so much money promoting this album…you guys need to stop making up excuses for him, Justin Bieber is fading away…Most think because it is known as “years biggest debut” that it sold good, NO that is only media naming it!, in 2009 his world album sold 220k, and thats when he first came out, its 2012, and since everybody is judging artists fans now based off of twitter, shouldnt he have sold atleast 1 million, i mean he does have 24 million followers and always brags about it!..
Dont use todays industry, or illegal downloading as an excuse, true fans do not download illegally, they go out and buy the album!, and thats a fact, and remember illegal downloading has been around since early 2000′s….i didnt see those artist flop, people are just tired of the artist now a days, they are not good musicians, thats why most of their stuff isnt being sold, and to the industry 370k is good, no its not good, artists used to sell millions in their first week…his NBC special flopped as well!..he is going down right before our eyes..he has been burnt out, but the media makes it seem like he isnt..his career his fake, he is a bait for money, not a legendary artist, just wait till another new young artist comes out and how everyone will go to him, plus ever since one direction, his fans have been leaving him too…people talk about him to much for no reason, remember Chris Brown came out 16 and they never spoke about how if his voice changes will he still stick around..bla bla, a true artist sticks around, he is a teen heartthrob who is hated by most of the world except his fans!
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kijano
July 1, 2012 at 7:29 am
Sorry but those numbers are good. Let’s see how it does on the long term
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