In the words of the Black Eyed Peas; ‘where is the love?’ At least that is question Jennifer Lopez will be asking after record-buyers shunned her latest LP -in a big way.
Indeed, despite a mammoth promotional campaign and a weekly slot on American Idol, sales of the 41 year old’s Def Jam debut are set to disappoint.
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According to Hits Daily Double, ‘LOVE?’ will limp into the Billboard 200 this week at #5 with sales of just 80,000. This marks Lopez’s second lowest English-language first week figures to date; with 2007 chart horror ‘Brave’ serving as her worst (53,000).
Yet, should sales not pick up or remain at the very least steady, industry analysts will no doubt brand this the bigger catastrophe of the two. For, while ‘Brave’ delivered dud after dud (‘Do It Well’, ‘Hold It, Don’t Drop It’), this latest release has delivered bonafide hits (see: ‘On The Floor’, ‘I’m Into You’). Clearly to no avail.
Still, one shouldn’t discount the positive face of the project. After all, even if it tanks terribly, it has succeeded in one thing: returning the singer to the top of the Single and radio charts. An occurrence her age (industry bias) and recent career woes would have otherwise never allowed.
Further up on the tally, Adele continues to shine, selling another 154,000 copies of her sophomore set ’21’ – earning the Brit a 7th straight week at the top. While elsewhere, Sade‘s ‘Ultimate Collection’ bows in with 36,000.
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Not that bad. 80,000 is quite good.
*Dead* Wasn’t her so called fans just laughing at Bey. I thought she came back too claim her throne? *logs off*
*dead*
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!
JLO is still slaying thou!!!
Taylor’s album sells are expected to be 17,500 in her 28 th week.
Damn! a pop hit dont mean nothing. id rather have a smash on the urban charts than pop. pop fans buy your single but shun the album! its still not too bad for Jlo………….On The Floor is a WORLDWIDE SMASH! and Into YOu doing well too
THAT NOT BAD CAUSE REMEMBER BRUNO MARS ALBUM SOLD 50k…And look his album is Platinum …
she is just like rihanna and katy. they can’t sell albums. i know bey will be #1 with high numbers…..
Nobody’s interesting in buying an album from someone who lip-syncs on stage EVERY time.
WISH HER THE BEST
BRAVE WAS WAY BETTER MUSICALLY THAN THIS
B**** CANT SAY BEYONCE LET YOU HER AND KELLY THE TIME TO SHINE THIS TIME AROUND 😀 😀
(KELLY RELEASES YOUR LONG PUSHED BACK ALBUM NOW)
*SIPS TEA*
CAN BEY SAVE US FROM NON PERFORMERS ASS NOW PLEASE
@LOL
UMM Rihanna is slaying dipshit!!!!!
If she released it a different date cause the billboard 200,has been a rollorcoaster one minutes it’s high then low. It’s whatever I’m Glad she sold atleast 80.000k.There is something really wrong how come Other artist sold more in there first week the past few weeks I don’t know what up with these album first week sales smh.
On The Floor is in the top 10 for almost three months.
Beyonce’s Flop The World is falling. It was #49 last week, and it is just falling and falling.
Poor thing. At least her singles are doing really good!
dang..Adele is killing the game..Walmart Giving Back After Laying Off Over 50,000 People.. $1,000 Giftcards – I Grab 2 of Them..LOL http://goo.gl/g4zvo
thats better than 60k… what they first predicted.
We really cant make fun of this. lets face it. people aint buying cds like that no more. Esp with s*** leaking 3 to 4 weeks before its release date. You gotta have a dedicated fan base to push albums now. Or you may get lucky around the Christmas hoildays
@KAT deluna fan
Please sit yo ass down,we all know thats a dame lie EPIC fueled brave with wack ass songs.nobody bought it cause it sucked.everybody I know us like J.Lo new album is beast!!!
KISS ME!!!!
Being a judge on American Idol is NOT enough. On the Floor and I’m into You NEED live performances on a multitude of different programs to spread the word. Just because On the Floor did well without promo, her label shouldn’t become complacent. Btw, #5 for a debut isn’t that bad, some albums take weeks to peak.
That’s Not That Bad. Now A Day’s 80k Ain’t That Bad.
@MUSIC LOVER
You took the words righ out my mouth cause remember Marsha Ambrosius,I was surprised she did 90k…One week they buy CDs then then next week is like low first week sales.
good good but why jlo canceled perfom in billboard music
JLo proved that having #1 singles means nothing… People still won’t buy your s*** … Artist don’t make lots of money off single sales.(via Mike)
well beyonce will do better than jlo and rihanna non singing ass….. bey don’t play. she is quiet now. preparing the war….she will come for every wigs and end many careers. she will shut the game down again.. à la beyoncé !
She will be fine! Longevity is what is important.
lol at those who are making excuses. it is bad. if she sold over 300 you would be screaming everywhere the queen is back, the queen is back. Now you’re simply eating your words..
QUEEN BEYONCE SLAYS ALL THE WACK B****** IN THE GAME. WHOS MAD?
a FLOP will always be a FLOP
I DONT SEE HOW U CAN GO ON TALK SHOW AFTER TALK SHOW AND NOT PERFORM??? THATS CRAZY IF U HAVE AN ALBUM OUT U SHOULD PERFORM.
the problem is that only few artist that do generic pop sell a lot with their album!!the others are just song-seller artists!
Beyonce *didnt let her …
JNO need to do grown woman music.It’s about time !!
@SELITA
STOP !!!!
BRUNO MARS IS 10TH WITH 25,226 copies ♥♥
That’s my baby Go Bruno.Marry you wil be the next smash
I don’t think 80K is that bad. She sold what she should have sold.
Does first week sales really matter?? I bet JLo isn’t crying about it! She’s sitting happily on all of that money anyways! The fact is, her music sells. First week or not. They sell.
Damn thou thats lower than Keri hilson’s CD
J.LO has always been a singles artist.
IF IT WAS BEYONCE NODOBY WILL BE LIKE”IT S NOT THAT BAD CONSIDERED HER ON THE FLOUR SONG.
EVEN CHRIS BROWN DID BETTER LMAOO
I DONT CARE BEYONCE NEW VIDEO IS ABOT TO SMASH YOUR FAV CAREER
http://twitpic.com/4w1pil
im still proud of La Lopez, this is way better than BRAVE ( WICH I LOVE WITH ALL MY HEART)
i want to think, JEN and DEFJAm are expeting for LONGETVITY
Like I said
Successful Singles Do Not Equal Successful Album Sales
It’s amazing, some artists would sell this much and everyone would be calling it a complete “flop” but for some reason other artists get a pass. There Are valid reasons that artists don’t sell high but I don’t know why Lopez is at the lower end. Album sales are no where around where they should be but some artists still can successfully sell full length albums.
This is low….period , but it’s not the end of the world( I think). Some artists seem to be strongr single sellers while some artists get more album sales but fewer single sales. I guess that’s how it is.
I KNEW IT. STILL A FLOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DID YOU KNOW J. HO HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR 5 RAZZIE NOMINATIONS??? HA, EXACTLY. ANY FUTURE MOVIE DEALS WILL FAIL TOO. I HOPE MOVIE STUDIOS ARENT AS STUPID AS THE MUSIC INDUSTRY TO GIVE HER A 2ND CHANCE.
I have a question thou. can we all agree Lady Gaga and JLO had the same amount of exposure and press regarding their singles/album.. With gaga having more press than her..
How many albums do yall think lady gaga should be able to sell her first week with all this hype and build up she cause?
How the hell you let Skeri Hilson and Keyshia Mole outsell you b**** and your single did better. J-Ho is such a flopbitch
#OOOP! and her fans were saying she was back to slay! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! FLOP!
I’m glad she didn’t do the 60k though.
@K
Yeah slay the worst album sells list. That flopbitch needs to sit down. Girl we see through those autotune vocals. Your dance moves are cute but thats it
She should’ve promoted better
@T.I.P
80k is still flop considering she had a top 10 single.
@Truth_Serum
DOnt worry, that flopbitch is done for. This flop single Into You is a fail along with her album. Instead of naming her album Love? she should of names it Sales?
@Realmusic
She had American Idol, which is a huge promo train in the states. She had the ball in her court with her cute song On the Flop, and she dropped it. Which solidifies my point that a “hit” single doesn’t corrolate to album sales
Excuses, excuses, excuses. I love the woman but what a failure… Beyonce just released a teaser for her new video. Go check it out and forget this old woman
oh and Gaga is next, i’ll be waiting. B**** better sell a million first week or i’ll be laughing.
Beyonce is set to fail this year, her single isn’t doing s*** on the billboard charts. J-lo had a #1 in 13 country’s
With Itunes no one buys albums guys, the focus now is how many downloads will you get from your single.
Because it’s J-Lo this will be hyped up as a major flop smh!
Still love her though =)
Follow me @princebarbietv
if you guys don’t understand that there is something with these numbers you’re quite stupid….
not an illuminati puppet, that’s why
All that matters is I got her album and it’s Great.but then again she is the only artist I buy albums of everyone else I get the music vid or single don’t own one beyonce album lady gaga riri just singles or tracks that catch my ear.
I’m wondering how a top five debut for someone who’s been out the industry two years is a flop?! and beyonce fans are comparing her old looking ass to someone way older but better looking and a better dancer and actress. btw how yall beyonce fans talking s*** and her song is out of the top 100 and j.lo has 3 in the top 80. no sweet dream it’s all nightmares for yall!
Why does this site hardly give any press to Adele? I think this article was posted yesterday about reports saying Jennifer Lopez’s sales were not going to be good. What is different between that article and this article?
Bruno Mars went platinum bcuz he actually has TALENT…… Jho is trying 2 go platinum off her LOOKS and she is FAILING just like her album!!!!!!
that’s not even that bad
@QueenBee
Maybe that too but geez if she does she can prove that a mom and business women…let’s get to the point she slay the young boards I wish it was just J.Lo,Beyonce and Rihanna world
I F***** KNEW this old h** was goin 2 flop…..LMAO!!!!! Keri Hilson album sold MUCH more than this OVERRATED B****!!!!!
Downloads ain’t nothing who cares about a 1 and 29 cent single, thats ain’t much. This was decent for JLo. She was expected to sale only 60 65k. If she cranks out the hits this album will be fine. Her album is good, she just didn’t perform enough. I don’t know why she’s doing interviews and not performing. She needs to promote as much as she can. But these numbers are not bad.
that*
U claim 80,000 not that bad but then call Gaga a flop for having Judas at #1 for 2 weeks then move down to number 10 now.
So done……
Is anyone really surprised?
I really don’t think these last minute promotionals are going to work anymore. Artists are going to have to “hustle and grind” like they use to! I think we are in a new era! Exposure due to ones day job (judge on American Idol, The Voice, The X Factor) may not guarantee CD/Single sell success! It’s funny, JLO and others have been litereally on every daytime, midday and evening talkshow. They have also graced the cover of almost every magazine and just look at the results. It’s nice to know that the media’s “PETS” have to work for their “supper” too!! 🙂
@queenbey will always s*** on ur fave and leave them no option but 2 pout
May 11, 2011 at 12:50 am
Bruno Mars went platinum bcuz he actually has TALENT…… Jho is trying 2 go platinum off her LOOKS and she is FAILING just like her album!!!!!!
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Exactly!!
it did not bomb, your lucky to sell 50 k these days but im sure she will go gold by the end of the year. i love this album its a fun pop album.
She’s lucky to even sold that much!
the album is garbage!!
J-LO HAVE A NEW ALBUM OUT? THESE GIRLS NEED TO CALL RHI RHI IF THEY WANT HITS TO SIT PRETTY ON BILLBOARD..
This is the same site that said she was only going to sell 60-65,000 copies… she actually did better than expected! JUST SAYIN
LMAOOOOO
FLOPPPPPPP
FLOOOPPPPPP
FLOOOOPPPPPPPPP
BEYAWNCE & GODDESS GODGA WILL NEVER HAVE FLOP ALBUM SELLS!!!!
SIPS MOSCATO!!!!!
RIGHT
ALLL YOU B****** MAKE EXCUSES FOR
J-H**
BUT CALL LORD GODGA A FLOP!!! SMH!!!
YALL AINT RIGHT
SIPS MOSCATO LIKE I HIT THE LOTTO!!!
JLo is so cool
Sad, but no excuses, it’s a flop.
I don’t think that’s too bad considering. If she had sold 100k this week and dropped down to 20k next week, people would still consider it a flop. 100k the first week doesn’t make an album a flop especially these days. I don’t really put too much stock in numbers. BIG numbers don’t mean it’s a GOOD album. Some of the worst music I’ve ever heard has sold HUGE numbers.
J. Lo to me, is not a good singer. She does about equal the average human being who can hold a tune.
POP is a fickle genre. They’ll buy your singles and ignore your albums.
Doesn’t hide the fact that the woman is still one of the most talked about females of the year!
She didn’t bomb.
@are you serious and @yall are too fake, why yall comparing j.lo to gaga?? j.lo is making a comeback after being gone 3 years and gaga is at her peak,there is no way they should be doing the same on charts,well j.lo is doing better.i mean you call j.lo a flop and gaga a beast but j.lo’s on the floor has been in the top ten on itunes for what 10 weeks?? and now she has three songs in the to 50.la la poo poo ga ga ain’t on s*** but meth and crazy!
F@ck all u haters. JLO is the s***, point blank period. And Love? is a beast
Not many ppl buy albums these days… u have to either have really good music (Beyonce: I Am… Sasha Fierce, Adele: 21) or be a tremendous pop sensation (Lady GaGa, Taylor Swift)…. J NO is NEITHER. Hence the FLOP ass album!
OMG 154,000 copies more for Adele??? omg slaying so so bad! B****** true talent has appeared and your basic favorites can´t stand a chance (Britney, Katy, JLo, Rihanna, etc)
And for J.Lo: I suppose nobody is surprised right?
Gaga is one of the “It” girls right now, JLo has had to build in terms of her success again. She was expected to do 60 to 65k, so 80k is decent for her, she has alot of potential hits on this album. She’s gonna be alright. So i say that she’s doing pretty well, but these artists need to stop promoting so late, because that does not help their album sales any longer, well most of them anyway.
She looks spectacular and her performance on Idol was awesome.
@ Selita
The difference between Jennifer Flopez and Bruno Mars is that Bruno Mars is actually talented whereas Ms. Flopez is just a hot ass with a pretty face. On the floor is about as much success as she is going to achieve with this album. On the flip side at least she is doing better than her dead beat stay at home husband Marc Anthony.
this is what i expected for jlo but lol at she is a flop………….
beyonce will be no 1 with high sales cos we know she always waits for competition to fade.
gaga is likely to have her first no 1 album maybe with sales close to or equal to what beyonce will sell but overall gaga will slay in 2011 except maybe for Adele.
both beyonce and gaga i predict will sell more than britney in the first week
Reading this again and reading people saying she was expected to sell 60-65,000. I thought that was a prediction not what was expected. Only her label can tell us what was expected for this album, hits daily double and other sources are predicting based of actual sales.
At least that’s what I thought
I doubt her sales will rise, it’s hard to match your 1st week perfomance on the tally, this album will drop in sales and perhaps only see Gold, and that’s basically it. Now she should focus on embarking on a massive tour, that’s if she’s still serious about this music thing, since she’s getting rejected for the 3rd time in a row…
http://www.gifsoup.com/view/837521/le-sigh-o.gif
it s not bad at all , brunos mars sells 55k on the first week and then his album went platinum . welcome back JLO
WHY THERE IS NO POST ABOUT
MARIAH LAST ALBUM BOMBS AND BEYONCE LAST SINGLE BOMBS.
SAM YOU ARE JUST DELUSIONAL !
lol i thought her fans said she was the queen not beyonce, the dancer cant even come for skeri wilson numbers. i hate to go there but ….(scratch that , am loving this)
BDAY and IASF opened with over 400k with just a top ten single like OTF, the number 1s came later. why cant jlo?
…could it be karma caused by her pottymouth stans
Lets *NOT* worry – J.Lo will be fine!!!
I think that the truth is, whilst some artists a strong single seller and weak album seller, there are others who are strong album sellers but weak single sellers…….In modern times, it’s been quite the same…….
Lets look at ‘Mary. J. Blidge’ – She has only had one number one single on the ‘HOT 100″ = “Family Affair (6 weeks in 2001) and only two TOP 5 singles = “NOT GON’ CRY” (1996 – No.2) and “Be Without You” (2006 – No.2 for one week and No.3 for 5 weeks) but she has had SEVEN CONSECUTIVE NUMBER ONE ALBUMS!!!!!!!
Radiohead – They have had 4 number one albums on the BILLBOARD 200 and not even a TOP 20 single on the HOT 100
Even the great Maxwell has had 3 number one albums and no number one single, aside from “Pretty Wings”…….
But there you go, anyway, lets hop J.Lo gets back on form!
U2 (Even though they’ve been around since 1984) – Have had 6 number one albums and only ONE HOT 100 NUMBER ONE SINGLE – With or Without you in 1987…….
Thought it would do better! BUT I LOVE JLO!
i dont understand why people that don’t like her comes here to say what the hell they’are thinking, i don’t like beyonce and i dont’ even wacth her because i don’t like it. jlo is the best , more beautiful than beyonce and yes she looks good whitout hair extensions, beyonce’s hair is badddddddd hahahahahaha
Yes sources were predicting 60 to 65k, but she surpassed that. So that is a plus for her.
I hate to break the news. But compared to what every artist USE TO SELL….every album these days can be considered a flop
FLOP! Somebody’s about to get dropped from Def Jam.
Her singles are blazing though. Plus shes doing in great in other countries so f*** just the United States. JLo is Ms. Worldwide…She be fine and is getting so many endorsements $$$
@Kerry, Rihanna is slaying on the singles chart. She has never had a top selling album, never will and she so call “slays” overseas, not in the US, so…yeah, she is but she isn’t.
Her label has a new boss who was her old boss @EPIC he’s gunna destroy her without LA REID it doesnt look good
Poor J.lo.. her album is already out of itunes top 100 only after 2 weeks of release… And look at Britney, it’s been 2 months but she is still at #22 at iTunes without any promotion. Thats what being a legend. Britney rules.