It’s common-knowledge that Christina Aguilera‘s ‘Lotus’ campaign has been rocked by many a speed-bump.
Indeed, its lead single ‘Your Body’ was never performed, which led to slow album sales, which ultimately resulted in more media muck being hurled at the singer.
However, it appears several positive facets to the project are beginning to emerge – one being the fact that, as of this week, ‘Your Body’ can officially be deemed a chart-topping Billboard hit.
Details below…
The Max Martin produced cut jumped #2-#1 on this week’s Billboard Dance / Club Chart. And while some may scoff at the “relevance” of the said tally, anyone who’s (even a little) versed in PR will know that a Billboard #1 of any sort is still a Billboard #1 – which ever way its spun.
The impressive feat comes in the week the song’s video hit 30 million views on Youtube and when ‘Lotus’ shows evidence of staying power on the album charts. For, according to Hits Daily Double, the LP’s second week run registered an impressive(ly low) 26% drop on its first week figure (75,000) – shifting another 54,119 copies.
It’s imperative to underscore the fact that much of said sales are likely attributable to the album being featured in a $5.99 Black Friday deal at US retailers Walmart and Best Buy. Put simply, the true test of whether the project will ultimately sink or swim will be its performance in the weeks and months ahead.
Thankfully for Xtina, the said period seems to be just what the Promo Dr ordered. Indeed, December 7th sees her perform on ‘Ellen’, while she also features on Blake Shelton‘s upcoming Christmas TV special. Add to this the fact that The Voice coache’s new single ‘Just A Fool’ is officially sent to radio on December 4th, and the tide seems like it’s turning in the 31 year old’s favour.
With The Voice drawing nearer its finale too, here’s hoping Xtina and her team seize any and every promotional opp to ensure ‘Lotus’ maxes out its chart potential. For, echoing earlier sentiments, commercial comeback’s aren’t always as instant as they could or should be. Hence, from our vantage point, Gold certification (500k sold) should be the goal-post here, which -if achieved – creates a sound foundation for Platinum flavoured success with future projects.
Needless to say, we’ll be keeping a close eye on how this all plays out.
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YAY!!!!!!!!!
using the hitmaker max martin and lots of collaboration…..
Great song and video. Congrats Xtina.
I KNEW IT WAS THIS CHART!! LOL
dance chart ?
congrats ?
Better than Floplie could ever achieve in US. 20 years and not even a number one single? Paw dat!!
floplie lol
Floplie!!!! LMAO XD Seiously ..
it’s funny when someone is talking about QUEEN Xtina
when his/her fav is already a has-been
guuuuurrrrrrrrrrrr bye
Floplie killed me lolllllllllllllllll
Yesssssss I love that song……it’s about tine it becomes a number 1 it’s the best song on ” lotus” !
i just checked the official website from billboards.com and i dont see christina in the charts
Dont think its updated yet
okayy thanks
Drop it LLLLOW
Pup it UP
Pup it UP
Turn ARROUN’
# ## # ###
Move your body baby BUM BUM BUMMMM
i wanna have that beyonce picture how did u get it?
Muslim King B
Rise up lotus rise this is the beginning 😀
I’m so glad that the sales dropped just 26%
Stay strong Lotus .. Xtina must will move her ass to promote
i got a taste for some p** feet…cut off her hands chile…
FLOP!!!!!!!
lol stop it monstal lol
Is it number 1 in the UK or number 1 in te US?? I honestly didn’t see that coming. This song was hardly promoted or played on radios. But I bought the single. It’s a good song. Still disappointed xtina didn’t perform it. Oh well. Lotus is still a flop and a bad album I’m still looking for her to improve live. She’s really falling this era. Team xtina and xtina step ur game up. This is coming from someone who wants to see her succeed.
I am CONSTANTLY slaying your faves! Pay homage queens! Without me, the Twinkie factory would’ve shut down!
just…DEAD chile!!
DEAD
Truth is Xtina hasn’t promoted ANYTHING well after “Stripped”. I think she got comfortable, arrogant and lazy. “My true fans will always follow me”…well, they haven’t!
“Lotus” is quite a good album sans all the screaming, but if she can’t promote to make people believe in her project why should I cough up my coin?
If she believes in her own hype that much the most she could do was that terribly awkward AMA performance then I think it’s fair to say her best days are behind her. Her image is naff, her voice is too, and although the songs are quite good her voice is so shot it makes it hard to enjoy.
If only she had Kelly Clarkson’s skills we’d be seeing the new diva-soon-to-come-legend but instead we can’t figure out who she’s appealing to. Die-hard fans? Yes. Former teeny-boppers now in their mid to late 20’s? No. They go after Britney and more serious music like Adele. Young people? Nope. Her weight gain has destroyed that with image conscious America. Adult contemporary? Nope. They like singers with class, not screamers who dress inappropriately.
Just to add, we know Adele isn’t exactly slim, but do you think Adele’s trying to be the trendy Pop star? Britney, Xtina, Rihanna, Gaga, Katy perry and a few others go for the Pop culture super stardom road and that requires being perfect in nearly every facet of your being! Xtina’s sorely lacking…she’s become irrelevant!
In all truth though I don’t want to kick a person when/if they’re down. She good at hiding it but I’m guessing she’s in pain after the devastation the last few years have wrought on her. Thankfully she’s remained of drugs and the like, but if she’s to have a career she NEEDS to address the aforementioned as Pop audiences demand perfection!
I love Christina since my childhood, but I really agree with the lazy and arrogant adjectives.
I am the same age as Christina and you are wrong in the fact you think everyone goes for Britney because me and all my friends have always gone for Christina, because she puts on a great show, doesn’t lip synch and her msi promotes such positivty and if all the hatrs would actualy listen to her albums they would understand. She is more gorgeous than Britney and if you look at Britney nowadays she has no sole left she is just too medicated.
Lotus is not a good album compared to her other ones. Very bland.
@ matthew charley-smith…
unbelievable! finally someone who knows expressing some compassion is not a bad thing. maybe it’s me but i thought christina looked somewhat spirit broken though she smiled the hurt seemed to show through.
never thought of it but you’re right about her needing to be in good shape if she wants to compete with the kateys and the ke$has rihannas and even the no singing britneys.
Think once she had her baby nothing else mattered as much. She’ll always love music and appreciate fans but he hustle is soooo not the same.
Back in the day she kept the largest of large at the time Britney on her toes, so that’s the times I give her most credit.
Right going on YouTube to here her really slay some vocals with Brian Mclost I mean McKnight.
*hear ooops
PrettigurlrockD, b**** how old are you? I’m 22 Beyonce, Rihanna is my generation not no damn Whitney Houston! Your hiding behind Whitney like others hide behind Adele. I think your a flop b**** Keri Hilson Stan but the music industry already dragged her so I don’t have 2. I don’t wanna drag Whitney but I hate fake s*** so I will. She’s dead just like Michael they both died weak drug addicted and in disgrace. They are not my generation and I don’t give to f**** about dead hard drug abusers. I grew up seeing them as addicts nothing more and y’all idolize them why? Because they can sing? Go kill yourself! How it look being damn near 60 and cracked out floating in your tub?
It’s funny you say that Christina is not of your generation and Beyoncé it is. As far as I know, both practically launched their first projects at the same time. So before saying that Christina is not your generation, why don’t YOU go kill yoursef? H**!
Yo momma on crack so y u mad H**! mayb ya FUNKY MAMMY should have swallowed u…too!
B**** WITHOUT WHITNEY OR MJ RIHANNA NOR F****** BEYONCE WOULD BE HERE!!! DID YOUR DUMB ASS KNOW THAT BACK WHEN MTV WAS NEW THEY WOULDNT PLAY BLACK ARTIST?! BUT MJ AND WHITNEY HOUSTON CHANGED THAT!!! SO B****** LIKE BEYONCE CAN BE ON MTV!!! FYI YOU IGNORANT B****…WHITNEY WAS 48 NOT NEAR 60 AT ALL!!! WHITNEY ON DRUGS AND MIKE ON DRUGS SHITS ON YOUR WHOLE ENTIRE GENERATION!!! I WOULD GIVE UP RIHANNA BEYONCE AND LADY GAG KATY PERRY JUST TO HAVE WHITNEY AND MJ BACK!!! SO F*** YOUR DISRESPECTFUL ASS C***!!!
::Yawn::
An irrelevant chart to be honest.
What TGJ need to be discussing is how Scream and Shout with Will.i.am, and Britney has skyrocked to #2 on US iTunes with no music video.
@NICHOLE but Will.I.am and britneys song is all over the tv. I cant turn a channel without hearing it. Its called PROMO. A song doesnt have to have a video to sell. We all know Scream and shout is a terrible song. so I dont really care.
50 cent went number 1 in 12 hours.
The new Will I am song and Brit song just shows how bad the music industry is becoming….ITS Horrible with so much auto tune. Christina is a true artist and her music promotes such positivity. Its so sad how the media only concentrates on her weight rther than the awsome music she makes…Christinas the best hands down!!!
the media is in love with britney and hate christina. this has always been the case. britney has been terribly overrated since 2003.
we gotta give it to her fans though, they’re loyal as hell even the ones that know she’s really a talentless has-been.
they’ll always remind you that britney sold tens of millions of albums in 1999 thru 2003.
Congrats!!
Of course it would do well on the dance charts; her stans are a bunch of queeny f*** and black pre-op trannies.
Judging by your nickname, you are part of this f*** and pre-op trannies too. 🙂
lmaoooooooooooo!
@Jaz YESS. READD.
Says one of the black pre op trannies
B****, it ain’t my fault you got trouble finding a top ‘coz nobody wants to put his d*** in your diseased syphillis ass.
lol,divabitch or should i say cuntina piguilera just got owned lmao
IRONIC isn’t it???? lol
You need to let us have our moment, you hating ass, bipolar b****!!!!
Get the f*** out of here!!!
Y u calling out others when you are gay yourself??? Have a seat.
I ain’t an anorexic queen or a black pre op t***** though
yew mad? you need to learn to suck d*** with less teeth babe.
^But still you “are a queeny f***”. Eat your own words you dumb. seesh!
Since I congratulated others on their #1 feat. on the Dance charts, its only fair that I do the same for Xtina so Congrats.
Man-iah?
sold more that 73k first week with her last album….lol I cannot MOAIA selling in the USA what Bionic and Lotus sold in the world combined. Call her what you want…..not 73k….
^SHUT UP! @mr.m
you are one of the example of bad stans.
Terry ur 22? That’s sad. And I’m 21. And no matter what u say abou whit, she’s a legend so kiss my ass h**. Thanks bye 🙂
WHITNEY SHITS ON RIHANNA ADELE KATY CELINE MARIAH BARBARA JANET MADONNA BEYONCE GENTLEMAN GAGA AND KERI CIARA BRANDY MONICA JENNIFER KEYSHA!!!! ALL DAY EVERYDAY!!!
OINK chile…
The hot Dance:club Chart. Where flops go to smash.
Like Rita Ora
Like Rita Ora²
Triumphant.
DEAD!
Well, at least YB was a top 40 hit
Triumphant? 100? mmmm no? okay .. bye
@mr.m Death at YB hitting #34 and Lotus selling 73k last week and 56k this week! Who cares, “Triumphant” is not even her lead single, at least she didn’t flop with her whole album like xxxltina.
Love this song!
I am happy for her 🙂 This is a very good song !
so this is news?!
PrettygirlrockD who cares that she’s a legend not me! I like my faves that I grew up on! Beyonce Rihanna etc. Whitney and Michael were crack heads and irresponsible parents from as long as I remember! She’s a legend of crack and disgrace tryna praise that because she was born with a gift! Please!
B****!!! shut the f*** up with your s***** ass self h** you too damn old to be acting like this so f****** what they had their problems like any other person on drugs or not rest your flaming stretch p**** h** and stick a mother f****** d*** in yo mouth b**** face ugh m***** nappy headed h** fugly sorry ass b**** now SHUT THE F*** UP
MJ AND WHITNEY SHITS ON THOSE 2 B****** YOU NAMED!!
GO SUCK ON A BIG FAT SMELLY P**** B****!!!
Is it arrogance or does xtina not believe in herself her project can be saved yet she does not seem the least bit intrested
EXACTLY. I’m frustrated with her this era. All the smart ones seem to get the hint that only promotion is the key if u are not a current popstar of the generation like katy, rihanna, or adele. SMH at her.
Stop trying to make you body happening … it wont
Why are y’all acting like Whitney Houston isn’t a decaying crack addicted corpse?
B**** GO KILL YOUSELF!!! AND COME BACK TO LIFE AND KILL YOURSELF AGAIN!!!!!
christina sold 73,000 albums the 1st week not 75000. selling 54,119 the second week is not too bad of a drop at all. hope the holidays help maintain the flow.
watching her perform in 2008 with mick jagger in the concert movie ‘shine’ christina was really throwing it down. her voice was outstanding, she looked awesome and she strutted that stage like she owned it.
she still has the strut she just needs to get that voice (or stay in a certain range), fashion and body in check.
girl you’ve still got it put it out there pleeeze.
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