30,000 units.
Believe it or not, that is how much Jennifer Lopez’ latest LP ‘AKA’ is set to move in its first week of release.
Fortunately for her fans, that sales prediction did nothing to deter the upbeat performer’s promo efforts this week, joining ‘The Breakfast Club‘ for an interview arranged to support the project.
There, in keeping it 100 with the show’s hosts, she weighed in on her own sales and shared her thoughts on Mariah Carey’s ‘The Elusive Chanteuse’, which now stands as the singer’s lowest performing album to date.
Lopez’ words below…
On Carey’s ‘Chanteuse’, she shared:
I just think Mariah and I we did what the kids are doing already. We had the time where we would drop the thing and it would straight to #1 and the album would go to #1 and we did that two, three times, four times over…she probably did it more times than I did.
At a certain point in your career, there’s reinvention that has to go on but you’re in it for a marathon. It’s not about a sprint, this is not a movie, it’s not an opening weekend.
Then, on her own LP, she explained:
There’s singles that’s going to come out over the next six months, so to me the release of the album is a celebration because it’s the beginning of something new, and I’m lucky enough to have a company behind me who gets the album and understands me as an artist. It’s not about the first day sales, we’re in a different time in our career, we’re in a different status.