As Bruno Mars‘ ’24K Magic’ moves impressive numbers worldwide, The Weeknd‘s latest set ‘Starboy’ is expected to help him extend R&B’s reign on the Billboard 200.
How so?
Find out below…
Pure sales and streamed units are expected to push the album’s opening week figure to the 400,000 point in the coming week.
Sans streams, it will fall between 225,000 and 275,000 units guaranteeing it the top spot on the Billboard 200!
Set to threaten Mariah Carey‘s chances of claiming the Christmas crown with ‘Merry Christmas‘ if it continues to sweep up heavy units in the weeks following its release, ‘Star’ will be supported by a world tour Weeknd undoubtedly hopes will see its global sales soar just as high.
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It is ridiculous that almost half of the numbers are streams. Streams are going to destroy the charts.
It’s not ridiculous. Why would People buy albums if they have Spotify and Apple Music??
They should have their seperate charts then.
Lol you’re late, that has already happened
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Remember Anti? The album’s total numbers are what, 90% streams?
Why do you people care about sales and charts as if you’re the head of a record label. Who gives a fck. Artists make money from touring anyways.
His numbers should be interesting after three months
But congrats to him
It will most likely be platinum within two months.
Congrats King Abel.
Not much into him but he kills it on the billboard chart.
I feel the same way but congrats to him
he is a motherf-cking starboy.
“125K” album euivalents would generate him first week streams of “185-190M” streams first week.
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That’s fantastic.
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Congratulations Abel.
What? Predictions (hate them) say he will barely sell more than Bruno? Or Gaga? I mean real sales. This just proves he is a streaming force atm, but after all the hype and all these people claiming he is better than Bruno or that he was going to destroy him sales wise… this just looks good and normal. I don´t think he has Bruno´s longevity btw. So even in this occasion (Bruno´s probably less commercial effort and Abel´s biggest moment to date) Bruno may end selling more.
Congrats to The Weekend cause this is damn good. But it´s just sad how people want to always tear someone down. In 3 years time it will probably be Abel the one being called “old news” and tired by some people (often people who don´t really care about talent and music).
Bearly sell more? He just became mainstream two years ago. Gaga and Bruno have been out 6 years plus and are selling less than a new comer hahaha
Molly
Hmm… yes LOL that´s exactly how it works, after a few years most artists suffer some type of popularity decline, whiñle Abel is the hot one right now. So your none-argument is obviously wrong, as usual. He will do barely bette rthan them this go around. Good for him. my point wasn´t that. My point was to defend Bruno from hating asses like you who had been pretty much saying he was over cause abel is here now. Ridicualous.
You’re always trying to drag somebody down with your fave. GaGa flopped get over it!! SHE went from selling a million to barley selling 200k. The Weeknd is still pretty new Main stream wise, give Abel time.
If Gaga flopped cause she did 200k first week then all your faves are flops. YOU get over it. Gaga didn´t flop and my point wasn´t to drag anyone. The total opposite. It was just to call bullpshit the efforst by some people here to bring bruno Mars down by saying “Abel is killing or killed Bruno”. Which is total nonesense as this news proves. I was only defending talent, as always. Not shading Abel at any point.
Why even argue? Bruno has his own thing (1 million tour tickets sold first day), Joanne obviously has her own thing (she’ll probably announce a tour after the Super Bowl), and The Weeknd was selling out arenas before Beauty Behind The Madness…it ain’t that deep lol…Abel made $55 million this past year, Gaga is caked up and Bruno is caked up…all superstar artists…saleswise, ED SHEERAN just sold 8 million albums…he’s low-key slaying ALL the men….Taylor just sold 10 million, and The Notorious A.D.E.L.E. just sold 20 million, with 10 million in the United States…HELLO lol…Bruno has a writing credit on 25, Abel has writing credits on Lemonade and ANTI and Ed Sheeran on Purpose…every artist I mentioned writes their own material…none are on life support…my two cents
Now this is a comment,Ed sheeran album sales though!!..you go fancy ?
Fancy
I agree. Each one of them have there own thing. The talented ones that is 🙂
He doesn’t have Bruno Longevity. Normally old people who miss the dinosaur years are the ones to say such. Abel is talented, Since his trilogy days, He has done very well for himself, he unique in that he combines Michael Jackson vocals with hard gritty songs about s**, addiction, love etc.. and now he is crossing over. The new age has come Greatest Grandmasuasurus, So called Longevity does not only apply to people with saxophones in their music.
I’m giving HDD the Prince side eye after the their initial numbers they threw out for Bruno…I’m not playing their game this time…fool me once! lol
Let’s hope the album has longevity dahhhling
He’all go gold the first week, unlike Monica, Brandy, Lana or Gaga.
Rihslave had to sell her album to Samsung to do so.
Not with her net worth nearing 300 million at the age of 28! she is never a s**** babe
The slayage.
Congrats to him ! This album deserves it ! I’m in love with this album ????❤️
I listened to the album with a blunt and it’s simply ALRIGHT. I feel it coming, Secrets, and All I Know are certified bangers. While Rockin With You, and Love To Lay fell flat for me. As a whole, the album becomes redundant and is too trendy for longevity. I’ll give it a 6.7/10
How many Rhianna albums have longevity?
Not today Satan! We’re not going to make this a Bey v Rih post as they aren’t the only musicians in the world. Let’s stay on topic which might be hard for a special-ed, hood rat
Why was his fans saying he was going to do 400K in sales? So he’s not “killing” Bruno, these are the same albums and will sell about the same.
Bruno will outsell him in pure sales WW and domestically by the end of the year
It’ll be close, both at long run slow sellers. It’s depends on the next singles.
I see Gag Gag came and went. How sad?
In my best Trey Songz voice, yuuuuuuup
They need to cancel that Superbowl performance no one is checking for.
Nice. Btw. Yall bout to wear me out overusing “sans”
Aaliyah looking dope in the Make It Hot video. Late 90s was the best imo.
Aaliyah was just a beauty, inside and out
Wow Gaga WISHES!
She´s been tehre and done that, and way bigger. Your comment is irrelevant.
yess Weeknd. Idc what anyone says cause b**** I bought both his and Bruno albums and I intend to purchase both their tour tickets too. Support your faves yah, not stan online as they flop ?☕
Another album doing more than ANTI first week in pure sales.
Ah~
The talent prevails
Yes, that is true.
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However, what does that matter?
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“Joanne” sold ’45-55K’ more pure sales than “ANTI” in its first week yet the album is showing absurdly no signs of longevity and is freefalling down every chart across every major music market in the world. At this point, it isn’t going outsell “ANTI” in pure sales domestically or internationally nor is it certainly not going to outsell in SPS both domestically and internationally either.
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Why you talking to me about Joanne? Lol you make like I kaaaaaaaaair
XD XD XD
A Gaga Stan shouldn’t talk about anyone album sales when Joanne topped ArtFlop as biggest flop of her career.
Longevity? I hope you’re not talking about actual sells because if that was the case Anti minus the singles would be long gone!
mark
200k copies is not a flop nowadays especially with a change of genre and big hate campaigns for like 3 or 4 years now. Get over it. 200k copies is not a flop nowadays. No way.
200k is very much a flop. No hit single, not single sales, no outstanding streaming, no radio play and as of now, no tour. So where is the success? Because Anti sold 1.3M, one of the highest streamed albums ever so far, 3 1 million singles sold, successful tour and I didn’t add the Samsung check. Gaga?
Mark
Gaga? For starters Gaga has sold more than Rihanna first week ONCE again despite everything and no hit single. 200k cannot be a flop when your Fave (it seems she is) Rihanna can never reach that 🙂 Superbowl and other things will come. Don´t worry more about Gaga. She´ll always have the talent and a career supported by her other real talented fellow work-mates. Can´t beleive now streams are considered teh crucial point LOL More like the saving grace for some 🙂
Overrated!
The album isn’t
He has a cute button nose. Good for Mr. “Starboy” Abel.
Why are people trying to drag him? Fourth highest opening in pure sales this year after Drake, Beyoncé, and Metallica. All three were mainstream way before Abel, lol. Plus HDD’s first estimates are always low so he’ll probably end up topping 400K SPS.
Love the album and the 80s comic/video game aesthetic he is going for this era.
Rosie with the truth tea again lol…and that Stargirl Interlude is DOPE…Lana did her thing! Her new album should have that vibe.
Glad to see that both Bruno and The Weeknd are doing their thing on the sales front as both are talented in their own right.
Bruno is a better singer/artist, but Abel’s album is better than Bruno’s. Bruno’s album was good, but this right here is great! Maybe album of the year, and this coming from someone who was not a huge fan of Abel before this.
Top 5 r&b albums of 2016 (so far):
Starboy
Mind of Mine by Zayn
Better by Brian McKnight
blackSUMMERS’night by Maxwell
Blond by Frank Ocean
HM’s: 24K Magic, #Mynameisjoethomas, Struggle Love, Quiet Storm, Eric Benet
And John is coming next!
What a great end of the year for r&b.
I hate that this bonzai tree keeps getting compared to Bruno. Yes his sales are dope but until he can book the Superbowl 2x back to back, it aint a competition. Bruno can sing him out the water. The Weeknd is boring, his music is for white people who think they like “black music”
Bonzai tree ????. ?
Basic as fvck. His mixtapes were exponentially better than the two albums he’s put out, but why bother trying to grant people taste?
Damn!
This album is great!
I can’t believe that I enjoyed it so much, almost every song is great, even the ones with Future are good! I didn’t think this album would be good, this is better than Bruno’s album, even though Bruno has a much better voice! Even with 18 tracks, the album does not get boring. I’d even like a few more tracks. I think this sound fits The Weeknd best, this is his most consistent project yet. Definitely one of the best albums of the year, this album made me an Abel fan finally. His older projects were too inconsistent and his voice sounded weird over that type of music.
9.5/10 from me, keep it up Abel!
Even if you don’t like him, you have to admit that he is the biggest artist out right now. Plus he’s got both urban radio and pop radio so he’s everywhere. And I don’t mind it this time, since the music is actually really good! Unlike other chart toppers who’s albums were huge letdowns (yeah Drake, I’m lookin’ at you!) or albums who were all over urban radio despite being total trash and lack of any musical qualities (Yeah Rih, I’m talking to you!)
Abel is doing what Zayn’s album was supposed to do (lack of promotion and radio play), and what Miguel will hopefully do next year.
#King Abel 2016/17!
Ermm… Sorry but Adele,Taylor, Drake, Bieber, Bey, Rih are all bigger than The Weeknd
Beyonce’s last big hit was what?
Starboy (single) is already bigger than any Beyonce’s song she has released since Single Ladies…
Okay, fine. Take Beyoncé out of the mix. The Weeknd has absolutely nothing on Adele, Taylor or Drake. Did you forget about them, or do you want to qualify your statement with a specific genre so you don’t look like a total asshat?
Better than Bruno’s album, by far. Bruno is still great, but this was just a much more complete and consistent body of work. Bruno’s album was so short, I’ve waited longer for a seat at a restaurant than it took to listen to 24K Magic! I mean Bruno, how you gonna be gone for four years and come back with a 9 track album! Lol, still a great singer/artist though!
I go excited thinking he accomplished something but only to find out it’s a stream illusion lol. I’m not hating on streaming as much as I used to..but I will always have more respect for the units that are sold with actual hard-earned money rather then streams *shrugs*
That was exactly my point. After seeing these (predicted) numbers I was quite shocked that he will barely sell more than Bruno or Gaga. Streaming is hype more than anything. If he is able to do 200k copies more than Bruno or Gaga based on streams then he sure should move way many more real units than them. And it´s not the case judging by these predictions. Streaming is the new way to measure hype 🙂
I feel it coming is such a great song!
LG is doing good. Y’all keep talking about her. She didn’t have a hit single. These numbers are good, should & could be a little better for ‘The Weeknd’. They’re all doing very good..
She didn’t have a hit single because the two singles (or three because Ayo was the 2nd single). 200k that only came from the first week and it’s already out the top 20 even in the game of streaming is a major flop.
200k units first week is a good number. There´s no more to it. Haters were wishing for less than 100k. Some have still not recovered. Instead of seeing it from your point of you you can also see it the other way: DESPITE not having the support of a hit single (difficult with that type of material) or streaming, it STILL sold what everybody else not considered a flop sells nowadays 🙂
200k tops is not, it’ll maybe get to 300k. Still a flop for an artist on a major label. No matter how you try to turn it. If it’s can’t sale the first 4 weeks, then it’s not going to after that. Deal.
The Monsters are making excuses. I bet they would kill for Anti numbers or even ArtFlop at this point. ?
This was about Abel doing good and remiding people that Bruno (or Gaga) did almost the same in real units. no shade to Abel, just a quick rmeinder to haters who always look for someone talented to bring down. Secondly, how are Anti numbers to kill for? How exactly? It´s all streams. Sales wise Joanne is on track to sell the same. It sold more first week and with no hit single it will probably sell less than what Anti was doing in following weeks, yes. But remember Superbowl will come. Anti has sold 500k real copies. That´s the reality. Joanne can definitely end selling that. She has definitely overcome all the difficulties, which weren´t few.
She’s doing less than 20K a week now. I don’t see her passing 300K sales, maybe 500K with streaming.
‘Ayo’ was not the second single. ‘A Million Reasons’ is. It connected with the gp more. Also, LG is going to sale over 500k in pure sales.. Artists release certain songs to drum up more anticipation for the overall album. That doesn’t make it a single. Get your facts right.. Her album has higher first week sales than Rih’s anyway, so stop tripping.. This isn’t even about her. Hater..
First week doesn’t mean crap if you can’t make the finish line or continue to sale after the 2nd week. It only been 4 weeks, why is it out the top 20 so fast in the age of streaming?
Yet, she’s still selling. Gold won’t be a struggle for her like it was for Rihanna with a huge hit. No one cares about that streaming crap. We’re talking about pure sales. LG’s single is still building. Her single before that wasn’t a hit. So her new single has to build.
Anti went platinum on day 2. What is gold?
Nice