By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
Many music enthusiasts thought Chris Brown would have low first week album sales with his latest album “X” and it’s mainly because the album’s released date was pushed back over ten times as a result of his constant legal problems.
However, projections for his first week sales were strong, and it was figured he would sell at least 120,000 albums in week one.
But now the final numbers have been released, and Chris actually exceeded projections and sold a total of 142,155 copies.
Congrats to Breezy.
Interestingly enough, Chris seems to be a little bit confused about his album sales. He tweets:
The Billboard Consumption chart simply measures how much an artist’s music has been streamed within a certain time period. It then adds that number with actual album sales and then projects what an album would have sold if the people who streamed the music actually purchased it.
Saving Country Music writes:
To put it simply, The Billboard Consumption Chart would be a combination of an album and a song chart. Instead of just considering physical album sales to gauge an album’s performance, the new chart would take song plays from streaming data and turn them into equivalent album sales. The idea is to bridge the gap between artists who receive a lot of streaming interaction but have marginal physical sales, and artists who have strong physical sales but don’t experience a lot of streaming activity. All indications are that Billboard hopes that this new Consumption Chart will become the industry standard for rating music.
Hits Daily Double writes:
The weekly chart will combine album and track sales with audio and video streams, assigning an equivalent-album value to each, as in the TEA metric, theoretically providing a more accurate and comprehensive representation of modern-day music consumption … Billboard’s album sales chart will remain in place, but most observers believe it will take on decreasing importance over time as the business acclimates itself to the new system … In some respects, the consumption chart will mirror the present sales charts in that sales and streaming tend to correlate, with certain exceptions … Overall, the most dramatic effect of the consumption chart will be to lengthen the tails of bona fide hits by measuring their aftermarket impact, potentially providing the labels with additional time in which to market these hits.
So Chris’ album did not already go gold, but it could have done so if the streamers actually purchased his music.
“X” is the number two album in the country after Barbara Streisand’s new album.
He’s just as much of an airhead as his girlfriend.
Oh Chris…smh.
As long as he been doing music, he should have known he didn’t go gold based off some made up streaming chart. Was he high when he wrote this?
Don’t worry, he’ll be deleting this tweet soon like he does all the others that prove his ignorance.
Wow I’m actually embarrassed for Chris. How did he get this so wrong?
This happens a lot though. Some of these artists are real quick to listen to their fans (who don’t know ish about the music industry) and they believe the hype. The same thing happened to Tamar. Her fans told her she went platinum and she tweeted it like an idiot before someone in her camp had to give her the education.
LMBO. I’m sorry this is hilarious to me. Regardless, he still did well so I’m not sure why he even tweeted this. It’s like he’s ashamed of the real numbers.
Aww he just got confused. Hell Billboard makes up so many meaningless charts that I’d be confused too.
He must still be on drugs.
What in the??? Come on now.
Did he really think the projections would be that off though? Interesting.
Chile…
His first week sales are good. Most R&B singers can’t even get 100k in the first week and he’s exceeded that regardless of the album being pushed back many times. He should be proud of his real numbers.
Meh. Congrats to him. Despite the error he still did “well” in first week sales.
Wow. Well he did good anyway. I just hope someone lets him know he’s not gold yet but he will be soon if the momentum continues.
Yikes.
He thought he was pulling Rihanna numbers..nope
He clearly didn’t do any research before he tweeted this.
More proof Chris needs to kick the drugs. Warped brain cells are not a good look.
I love him man. He’s just a little confused. LOL.
I’m just going to let him have his moment. He’s hasn’t seen numbers like that in years. The thought makes him happy.
I’m so tired of people dragging Chris through the mud. For one, were you there when the Chris and Rihanna “incident” supposedly happened? No. All people are quick to jump on and believe the media when all it does is perpetrate lies! Let stuff go. Then, ya’ll are behind Ri ,but as soon as something comes out about her she’s trash underneath ya’lls feet. Don’t get it twisted. I just think its pathetic how people have so much to say about Chris who has talent but turn a blind eye to their non-singing, non-dancing, slut idol. But whatever ���
Did your simple self really put incident in quotations like there’s not concrete evidence that Chris whooped Rihanna’s a-s that night? Girl stop.
Your fave is a flop and a woman beater. Deal with it.
What is up wit these artists….and not taking their time to think and research THEMSELVES b4 writing shyt on social media……smh but I do think its cute how he is puttin that positive energy out there tryin to type good shyt into existence but me personally just to not look like an azz I wouldn’t be saying nothing till the actual and factual #’s come out
All I know is the Navy on here does not play around. So much ether being served in these comments. Lol.
So this is embarrassing.
dead