According to That Grape Juice, “The Thing Called Life” may only sell about 35,000 copies in its first week. R Kelly’s new studio album is also posed to have a bleak first week.
That Grape Juice writes:
Per Hits Daily Double, Alsina is set to bow with 30,000-35,000 – a figure insiders say may rise to 40,000 when factoring in streaming. [Remember 1000 plays via on-demand services now equates to one unit “sold” and impacts chart positions.]
As for Kelly, ‘The Buffet’ is on-course to debut with physical sales of 28,000-33,000 and between 32k-37k when factoring in streaming.
[For what it’s worth, Kelly’s latest album – 2013’s ‘Black Panties’ premiered to first week US sales of 113,000. While Alsina’s 2014 debut ‘Testimony’ launched with 67,000]
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I f-cks with August but let’s keep it real gotdammit. His a-s was never going to pull big numbers anyway because all that auto-tune sh-t he sings ain’t worth paying for. The only artist who can pull that sh-t off was T-Pain but some reason these new mof-ckas are still trying to make fetch happen.
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Real talk..
Working in PR makes it easy for me to see that August’s label “leaked” his album on Spotify to help his sales. His album sales would have been even lower if they didn’t do it. Streaming counts for sales so they put in on Spotify early to give it a bump, August drags them for it on Twitter for press (publicity stunt) and now we’re here.
Sounds about right.
Now this is just pathetic. And the crazy thing is August was on IG calling Adele a queen for still being number one on iTunes. Instead of kissing Adele’s a-s he should have been in the studio and going hard so he could at least sell 100k in a week. D’Angleo was able to do that with less press. I like August but he really has the game twisted. Attention won’t help with your album sales anymore. You have to have a good product and a solid fan base.
Dang August. And I’m not surprised R Kelly flopped. He hasn’t had a hit in a long time.
Wow. R&B is in shambles.
Yeah only Beyonce and Rihanna can go platinum right now. Isn’t it scary that it’s 2015 and only a couple of black people can go platinum now? It’s like we’re going backwards.
And that’s the bigger picture a lot of us aren’t seeing.
To be honest I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Rihanna album, whenever she drops it doesn’t go platinum. Seems like only Adele and Taylor Swift are doing big numbers these days. Everyone is flopping these days.
Chris Brown will be the next one to flop. It’s crazy how none of these R&B artists can sell albums anymore.
LMAOOOOOO August did the most and still flopped!!!!!!!!!
Well August can always make a career out of making Youtube videos. He should do a tutorial on twist outs because his hair is always on point.
I didn’t even know he had a new album out.
If you support an artist,you should buy their album. I’m pretty sure August has enough fans where he should do better numbers. I’ll be getting it this week.