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Listen Up! 2013 perspective - cherelann - 03-15-2013
Split from another thread
This might be a good spot to remind everyone that it took a year for Adele's 21 to take off. This guy might have some ideas on how to make it happen for our little pony...
RE: Haley in NYC - March 8, 2013 - 30CamdenSquare - 03-16-2013
(03-15-2013, 10:51 PM)cherelann Wrote: This might be a good spot to remind everyone that it took a year for Adele's 21 to take off. This guy might have some ideas on how to make it happen for our little pony...
Actually no, it didn't. 21 Debuted at #1 on the Global Album Chart, selling 359,000 copies in it's first week. 1 year from it's release date, 21 had already sold 16-18million copies worldwide.
You might be thinking of Adele 19 which has sold far more copies after 21 was released, than it did in the first year after it's release in 2008. 19 still sold fairly well the first year though (probably in the neighborhood of 750,000-1,000,000 copies). By the time 21 was released in early 2011, 19 had sold roughly 2million copies, but has sold an additional 5million copies since then.
Here's a great source for tracking sales of top selling albums
http://www.mediatraffic.de/albums-week06-2011.htm
Having said all that though, I agree w/ the point you were making. A lot of artists debut albums do take a year or more before they hit their longest stretch on the Billboard Top 200. And plenty more artists release a number of albums before they ever see mainstream success. The Black Keys' "Brothers" was their 1st to go platinum, but it was the 6th album they released.
RE: Haley in NYC - March 8, 2013 - LegallyReinhart - 03-16-2013
(03-15-2013, 10:51 PM)cherelann Wrote: This might be a good spot to remind everyone that it took a year for Adele's 21 to take off. This guy might have some ideas on how to make it happen for our little pony...
21 sold over 300k albums it's first week...
RE: Haley in NYC - March 8, 2013 - cherelann - 03-16-2013
(03-16-2013, 10:54 AM)LegallyReinhart Wrote:
21 sold over 300k albums it's first week...
Thank you LR and 30CS for setting me straight. I probably read something and took it out of context, my bad...
Still I cannot conceive of any reason Listen Up has not sold at least a million. it is certainly that good. I cannot remembering enjoying an entire album this much since the Beatles released Rubber Soul. Yes, I am old so enough said... 
RE: Haley in NYC - March 8, 2013 - Miguel - 03-16-2013
(03-16-2013, 01:11 PM)cherelann Wrote: Still I cannot conceive of any reason Listen Up has not sold at least a million. it is certainly that good. I cannot remembering enjoying an entire album this much since the Beatles released Rubber Soul.
I agree it's that good. Just goes to show you how hard it is to break through now. It would've been easier five years before when album sales and Idol's ratings were higher.
RE: Haley in NYC - March 8, 2013 - midnightblues - 03-16-2013
The digital age put the binders on c/d sales.
RE: Haley in NYC - March 8, 2013 - LegallyReinhart - 03-16-2013
(03-16-2013, 01:11 PM)cherelann Wrote: Still I cannot conceive of any reason Listen Up has not sold at least a million. it is certainly that good.
I KNOW!
RE: Haley in NYC - March 8, 2013 - 30CamdenSquare - 03-16-2013
Cherelann - No worries. I do that too sometimes. Also, I know most people don't pay as much attention to music charts as I have the past couple of years. I can get kinda geeky about stuff that interests me.
I don't think that "Listen Up's" sales are a reflection of it's quality. I just don't think that many people have heard it. I think if Haley continues to write good music, she'll become more & more well known post idol and alot of new fans will discover "Listen Up" over the next few years. I still think it's going to go gold at the very least, just not in the time frame most of us expected.
RE: Haley in NYC - March 8, 2013 - Babbs234 - 03-16-2013
It makes me wonder how many copies would have been sold if Listen up was released earlier in the year. I know Haley wanted to make her album her way, but I feel fans would have gobbled those cds up right after the tour was over.
RE: Haley in NYC - March 8, 2013 - Tusk - 03-16-2013
(03-16-2013, 06:34 PM)Babbs234 Wrote: It makes me wonder how many copies would have been sold if Listen up was released earlier in the year. I know Haley wanted to make her album her way, but I feel fans would have gobbled those cds up right after the tour was over.six of one and half a dozen of the other. If you take a souffle out too fast, if flops.
Who's to say putting it out faster wouldn't mean that half or more of the songs would have been written by someone else and Haley wouldn't have got to experience the song writing part of the business the way she has, made valuable industry connections, not to mention the potential royalties that will pay her into the future?
Bottom line, LU is basically her 'song writing' resume as well as her first LP. She has worked with name song writers and they with her and we saw recently that they are working with her now for songs on the EP...and that's with her not being signed... They know it's worthwhile to work with her, she doesn't have to prove herself to them to get them to work with her
Ultimately, it happened the way it was meant to happen IMO
Talent will win out, and Haley has truckloads