WOW. Adele projected to sell 1.3M-1.8M Copies first Week!

[The Devil's Advocate]

Aint shyt incredible. Its called fans buying the album n supporting the artist. Jill Scott can do those numbers, if nikkas got up off their asses and support.

no... she couldn't....

we need to get off that, black people don't buy music bullshyt...

the problem is, there aren't that many black people in america to start with...



There are 197.7 million white people out of 313.9 million Americans.

Those who identified only as African American made up 13.2% of the U.S. population-over 41.7 million people.





to sell 1 million records, a white person needs .5% of america to buy it

for a black artist to sell a million, they need 2.3 %


that's literally a difference of 5.6 million people

that's why crossing over is always to white people, white fans, what white people will accept... there's simply more of them and if you want money/sales... you're going to have to include them and realize they have the numbers

 

[Calmye]

But the world has one billion more people in it in 2015 than it did in 2000

the world's population grew by 1 billion in less than a generation

 

[ManBearPig]

 

[ManBearPig]

the world's population grew by 1 billion in less than a generation

Africa is growing like crazy

 

[RichYung]

No excuse.
What part of , "the hottest urban artist" in my post, is non understandable ?

Adele come out one week, get a hundred million views, drop an album go plat... yet young thug dominates radio and cant even go gold???
Why don't urban radio play Jill Scott, Tyrese, or Tank???

We wanna be astonished by Adele, and Taylor, Sam And Em's numbers...but shyt aint no hidden ancient secret.
Its called Support, Support , Support.

These nikkas on here want it to be EVERYTHING but that SIMPLE thing called "support" literally That's all it is.

 

[Geek Nasty]

Ayo who else copped that Demi Lovato mix tape. shyt is FIRE

 

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

But the world has one billion more people in it in 2015 than it did in 2000

 

[Rigby.]

That shyt 21 was all over everywhere

You literally couldn't go anywhere to avoid it

You could hide under a rock and suddenly hear "I SET FIRE TO THE RAIINNNN"

 

[Rigby.]

Didn't Nsync once open with 2.4mill in first week?!!

But those numbers for Adele in today's market is crazy as fukk...it helps when artists take a break and step back like she does rather than release mediocre music every dann year

 

[blackslash]

Wat in da fck is this recent obsession with fckin ADELE in the booth?

 

[blackslash]

IDK why the brehs on the first two pages are so aggy about an Adele thread being posted in the booth... like we didn't have a muti plat thread in the middle of the night when that surprise Beyonce album dropped nikkas begging for links and all





Adele is a pop star like Beyonce





To me, Adele is in that Joss Stone/Timberlake/Sam Smith/Ed Sharran lane, white person that makes black R&B music



And I'm pretty sure Rihanna will drop an album soon, maybe she do Adele like Future did Meek Mill this summer


With that being said... at possibly selling 1.8 mil first week, that is so ridiculous you just can't help but to laugh

Nikka u know why

Because unlike Beyonce

Adele's music dont mean a damn thing in black culture

Is this forum not an extension of black culture??!!1
Then why in da fck are we even speaking on adele in this mufcka

This average ass broad who doesnt even have half the talent as our women(Beyonce, Jill, etc.) nor doesnt have even 1/8th of the relevance within our culture as our women, is getting praises and diamond threads in the booth?!!

Man get this sht the fck outta here

 

[Canada Goose]

Ayo who else copped that Demi Lovato mix tape. shyt is FIRE

Cool for the Summer is and I'm not even trolling

 

[UpAndComing]

Adele is Hip-hop

This neg is Hip Hop too

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Yea, but

im sure there's enough of us to get Thugger (one of the hottest mainstream rappers out currently) a higher number than 20k. I know you need the white crowd to do Adele #'s but Thugs #'s sounds like a simple case of blacks not supporting. Not as complicated as yall making this out to be

Can you fukking stop name dropping Young Thug?


Seriously fukking stop.....speaking as if everyone should support his garbage. Not everyone is from the south and likes that bullshyt music so please stfu about him.

 

[L&HH]

Obviously he doesn't want black people to buy every album. But there is definitely enough blacks in this country for the most popular black artists to go plat off of the black dollar alone especially with CD & Download prices being at the absolute lowest they've ever been. There is absolutely no reason for Future, Young Thug, Fetty Wap & Chris Brown to be topping out at 300k sales and that's if they're lucky.

And no not every black person is going to buy the same music but thats the point there is a great variance in music taste amongst blacks and enough finances amongst those people for black artists of every style of music to eat well and for select black artists to go plat... everytime and solely off the black dollar. We just have to make music valueble to us again if we valued our music like we valued sneakers black artists would never have to pander to white audiences to make money ever again.

No there really isn't enough black people in the country for black artists to go platinum [1 million+] off of the black dollar alone. There's about the same amount of black people in the US as the total population of Canada. I It would be absurd for Canada with 35 million people to have the same "sales standards/thresholds" as the U.S. with 300+ million people. That's why "platinum" in Canada is 80,000 records sold. If you just want to sell your album to black people, then you should not have the same standards as someone else selling to 200+ million. If Taylor Swift and Adele sold comparatively to the same % to white fans that you guys are asking black artists to do to black fans, they'd be moving like 5+ million copies in the first week.