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

[onelastdeath]

Really breh? I ALWAYS pictured her spitting major bars. I heard she was gon go at Taylor swift or some shyt

I meant "pop", but being in the booth my memory made me type "rap".

My mistake

 

[IllmaticDelta]

She's a better singer/Artist than Jill Scott though. That's just a fact. They're both great, but Adele is better.

No way

 

[IllmaticDelta]

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

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

Black people and non-whites in general DONT BUY MUSIC LIKE WHITE PEOPLE


but....

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

I agree with you there though

 

[onelastdeath]

No way

Way. I'm well aware of how white people get that extra push, and are forced and elevated to levels that their talent alone would never take them.

Adele isn't one of them.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

You said country has been moving numbers talking about the same shyt.

I never said that

I said you were wrong, named artist who don't just talk about Friday nights, beer and trucks. I didn't say anything about country being more diverse as a whole just more diverse than you make it seem.

All I did was point out that Rap had a more diverse range of subject matter. I never made any connections between lyrics and sells.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Way. I'm well aware of how white people get that extra push, and are forced and elevated to levels that their talent alone would never take them.

Adele isn't one of them.

Adele is ONE of them even though she actually has talent. Elvis and Eminem were/are both talented too but the extra push is obvious because of the Elvis factor, which is a white face on a "black" based sound. No reason to deny the truth

 

[Whitty Hutton]

Why ya'll so mad though? Not my flavor of music, but at least Thickums is actually good at what she does. There are other top selling artists in their respective genres that I'm like "Why?" (like most of the ones running rap now)

And if you got a beef with white people's musical support, lets not forgot the GOAT in album sales is still a nikka from Gary, Indiana

 

[Sauce Dab]

I posted in that other Adele thread that she was going to do these numbers. This isn't surprising at all that people are buying a white woman's music who sings "soulfully"

 

[Sauce Dab]

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

She can do that because she sells like crazy. I dont even know if she tours . Tf you talking about?

 

[IllmaticDelta]

You fukking kidding right?

Nobody wanted anything to do with this chick when she came out

Every record label looking for the next rail thin blonde white chick to get up their and dance and lip sync and shake her ass...

And her comes this fat white chick who doesn't do anything but get on stage and sing...no dancing...no skimpy outfit...no endorsements...no commercials...just her...her ability to write a song and sing a song...

One of the few musicians of the last decade who got by on their pure talent...not some fukking auto tune dress like a slut twerking i weight 90 pounds and 60 of it is plastic...

shyt I remember when 21 really blow up and all these "uh oh Adele is really famous and known now she gonna have to lose weight cause she to fat to be this successful" shyt was popping in the media

I remember going to one of her 21 concerts...she just fukking stood up their and sang...stood in the same fukking spot

Has Beyonce ever done a concert where the star of it wasn't her camel toe ?

You're right, she's not a part of the same machine as Taylor Swift, who has very little talent but has an image that appeals to mainly teenage white girls but she is part of the British Blue Eyed Soul machine that Estelle spoke on before.

 

[Frankie Wallace]

Female artists are bigger than male artists because they can fukk corporate bosses for that extra push.

Lana Del Ray even told us the moment she put out she became a star.

Rap men ain't gay like that except drake (which is why he sells well,)

 

[No1]

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.

Are you dense? We just demonstrated how none of this is true.

 

[No1]

You're right, she's not a part of the same machine as Taylor Swift, who has very little talent but has an image that appeals to mainly teenage white girls but she is part of the British Blue Eyed Soul machine that Estelle spoke on before.

Don't bother he is not big on analysis.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

You're right, she's not a part of the same machine as Taylor Swift, who has very little talent but has an image that appeals to mainly teenage white girls but she is part of the British Blue Eyed Soul machine that Estelle spoke on before.

Taylor's Swift team is

She one of the few who managed to shed the teeny bopper sound,but not alienate her fans,this broad had Fetty Wap perform at one of her shows

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Booth loves some Adele