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topic #2663321
Subject: "Yeah, and that album has been selling around 150K EVERY week."
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soulfunk
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Fri Feb-17-12 01:04 PM
41. "Yeah, and that album has been selling around 150K EVERY week."
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Adele set to move over 600 units next week
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Fri Feb-17-12 04:48 AM
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SHIT....is this the highest in one week for an album that's been
-DJ R-Tistic-
Feb 17th 2012
1
albums that win Grammys always go up the following week
Garhart Poppwell
Feb 17th 2012
4
fite wolks love that shit, my cocksman
Garhart Poppwell
Feb 18th 2012
89
RE: Adele set to move over 600 units next week
howardlloyd
Feb 17th 2012
2
MJ was black, he sold a ton of records. So did Prince.
kwez
Feb 17th 2012
3
Are you comparing the 1980s to 2012?
AFKAP_of_Darkness
Feb 17th 2012
9
Why can't I though?
kwez
Feb 17th 2012
10
I thought you were talking about sales.
AFKAP_of_Darkness
Feb 17th 2012
11
I'm just saying Adele's sales are deserved
kwez
Feb 17th 2012
13
There's no such thing as 'deserved' in the music business
AFKAP_of_Darkness
Feb 17th 2012
21
Not a fan huh? I dig that girl.
kwez
Feb 17th 2012
22
Nah, I got nothing against her.
AFKAP_of_Darkness
Feb 17th 2012
26
RE: Nah, I got nothing against her.
CMcMurtry
Feb 17th 2012
49
LOL true
AFKAP_of_Darkness
Feb 17th 2012
54
Yeah, that's it
Jakob Hellberg
Feb 17th 2012
68
Is this also true in the context of say, Thriller?
kwez
Feb 18th 2012
71
i havent even heard one of her songs and i feel this way
AlBundy
Feb 18th 2012
74
RE: MJ was black, he sold a ton of records. So did Prince.
howardlloyd
Feb 17th 2012
50
Oh, 600 thousand ?! I thought 600 was kinda eh.
Pete Burns
Feb 17th 2012
5
Me Too. I was like, so.
Buddy_Gilapagos
Feb 17th 2012
7
I thought 600 was a diss, lol.
JFrost1117
Feb 17th 2012
61
Damn!
BSharp
Feb 17th 2012
6
dear god
cjr2221
Feb 17th 2012
8
Adele is white. Let that marinate for a lil.
micMajestic
Feb 17th 2012
12
Not buying it. We had Lauryn. She was Adele huge for a minute
kwez
Feb 17th 2012
14
Lauryn wouldn't do Adele numbers today playboi
Nick Has a Problem...Seriously
Feb 17th 2012
15
An album of Miseducation quality would still do numbers today
kwez
Feb 17th 2012
19
To be honest
AFKAP_of_Darkness
Feb 17th 2012
33
replace 'young urban' w/'young, period'.
SoWhat
Feb 17th 2012
34
I think young 'black' music gets hit harder
AFKAP_of_Darkness
Feb 17th 2012
39
i have no reason to believe that.
SoWhat
Feb 17th 2012
40
RE: To be honest
Nick Has a Problem...Seriously
Feb 17th 2012
36
Gangstarr moved one Gold plaque
Bombastic
Feb 17th 2012
31
RE: Gangstarr moved one Gold plaque
Nick Has a Problem...Seriously
Feb 17th 2012
37
The burden of proof is on you. Explain how Adele's sales & Black R&B
micMajestic
Feb 17th 2012
16
I'm saying she's making great music, her black contemporaries aren't
kwez
Feb 17th 2012
20
I agree with that. Still there's no guarantee of similar sales for a
micMajestic
Feb 17th 2012
28
Adele is pretty ugly though and fat as well...
Jakob Hellberg
Feb 17th 2012
69
When the last time a new(ish) black R&B singer was marketed this well?
CMcMurtry
Feb 17th 2012
17
Sure, but first we need the music. And there isn't any is there?
kwez
Feb 17th 2012
18
I don't see it, but I'm not as well connected to R&B as others might be
CMcMurtry
Feb 17th 2012
27
my God. all this whining about Adele's success makes us look stupid.
SoWhat
Feb 17th 2012
23
This too. n/m
kwez
Feb 17th 2012
24
if Adele's success were purely about her being white then every
SoWhat
Feb 17th 2012
25
are you that dumb though?
howardlloyd
Feb 17th 2012
51
1st, you name all the fat white chicks who've had Pop success
SoWhat
Feb 17th 2012
56
RE: 1st, you name all the fat white chicks who've had Pop success
howardlloyd
Feb 17th 2012
59
but all fat white singers get Pop success, right?
SoWhat
Feb 17th 2012
63
last response...cuz your brain don't work
howardlloyd
Feb 18th 2012
82
RE: 1st, you name all the fat white chicks who've had Pop success
howardlloyd
Feb 17th 2012
60
Lily & Amy? fat?
SoWhat
Feb 17th 2012
62
RE: Lily & Amy? fat?
howardlloyd
Feb 18th 2012
80
Dude, are you sure you know who Lily Allen is????
amplifya7
Feb 18th 2012
83
thats post diet lily allen
howardlloyd
Feb 18th 2012
86
RE: 1st, you name all the fat white chicks who've had Pop success
SirLau
Feb 19th 2012
93
Missy
s t a r s k y
Feb 19th 2012
90
J Hud
darius heyward bey
Feb 19th 2012
95
You're the one who introduced that element in the OP, though.
AFKAP_of_Darkness
Feb 17th 2012
30
niggas are seriously mad and skeptical of that shit.
BrooklynWHAT
Feb 17th 2012
38
Alex Jones ass niggas
DolphinTeef
Feb 17th 2012
46
so ur saying race has NO factor whatsoever?
truekolor
Feb 17th 2012
52
I think race has less to do with it than people are making of it...
Crash85
Feb 17th 2012
53
i completely agree to the extent that despite her race
truekolor
Feb 17th 2012
57
*eyes roll*
SoWhat
Feb 17th 2012
58
So black people need to step it up....
Crash85
Feb 17th 2012
64
they are forced to worry about that hit song...
AlBundy
Feb 18th 2012
78
^^^this right here
Nick Has a Problem...Seriously
Feb 18th 2012
85
*sigh*
SoWhat
Feb 17th 2012
55
"us"
Ghetto Black
Feb 17th 2012
67
race clearly factors in
AlBundy
Feb 18th 2012
77
sales are determined by how well and how much
Garhart Poppwell
Feb 17th 2012
29
where does the 'people like it' element fit into your formula?
Bombastic
Feb 17th 2012
32
we've become so jaded and cynical it's hard for us to remember
SoWhat
Feb 17th 2012
35
Adele is "fat and unsexy" by industry standards....
legsdiamond
Feb 17th 2012
42
RE: we've become so jaded and cynical it's hard for us to remember
legsdiamond
Feb 17th 2012
44
I'm trying to figure out how any of that related to what he wrote
Bombastic
Feb 17th 2012
65
for real if marketing was all it was Gaga's last album woulda crushed 21
Bombastic
Feb 17th 2012
66
seriously
Jakob Hellberg
Feb 17th 2012
70
in the 'how well' moreso than the 'how much'
Garhart Poppwell
Feb 19th 2012
91
She's a fuckin phenomenon... I really don't understand it...
Crash85
Feb 17th 2012
43
RE: She's a fuckin phenomenon... I really don't understand it...
legsdiamond
Feb 17th 2012
45
Nice.... Ain't that called pulling a Bobby Caldwell...
Crash85
Feb 17th 2012
47
RE: Nice.... Ain't that called pulling a Bobby Caldwell...
legsdiamond
Feb 17th 2012
48
600? As in six-hundred? Wow n/m
johnbook
Feb 18th 2012
72
six-hundred... thousand...
Crash85
Feb 18th 2012
73
21 is number 1... 19 is number 9...
Crash85
Feb 18th 2012
75
my dime on this here
mistermaxxx08
Feb 18th 2012
76
Max came thru and tore down the buildings
AlBundy
Feb 18th 2012
79
Ok Maxx, but if they were gonna push someone...why her?
kwez
Feb 18th 2012
81
a few answers for ya
mistermaxxx08
Feb 18th 2012
88
RE: Ok Maxx, but if they were gonna push someone...why her?
SirLau
Feb 19th 2012
94
The fact the only two responses in this thread
amplifya7
Feb 18th 2012
84
I think it's weird that no one is talking about Aretha or Missy
dalecooper
Feb 19th 2012
92
the top white artist will almost always sell more than the top black art...
Nick Has a Problem...Seriously
Feb 18th 2012
87
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