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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 20:13:47 GMT -5
I take back my criticism of the Pop Justice forum! A few days ago, I complained here about the amount of hate shown by Pop Justice regulars on the "Adam Lambert Discussion" thread. (Actually, "condescension" would have been a more accurate word.) Since then---apart from one luminary who claims rather implausibly that TOH is "beige" and "personality-free"---various posters there have gone out of their way to variously praise The Light, Heavy Fire, the FYE and Trespassing albums, and even Adam's refreshing candour  Colour me pleasantly surprised! www.popjustice.com/forum/threads/12554-Adam-Lambert-General-Discussion-Thread/page11 I looked at it the day you posted and was happy to see a thread and site that hadn't been invaded by glamberts. There have been far too many instances of fans crashing the online homes of strangers in the effort to "protect" Adam or to "inform" the rabble and I think in each and every case it has been a major fail. I love seeing people discover Adam on their own and snark, condescension, and all that is absolutely to be expected in a non-glambert site, it's pefectly normal and so much more exciting to watch if they change their tune without outside influence (which usually turns them against Adam instead of for him). So I'm glad that they have such a long leadtime before people can become members and hope against hope that it remains free and sorry to use this phrase but I can't think of another word that portrays my feelings but "unpolluted" by fans. Well, it certainly wasn't my intention for an army of Glamberts to invade that forum and attempt to browbeat everyone into submission! (Hell, I even cringe when fans include photos of Adam in their avatar when posting in his defence on non-Glambert sites. Not helpful for credibility.) No, I was simply expressing my puzzlement that a forum supposedly devoted to intelligent discussion of pop singers had either long ignored Adam, or (worse) adopted a sneering attitude towards him. But perhaps they were merely taking their lead from that web site's owner, who in his first interview with Adam said at the outset, "How does it feel to know you're never going to be as good as Lady Gaga?"  Anyway, point taken. |
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Post by pi on Jun 14, 2015 20:14:18 GMT -5
The post above you indicates that Ghost Town youtube or streaming also counts towards album sales.. it's a little confusing. Can anyone clarify? I'm not sure what post you are talking about but Q3 indicated Youtube only counts for the single and the Lambert411 post states that there is no definitive answer about the album chart. I didn't see any post that said it definitely counted for both. This is Youtube only I'm talking about. It was this paragraph from lambert411 on pg18 of this thread that got me a little confused. She used the term "stream" when talking about watching the GT video on Youtube, then talked about the GT "streams" counting towards both BB charts. Thanks for clarifying. STREAM “Ghost Town” video on YouTube and song on Spotify. Reminder: Pandora and online radio DO NOT count for the Billboard charts; Amazon Prime, Beats Music, Rdio DO count. Needs to be on-demand streaming. This really is as important as streaming the album. Here’s why: The song is about to enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart (on Bubbling Under chart last week), and radio looks at that chart which combines radio spins, sales and streams. Adam has said repeatedly he wants a radio hit and just last week stressed that’s his main attention right now and not album sales. Again, as a bonus: The “Ghost Town” streams will count toward both Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart and the Hot 200 album chart.
Read more: adamtopia.com/thread/3066/6-14-15-finally-begins?page=23#ixzz3d5ZZwEb6 |
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Post by adamrocks on Jun 14, 2015 20:15:28 GMT -5
 I've been gone today getting my son his new computer and having it set up and while we are sitting there with the tech guy at Micro Center my son says, "Mom, listen to what they are playing throughout the store right now"....and OMG! it was GHOST TOWN!!!!  I could have danced around the whole store but I didn't...just wore they biggest grin on my face! It made a very long waiting/installing process much more pleasurable!! Adam was already in a playing rotation at a big public store!!  Now back to reading the thread!! 
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 20:17:14 GMT -5
Pattihum just twitted that the official Top 40 chart position this week for GT is 28!!!!
Negative songs above it as well... Grabbed this from down below in our members' twitter lists. Check it out! Thanks, girl!  
You beat me to it, gurl!!  Be sure to notice all the negative songs above Ghost Town too!  |
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Post by 4Ms on Jun 14, 2015 20:20:50 GMT -5
I love the photo of Adam wearing leather pants and sitting in a well-worn leather chair.
The setting is probably an office, but could pass for an old British club.
Needs a story.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 20:26:23 GMT -5
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Post by cassie on Jun 14, 2015 20:27:19 GMT -5
I love the photo of Adam wearing leather pants and sitting in a well-worn leather chair. The setting is probably an office, but could pass for an old British club. Needs a story. Oh, it is just ripe for a story. Perhaps a spy thriller from WWII. Or, I am reading a guilty pleasure fantasy vampire novel and he could easily play the lead. It was my first thought when I saw the pic. |
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Post by lambertmusic411 on Jun 14, 2015 20:33:42 GMT -5
Hello everyone! I just popped in and saw the info on page 1. I was curious about the statement that YouTube streams definitely don't count for the Billboard 200 album chart. I've always been iffy about it but hedged bets in my long post today: requestadamlambert.com/2015/06/14/priorities-for-album-release-week/ ... I've never seen Billboard publish anything definitively; intentionally vague! But this evening I did an exercise with Taylor Swift's album, which left me pretty convinced that YouTube streams actually do count. Billboard just doesn't want to spell things out. Here's what I found regarding Swift: She sold 34,320 albums last week. With TEA's and SEA's (streaming album and sales), she "sold" a total of 69,507 for Billboard 200 chart. (That means 35K was TEA's and SEA's). On the TEA's, she sold 213K of her current hit, Bad Blood. That's equivalent to 21,300 albums (10 single sales = 1 album sale). That gives you 55,620 total album sales and TEA's. The remaining 14K TEA's are sales of her other tracks and streaming. Her two previous songs, Style and Shake It Off, sold 50,000 copies combined last week so that equals another 5K albums. That leaves us with 9K album units coming from streaming. In order to reach that number it's 9,000 x 1,500 (1,500 streams = 1 album sale). That means roughly 13.5 million streams! Swift doesn't do Spotify, etc. I know there are other on-demand services but not with the reach of YouTube. And her fans use YouTube a lot! So this makes me think that YouTube streams must indeed count for the Billboard 200 numbers. Any thoughts? Thank you! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 20:33:46 GMT -5
LAMBERTLUST @lambertlust · 58m58 minutes ago
Who's this guy think he is? @adamlambert ???? https://vine
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Post by Q3 on Jun 14, 2015 20:34:31 GMT -5
Listen to it. (HA! I'm being a smart ass because I'm getting dizzy reading all the discussion of what to do.)  so far I can't find TOH /GT on Amazon Prime Music . SO, I hope it'll show up on the 16th, so we can stream. If anyone notices that they've made it available for streaming - please post! It is very unlikely that Amazon Prime will have TOH -- or any of the tracks -- Amazon Prime music generally does not have new releases. The album stream on Amazon counts. Spotify is easy and free for tablet or PC. Rdio is easy and free for tablet or PC. Spotify Premium and Beats have free trials. Lots of other options. |
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