6.3.12 - 6.9.12 Numbers Thread

This was posted at FYE. This USA Today article (Brian Mansfield) about the second week sales of FYE might put things in perspective.

I didn't mean to hurt or discount anyone's feelings. The obstacles for Trespassing seem trivial compared to the FYE launch IMO.

Dec 09, 2009
Album sales: Adam Lambert plummets, Carrie Underwood stays Top 10

lol deja vu much? :3

Speaking of sales drops, let's talk about Adam Lambert's For Your Entertainment for a minute. Its weekly sales plummeted 74 percent, from nearly 200,000 its debut week to just shy of 51,000 in its second. If you're an Adam Lambert partisan, you can try to spin it all you want, but that's just bad. Did the Black Friday shopping rush factor? Maybe, but SoundScan's overall Top 200 sales were off only 14 percent for the week -- Adam's were down 74. For Your Entertainment had the biggest percentage drop of any album in the Top 200 (only one other album was off 70 percent). From a pure numbers standpoint, it came up more than 147,000 units short of its first week, a bigger shortfall than any other album on the chart save Boyle's -- which still outsold Adam by a margin of more than 10-to-1. His digital sales were also down last week.

Adam still hasn't found a foothold at radio, which he'll need if he wants to have solid week-to-week sales going forward after the holiday sales season. One of the major television networks clearly has doubts about his value to them, and the other networks will find amusement in booking him so they can thumb their noses at ABC for only so long. If he doesn't deliver a hit, those big network-TV opportunities (save maybe for Fox) will start drying up soon. In other words, the days of Adam Lambert as a perceived phenom are quickly drawing to a close. He needs a hit, and he needs it quickly.

Thanks rabbitrabbit, but understand that you were questioning some of us as being Adam fans---and that is unfair. I think this place is generally very balanced, and let's face it, some stuff isn't all perfect and pretty. I don't think I am OTT or even particularly angsty so I'm not gonna feel responsible if some peope come in here and freak out. We are all adults.

What she said

I don't post here because I know nothing about numbers and depend on our trusty experts to spell things out in small words. I feel a bit shy to be here.

But I do follow a lot of musicians/bands and based on that experience, I'm actually feeling quite positive about progress so far. That Trespassing has done as well as it has w/out a big single to buoy it says a lot and it is very early days for this album. (And if I have to chose - I'll take longevity over early burst.)

No Pollyanna I - I've been pleasantly, frankly surprised at the consistently great buzz going on in the mainstream - he's really being treated like a force to be reckoned with even by those who give him mixed reviews - and most of those mixed reviews still show respect for him as an artist. And the buzz seems to be continuing.

I think Adam is increasingly difficult to ignore, even for the most reactionary. NCOE is on its way up - and when it hits (I'm having trouble typing with my crossed fingers), I'm going to give up any/all worry and just play words with friends w/all my new free time

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

We'll see!!