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What do you expect "Loved Me Back To Life" to sell, in its opening week [USA]?

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Am I understanding correctly that Eminem has an album being released the same day? If so, I guess we know who RC is rooting for. :-D

 

Seriously, if she places #1 or #100, what does it matter? She's been #1 plenty of times in her life. At this point she is recording just to make the fans happy.

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I really hope this album can outsell TAKING CHANCES...

 

If it reaches TC figures...that would be awesome!

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So Lady Gaga's album is to be released November 11 as well, so I'm starting to hope for Top 5 in general. Pre-Christmas time is really not the right time to release an album if you want it to be #1 :giggle:

 

Wait Billboard updates its chart every Thursday right? So if Celine releases on Nov 5... she only gets what? 2 or 3 days' worth of sales to count for that week's chart. And then the sales for the succeeding days will have to be counted for the chart the week after that, which is the same week as Lady Gaga's album drops...

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maybe not the first week, but i think this album will continue to have great sale
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Wait Billboard updates its chart every Thursday right? So if Celine releases on Nov 5... she only gets what? 2 or 3 days' worth of sales to count for that week's chart. And then the sales for the succeeding days will have to be counted for the chart the week after that, which is the same week as Lady Gaga's album drops...

No; Billboard's sales week runs Monday - Sunday and the chart for that week is published the following Thursday. See the example toward the top of this Wikipedia entry for a better idea of the schedule: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_200

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I really hope this album can outsell TAKING CHANCES...

 

 

Just being realistic but that's never gonna happen. I'd say she won't scan a million - but it'll still be certified platinum.

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I really hope this album can outsell TAKING CHANCES...

 

Worldwide maybe it's possible and I hope so. As for the US - it will have to sell strong, because "Taking Chances" is platinum with more than a million copies sold.

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Eminem is predicted to sell 750,000 copies of his new album during his first week [same week as Céline releases her new album] and Lady Gaga is predicted to sell 450,000 copies of her new album during her first week [the second week of Céline's new album].

 

So anyone thinking Céline has a shot at #1 will need to adjust their expectations NOW. :giggle:

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I still don't understand why they went for November 5, when October 28 is free from big names, I don't get it, we could have had a #1 album :cursing:
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Eminem is predicted to sell 750,000 copies of his new album during his first week [same week as Céline releases her new album] and Lady Gaga is predicted to sell 450,000 copies of her new album during her first week [the second week of Céline's new album].

 

So anyone thinking Céline has a shot at #1 will need to adjust their expectations NOW. :giggle:

 

Could she beat Lady Gaga in UK?

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Could she beat Lady Gaga in UK?

 

Nope.

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As if the Celine Corporation could care about album sales anymore. They know the big money is in touring and Celine dominates in this arena. Gaga, Eminem, and whatever other mediocre artists out there today will never be able to touch her when it comes to touring (that's why Gaga allegedly broke her hip or whatever since concert sales were too low and she had to cancel shows because of this "supposed injury"). Who cares where it places; just give us the album already!
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Eminem is predicted to sell 750,000 copies of his new album during his first week [same week as Céline releases her new album] and Lady Gaga is predicted to sell 450,000 copies of her new album during her first week [the second week of Céline's new album].

 

So anyone thinking Céline has a shot at #1 will need to adjust their expectations NOW. :giggle:

Agreed. If these two weren't releasing albums I'd say she stands a pretty good shot at it but, at best, maybe # 3? Even that, unfortunately, I don't see happening as much I really want it to.

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I still don't understand why they went for November 5, when October 28 is free from big names, I don't get it, we could have had a #1 album :cursing:

Katy Perry is releasing her album on the 28th. I think that's why they moved it.

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I also think #3 is her best bet.

 

If Eminem sells the projected estimate of 750,000 and suffers a 70-75% drop in his second week, he'd still sell around 200,000 copies of his album in week #1, which would be more than Céline's projected opening week sale and would thus keep her at #3 [behind Gaga who will debut at #1 and himself at #2].

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I also think #3 is her best bet.

 

If Eminem sells the projected estimate of 750,000 and suffers a 70-75% drop in his second week, he'd still sell around 200,000 copies of his album in week #1, which would be more than Céline's projected opening week sale and would thus keep her at #3 [behind Gaga who will debut at #1 and himself at #2].

 

you're talking about second week right? We all think she'll debut at #2 right? best charting position since ONE HEART!

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you're talking about second week right? We all think she'll debut at #2 right? best charting position since ONE HEART!

 

No, I highly doubt that.

 

She'll settle for #3.

 

Gaga will be #1 with circa 450,000 albums sold.

 

Eminem will be #2 with a MINIMUM of 200,000 albums sold [providing he meets the first week projected sales of 750,000].

 

Céline will be #3. Sony project sales of around 150,000-160,000 albums sold.

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No, I highly doubt that.

 

She'll settle for #3.

 

Gaga will be #1 with circa 450,000 albums sold.

 

Eminem will be #2 with a MINIMUM of 200,000 albums sold [providing he meets the first week projected sales of 750,000].

 

Céline will be #3. Sony project sales of around 150,000-160,000 albums sold.

 

I don't get it! Are u talking about USA or the UK?

Gaga's not releasing until November 11th!!

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I don't get it! Are u talking about USA or the UK?

Gaga's not releasing until November 11th!!

 

OH, I've mixed Céline's date up! Haha.

 

If Katy Perry suffers a typical 70% drop, then I see no reason why Céline shouldn't be #2. :)

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OH, I've mixed Céline's date up! Haha.

 

If Katy Perry suffers a typical 70% drop, then I see no reason why Céline shouldn't be #2. :)

 

Thank God Wayne!!!! :P

 

So we can still hope for Celine's best debut in 10 years!

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The first week predictions for Céline come out at the beginning next week - therefore, I will accept additional predictions until Sunday night - anyone else want to participate?

 

Please predict what you expect Loved Me Back To Life to sell in its first week in the US AND what chart position you expect it to reach with these sales, i.e.

 

Loved Me Back To Life - 300,000 sales [#2]

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Well, Kate Perry's first week is pretty bad. She is all over the place and has a monster hit on her hands and she couldn't even sell 300,000 albums.

 

Don't know if it's good for Céline or not.

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Well, Kate Perry's first week is pretty bad. She is all over the place and has a monster hit on her hands and she couldn't even sell 300,000 albums.

 

Don't know if it's good for Céline or not.

i think its good for celine. it proves that those who are expected to have high sales number can fail easily, and those who have low sales prediction might rise up! :clap:
wjd Rookie

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Well, Kate Perry's first week is pretty bad. She is all over the place and has a monster hit on her hands and she couldn't even sell 300,000 albums.

 

Don't know if it's good for Céline or not.

 

Its not bad, its nearly 100,000 copies more than Teenage Dream, which was a monster album.

 

In the last three years, just FIVE studio albums by female soloists have debuted with more than 300,000 copies sold - its quite unbelievable actually!

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You know what I meant by "bad"... of course, it's not bad but sorry we could expect more.

 

Plus, it's logical that the more famous and more successfull you get, the more albums you sell the first week.

 

"Teenage dream" was a big hit, so it's "normal" that the next one would sell more than TD's first week.

 

It's like you said next Adele's album selling 500.000 copies in the US is good because she sold around 350.000 copies the week of 21's release. After selling 10.000.000 copies of the later, it will be pretty bad.

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You know what I meant by "bad"... of course, it's not bad but sorry we could expect more.

 

Plus, it's logical that the more famous and more successfull you get, the more albums you sell the first week.

 

"Teenage dream" was a big hit, so it's "normal" that the next one would sell more than TD's first week.

 

It's like you said next Adele's album selling 500.000 copies in the US is good because she sold around 350.000 copies the week of 21's release. After selling 10.000.000 copies of the later, it will be pretty bad.

 

No, that's not logical thinking at all - that's you adding 2 + 2 and getting 5.

 

I accept that many people - including me - were expecting her to top 300,000 copies first week. But ultimately, she did 50% more than her previous album in its first week, which is more than the industry standard for female artists.

 

The problem these days is that chart watchers expect too much.

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Final projected figure for USA opening:

 

#2--136,000

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