Post by Slinger on Apr 6, 2019 12:52:19 GMT
This delicate little flower is Billy Eilish, and I have no idea what her music sounds like.
With an album entitled "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" featuring tracks like "All the Good Girls Go to Hell," "Bury a Friend," and "Wish You Were Gay," I'm not actually sure I want to know what her music sounds like. I would imagine that bass, and a snare drum, will each figure quite heavily, though.
She's just set new UK album chart record - The aforementioned album, her debut, went straight to number one, with a combined 48,000 sales, making her the youngest solo female artist to top the UK album charts.
It's not her age that stood out to me though, it was the fact that she only needed to shift 48,000 units (which includes all formats) to debut at #1 in the UK Album chart. That's ludicrous. I know I'm an old geezer - I still remember when you needed to sell a million units to get a gold disc, I think it's probably around twelve, or fifteen, these days... perhaps twenty? - but 48,000 is a mere drop in the ocean to my mind.
Led Zeppelin III had advance orders in the US alone of almost a million. That was before it was even released; I think it ended up around the six-million mark.
Abbey Road debuted at number one over here, following advance sales of 190,000. It topped the chart for 11 weeks, before dropping to number two, but returned to the top spot a week later, on 27 December, and stayed there for a further six weeks. That had advance sales of 190,000 in the UK. In total it stayed in the (Top 75) charts for 92 weeks. Worldwide, it sold four million copies in its first six weeks on sale, and a further million by the end of 1969 – making it the best-selling long-player of the year. Abbey Road was only the fourth best-selling album of the entire 1960s, though, and only the eighth best-selling of 1970.
And all it takes now is 48,000 sales to go straight in at number one. How times have changed.
With an album entitled "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" featuring tracks like "All the Good Girls Go to Hell," "Bury a Friend," and "Wish You Were Gay," I'm not actually sure I want to know what her music sounds like. I would imagine that bass, and a snare drum, will each figure quite heavily, though.
She's just set new UK album chart record - The aforementioned album, her debut, went straight to number one, with a combined 48,000 sales, making her the youngest solo female artist to top the UK album charts.
It's not her age that stood out to me though, it was the fact that she only needed to shift 48,000 units (which includes all formats) to debut at #1 in the UK Album chart. That's ludicrous. I know I'm an old geezer - I still remember when you needed to sell a million units to get a gold disc, I think it's probably around twelve, or fifteen, these days... perhaps twenty? - but 48,000 is a mere drop in the ocean to my mind.
Led Zeppelin III had advance orders in the US alone of almost a million. That was before it was even released; I think it ended up around the six-million mark.
Abbey Road debuted at number one over here, following advance sales of 190,000. It topped the chart for 11 weeks, before dropping to number two, but returned to the top spot a week later, on 27 December, and stayed there for a further six weeks. That had advance sales of 190,000 in the UK. In total it stayed in the (Top 75) charts for 92 weeks. Worldwide, it sold four million copies in its first six weeks on sale, and a further million by the end of 1969 – making it the best-selling long-player of the year. Abbey Road was only the fourth best-selling album of the entire 1960s, though, and only the eighth best-selling of 1970.
And all it takes now is 48,000 sales to go straight in at number one. How times have changed.
