tricia70
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You got a USA #1...on the R&B charts.Urban America stepped up. Not much we can do about the Subo and Swift supporters. lol. But even so, you have to remember that Susan Boyle's album in holiday related. After the holiday, not much use for Christmas music so sales could drastically drop for her. All Michael has to do is sell consistently and he could very well end up #1 or #2 battling it out with Swift.
If some of you remember with the Thriller25 release, Michael was in the top 10 for WEEKS, hanging on after superhot and popular artists like Alicia Keys and others debuted large and dropped. And these artists had tons of public appearances and promotion. All Michael had was the Luomo Vogue (a magazine that was hard to get in the USA), the Thrillicious campaign, and the Ebony interview as major promotion. Other things were sorta low-key ALTHO the CD did have a nice set-up in stores to get people's attention. And T25 was a CD compilation that many of us already owned several times over, except a completed version of For All Time. Lots of fans complained that no one would be interested in old songs that had been re-re-released. And the outrage some fans demonstrated against those remixes, it really was a surprise that T25 hung on for as long as it did against new, hot, well-promoted artist with new music.
And don't get me started about the "fans" who went on amazon and other sites trashing the remixes and the fact that another re-re-release was being....released. But I digress.
I think some of you are being prematurely pessimistic...for whatever reason...same as ppl were with T25. IMO, it's not always about finishing first...altho we know Michael liked to do so. To me, it's about having a steady lead. And T25 did that...even OUTSELLING those hot new artists it went up against.
How about we hang on for a bit and see where this all goes. :flowers:
If Michael is consistent, and a new single gets more attention/airplay than HMH, it COULD very well do better than it looks at this stage.
I, for one, am proud of the debut when you consider artists like Ciara and Neyo, P-Diddy and others, with ALL their promotion and appearances, are doing much MUCH less. And with all the controversy regarding the vocals, etc...it REALLY is a feat worth appreciating...for me, at least.
Time will tell what happens now.....but we have to be patient. Remember, Boyle is a holiday CD. Her time is short.
Now having said that...
Go Michael!! Congratulations!
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Thank you Wendy and Stacy for putting everything in perspective.
I think MICHAEL has done an amazing job considering the big controversy amongst of all ppl his own fans! And of course he is not here to promote.. I am totally shocked that Diddy and those artists that are out there promoting their cds like crazy haven't done better. Wow. Doesn't diddy have like 3 diff. videos of one song? His one video has only about 3 million hits on YT and Michael's with one week less of airplay than his has almost 10 million!
I am actually proud of Michael and the album success so far. You figure SUBO is a Xmas limited thing, and then Swift well we'll deal with her in due time, Ha ha.
I don't know but my feeling is this CD is like fine wine, it will get better and better. I think it is total quality. Invincible sold well only at first, and then it went downhill. I think this CD will be steady and will eventually reach No. 1.
The second single will be key. I think Monster and a video to accompany can take him to the top! and steadily sell more and more albums.
Look, I've already bought 13 cds, I will buy another 13 because I promised all my students they would be getting one, so that will help right?
