Finished with only two million less streams than Dawn FM

:jordansmile: wassup sales thread

Ended his time as The Weeknd with the highest first week total of his career

GOAT Strikes Again

7TH LP ABEL coming for 600K

Wonder what the next cope from Europeans fantasizing about American market numbers going to be

It’ll easily be the highest first week of 2025, unless Morgan or Harry drops

Billboard 200 top 10 this week:

They're both confirmed to be dropping albums this year. Taylor as well.

490k is insane

I meant as far as new releases go. Taylor’s drop this year will probably just be the Reputation Taylor’s Version

@BigProtein made a great point in the album thread, the fact that the projection keep rising and ended up finishing over 150K over the initial projection means that people were genuinely enjoying the album and buying / consuming it more as the week went on

That's a silly distinction. It's technically a new release because it'll chart as a separate album on the Billboard 200.

Of Hurry Up Tomorrow’s 490,500 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 359,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 130,500 (equaling 171.5 million on-demand official streams of the songs on the streaming edition of the album; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 1,000. ___
Hurry Up Tomorrow’s launch of 490,500 units marks The Weeknd’s biggest week by units earned (since the chart began measuring in units in December 2014). The set’s sales of 359,000 claim The Weeknd’s largest sales week ever.

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The set was released as a nine-song standard album, widely available through digital download retailers. It was alternatively available as an 11-song edition across all of its physical formats (CD, vinyl and cassette) and a 22-track digital download and streaming edition. It was also available in two further digital download editions, both exclusively sold via The Weeknd’s HurryUpTomorrow.Club site. Each sold for $4.99, boasted alternative cover art and had the 22 tracks available on the deluxe digital/streaming edition, but each had at least one additional track. One included “Closing Night,” with Swedish House Mafia. The other included “Runaway” and “Society,” which were also included on all of the physical formats, but not any of the other digital or streaming editions.

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In total, the album generated 183,000 in digital album sales; 99,000 in CD sales; 77,000 in vinyl sales (The Weeknd’s best week on vinyl) and 1,000 in cassette sales.

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Hurry Up Tomorrow’s first-week sales were aided by its availability across eight vinyl variants (including a signed edition), eight CD variants (including multiple signed editions), a cassette tape, and nine deluxe boxed sets containing a branded piece of clothing and a CD.

billboard.com/music/chart-beat/the-weeknd-hurry-up-tomorrow-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235896581

He kept releasing digital "signed copies" of the album and kept adding various variants. That's why the pure sales kept jumping. If people truly enjoyed the album, it would have performed a lot better on streaming in the US.

Anyways, congratulations to the Weeknd. Would have been nice to see him hit the 500k mark but at least my 400k+ prediction was accurate.

Hollup...

It's possible if the unit being measured is in streams. That's Luminate being as accurate as possible with the numbers.

I misread at first but i know it really was 490,500 lmaoooo

why are people hype about sales when no one listens to the album

Y’all can count this as a win cause of the pure sales but those streaming numbers are nasty