11-26-2015, 04:27 AM
Though, all being said. It looks like it cracked the top 10 with 45,000 units sold.
Let's be honest, in traditional music sales that's nothing.
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/trans-s...-s-top-10/
From wiki the top 10 selling albums of 2014:
1.1989 / Taylor Swift ~ 3,661,000
2.Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / Various ~ 3,530,000
3.In the Lonely Hour / Sam Smith ~ 1,210,000
4.That's Christmas to Me / Pentatonix ~ 1,140,000
5.Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 / Various ~ 898,000
6.Beyoncé / Beyoncé ~ 878,000
7.Partners / Barbra Streisand ~ 856,000
8.Pure Heroine / Lorde ~ 841,000
9.Four / One Direction ~ 814,000
10.The Outsiders / Eric Church ~ 811,000
So, for the moment it cracked the top 10 with an amazing number of sales, true, but how long will it continue to sell? As reviews come out and people talk and share will it stay there? That's the real test of time and value.
But, music is a strange and fickle beast that makes no sense. Of those top 10 of last year only Barbara is a "classic" artist and that's a rare comeback album, not someone who puts out an album a year and continues to tour such as "classic" bands Bon Jovi or the Rolling Stones. So, remove Barb and you've got Beyoncé as the only big long lasting artist. Then you've got the soundtrack to 2 movies and soundtracks are often quite popular. Which leaves Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, Pentatonix (who have a Xmas album no less!), Lorde, Eric Church and One Direction as the leaders of new music as counted by sales.
What's that say?
I don't know, but I'll put up the last 3 Asia (original line-up) studio albums against ANY of those top 10 albums. LOL
Let's be honest, in traditional music sales that's nothing.
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/trans-s...-s-top-10/
From wiki the top 10 selling albums of 2014:
1.1989 / Taylor Swift ~ 3,661,000
2.Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / Various ~ 3,530,000
3.In the Lonely Hour / Sam Smith ~ 1,210,000
4.That's Christmas to Me / Pentatonix ~ 1,140,000
5.Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 / Various ~ 898,000
6.Beyoncé / Beyoncé ~ 878,000
7.Partners / Barbra Streisand ~ 856,000
8.Pure Heroine / Lorde ~ 841,000
9.Four / One Direction ~ 814,000
10.The Outsiders / Eric Church ~ 811,000
So, for the moment it cracked the top 10 with an amazing number of sales, true, but how long will it continue to sell? As reviews come out and people talk and share will it stay there? That's the real test of time and value.
But, music is a strange and fickle beast that makes no sense. Of those top 10 of last year only Barbara is a "classic" artist and that's a rare comeback album, not someone who puts out an album a year and continues to tour such as "classic" bands Bon Jovi or the Rolling Stones. So, remove Barb and you've got Beyoncé as the only big long lasting artist. Then you've got the soundtrack to 2 movies and soundtracks are often quite popular. Which leaves Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, Pentatonix (who have a Xmas album no less!), Lorde, Eric Church and One Direction as the leaders of new music as counted by sales.
What's that say?
I don't know, but I'll put up the last 3 Asia (original line-up) studio albums against ANY of those top 10 albums. LOL