Is Rihanna experiencing her first flop? It is reported that her Anti sold less then 1000 copies in the USA.
According to the NYTimes,
despite a sponsorship deal with Samsung in which one million copies
were given away to fans,with Tidal saying it had sold 484,833 downloads
of the album, and that the album was
streamed 5.6 million times on its service, “Anti” had a low start on the
Billboard
album chart this week, opening at No. 27 Rihanna’s lowest opening
chart position.
Nielsen reported that the album sold fewer than 1,000
copies in the United States; a subscriber to its service who declined to
be identified because the data is private, said that the number of
albums sold was 460. The album also had 4.2 million streams and 126,000
sales of individual tracks, according to data from Nielsen, whose
accounting week goes through the end of Thursday.
Despite
the low initial sales, the album quickly reached No. 1 on iTunes’s
internal charts, and industry sales executives predict that “Anti” could
sell up to 130,000 copies in its first full week of sales, which would
be reflected on next week’s chart.
Either way, Rihanna’s album did not have the
blockbuster chart opening that she is accustomed to; her last album,
“Unapologetic,” from late 2012, opened at No. 1, and each of her seven
earlier studio albums had opened in the Top 10. Her single “Work” opened at No. 9 on the Hot 100.
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