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  • Jul
    5
    2012

    Sales Predictions: Chris Brown To Experience Decline With ‘Fortune’

    Written by TriniTrent | Filed under Charts,Chris Brown
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    Chris Brown's 'Fortune' album cover.

    It looks as though Chris Brown’s constant stream of free music to keep his fans happy has backfired. In fact, the unlucky singer may have trained them not to purchase his material because his new album, ‘Fortune’, is on track to sell considerably less than his previous release, ‘F.A.M.E.’.

    ‘Fortune’ is projected to sell only 125K-140K copies when it enters the Billboard 200 next week. Those figures represent over a 130K-unit decline from the 270K sold by Brown’s ‘F.A.M.E.’ album in 2011. Ironically, ‘Fortune’ will probably match the 128K copies sold by Usher’s ‘Looking 4 Myself’ LP, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 in the week of June 20th 2012.

    Amazingly, Brown released five singles to support ‘Fortune’, including ‘Till I Die (Ft. Big Sean & Wiz Khalifa)’, ‘Sweet Love’, ‘Don’t Wake Me Up’ and ‘Turn Up the Music’. ‘Strip (Ft. Kevin McCall)’ was issued as a promotional single for the project in 2011.

    Among the promotional appearances made by Brown to plug ‘Fortune’ were at the Grammy Awards, ‘The Today Show’ Summer Concert Series and the recent 2012 BET Awards. Sadly, none of those performances were enough to boost his potential sales.

    Watch the video for Brown’s ‘Sweet Love’ below:

    Thoughts?

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    • JULZ

      I LOVE FORTUNE! It’s a great album, GO BUY IT :)

    • Cranberry

      Ki.

    • mikemike

      Guess all dat begging and pleading didn’t work *shrugs*

    • RiRiNaVii

      Good luck with booking that stage you speak of…

    • Gene

      No, I think that Chris’ behavior is turning people off of him and they are not supporting him and he is becoming overexpose, jmo. We are so sick and tired of the bullcrap he is doing and he is on every damn song on the radio, it is too much and you can’t appreciate him to miss him, so I feel that people are not buying his stuff now.

    • mikemike

      who is gonna buy stuff when he gave so much away

    • The Truth

      He didn’t do many appearances at the time the album was coming out except the BET Awards where he should have sung the Urban songs not the Pop/Dance songs and of course there’s no interviews lol.

    • SMH

      The reasons for this: . 1 million songs released per day
      2. fans are turned off by his tantrums
      3. fans are turned off by his team of vagrants (hoes)
      4. no promo- again whose idea was it not to have interviews even radio interviews, That was foolish he is not JB
      5. his bad attitude endless beef with people who sell 500K units in a week
      6. Incompetent Team if he has one
      7. Extremely horrendous performances at award shows esp the Grammys
      8. fans got used to free music – me inclusive I love free things
      9. His i dont care attitude – well I hope he does not care about these flop numbers
      10. Karumptayrliknutdddhfip his maid

      That’ s all folks.

    • Gene

      LOL, Smh, so true, chris last album sold over 250000 a week and is near platinum, this album, I don’t know, if he promotes it and get a new team and lose the attitude and drama with him.

    • Girrrl

      Reasons I think he had those low numbers:
      Those piss poor performances. Lip-syncing and Autotuned Mic
      Twitter tantrums/Controversies
      Releasing all those songs
      Biggest Problem: Jumping on the pop/dance bandwagon
      I really wish these R&B and rap artists would realize that this dance craze is not gonna get them Dance/Pop star numbers. Victims so far Nicki Minaj, Usher, Chris Brown. People talk alot of trash about the Urban audience downloading but in all these cases, the numbers were higher when they stuck to their core audiences.

    • Black Pride

      I find it funny that they were “PREDICTING” Fortune would only sell 128k on the day it was released! LOL, ummm makes me wonder what type of industry trickery is BEING PLAYED BEHIND THE SCENE! Fortune is a wonderful CD and if black people allow the racist media and industry to run another young talented black out of the industry (see Jazmine Sullivan) in favor of promoting their hand picked own like Justin bieber & Adele, then black ppl need to say nothing when you don’T have anymore artists left!

      You fools gave Jazz away! When they take over R&B and Rap Then you black fools will get what you deserve!

    • Black Pride

      FUCK THIS SITE! I BET YOU WILL BE HEAVILY SUPPORTING FRANK OCEAN THOUGH!

    • Cranberry

      ^ Lol at this racist cow.

    • SMH

      the truth hurts but it is what it is numbers don’t lie. Now u ustream fans suddenly when the album flops. people see through the fog.we see u breezy

    • LegallySane93

      ^#TrueTea I think Chris should work behind the cameras more or take a break and get his act straight….he too damn old to be acting so immature…wishing him the best

    • LegallySane93

      ^irregardless if he sells big or not

    • Darron

      It sounds like a continuation of fame

    • Urban

      “Irregardless” is not a word. :-(

    • truth

      flop. mediocre album that nobody will be playing after september.

    • MsAnnie

      Legallysane93 and SMH : yall got it right.

    • Me

      Chris is #1 in the Netherlands, #3 in Ireland, #1 in UK, New Zealand, Japan, the UNITED STATES, and 2 in Canada…just to name a FEW. Trent sit your hating self down somewhere. Did they even sell Fortune in your country? Please sit because Chris will do fine, especially as he tours and performs more. People like you are always so quick to post the NEGATIVE but not the postives.

    • sam

      Usher’s album is way better though…

    • Zimbo

      Rihanna >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this hasbeen

    • Kim3

      FLOP.

    • leya

      Well i’ve been seeing quite a number of celebrities tweeting about his album and promoting it. A lot of people like it. I mean, I don’t not because I don’t like Chris, but because the lyrical content. He has none. It’s a bunch of basic ass lyrics with a hot beat. I’m not really here for that. He has become a pop artist and people continue to act like this is a full R&B album. Whatever. His predicted sales were low on FAME, and it did better than expected so I see the same happening with Fortune. However, I could care less. I really can’t stand him.

    • mango

      I wish this douchebag Chris Brown would just go away!!!

    • melody

      Wow alot of haters here. I love this album and his sales will be higher then what expected.

    • Jane

      okay where is my comment?

    • Jane

      Kudos to you Chris Brown! Fortune shows so much growth in this 23-year-old! I actually love just about every song. A few are strictly for the young ones but songs like: 4-years-old, 2012, Free Run, Mirage, DWMU, Trumpet Lights, Tell Somebody & Remember My Name are truly to be enjoyed by all ages. I would give this CD a 10 out of 10! Critics will try to use his 1st week sells on the US charts against him wihtout recognizing that he has gained more support and success outside of racist America! Oh well what can do?

    • My Way

      SHOUT OUT TO CHRIS BROWN STANS LOVING #FORTUNE:
      Maxwell
      Monica Brown
      Cheryl Cole
      Rita Ora
      David Banner
      PushaT
      Ester Dean
      LaLa
      Tank
      Ginuwine
      Tyrece
      And several others

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    • ni

      It’s amazing how many people rush to comment (and I’m sure this helps Trent’s site also) on how low his sales are but he will still be #1 US and #UK. The young man has great potential but unfortunately some people will just see hate. Congratz!!! to Chris even though they will continue to try to tear him down God’s continue to prevail for this young man. The is no other artist who could have recover from such backlash but he has and will continue to do so because he is gifted and talented. No matter how people try to nitpick and brush it off his success.. he will be around for a long time. Proving his critics wrong at every corner.

    • Paula

      I wanna see Chris do well…. People need to stop plotting on his downfall. It’s UnGODly.

    • the truth

      who cares if its #1 when its a FLOP? wasnt jill scott #1 with 80k sold? 135k for chris brown,is a flop. his label is in the RED right now,and I be he’ll get dropped soon. he sold over 200k last time. he needs to go somewhere,cause justin beiber has his spot now.

      you can say whatever you want about usher but hes eating good off of justin bieber.and since justin bieber has that newbie 360 contract,the majority of his cash goes directly to usher.

    • the truth

      And are people serious,trying to bring God and race into this? You serious?
      Its also UNGODLY to lay hands on a woman and to call women b*tches and hoes,but you fans arent complaining about that,huh?
      Oh yeah what fans? he FLOPPED i almost forgot lol

      Him being black has nothing to do with him FLOPPING. he is a violent thug who thinks he can do whatever the eff he wants cause hes chris brown. remember when he threw the chair at the glass windows at that news station? lets not forget the club incident. his behavior turns people OFF,including me.he is an ungrateful,entitled, violent thug.

    • Miss Emily

      It’s a shame I think he released too many songs before he released the album, when I was looking at the track listing I could see I already had owned half the songs already so why would I want to but the album? He should have released the album at the beginning of the year as originally planned. I have heard the album and it’s OK nothing special, apparently he had many songs to choose from it is disappointing this is the best selection he could come out with. However a number 1 album is a number 1 album regardless of sales no one can take that away from him. Furthermore he has scored his first number one album in the UK with little publicity due to his pop/ dance songs, I think he will have better sales in Europe due to this with Fortune than with FAME. I agree people are being turned off by his actions I have always rooted for him as an artist and a performer but being talented isn’t enough he needs much better PR and to start being humble and behave more like a grown man.

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    • the truth

      Im sure his label dont give a shit about it being number 1, since chris brown has them in DEBT to get that #1 with only 134k sold. not to mention the deep decline that it will suffer next week! CB is done. you can expect a long ass tour of all your local clubs(since he cant sell out stadiums anymore) to pay back his debt to the record label. he isnt making any money off of this album.

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