- Jul52012
Sales Predictions: Chris Brown To Experience Decline With ‘Fortune’
Written by Trent | Filed under Charts,Chris Brown
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:
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I LOVE FORTUNE! It’s a great album, GO BUY IT
Ki.
Guess all dat begging and pleading didn’t work *shrugs*
Good luck with booking that stage you speak of…
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.
who is gonna buy stuff when he gave so much away
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
FUCK THIS SITE! I BET YOU WILL BE HEAVILY SUPPORTING FRANK OCEAN THOUGH!
^ Lol at this racist cow.
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
^#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
^irregardless if he sells big or not
It sounds like a continuation of fame
“Irregardless” is not a word.
flop. mediocre album that nobody will be playing after september.
Legallysane93 and SMH : yall got it right.
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.
Usher’s album is way better though…
Rihanna >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this hasbeen
FLOP.
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.
I wish this douchebag Chris Brown would just go away!!!
Wow alot of haters here. I love this album and his sales will be higher then what expected.
okay where is my comment?
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?
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
[...] the US, ‘Fortune’ is also on track to enter the Billboard 200 as Brown’s first #1 album in that region. However, it is projected [...]
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.
I wanna see Chris do well…. People need to stop plotting on his downfall. It’s UnGODly.
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.
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.