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    2012

    Sales Predictions: The Weeknd To Outsell Christina Aguilera’s ‘Lotus’

    Written by TriniTrent | Filed under Charts,Christina Aguilera,The Weeknd
    Christina Aguilera Lotus TheLavaLizard

    Christina Aguilera’s ‘Lotus’ album cover.

    Christina Aguilera refused to effectively promote her new album, ‘Lotus’, effectively and she will pay dearly for her mistake. As sales predictions indicate, the record will earn her the lowest first week sales of career and be outsold by The Weeknd’s ‘Trilogy’.

    With only 75K-80K in sales, ‘Lotus’ will clock even lower sales than Aguilera’s previous commercial disaster, ‘Bionic’. The latter entered the Billboard 200 at #3 in 2010 with over 110K copies sold. That’s right, ‘Lotus’ will replace its predecessor as the slowest-selling English studio album of Aguilera’s career to date.

    However, this situation comes as no surprise because Aguilera performed material from ‘Lotus’ at only two televised events – ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ and ‘The Voice’. Additionally, the lead single from the set, ‘Your Body’, peaked at #34 on the Billboard Hot 100 before tumbling down the chart.

    Shockingly, however, The Weeknd’s ‘Trilogy’ is on track to outsell ‘Lotus’. The first major release by the underground artist, which is just a compilation of songs from his trio of mixtapes - ‘Thursday’ and ‘Echoes of Silence’ - will move 95K-105K copies in its first week.

    What do I think of Aguilera’s ‘Lotus’? Read my review of the album by clicking here and then watch me predict its poor chart performance on Trini Trent TV below:

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    • MC

      I may not be an Xtina fan but this makes me sad…..hopefully it picks up after the 1st week with promotion.

      • sdlkjwd

        nope. she doesnt stand a chance against rihanna or nicki minaj. not to mention taylor swift who is still destroying the charts with 200k+ a week…

    • the real xoxo

      how dreadful. but then again doesnt the weeknds album count as a double/triple album? I’m not sure, but anyway Lotus is now officially a FLOP. Its like summer 2010 all over again

    • sdlkjwd

      welp. she about to have another bionic era, and she will flop even harder. cause next year the even bigger stars will be back out.. gaga, mariah, beyonce etc. i.e people with solid fan bases who are actually anticipated.
      watch her get all proud and be in denial though. cause you know this album is such a ‘vocal masterpiece, that will inspire generations of singers to come’…
      girl bye.

      • santy

        The major reason for the album flopping is simply that its not good enough,specially the lead single your body.I really expected christina to surprise everyone and her fans by coming up with something new,fresh,with a new look.I expected her to release a killer up-tempo first single like dirrty.Guess I was wrong,and although it is fair to point out that if the same material had been released by rihanna, beyonce or whatever it would have been a number one hit,christina should know better, she knew this was her last chance to reclaim her place at the top spot!And her new material had to be brilliant.I listened to the complete album and its not bad, but its not outstanding either,which was what she needed.Lack of promotion obviously doesnt help but still isnt the reason why the album is a flop.When I see christinas and rcas actions and marketing strategies I can only think that they dont care if the record sells or not.Wake up christina : how is people even gonna notice “your art ” if your album gets listened by no one.Iam not a christina hater I was actually a fan of her but she dissapointed me too much and it hurts me to say it but she dug her own grave, her career is finished as a recording artist.Also I wanna point out that her voice these days is terrrriblllle! why cant she put her pride aside and take singing lessons!with a real coach that can teach her how to use her voice properly… truly a waste of talent, mainly because of her nasty attitude I guess…KARMA

    • Girrrl

      Lmfao Xtina played herself and that performance on the voice did her no favors.

    • Diva

      She didn’t do any promo for this album. I like it though. I hate that they claim it’s explicit but it’s actually not. The version of Your Body on the deluxe version is not explicit.

    • Jason

      Not only did she fail to promoted, but Xtina is boring now! The earlier Xtina offered an amazing alternative to chart rival Britney Spears. While Britney whispered &moaned through her smash hits such as “Hit me baby one more time”; Christina belted and served vocal power which mesmerized fans. Later Xtina got dirty and still managed to movivate fan with anthems like “Beautiful and Fighter”; in short Xtina was the BITCH! Now the star like so many other artist is offering up a body of work that offers no growth, even though her own body does show amazing signs of growth.

    • http://twitter.com/yourdirector Jordan

      She’s not promoting it besides the Voice. IDK what everyone expected lol

    • MmmHmm

      SMH @ XTINA & HER LABEL FOR NOT DOING ENOUGH PROMO!

    • theman

      Her sales are decent. But if they can stay steady she’ll be aight.

      • Unbothered

        75k is decent? Oh.

    • theman

      The album is really good. She should’ve been promoting it.

    • http://www.twitter.com/d0wj0nes D0wJ0nEs

      the weeknd’s numbers arent shocking at all…

    • DOMOdotSCORE

      Xtina & RCA should’ve promoted the album. I really don’t see any chance of this album doing bigger numbers at any future period of time. I actually like the album but she & her label clearly don’t, otherwise they would’ve promoted it.

      I think that it’s good that The Weeknd managed to sell a collection of songs that everyone had for free. So essentially people paid $10 for 3 new songs. That’s what I call devotion.

    • http://www.youtube.com/JonathanGardnerTV Jonathan Gardner

      Kelly Rowland’s Here I Am sold 77,000 first week and y’all went in on that.

      Hmmm….

      #FoodForThought

    • ItsKiwiBitch

      Christina & Britney are at the same record label! The problem is RCA unfortunately.
      Britney Spears sells more records then Christina, but she has also sold much less cause of the label choose wrong singles etc.
      But I think yes, Christina’s attitude is the problem! And also! people see her as a copycat! :/ But she is not!

    • ItsKiwiBitch

      Also! Christina has had promotions on The Voice, which is the second highest ranked talent show!

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