Charli XCX - Crash (March 18, 2022) Album • Page 24

number 1 angel!

 

I’ma dreamaaa, step step out tha Beamaaa

 

‘Lipgloss’ is great, but ever since I heard that sped up w/ that 100 Gecs/Chari stream the original just feels too slow

 

all the streams were you weren't they

 

Let’s gooo

 

Never knew I needed a Charli one hitter

 

What You Think About Me is totally about her toxic stans and I’m very here for it

 

Just getting around to spinning the vinyl and am actually blown away by how good it sounds, holy shit. Transcendent. (Red marble)

 

this is insanely funny

I also need a link

 

Charli, honestly, if you are being real let me know. @SteveLikesMusic DM me, I gotchu

 

The success of Crash feels...sudden? Like where were all these people over the last few years? Not complaining, happy for Charli's success!

 

I agree where did everyone come from cuz we could of got xcx world if they were on Charli sooner. Plus it would of came out before the leaks imo

 

im sorry what? charli has always been pretty damn popular to begin with so its not like no one has been listening to her at all for years (ive been around since true romance was announced), but isnt the point of putting out new music and pushing it via marketing to get bigger? thats the entire point innit? but she also purposely went in a more accessible direction for crash, as a way to bring new people in, and look it worked

 

Yeah I'm sure the SNL performance and other promo stuff was big this album cycle

 

Yeah, she said the whole point of this cycle was to make the most of her major label since its the last album on her contract. Looks like she did a good job.

 

It looks like in the US it's gonna debut at #12 with 25k album equivalents.

I thought that was bad, but then I check her other debuts and WOAH. Charli debuted at #42 and How I'm Feeling Now at #111. For some reason I thought she was always a top 10 artist. So this is a huge success!

 

Crazy to be me how low it is in the US, even if it’s an improvement on the other ones

 

The US has terrible taste in music. Someone explain to me how fucking Morgan Wallen's album that is now 15 months old is #4 on the chart, with almost double the album equivalents as Crash? Im pretty sure his album hasnt left the top 5 in a year.

I understand that streaming is the primary way of music consumption now, but I feel like there needs to be a better way to factor that into "album sales" for the charts. Double albums like Morgan's and bloated 22 song albums like Certified Lover Boy are gonna keep living at the top of the charts because there are fans with narrow taste in music that just replay the same album over and over. Shouldn't there be a way to cap album equivalent streams per user?

 

no offense but that pretty much sounds like “my taste is better than yours so your streams shouldn’t count as much as mine”

 

That's what I mean in my post when I said her success feels sudden. I was following the charts and saw she would probably be at #12 and then I saw previous albums fall wayyy wayyy below that. This is a HUGE jump in the US.

 

I think it's because she's good at harvesting the power of tiktok, social media and her fanbase and that's really how you top the charts now for better and for worse

 

not at all. It’s just I don’t understand how streams equate to the charts now. There are some acts who’s fan base still consume physical releases, so their second week chart position drops significantly because everyone who purchased it first week are now listening to it via their cd/vinyl/digital album/whatever. Whereas other artists stay at the top of the charts because their fans just stream instead of purchase. I don’t know, I’m rambling.

I guess a simpler question is this: Drakes album is STILL in the top 10, but do you actually think it’s there because of new consumers? Or most likely the same people listening all these months later? By the charts perspective CLB has been more successful than Red TV, but I’d guess that Red has had more reach with unique consumers.

 

iirc ten streams of a song = one album "sale," even if you stream the same one song

 

Finally getting around to these bonus tracks and they're so good. Add a great extra dimension to the album. It was areadt growing on me a ton. This might end up about on par with Charli/HIFN for me at this rate.