[FINAL NUMBERS] Adele sells 3.3 Million.... [SPOOKY]
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They are really grown men in here calling her fat using that as an excuse, like bitter females
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She can sing. But if you can't see the bullshyt here then you're seeing the world thru rose tinted glasses.
Adele is literally a less talented Jill Scott repackaged for white mainstream consumption. They completely stopped playing Jill Scott style (r&b soul) from black artist on mainstream radio, created a void for that kind of music then rolled out Adele to fill the void. Now the black artist who originated and perfected the style she is singing in cannot even get on period.
Tyrese puts out an album of the year candidate yet can barely get play yet Sam Smith selling millions. Jill Scott, Angie Stone etc are on milk cartons when it comes to the mainstream yet Adele breaking records. Badu is reduced to dropping fukking mixtapes
This must be what it felt like when Chubby Checker, James Brown, Little Richard watched rock being taken and whitewashed.
The worst part about it? Black folk willingly let this happened, underestimating the potential of a white, barely decent talented singer can do. Young Black folk rather have auto tune and ratchet DJ Mustard beats singing about bullshyt, but older black folk want that old school R Kelly, or even Tyrese to listen to.
It's only reached that far because we stopped caring and supporting our legit natural talent. Everything seems so processed and electronic In our music now. Nothing is organic.
I knew she was gonna do retawded numbers when That hello dropped first day and my girl was singing all the lyrics to it. Since then have heard it 1000 times anywhere I go. Adele gonna go silent after this she came raped the game and left 
At first, I thought you were going to say that she's selling because of track record. That makes sense. The Massacre sold 1.1 million because of GRODT. But you are sitting here pretending that marketing and image has no relevance in sales? Have you lost your fukking mind? All my friends in the record industry say go sit down. Yes, there is something that makes people enamored enough to purchase someone's album and it is relatability or just being so undeniably good people feel compelled to buy your shyt. LOL@making love ballads not being marketable when even John Legend goes near the top of the charts doing that. The difference? He does not sell what Sam Smith does. I will let you speculate as to why.
The question is, why does a comparable black singer not sell as much as Adele? One reason is because she is not even given the chance to compete. You're missing the point entirely. It is also ridiculous to compare sales throughout eras.
Why does Adele go number 1? Because her music gets released to pop radio and is pushed to top 40 whereas a black artist would be considered urban and those stations would not order the song. A black person would not even get the chance to compete. That's the fukking point. When Adele's fan base is 25-44 year old people, many of them with kids who happen to come across music through those channels, you think that does not have an impact? This is why Tori Kelly is considered pure pop despite her sound. It's because she's white. I don't believe people are as narrow-minded as record labels and the media think we are. But they're creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
@tremonthustler, Leona Lewis did X-Factor and had a "look." That's like asking why Clay Aiken fell off after American Idol. At her peak Leona Lewis sold 1 million more copies than Adele's 19 while being signed to J Records and known versus Adele on an independent label. No, just no. <------------ @Street Knowledge.
Six pages on this? Really tho?
When bar none goes in on a poster and that poster isn't youAt first, I thought you were going to say that she's selling because of track record. That makes sense. The Massacre sold 1.1 million because of GRODT. But you are sitting here pretending that marketing and image has no relevance in sales? Have you lost your fukking mind? All my friends in the record industry say go sit down. Yes, there is something that makes people enamored enough to purchase someone's album and it is relatability or just being so undeniably good people feel compelled to buy your shyt. LOL@making love ballads not being marketable when even John Legend goes near the top of the charts doing that. The difference? He does not sell what Sam Smith does. I will let you speculate as to why.
The question is, why does a comparable black singer not sell as much as Adele? One reason is because she is not even given the chance to compete. You're missing the point entirely. It is also ridiculous to compare sales throughout eras.
Why does Adele go number 1? Because her music gets released to pop radio and is pushed to top 40 whereas a black artist would be considered urban and those stations would not order the song. A black person would not even get the chance to compete. That's the fukking point. When Adele's fan base is 25-44 year old people, many of them with kids who happen to come across music through those channels, you think that does not have an impact? This is why Tori Kelly is considered pure pop despite her sound. It's because she's white. I don't believe people are as narrow-minded as record labels and the media think we are. But they're creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
@tremonthustler, Leona Lewis did X-Factor and had a "look." That's like asking why Clay Aiken fell off after American Idol. At her peak Leona Lewis sold 1 million more copies than Adele's 19 while being signed to J Records and known versus Adele on an independent label. No, just no. <------------ @Street Knowledge.
She can sing. But if you can't see the bullshyt here then you're seeing the world thru rose tinted glasses.
Adele is literally a less talented Jill Scott repackaged for white mainstream consumption. They completely stopped playing Jill Scott style (r&b soul) from black artist on mainstream radio, created a void for that kind of music then rolled out Adele to fill the void. Now the black artist who originated and perfected the style she is singing in cannot even get on period.
Tyrese puts out an album of the year candidate yet can barely get play yet Sam Smith selling millions. Jill Scott, Angie Stone etc are on milk cartons when it comes to the mainstream yet Adele breaking records. Badu is reduced to dropping fukking mixtapes
This must be what it felt like when Chubby Checker, James Brown, Little Richard watched rock being taken and whitewashed.
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At first, I thought you were going to say that she's selling because of track record. That makes sense. The Massacre sold 1.1 million because of GRODT. But you are sitting here pretending that marketing and image has no relevance in sales? Have you lost your fukking mind? All my friends in the record industry say go sit down. Yes, there is something that makes people enamored enough to purchase someone's album and it is relatability or just being so undeniably good people feel compelled to buy your shyt. LOL@making love ballads not being marketable when even John Legend goes near the top of the charts doing that. The difference? He does not sell what Sam Smith does. I will let you speculate as to why.
The question is, why does a comparable black singer not sell as much as Adele? One reason is because she is not even given the chance to compete. You're missing the point entirely. It is also ridiculous to compare sales throughout eras.
Why does Adele go number 1? Because her music gets released to pop radio and is pushed to top 40 whereas a black artist would be considered urban and those stations would not order the song. A black person would not even get the chance to compete. That's the fukking point. When Adele's fan base is 25-44 year old people, many of them with kids who happen to come across music through those channels, you think that does not have an impact? This is why Tori Kelly is considered pure pop despite her sound. It's because she's white. I don't believe people are as narrow-minded as record labels and the media think we are. But they're creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
@tremonthustler, Leona Lewis did X-Factor and had a "look." That's like asking why Clay Aiken fell off after American Idol. At her peak Leona Lewis sold 1 million more copies than Adele's 19 while being signed to J Records and known versus Adele on an independent label. No, just no. <------------ @Street Knowledge.
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At first, I thought you were going to say that she's selling because of track record. That makes sense. The Massacre sold 1.1 million because of GRODT. But you are sitting here pretending that marketing and image has no relevance in sales? Have you lost your fukking mind? All my friends in the record industry say go sit down. Yes, there is something that makes people enamored enough to purchase someone's album and it is relatability or just being so undeniably good people feel compelled to buy your shyt. LOL@making love ballads not being marketable when even John Legend goes near the top of the charts doing that. The difference? He does not sell what Sam Smith does. I will let you speculate as to why.
The question is, why does a comparable black singer not sell as much as Adele? One reason is because she is not even given the chance to compete. You're missing the point entirely. It is also ridiculous to compare sales throughout eras.
Why does Adele go number 1? Because her music gets released to pop radio and is pushed to top 40 whereas a black artist would be considered urban and those stations would not order the song. A black person would not even get the chance to compete. That's the fukking point. When Adele's fan base is 25-44 year old people, many of them with kids who happen to come across music through those channels, you think that does not have an impact? This is why Tori Kelly is considered pure pop despite her sound. It's because she's white. I don't believe people are as narrow-minded as record labels and the media think we are. But they're creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
@tremonthustler, Leona Lewis did X-Factor and had a "look." That's like asking why Clay Aiken fell off after American Idol. At her peak Leona Lewis sold 1 million more copies than Adele's 19 while being signed to J Records and known versus Adele on an independent label. No, just no. <------------ @Street Knowledge.
Since when does fat (which is what many are using as an argument) make someone marketable? Making ballads =/= "depressing" music.
John Legend went to the top of the charts with one song. The difference is where was his other song that got play. Sam Smith had the one song that crossed over into Urban markets, but he also had other songs that were hits and was featured on another. You also fail to point out that Sam Smith still had a Darkchild remix and a Mary J. feature on the same single that went #1 to help him in the Urban markets.
It's not even a matter of the genre. Are these labels marketing Black artists to audiences outside of the Black community? As I said before, please explain the monster successes of Whitney, Alicia, or even a Brandy.
LOL @ Tori Kelly being white. The fact that you're bringing her up and trying to say she's white contradicts your premise. If Tori Kelly is white and in the Pop lane, why isn't she platinum. Why aren't Katy Perry and Taylor Swift who traditionally fit the image of what mainstream America deems beautiful doing Adele numbers?
