Is it over for Beyonce

[DontEemTry]

"One of the shortest running albums by a mainstream artist"

This is such a weird sentence. What does it even mean? Who counts as mainstream? Is Ice Spice mainstream or nah

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

It’s more indicative of the music industry as a whole

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Beyoncé is a great example to show how streaming extends the careers of megastars because they don’t need huge hits and moments anymore to be relevant

Yup, the internet in general has helped a lot of brands just become too big to fail now. Once you get popular enough you just become this self-sustaining ecosystem instead of eventually falling off viciously like in the old days. The you throw in stan culture, poptimism, and all these brands being invested in the success of these artists in a way they weren't before

Unless they drop a historically horrible album, there career will be fine because even a weedplate will have rabid stans gassing it up. A run of bleh albums like Views, Scorpion, and CLB would've finished Drake even 15 years ago.

 

[FTBS]

People use the term "legacy artist" like its a bad thing when really its the best lane to be in...especially now. Aint gotta be all over social media desperate to go viral. She can drop what she wants when she wants and go on tour and make hundreds of millions whenever she wants regardless of how the new stuff is recieved. Thats way better than being the new hotness that gotta do whatever to stay hot.

 

[CHICAGO]

She and Taylor putting out albums this year while their previous albums and tours were still generating a lot of money has been really interesting to me. Both albums have underperformed by their standards but both albums have been woefully underpromoted by their standards. Beyonce basically announced before this album came out there wouldn't be a tour, and Taylor has just folded this new album into her ongoing on.

Weird all around. Feels like a sign of a big shift in the record industry. I can't think of any thing other than they just created "content" for the platforms.

DIDNT TAYLOR SWIFT
SELL 2.6 MILLION IN THE FIRST WEEK?


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[EzekelRAGE]

Fam...she announced the album during the Super Bowl.


She had a noteworthy director shoot an album promo on some Americana/Paris, Texas vibes. Levis got involved with some jeans collabs. There was a large campaign. It's ok to admit that once the allure of playing victim over country radio's reactions to the music faded, the (black) fans lost interest. Meanwhile the white girls she was targeting were focused on new Taylor Swift music. Then Shaboozey ended up with the real country hit record lol. I'm never gonna call it a failure or flop given that she's a legacy artist who still sells records but that album wasn't it. And that's now two albums in a row where a lot of her fans didn't get exactly what they wanted or expected. They keep expecting a SZA album, basically.

Then on top of all that she launched a whiskey on the back of this album too
All this country shyt mightve been just whisky rollout.

 

[steadyrighteous]

She's a 43 year old pop star.

I know it's fun and generally the internet likes to use her and Jay as punching bags, but she's a 43 year old pop star.

There are artists who haven't turned 30 yet that would literally and figuratively sacrifice their souls and bring their own baby oil to a Freak Off to have half of Beyonce's career or have a year as "bad" as she just had.

 

[kdslittlebro]

Fam...she announced the album during the Super Bowl.


She had a noteworthy director shoot an album promo on some Americana/Paris, Texas vibes. Levis got involved with some jeans collabs. There was a large campaign. It's ok to admit that once the allure of playing victim over country radio's reactions to the music faded, the (black) fans lost interest. Meanwhile the white girls she was targeting were focused on new Taylor Swift music. Then Shaboozey ended up with the real country hit record lol. I'm never gonna call it a failure or flop given that she's a legacy artist who still sells records but that album wasn't it. And that's now two albums in a row where a lot of her fans didn't get exactly what they wanted or expected. They keep expecting a SZA album, basically.

There’s being in code, and there’s being willfully ignorant. The coli constantly crosses that boundary

 

[Woodrow]

People use the term "legacy artist" like its a bad thing when really its the best lane to be in...especially now. Aint gotta be all over social media desperate to go viral. She can drop what she wants when she wants and go on tour and make hundreds of millions whenever she wants regardless of how the new stuff is recieved. Thats way better than being the new hotness that gotta do whatever to stay hot.

exaaaaaaaactly. never mind that cowboy carter >>> renaissance (imo). beyonce grossed $580 million on her last tour... and nikkas trying to clown her about album sales???

nikkas would chop off an arm for a "legacy" resume like beyonce's.

 

[Standing on business]

The album wasn’t promoted and she’s a legacy artist

Beyoncé is a great example to show how streaming extends the careers of megastars because they don’t need huge hits and moments anymore to be relevant

Usher comes to mind. Last few projects bricked, but he’s bigger than ever

 

[MVike28]

Hive is

 

[Tetris v2.0]

There were no videos and no promotion outside of the initial announcements and no follow up singles . That’s why the album seems like it had no legs. Same thing happened with Renaissance but TikTok saved it by making a couple of songs go viral

You're right about the minimal promo but Renaissance was for the gays and the girlies and they ate that one up

Cowboy was for... I'm not entirely sure what audience. Country heads certainly didn't love it. I don't think her core base gravitates towards those kinds of songs

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Also does "legacy artist" suddenly mean no promos, interviews, videos, show dates etc?

I wasn't aware of that lol

 

[FTBS]

exaaaaaaaactly. never mind that cowboy carter >>> renaissance (imo). beyonce grossed $580 million on her last tour... and nikkas trying to clown her about album sales???

nikkas would chop off an arm for a "legacy" resume like beyonce's.

And she hasnt even played the residency card yet. nikkas gonna be moving to Vegas when she pull that out

She 40+ and almost 30 years in...she aint supposed to be the hotness. Catalogue/Bankable brand >>>>.

 

[FTBS]

Also does "legacy artist" suddenly mean no promos, interviews, videos, show dates etc?

I wasn't aware of that lol

It means you dont have to do any of that if you dont feel like it and you still gonna make more money than whoever the new hotness is.