Katy Perry's 143 Debuts at No. 6 in the US with 48K Albums Sold

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‘143’ by Katy Perry debuts at #6 on the Billboard 200 with 48K units (37.5K pure sales). pic.twitter.com/kcYDg55gwd
- Pop Crave (@PopCrave) September 29, 2024

The numbers are in: Katy Perry's seventh studio album, 143, debuted at no. 6 on the Billboard 200 with 48K units (37.5K pure sales) sold in the first week. It'll be interesting to see the

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[flyevita]

i can tell i'm old as hell because a top 10-debut album with only 48k units is SO WILD to me... i remember when album sales were in the millions

[frejasface]

*whispers* Taylor's still are...

[onadarknight]

[pikapika217]

Yeah. Like I think about how NSYNC's Celebrity(?) album sold 1 million copies in the first day or week it was out and that's always what I think numbers will be but times have definitely shifted.

[josiefier]

Literally why I came into the post. I felt like there had to be missing zeroes. Because 48k and being that high on a chart doesn't compute

[butt_or_skotch]

And people had to literally leave their house and stand in line to buy a physical copy! Its so much more impressive than having the option to download music anytime/anywhere, with millions of followers and only selling tens of thousands? People don't even have to leave their couch and they're still not buying albums?

Kids used to skip school to go buy them and now *crickets*

[sassandthecity]

I remember being in high school and people skipping classes to go and buy NSYNC's No Strings Attached. I think one thing was that the teen market was so centralized and Total Request Live was such a boon to the industry to help hype things. Teen culture helped to drive a lot of those sales and it's never been the same since social media because it's splintered into such niche bubbles.

[icetypejim]

Streaming kind of killed the market for actually buying albums and singles which is why outside of a few juggernaut artists, you see the majority of album/single chart metrics come from streams rather than sales. Sales are still weighted more heavily than streams, but a song can end up topping the charts because it's being streamed millions of times every day even though it's only sold like 50k copies.

[sassandthecity]

We live in such a weird time because I'll hear a song randomly for the first time in a Youtube video and go to it on Spotify and it'll be like 600 million streams. And it's like, "How have I never heard this ONCE before?"

[sandstorm]

And people laugh at me when I say the same. It's easier than ever to find music nowadays but somehow it just passes me by.