According to Nielsen Music, the highly anticipated pop album
sold 177,000 album units which includes traditional album sales, track
equivalent and streaming equivalent albums combined.
Carrie Underwood c-wrote six of 13 songs on Storyteller,
which was produced by Mark Bright, Zach Crowell and Jay Joyce. The pop record
(which was country at that point) was released on October 32 is the
highest-selling debut by a female country artist of 2015.
One week after November 3, the Smoke Break singer announced
the Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round. She will kick off the road show in
January, inviting Easton Corbin and the Swon Brothers to open.
“I am so blessed to have this career and get to do to the
things I do,” the Little Toy Guns hitmaker said in a press release, “but there
is nothing like that moment when I get to step onto the stage to sing and all
the fans are singing along with me.”
Carrie Underwood’s Storyteller is also at number 2 on the US
Billboard 200 charts where 5 Seconds Of Summer’s Sounds Good Feels Good won the
weekly sales and consumption races as Carrie Underwood’s Storyteller was number
2 in both categories. Demi Lovato’s Confident is also at number 2 on the US
Billboard 200 chart around the time Carrie Underwood’s Storyteller came out.
According to the website, Saving Country Music, where
Trigger gives the album, 1 1/4 of 2 Guns Down (Lol), the random commenters
who makes random comments on Storyteller’s review page agreed. That country
album is a pop album because all the country songs on Storyteller are pop
songs.
Congratulations, Carrie Underwood, you deserve your sixth US
number 1 album. This will be in the lead competing against Britney Spears,
Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, Rihanna, Taylor Swift and Katy Perry in the US album
sales race. If Carrie Underwood gets to crossover her country genre to pop much
like Before He Cheats did a decade earlier and make pop music for the pop
audiences, it’s best to have pop music to be considered as a side-project. Duh.
However, not all albums sales are always popular these days.
Back in 1982-2004, people buy albums like Michael Jackson albums. In the last
10 years however, the only people buying albums these days is Taylor Swift
albums and the rest like Demi Lovato are either small number 1 successes or
rather poor sales like Avril Lavigne albums.
Even during the 90s, while a majority of albums like
Backstreet Boys albums sold a lot, only a handful of albums successes lost the
US number 1 peak track. Spice Girls, in example, used to be pretty big during
1997 when Spice Girls’s Spice is a huge success and Wannabe peaked at number 1
on the Billboard charts. However, after Wannabe peaked the group’s career,
other Spice singles like Say You’ll Be There lost the US number 1 peaks and the
only people listening to Spice singles is people hearing Wannabe on the radio
and people watching Spice Girls music videos on TV channels like MTV. That’s
all people listen to Spice Girls in the 90s, Spice/Wannabe/music videos like
Mama music video. The second 2 albums, Spice World and Forever, and the 2007
Spice Girls reunion did not go as far very well despite Spice World’s success
in 1998. Thus, people quit Spice Girls like Spice World in 1998 and Geri
Halliwell leave the group by June 1998 before people listening to music has
moved on by summer 1998.
Anyway, back to Carrie Underwood, congrats on Storyteller
topped the country albums chart. You deserve it. Next up, pop music as Carrie
Underwood’s first side-project and crossing over to pop music for pop
side-projects.
What do you think? Are you happy that Carrie Underwood’s
Storyteller topped the country albums chart? Sound off below!
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