Comments on: Carrie Underwood, Apparently Playing In Peoria http://idolator.com/5289842/carrie-underwood-apparently-playing-in-peoria Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:56:57 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: mssoonermagic http://idolator.com/5289842/carrie-underwood-apparently-playing-in-peoria/comment-page-1#comment-995202 mssoonermagic Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:54:20 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5289842#comment-995202 If she is selling alot of albums, they'll be re-stocking those albums. Since hers are selling they'll keep re-stocking. If she is selling alot of albums, they’ll be re-stocking those albums. Since hers are selling they’ll keep re-stocking.

]]> By: Chris Molanphy http://idolator.com/5289842/carrie-underwood-apparently-playing-in-peoria/comment-page-1#comment-995192 Chris Molanphy Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:44:49 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5289842#comment-995192 If I were to refine your theory, I'd say that basically, Underwood has now matured into being a Reba-like country act, rather than a pop-country crossover act. As you imply, that's Swift's racket now. When <i>Carnival Ride</i> came out in November 2007, Underwood was coming off of her biggest pop-crossover smash, "Before He Cheats," which IIRC correctly had <i>just</i> fallen off the Hot 100 not weeks before after a near-record-setting run. So when that sophomore album dropped, she had not only the loyal Nashville audience buying her but also a sizable urban audience willing to give an album of hers a try. (As I often say: first-week sales of any album are always a referendum on how the <i>last album</i> did.) So, <i>Play On</i> will have a weaker first week not only because it's 2009 now and the sales bar is lower, and not only because the leadoff singles are a little weaker, but because <i>Carnival Ride</i> wasn't that strong an album in a pop sense and didn't produce any serious pop-crossover hits. Which leaves her with a Nashville audience that loves her, and that's it. That's not a bad way to make a career that could last her another 20 years, but it will make her future sales numbers, especially in week one, less spectacular. If I were to refine your theory, I’d say that basically, Underwood has now matured into being a Reba-like country act, rather than a pop-country crossover act. As you imply, that’s Swift’s racket now.

When Carnival Ride came out in November 2007, Underwood was coming off of her biggest pop-crossover smash, “Before He Cheats,” which IIRC correctly had just fallen off the Hot 100 not weeks before after a near-record-setting run. So when that sophomore album dropped, she had not only the loyal Nashville audience buying her but also a sizable urban audience willing to give an album of hers a try. (As I often say: first-week sales of any album are always a referendum on how the last album did.)

So, Play On will have a weaker first week not only because it’s 2009 now and the sales bar is lower, and not only because the leadoff singles are a little weaker, but because Carnival Ride wasn’t that strong an album in a pop sense and didn’t produce any serious pop-crossover hits. Which leaves her with a Nashville audience that loves her, and that’s it. That’s not a bad way to make a career that could last her another 20 years, but it will make her future sales numbers, especially in week one, less spectacular.

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