Maybe there really is no accounting for taste. Despite the healthy heaping of critical accolades for Amerie’s fourth album In Love & War—not to mention Idolator’s own five very legit reasons you should pick the record up (there’s still time!)—the sales figures just don’t lie.
That Grape Juice notes that while In Love & War is set to debut within the lower end of the Top 10 of Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart, it’ll do so with a final tally of less than 20,000 copies sold. By comparison, Billboard is reporting Carrie Underwood’s Play On will top the chart with around 300,000 copies sold.
If only the Def Jam powerhouse had put half the media push behind Amerie as it did Rihanna in the past week. Actually, make that a quarter of the media push. One-seventh? Sigh.
Oh, well. At least some Amerie posters and album samplers were given away at the album release party thrown at San Francisco’s Gus Presents Social Club the other night, right?
Thanks for abandoning the targeted use of the bold text, at least.
“Maybe there really is no accounting for taste”
The same could be said for Buzznet.
Robbie, who are you?
An introductory post sure would have been nice, instead of pretending like the last 12 hours hasn’t happened.
@dsven: Maybe he is a bot programmed by Perez Hilton.
Yes, this is sad and all. Poor Amerie. However…does this new Robbie person and the exit of Maura mean we won’t get to see the end of the worst songs of the decade list? Do we really have to end it with 50 Cent?!
@propaganda-artist: i was thinking this also. the countdown so far has had some of the funnest writing i’ve seen on this blog, really smart and entertaining. sure won’t be the same without maura…
Dear Robbie,
Please learn the difference between a and . I’m sure WordPress has some useful tutorials that will help in your transitional period.
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Er, that was supposed to be a “” and a “”.
I HATE THE INTERNET.
AGGH.
{} and {}
Apparently, that’s what I get for trying to give some snarky constructive criticism. Lesson learned.
WHATEVER.
A and a
Oh botheration. Someone just delete my comments. Please.
A line break tag (bracket BR close bracket) and a paragraph break tag (bracket p close bracket). There.
BTW, I think it’s kind of oddly appropriate that it looks like I’m having some sort of crazy-person-on-the-subway-batting-at-invisible crap moment here.
THE END.
@michaela: Okay, that last comment made it all worth it. Forgiven. I literally LOLed.
Sigh.
@michaela: Exactly! It’s not that he doesn’t like paragraphs, it’s that he doesn’t know how to use his HTML editor.
“Oh, well. At least some Amerie posters and album samplers were given away at the album release party thrown at San Francisco’s Gus Presents Social Club the other night, right?”
Yeah, shew — at least!
Good grief, man.