After his Twitter rant blasting Walmart, the music industry and (sort of) Alicia Keys this past weekend, Chris Brown (or, more likely, his people) decided it’d be best if he piped down, and the “Crawl” singer deleted his Twitter account. He signed off with this final Tweet: “I WANNA THANK MY FANS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT. I LOVE YALL. GOODBYE!!!!!!!!!!!!” Classy as ever, right?
His exit coincided roughly with the release of a statement by Walmart (which — in addition to ranking as the nation’s biggest seller of CD’s — also runs a ton of Twitter accounts). Brown had accused the chain of failing to sell his new album, Graffiti.
“We are surprised at the comments online,” read a statement from the Arkansas retail giant. “All Walmart stores nationwide have carried the CD since its release, including the Wallingford, [Conn.], store mentioned in the post. This store actually sold through its initial shipment over the weekend. The majority of our stores today are showing they do have copies available.”
Honestly, would anyone blame Walmart for deciding not order huge shipments of Chris Brown product at this juncture in cultural history? With or without a push from Walmart, Brown’s album is on track to sell perhaps 100,000 copies its first week, or about one-third the first-week tally posted by its predecessor, Exclusive.
Chris Brown’s Mechanical Dummy website is still up and running, but let’s just hope he doesn’t explain his surprise Twitter disappearance in rap form.
His management was doubtless terrified that next, Brown would check his local Best Buy for inventory.
Dear Chris,
Upon further consideration you are also a paranoid dumbass with a victim complex. Enjoy the county fair circuit this coming summer.
I’m glad I got to call him an asshole who beat his girlfriend before he shut it down.
It is actually the saddest day on the twitter world, i can no longer follow my idol… I will miss checking his tweets every single morning… I hop he’ll come back.. :-(((
To continue in MhS’s direction…
Don’t be surprised if Forever ends very soon and the girls at the county fair look scared of you or ready to beat you down. Lord knows I’d love to kick your ass.
How well off is Chris? I wonder if he could live comfortably from here out. Maybe do studio work or something and put his abilities to use anonymously. I’ve never said he doesn’t have talent, but no one really cares after you go and commit an act like this. Just retire Chris, get it over with and accept the inevitable, you will always be remembered first and foremost as the guy who beat the crap out of Rihanna, and no amount of teenyboppers who claim to forgive you will save you from that hell.
I see acting in his future. ;)
A year from now everybody will have forgotten what he did, people have very short memories. :p
He didnt say anything bad about A.Keys, but he used her as an example. He never said they did not have his CD, he said they did not have them out on display like they had A.Keys CD after they gave him some bs excuse. Just for clarification. Saw the tweets myself. Everything is always blown out of proportion, its twitter..a place where people write how they feel, as we know it free speech isnt free any more. Go worry about Tila Tequilas suicide tweets and Miley Cyrus deleting her twitter. Give him a break. It is what it is why are people dragging it on as if he is still beating her till this day. Frown upon him and move on, but badgering and calling him out his name only proves you can be just as violent. As vocal as everyone is on this situation why dont those people join abuse prevention programs and help people all over who are being abused since their so passionate about this. Utilize your anger.
im gutted!!! his new album is amazin!!!!! i cant stop listen to it!
It wasn't blown out of proportion. He was cussing and making an idiot out of himself. Like always. He beat a woman and normal people don't want anything to do with him. All you Chris Brown fans who are dissing the people who are RIGHT, you GET OVER IT.