Industry ‘experts’ BAFFLED by Lizzo’s dismal sales for new album ‘B*TCH’ — under 3000 units sold in first week
The album, titled B*tch, has sold only 2,650 copies in its first week out.
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The album, titled B*tch, has sold only 2,650 copies in its first week out.
Music rag Rolling Stone is perplexed as to why body-positive songstress Lizzo hasn't sold more records. The album, titled B*tch, has sold only 2,650 copies in its first week out but fans should be more excited, it's her first release in four years.
Lizzo was a major force when she came onto the music scene in 2019. Her songs were everywhere and she won Grammys. She played James Madison's flute. She made fat look cool (sort of), and controversies surrounding her flaunting of her own body made headlines.
The album, Rolling Stone tells us, had 2.7 million on-demand streams in its first week as well. But by the second week, that all dropped off. Sales were under a thousand and streams under a million. She didn't even hit the Billboard top 200.
Perhaps she never had "a core fanbase," a former music exec told the outlet, without wanting to divulge their name. "She was a very song-driven, radio-hits-driven artist who lacked a core fanbase, and that’s what you need today for career longevity."
This was posited by a user on X, who said, "lizzo not having a fanbase is so weird to me when this woman was literally selling out arenas not even 2 years ago. like, where did those people go?" The account has 1,500 followers, but Lizzo heard the ask and replied.
"I actually can answer this: the industry changed so much in the last 3 yrs. streaming replaced radio & I was a radio darling. That’s how my fans discovered my music. Not to mention the very obvious & public attack on my career changed things. But I’m out here doing my absolute best and u can’t knock a b*tch for that," she said.
https://twitter.com/lizzo/status/2063664719513391505?s=20
Lizzo was caught up in some scandals, accused of treating staff poorly. She was sued by backup dancers in 2023 over alleged sexually explicit, humiliating behavior. In 2024, when she was roasted by South Park, she ate it up, saying "That's crazy! I just feel like d*mn. I'm really that b*tch.
"I showed the world how to love yourself and not give a f*ck to the point where these men in Colorado know who the f*ck I am, and put it on their cartoon that has been around for 25 years. I'm really that b*tch and I'll show y'all how to not give a f*ck, and I'll keep showing you how to not give a f*ck," she said.
"A big part of her brand was being the underdog and being very self-confident," the former exec said, "I am who I am, I support everyone, body positivity. And when you’re called to task for the mistreatment of exactly what you held out as being your, quote-unquote, brand, then fans don’t wanna see you win anymore, and they desert you."
Lizzo, however, is undeterred. On her socials, she posted a video of herself walking toward a private jet on a tarmac, wind blowing her hair, her much-reduced form hugged by a body contour dress.
"Tryna break my confidence," she wrote, "ain't even make a dent."
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