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Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 6:16 pm
by Jorge
basically_infirmed wrote:Val wrote:Forbes just did a hit piece on Dark Matter saying its ratings didn't just fall off, but "plummeted" and even "cratered".
"It's nowhere to be seen" was another expression used in the article.
lol this is so funny
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcinty ... bdc3e82499
calm down, forbes
Edit: I misunderstood the article
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 6:23 pm
by Jorge
Haha the comments section has this fun exchange

Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 6:37 pm
by RockPusher
Jorge wrote:Haha the comments section has this fun exchange

My initial response was gonna be "Epic" but then I realized that would kind of be a weird little joke
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 6:45 pm
by Monkey_Driven
Jorge wrote:basically_infirmed wrote:Val wrote:Forbes just did a hit piece on Dark Matter saying its ratings didn't just fall off, but "plummeted" and even "cratered".
"It's nowhere to be seen" was another expression used in the article.
lol this is so funny
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcinty ... bdc3e82499
calm down, forbes
Wow. Number 5 to 171 in a week.
Not entirely surprising but still. Seems like they maxed out the fanbase support and didn't pick up many new ears with this one
Who could have possibly foreseen this what their incredible pre-release marketing campaign?
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 7:24 pm
by spike
Everything’s returning to normal.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 7:32 pm
by sweeper
Forbes uses click-baity headlines around stories that aren't really stories. I would imagine you'd see similar drops for any rock artist after week 1 (e.g. Green Day, Foo Fighters).
They've done recent stories about PJ that are positive, but equally misleading/overblown. You just have to recognize the source and that they're going for clicks. No one else writes about this stuff.
"Pearl Jam Owns More Than One-Third Of An Entire Billboard Chart"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcinty ... 53ae085b6d
"Pearl Jam’s New Album Has Given The Band 90% Of All Their Hits On One Chart":
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcinty ... 3aec97530d
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 7:38 pm
by Kevin Davis
All of them appear to be written by a fellow named Hugh McIntyre, who also has a recent article about the impressive performance of Godsmack's latest single.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 7:40 pm
by Ms Harmless
"Pearl Jam owns one third of the Billboard chart" was hilarious
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 7:54 pm
by McParadigm
sweeper wrote:Forbes uses click-baity headlines around stories that aren't really stories. I would imagine you'd see similar drops for any rock artist after week 1 (e.g. Green Day, Foo Fighters).
Green Day dropped out of the top 200 after 3 weeks. I think the Foos just barely managed a 4th week.
Like I said, streaming broke the Billboard charts. I remember reading a few months back that on an average week, 40% of the entire chart is made up of albums that are at least 4 years old. Bob Seger‘s greatest hits is a regular now, because it’s always steaming somewhere.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 7:55 pm
by Kevin Davis
McParadigm wrote:Bob Seger‘s greatest hits is a regular now, because it’s always steaming somewhere.
Freudian slip?
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 7:57 pm
by dad
spike wrote:Everything’s returning to normal.
nature is healing.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 8:03 pm
by McParadigm
Kevin Davis wrote:McParadigm wrote:Bob Seger‘s greatest hits is a regular now, because it’s always steaming somewhere.
Freudian slip?
That kind of music just soothes the hole
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 8:04 pm
by spike
dad wrote:spike wrote:Everything’s returning to normal.
nature is healing.
whatever keeps the normies at home during PJ concert night
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 8:06 pm
by spike
McParadigm wrote:Kevin Davis wrote:McParadigm wrote:Bob Seger‘s greatest hits is a regular now, because it’s always steaming somewhere.
Freudian slip?
That kind of music just soothes the hole
we were runnin against the wind
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 8:18 pm
by spike
I think Eddie’s hat is probably what’s killing its sales/streams.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 11:47 pm
by VinylGuy
McParadigm wrote:sweeper wrote:Forbes uses click-baity headlines around stories that aren't really stories. I would imagine you'd see similar drops for any rock artist after week 1 (e.g. Green Day, Foo Fighters).
Green Day dropped out of the top 200 after 3 weeks. I think the Foos just barely managed a 4th week.
Like I said, streaming broke the Billboard charts. I remember reading a few months back that on an average week, 40% of the entire chart is made up of albums that are at least 4 years old. Bob Seger‘s greatest hits is a regular now, because it’s always steaming somewhere.
Yeah there was a very cool article with the guy who runs Easy Street about this; and how the streaming numbers were fucking up with most of these charts..I think he was talking about The Smile new album and the real numbers behind those physical units too.
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Thu May 16, 2024 1:42 am
by basically_infirmed
spike wrote:I think Eddie’s hat is probably what’s killing its sales/streams.
We can safely say it has not helped
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Thu May 16, 2024 7:03 am
by Val
I just read on Forbes that Metallica has a #1 hit, so I went and listened to it and it's a outdated, dull, inadequate, irrelevant dud, and it left me wondering

Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Thu May 16, 2024 11:59 am
by Ms Harmless
Val wrote:I just read on Forbes that Metallica has a #1 hit, so I went and listened to it and it's a outdated, dull, inadequate, irrelevant dud, and it left me wondering

Metallica as usual then
Re: Dark Matter: Official Album Thread
Posted: Thu May 16, 2024 12:12 pm
by Bi_3
RockPusher wrote:Jorge wrote:Haha the comments section has this fun exchange

My initial response was gonna be "Epic" but then I realized that would kind of be a weird little joke
Go for it. That type of “PJ dork dad standing awkwardly at a party for his wife’s more attractive friend ” style is exactly what I look for in a post as it's the world I know.
