Just a few people write all the pop songs

[Clodfobble]

Part of Adele's "first week" record has to be attributable to the ubiquity of internet music use. Yeah, sure, the hip kids were buying mp3s 10+ years ago, but now everyone's mom knows how. You're already online, you see the ad, or the Facebook post by your friend about how great the album is, click-click-bought. You can't compare initial sales to a generation that still had to find time to get their ass down to the store to buy an album. I mean it's still a huge album, sure, but it will be interesting to see if the sales numbers hold steady, or if it's just that her normal, solidly large fanbase all got front-loaded instantly rather than spread out over the first month.

I'm surprised that there aren't more losing-money-but-respectable albums out there. I mean, selling less than 1,000 albums, okay. But 60K albums selling an average of 13.3 each! I mean, what insane pipe dream made them pay to print those albums for themselves? That's like you can't even get your friends & family to buy one out of pity.