I don't know if you've heard, but there's a story going around about the two Hollywood megastars who got engaged, broke up in the shadow of a notorious workplace accident, and then, 20 years and several partners later, finally reunited and eventually got hitched?
Well it looks like not many people cared about Bennifer's Disneyfied love affair, because according to reports, Jennifer Lopez is predicted to miss the top 20 Billboard Album Sales chart with her latest project This is Me...Now.
Featuring the singles Can't Get Enough (with Latto), and Rebound (with Anuel AA), the triple threat is set to accumulate the following:
Predicted First-Week Sales (SPS): 21,000 units
Predicted First-Week Sales (Pure): 16,000 units
Predicted Billboard 200 Debut: #28
According to HDD (Hits Daily Double), Lopez’s ‘This Is Me…Now’ finished its inaugural tracking period with 16,000 units sold – the most of any album this week.
Should the predicted numbers turn out to be true (the official numbers are expected to come out on Tuesday) this will mark the first time J.Lo’s missed the top 20 with a studio album as all of her previous efforts – ‘On the 6‘ (#8), ‘J.Lo‘ (#1), ‘This Is Me…Then’ (#2), ‘Rebirth‘ (#2), ‘Como Ama Una Mujer‘ (#1), ‘Brave‘ (#12), ‘Love?‘ (#5), and ‘A.K.A.’ (#8) – opened within the all-genre chart’s topmost quadrant.
I am not surprised she missd the top 20 with this album, because as I said the moment she dropped This Is Me...Now and the Prime Video special that outside of her hardcore fanbase no fan of music is willing to sit through a full album where JLo has fallen knee deep in her "Disney princess era."
We love JLo as a performer, and she's going to sell the heck out of these middle-of-the-road new songs when she performs them on her upcoming tour.
However, if you were going to feed your fans sappy songs like Broken Like Me, Midnight Trip To Vegas and Dear Ben Pt II, this album needed a bit of balance with songs in the vein of her classics like On The Floor, Jenny From The Block, Pa Ti, El Anillo, Cambia al Paso, and even though it's not her song, I would have liked for her to give us something in the vein of Wisin's "Adrenalina" which also featured Ricky Martin.
What I also don't understand is that if TIMN is being considered the top-selling album of the week, how is it her lowest debuting album on the Billboard 200?
No shade, but the math ain't mathin'.
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