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Beyonce’s “The Gift” has been returned. It’s unclear if that’s for store credit or cash.

Seriously, Beyonce is supposed to be the top of the current heap of pop stars, right? Queen of something or other.

But “The Lion King: The Gift” has sold just 50,000 copies in its first week, and most of those were streaming. Only around 10,000 were physical sales.

On top of that, no singles have emerged despite many possibilities from the album. The first track released, “Spirit,” went nowhere immediately. “Brown Skin Girl” has plateaued at 37 on iTunes. No other singles have surfaced on iTunes. Basically, a new Beyonce album has been met with a meh response from her fans.

Even though “The Lion King” movie has made $300 million so far, the music side has certainly collapsed. The biggest issue would be marketing– there hasn’t been any. Beyonce hasn’t appeared on any TV shows singing these songs. There’s a kind of hubris attached to just dropping new music and not promoting it.

Plus there all kinds of issues with Beyonce on the business side. I told you last week that Beyonce’s music advisor and A&R person of 28 years, Theresa LaBarbera Whites, was stupidly severed from Beyonce’s company by the new CEO. Sony Music is also said not to be thrilled with Beyonce and her team right now.

If “The Gift” really does stiff– and it looks like it now–that will raise a lot of questions for the direction of the Beyhive.
Beyonce’s “Lion King: The Gift” Album Flops with just 50K in Sales, New Songs Surprisingly Get No Sales or Chart Action
 

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Of course, I have op on ignore. Beyonce is not on Sony. She has a distribution deal Columbia. She is on her own label and production house, Parkwood.

Why do these moronic fonts find busllshit articles and internet gossip to spread lies? The fµck!ng nerve.
 

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I think Bey is tired. She’s got 3 young kids and has been in the industry since she was a child. She looked so unenthused at both premieres and didn’t participate in any press for the film outside of one sit down interview. I think she’s over it at this point and probably just wants to focus on her family for a while and I don’t blame her. Right after the twins she did Coachella and then the otr2 tour. She needs a break.
 

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This is like the fifth time I've seen this report today. It feels like the public is just jackin' off to the possibility that she fails. Maybe it's just me, but I don't feel like any of this matters. A lot of people like the album so I don't see the failure, especially since Brown Skin Girl went viral.
 

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Of course, I have op on ignore. Beyonce is not on Sony. She has a distribution deal Columbia. She is on her own label and production house, Parkwood.

Why do these moronic fonts find busllshit articles and internet gossip to spread lies? The fµck!ng nerve.

That article reads like an LSA incog :ROFLMAO:

Showbiz411 dot com :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 

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So you mean to tell me Sony execs had a listening party/meeting before the album was released and now they're upset with Beyonce and her team for the record that was produced? They knew what they were getting. GTFOH!
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Sony Music is not thrilled with Beyonce and her team right now

Neither am I. :eyeroll

India.Arie made music celebrating brown skin and black beauty and was successful with it, got Grammys and everything. So was Janelle Monae, Kendrick Lamar, and others. Hell, even Solange seemed more genuine with her representations of brown women. Maybe it was because their stuff seemed genuine and not some kind of pandering for more money like a glorified pyramid scheme.

Beyonce and Jay-Z are pyramid schemes on legs. Like most rich people in business. They just learned from the best: Money Hungry Satanic Jews and white people.
 

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Op, why do you only post negative stories about Beyoncé? We been peeped your bias ways, you’re not fooling anyone. Y’all are so embarrassing on this board.
 

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The biggest issue would be marketing– there hasn’t been any. Beyonce hasn’t appeared on any TV shows singing these songs
She never does promo for anything other than the tours so why would she go late night shows all the sudden?

If “The Gift” really does stiff– and it looks like it now–that will raise a lot of questions for the direction of the Beyhive.
And the beyhive is good.
 

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Considering she got the biggest bag for starring IN the movie, I know she remains unbothered. "If [she] gave two fucks about streaming [she] would've put Lemonade on Spotify (initially) fµck YOUUUU"
 
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Of course, I have op on ignore. Beyonce is not on Sony. She has a distribution deal Columbia. She is on her own label and production house, Parkwood.

Why do these moronic fonts find busllshit articles and internet gossip to spread lies? The fµck!ng nerve.

It’s one of the ones that stan that bleaching pedophile.
 

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It’s one of the ones that stan that bleaching pedophile.

Why does @The Admin still allows this font to post these bµllsh!t articles? This site has been banned onnnumerious forums for making up stories about musicians.

They have been banned by white sites even! Why post these on here? Is that font white or something? What the hell is going on here?

The site is written by stans online. @The Admin this font needs to be banned from posting threads in the Bey forum and from posting the fake articles from that website. They've been banned from other forums. Send this thread to NSIS
 

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Of course, I have op on ignore. Beyonce is not on Sony. She has a distribution deal Columbia. She is on her own label and production house, Parkwood.

Why do these moronic fonts find busllshit articles and internet gossip to spread lies? The fµck!ng nerve.

Sony Owns Columbia
 

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If this woman wants to take a rest, have a flop, not put effort in she has earned the right, I'd tell everybody to f off and go stay on an island with my kids for a while . She has been non stop for 20 years. Every artist needs time off to refresh. I dont know how she does it I would be nutty as hell
 

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What we not gonna do is pretend this album was not phonically pleasing...BIGGER was a work of art. Bey we needed this...THANK YOU, haters be damned!
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Why does @The Admin still allows this font to post these bµllsh!t articles? This site has been banned onnnumerious forums for making up stories about musicians.

They have been banned by white sites even! Why post these on here? Is that font white or something? What the hell is going on here?

The site is written by stans online. @The Admin this font needs to be banned from posting threads in the Bey forum and from posting the fake articles from that website. They've been banned from other forums. Send this thread to NSIS
I don’t believe anything Roger Friedman says but he’s not a Stan and that site isn’t run or written by stans. He’s a bitter, old, fat white man.
 

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“Seriously, Beyonce is supposed to be the top of the current heap of pop stars, right? Queen of something or other.”
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Damn, who is this ? They went IN!

As I said. No one can flop when they please.

The record labels want money and HITS. They are not loyal to any of their acts. As soon as you start underperforming they are holding meetings asking what's the problem?


Get out of your stan feelings. This is business and applies to all entertainers.

But...

Sony like others just knew this album was going to be big. Expect another grueling tour from her to make up the cost.
 

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I could have sworn that I saw a thread title in the side bar not too long ago that stated that her new album was slated to be number 1?

Are you sure that it wasn't number 1 in any category?
 

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I reject the idea that Beyonce doesn't have to promote anymore or it's okay to flop if she wants to.

There were OTHER artists attached to the project who only signed on because it's Beyonce.

I'm sure they had greater expectations. If she doesn't want to work hard to promote anything anymore...fine but leave other artists out of your experiments.
 
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The media is starting to kick up fuckery like all artists who have been around 20+ years & are seeing a decline. MJ got it, Madonna, Mariah, etc. She's basically a legacy artist at this point and I hope her team can find a way to pivot her as such without her having to compete with younger artists and the climate of the industry. The media is getting tired of praising her for her marketing of her projects and not having to report her low record sales and numbers.
 

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Damn, who is this ? They went IN!

As I said. No one can flop when they please.

The record labels want money and HITS. They are not loyal to any of their acts. As soon as you start underperforming they are holding meetings asking what's the problem?


Get out of your stan feelings. This is business and applies to all entertainers.

But...

Sony like others just knew this album was going to be big. Expect another grueling tour from her to make up the cost.

She owns her own label. Sre y'all serious or stupid? The fµck
 

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Of course, I have op on ignore. Beyonce is not on Sony. She has a distribution deal Columbia. She is on her own label and production house, Parkwood.

Why do these moronic fonts find busllshit articles and internet gossip to spread lies? The fµck!ng nerve.
Sony owns Columbia, girlfriend. She's a franchise artist.
 

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Damn, who is this ? They went IN!

As I said. No one can flop when they please.

The record labels want money and HITS. They are not loyal to any of their acts. As soon as you start underperforming they are holding meetings asking what's the problem?


Get out of your stan feelings. This is business and applies to all entertainers.

But...

Sony like others just knew this album was going to be big. Expect another grueling tour from her to make up the cost.


Well said! The stans are not looking at the bigger picture.

lool. Im gonna screenshot this so when the tour starts i can repost haha
 

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Damn, who is this ? They went IN!

As I said. No one can flop when they please.

The record labels want money and HITS. They are not loyal to any of their acts. As soon as you start underperforming they are holding meetings asking what's the problem?


Get out of your stan feelings. This is business and applies to all entertainers.

But...

Sony like others just knew this album was going to be big. Expect another grueling tour from her to make up the cost.

THIS! I call her going on tour Summer 2020. The Beyhive swear Beyonce owns these huge ass entities. Sony had MJ by the balls, so it's just delusion. Until these artists can control distribution channels 100% they will have to depend on them.


It's going to be really disappointing if there is no huge hit out of the soundtrack. Some of these songs should become anthems, but if they don't, it says that the general public is largely over Beyonce's music.
 
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Of course, I have op on ignore. Beyonce is not on Sony. She has a distribution deal Columbia. She is on her own label and production house, Parkwood.

Why do these moronic fonts find busllshit articles and internet gossip to spread lies? The fµck!ng nerve.

While you're calling people moronic, maybe you should look up your details, and you'll see that Columbia is a Sony imprint so yes Beyonce answers to Sony executives
 

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Lemonade and Jay aren’t as business savy has they pretend to be live nation can’t make these numbers up for them - I don’t understand why she don’t take the jay route and make up the album go platinum - tidal subscriber numbers show that they don’t have selling power / most of the subscriptions were for Kanye
 

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While you're calling people moronic, maybe you should look up your details, and you'll see that Columbia is a Sony imprint so yes Beyonce answers to Sony executives

No, she doesn't. She owns her label. The same way Janet and Jay does. Y'all are moronic.

She uses Columbia for distribution and owns production. Pls, sit
 

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The media is starting to kick up fuckery like all artists who have been around 20+ years & are seeing a decline. MJ got it, Madonna, Mariah, etc. She's basically a legacy artist at this point and I hope her team can find a way to pivot her as such without her having to compete with younger artists and the climate of the industry. The media is getting tired of praising her for her marketing of her projects and not having to report her low record sales and numbers.


Yep.
 

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Beyhive ya'll better be prepared for more articles like this and the tide turning a bit. It happened to all the greats after they have been in the industry for awhile. It's not going to skip Bey. She just needs to transition herself gracefully into a legacy artist & embrace herself as such without being compared to younger artists. I just hope she switches it up this next tour because they are going to go in on that too for the same choreography.
 

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