*stomps angrily out of bedroom*
How the fuck did the sales magically turn from 2 million in the US to 4 million for willenium in the last 8 hours? Wikipedia has it at double platinum. Riaa.com has it double platinum.
Slippery When Wet and New Jersey both sold over 5 million copies before the release of the next album. New Jersey had MORE top ten hits than Slippery When Wet. "New Jersey" status doesn't just go to the last album by an artist you can remember.
I swear to fucking god, it blows my mind there are records nerds who want to play this game but a) don't want to look beyond personal anecdotal experience and b) can't fucking count to ten.
*storms out of room, slamming door*
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
*opens door a crack*
Sorry UMS, didn't see you'd already reaffirmed how notable New Jersey's stats are
*closes it quietly*
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:08 (six years ago) link
I might argue that Big Willie Style was the New Jersey to Will Smith's Fresh Prince career if I was feeling ornery
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
*talks politely from other side of door*
The problem there is the previous Fresh Prince album was Code Red. "Boom boom shake the room" has not endured in culture better than "Miami," let alone "gettin jiggy with it"
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
I couldn't find the Wikipedia "Feels a bit hollow" rating for this album, please assist
― President Keyes, Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
Ok, you said "career" but the early millenials still love those BWS singles is the point.
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
PK I know you miss me but you don't have to miss my point
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
"Boom boom shake the room" has not endured in culture better than "Miami," let alone "gettin jiggy with it"
I'd say it has endured in culture as well as either of those tracks.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
Wikipedia has it at double platinum. Riaa.com has it double platinum.
sales to suppressive persons weren't calculated iirc
― President Keyes, Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
clearly we all bought a couple hundred thousand copies of willennium just to troll you
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
when we troll into the wild wild west
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
Lol, i just can't believe my luck at having this be atop the page when I couldn't sleep and decided to check ilx for the first time in months last night.
In the future, I'll just appear if I think the claim has merit. otherwise people can assume I didn't see it or my response is a gif of Kent brockman saying "do your research, Shutton" (if not a gif of David Caruso in session 9).
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
I guess it's 2017 so we all looped a willennium full album youtube link 1,000,000 times each
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
Pretty sure that if this thread has proven anything, it's that not every huge artist has a New Jersey. Also, New Jersey is awesome.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 09:40 (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
Shania Twain's Up! was mentioned a couple times upthread without any comment. Now it finally has a follow-up. But it might be in a class by itself: a diamond selling album with no real big singles.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 19 October 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
Supposed Former Willfatuation Junkie
― Eazy, Thursday, 19 October 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
Boom! Shake The Room is one of the best Fresh & Jazzy singles btw (and all are better than any Will solo)
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Thursday, 19 October 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link
they needed to cover Scritti's "Boom! There She Was."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 October 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
the ACTUAL New Jersey of will smith's career is Hitch
― qualx, Thursday, 19 October 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link
No way they play Hitch at jury duty here
― flappy bird, Friday, 20 October 2017 01:06 (six years ago) link
and In Good Company.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 October 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
if new jersey was a movie would it not be a movie that occasionally gets played at jury duty?
― qualx, Friday, 20 October 2017 01:17 (six years ago) link
time to breathe new life into this thread
every huge actor has their "Hitch"
― qualx, Friday, 20 October 2017 01:18 (six years ago) link
occasionally- no. but they haven't changed the DVD since 2005
― flappy bird, Friday, 20 October 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
it's the only movie they play
― flappy bird, Friday, 20 October 2017 01:26 (six years ago) link
how long has this trial been going on
― qualx, Friday, 20 October 2017 01:29 (six years ago) link
flappy bird, my man, I think you were actually convicted of this crime
― nomar, Friday, 20 October 2017 01:39 (six years ago) link
the answer is obviously "hancock," last of the string of major hits that followed on hitch's heels, but how many would now guess it was the fourth-biggest hit of 2008?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 20 October 2017 04:56 (six years ago) link
COLLATERAL BEAUTY
― flappy bird, Friday, 20 October 2017 06:06 (six years ago) link
I knew someone would say hancock as if bon jovi didn't sell millions of albums after NJ
people went to see hancock sure, but the will smith train had passed. the willennium was over. he was playing against type in an action comedy, his wheelhouse - they came out of curiosity, novelty. but his career as Will Smith, Peaking Action Comedy Star and Occasional Oscar Bait Guy My Parents Liked was over by then. hancock was the death knell. hitch was the new jersey.
― qualx, Friday, 20 October 2017 06:08 (six years ago) link
and before you bring up I am legend, no one actually saw that. they bought the tickets and then they went out for dinner and forgot about the ticket, that's why it made a lot of money.
― qualx, Friday, 20 October 2017 06:11 (six years ago) link
I Am Legend made zombie movie cash, everyone wanted to see those undead ghouls or rage filled maniacs chasing people around. it was a guaranteed 500+ million worldwide for awhile there. but those movies were also like Avatar, they left no real cultural footprint.
― nomar, Friday, 20 October 2017 06:17 (six years ago) link
what the fuck was going on in 2008
― midas / medusa cage match (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 October 2017 09:33 (six years ago) link
Hancock was kind of awesome
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Friday, 20 October 2017 13:35 (six years ago) link
adjusted for inflation, the top-grossing will smith films, in descending order, are ID4, MIB, suicide squad, i am legend, MIB2, hancock, hitch, shark tale (yeeeeesh), pursuit of happyness, and enemy of the state.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 20 October 2017 13:43 (six years ago) link
about 50% of the reason I enjoyed Suicide Squad is because Will Smith played Deadshot almost exactly like he played Hancock
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Friday, 20 October 2017 13:44 (six years ago) link
Louis CK's latest standup video for Netflix.
― Max Florian, Friday, 20 October 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
I've kind of been wondering if there is also a 'Full Moon, Dirty Hearts' phase after listening to the new National album.
― campreverb, Friday, 20 October 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
nelly furtado sort of put out a record like that this year
Bummed that this album was discussed so little on here. It's really good.
― billstevejim, Monday, 27 November 2017 05:59 (six years ago) link
I think it's pretty clear that there *is* a kanye new jersey, the question is just which it is
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 1 June 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
Watch the Throne.
― MarkoP, Friday, 1 June 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
I feel like Drake's Scorpion is the most pure, true example of a New Jersey that we've had for years.
It's a huge event, and it's very successful with hit singles, huge numbers etc, but there's just something in the air that feels like he's just slipped a bit off the peak......(obv the Pusha thing was the first time he felt like there was some weakness there)
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 August 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
ultraviolence by lana maybe
dont know the stats, but it seems born to die was huge, ultraviolence was a sleeper record in the mazzy star vein (little bit of a portishead feel too)
but like each subsequent album seems to have been a bit of a drop off commercially, honeymoon for example. the new one may have performed better im not sure, but it seems that she is more of a cult artist now in a mainstream way if poss
― Ross, Friday, 3 August 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
Her last album debuted at #1.
Del Rey's first couple albums before Billboard included streaming + sales, so interpret it that however you like.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 August 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
but in however many years, will we remember God's Plan? maybe. Nice for What? definitely. but only time will tell.
― flappy bird, Friday, 3 August 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
I've still never heard a whole Drake song. It's a streak I hope never breaks.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 3 August 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
The endings are the good parts
― President Keyes, Friday, 3 August 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
I keep feeling like every Drake album is a New Jersey.
― MarkoP, Friday, 3 August 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Friday, August 3, 2018 11:44 AM (forty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Bon Jovi still closes their main set with a New Jersey song - and then the 2nd encore with another
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bon-jovi/2018/centre-bell-montreal-qc-canada-4bede382.html
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 August 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
the drake album is like the new jersey of "albums" in general
― brimstead, Friday, 3 August 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link