Adele's "25" obliterates every first week sales record in history...

Thats what some said about her 5 years ago before she left to take a break and have family. Not sure what people just be happy for her and the record biz. When people buy one record again after some tie, it reminds them about music and many buy other releases. A win win...

Big hits bring folks back into the stores, online shops and iTunes. That is good.

 

Ever since the late-90s, females in the U.S. have bought more music than men.

 

well that would certainly explain the billboard top ten over the last 20 years.

 

So, their research said that more women shop at Target now? I thought the majority shopped at Walmart.

But, I wasn't talking about marketing, I was talking about creating the music, as some people in this thread are trying to say that men aren't the target of her music.

EDIT: I'll retract part of what I said. It's not a conscience effort to target females.

 

The Beatles also used Target.
http://beatlesblogger.com/2011/10/21/ltd-ed-beatles-target-singles-box-sets/

 

Yeah but men keep buying the same old **** over and over and over again...

 

Sony went to unprecedented lengths to keep this album from leaking, including a visit from Sony NA's president to distributors to inspect security and an armed guard presiding over the shipments to ensure that none escaped the warehouse prior to the agreed shipping date.

 

I certainly think that some music is crassly designed to appeal to a certain target audience, but as far as Adele is concerned I have a sense that she and her collaborators simply made the album they wanted to make.

 

Especially country music!

 

Ladies love Target. Walmart has a discount stigma that Target does not. Walmart did have an exclusive deal with AC/DC for Black Ice.

 

I agree with this. It was her creative choice rather than a production decisions to cater to the sales demographic. She is very much on trend for the times.

 

I can appreciate that Adele has genuine talent and since I work in the business, I appreciate that she's giving the music industry a shot in the arm.
But most of her songs are just so bland. Hard to get excited about.

 

For most of my life I never collected music because of a 'singer'. I liked the band's music first, singing came second and lyrics further down the line.

Just in the past few years have I gotten into 'singers'...as in Frank Sinatra, Willie Nelson, Van Morrison, Tony Bennett etc....

Even then I have to like the music and for them I do.

Lyrics have NEVER been an attraction for me. I couldn't care less what someone was singing...like the crazed gibberish of I Am The Walrus.

Not sure if that's a 55-60 y.o. male thing or what...but I get the idea that females get into the lyrics far more and are targeted, so to speak, far more with 'breakup' lyrics especially.

 

Ehm sorry but thats not true. I watch it and so do two friends of mine. We are all female.

 

I will buy the album (despite not fitting the demographic ... tsk, tsk). Why? Because I think "Hello" is a stunning song. That's all.

 

Wait...

You're Buying an album because you like a song?

Weirdo!

 

It's more about how can this happen instead of saying that Adele is that great. Females who love shopping are likely to listen to Adele. It's a situation more than an achievement. I wanna see Taylor Swift & Adele switch their sound the way The Beatles did from '64 to '67 so labels & radio can trust more creative music. This is the main way I see better music being promoted.

 

I don't think it does make a difference. Maybe years ago there were very 'male' groups that appealed to boys and men for various reasons but today I think young people just like music and as you say don't care who makes it, thankfully we are a little more liberated today, so men are just as likely to buy FKA Twigs, or Bjork, or Adele as they are testosterone fuelled male rock bands, thankfully.

 

Taylor did switch her sound- albeit gradually. Compare her debut album to 1989.

 

Maybe it's regional. Most women I know prefer Walmart because they feel the prices are better and the selection is larger.

 

Yeah that's one of the best singles I've heard in years. No Im not saying the best song Ive heard lately but once is awhile a single comes along that you play over and over again. I'm a 61 year only man and lovin' it. It's beautiful. And for some reason it made be pull out again this years new Jenny Lewis album, an artist I really like. But once I again I was reminded what a really boring album that one is.. Too bad.

 

I think age has something to do with it. I notice that younger men are more likely to buy music by female artists than baby-boomers.

 

Was wonderin' about that...

 

And the fact that she vanished for a couple years in-between is probably a big reason. Why was that? Throat burn out or something? I remember she called off a tour. I didn't really like "21." I thought the songwriting was, meh. One or two good tracks. I think Norah Jones kills her musically. But Adele does the whole "soul warble" style, which people fall over because they've been taught that's "good singing." At least Norah Jones doesn't warble. God, I lived in Thailand for awhile where "Issan" style female singing has evolved over a thousand years into this highly stylized kind of singing where women do this yodel/warble that sounds like a sick goose. It's like soul warbling taken to an extreme. Maybe in a 200 years we'll be hearing that kind of ear-cruciating madness seen as "what's in." Anyway, I've got to go track down a New Zealand import copy of Susan Boyle's album..