{"id":1019,"date":"2014-07-11T11:32:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T11:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2015-01-06T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T10:59:42","slug":"we-probably-wont-be-recieving-many-copies-of-robin-thickes-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/07\/11\/we-probably-wont-be-recieving-many-copies-of-robin-thickes-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"We Probably Won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Be Recieving Many Copies of Robin Thicke\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Album&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a difference a year makes. After releasing the nearly-inescapable <i>Blurred Lines<\/i> last year, Robin Thicke\u2019s latest album <i>Paula<\/i> has flopped dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a title=\"The Guardian\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2014\/jul\/08\/robin-thicke-album-paula-sells-530-copies-first-week\">The Guardian<\/a>, <i>Paula <\/i>has sold 530 copies in the UK and entered the album chart at #200. Thicke\u2019s last album, <i>Blurred Lines, <\/i>peaked at #1.<\/p>\n<p>The album has performed even worse in Australia, where <a title=\"it has sold less than 54 copies and failed to chart in the top 500 albums\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/entertainment\/music\/robin-thicke-sold-just-530-copies-of-his-album-in-the-uk-in-australia-its-less-than-55\/story-e6frfn09-1226984721550\">it has sold less than 54 copies and failed to chart in the top 500 albums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thicke can take some consolation in the fact that the album has done well in America, though, where it hit #9 on the Billboard chart and sold 24,000 copies in its 1<sup>st<\/sup> week of release.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s nothing compared to the performance of <i>Blurred Lines<\/i>, which reached #1 in over 6 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Something tells us we probably won\u2019t be receiving many copies of <i>Paula <\/i>in the future.\u00a0Or, if <a title=\"it's as bad as the critics say\" href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/music\/paula\/robin-thicke\">it\u2019s as bad as the critics say<\/a>, we\u2019ll get 530 all at the same time. Only time will tell!<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: <a title=\"Melissa Rose on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/ivkTjj\">Melissa Rose on Flickr<\/a><\/em><a title=\"Melissa Rose on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/ivkTjj\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a difference a year makes. After releasing the nearly-inescapable Blurred Lines last year, Robin Thicke\u2019s latest album Paula has flopped dramatically. According to The Guardian, Paula has sold 530 copies in the UK and entered the album chart at #200. Thicke\u2019s last album, Blurred Lines, peaked at #1. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,22],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3066,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/3066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}