The opening week US sales and consumption projections for Harry Styles’ “Fine Line” were already lofty. They just got bigger.<\/p>\n
According to Hits Daily Double, the album is now on track to close the week with 365-385K in US sales. With units from track sales and streams included, it may generate 450-475K in first-week consumption.<\/p>\n
If the projection total holds, “Fine Line” will score the third-biggest bow of the year. With another slight upgrade, it could even challenge Post Malone’s “Hollywood’s Bleeding” (489K) for second place. Taylor Swift’s “Lover,” the year’s leader, started with 867K.<\/p>\n
It will, moreover, easily rank as the week’s #1 album in both columns. No other album is even is expected to break 75K units or 60K sales this week.<\/p>\n
The new projections top the original forecast of 320-340K sales and 420-440K units. Even those figures would have been massive — and far better than the 193K sales and 230K total units posted by Styles’ debut.<\/p>\n
Though Styles is receiving a boost from bundles, the album is faring very well from a retail standpoint. The boost from streaming units is also very impressive for an album of this genre without a massive (at least not yet) hit single.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Styles will post one of the year’s biggest debuts.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[183,1047,206],"tags":[13178,8433],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n