{"id":8786,"date":"2026-06-25T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=8786"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:04:04","slug":"kamala-surrogate-lizzos-new-album-sells-under-3000-copies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/kamala-surrogate-lizzos-new-album-sells-under-3000-copies\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Surrogate Lizzo&#8217;s New Album Sells Under 3,000 Copies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em>Breitbart News<\/em>, the album titled &#8220;Bitch&#8221; moved just 2,649 units during its debut week after dropping on June 5. The left-wing entertainer, who served as a surrogate for Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential campaign, saw sales crater even further in week two, tumbling to only 650 copies while streaming numbers fell to below 900,000.<\/p>\n<p>The disastrous performance stands in stark contrast to her 2022 release &#8220;Special,&#8221; which opened with 39,000 copies sold and 69,000 equivalent album units, securing a number two position on the Billboard 200. This time around, &#8220;Bitch&#8221; failed to appear on the chart at all.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2069534420458168770\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CultureCrave\/status\/2069534420458168770\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Industry insiders are pointing to fundamental weaknesses in <strong>Lizzo&#8217;s<\/strong> appeal. A former senior label executive told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> that the singer never cultivated a dedicated following, instead relying on radio play and viral moments to drive her visibility.<\/p>\n<p><em>She was a very song-driven, radio-hits-driven artist who lacked a core fanbase<\/em>, the executive explained, adding that loyal supporters are essential for sustained success in today&#8217;s music landscape.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lizzo<\/strong> rose to prominence in 2019 with hits including &#8220;Juice,&#8221; &#8220;About Damn Time,&#8221; and &#8220;Good as Hell,&#8221; earning multiple Grammy Awards and selling out arena tours. But her commercial dominance appears to have evaporated.<\/p>\n<p>The performer herself has attempted to explain the collapse on social media, claiming that shifts in the music industry and what she described as a <em>very obvious and public attack<\/em> on her career have damaged her prospects. She argued that streaming services have replaced radio as the primary discovery mechanism, disadvantaging artists who built their audience through traditional airplay.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2063664719513391505\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lizzo\/status\/2063664719513391505\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Beyond music, <strong>Lizzo<\/strong> has repeatedly injected herself into political controversies. Last summer she delivered an anti-ICE tirade in which she bizarrely claimed no one actually owns land on Earth, before contradicting herself by asserting that American territory rightfully belongs to Mexicans.<\/p>\n<p>She also took aim at rapper <strong>Nicki Minaj<\/strong> late last year, accusing the superstar of aligning with <strong>President Donald Trump<\/strong> for financial gain and predicting that other celebrities would follow for profit.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on NBC&#8217;s Saturday Night Live, <strong>Lizzo<\/strong> wore a crop top emblazoned with the word &#8220;TARIFFIED&#8221; in a jab at the president&#8217;s trade policies.<\/p>\n<p>The album&#8217;s failure raises questions about whether overtly political performers can maintain mainstream commercial appeal, particularly when their activism alienates large segments of potential listeners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop singer Lizzo&#8217;s latest album sold fewer than 3,000 copies in its first week and failed to chart on the Billboard 200, a dramatic fall from her 2022 release that debuted at number two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":8785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[8088,8089,2684,8087,7637,209],"nfg_topic":[137],"class_list":["post-8786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-album-sales","tag-billboard-200","tag-kamala-harris","tag-lizzo","tag-music-industry","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-culture-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8787,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions\/8787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8786"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=8786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}