My fellow Americans, I am happy to report to you that we have, just barely, escaped one of the first signs of the Apocalypse — barely anyone is buying Paris Hilton’s debut music CD. Despite a PR blitz to rival Tom and Katie’s alien abduction of an engagement, Hilton has only managed to move 75,000 copies of her CD in the U.S. in its first week, and according to the New York Post, this qualifies it as a “certified flop”. And if you can’t trust the NYPost…
Says the Gotham rag:
And projected sales for next week are said to be a measly 30,000, which is a larger than normal second week drop.
“Paris” is languishing at the bottom of Billboard’s Hot 100 – so Hilton’s label rushed out her second single, “Turn It Up,” which isn’t doing very well either.
“The international outlook is not much better for her,” one industry source told Page Six. “The international people are not inclined to do a big push since she can’t back up the album with a tour. Obviously, she can’t sing live.”
The source added that Hilton was advised a year ago to train her voice, work with choreographers and learn an instrument to prepare for a limited tour, but “obviously she didn’t listen.”
Thank you, America, for renewing my faith in you — except the 75,000 of you who actually bought the CD. Seriously, folks, what were you thinking?
But I digress. Here’s Paris in Blender Magazine:
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