The New York Times reports Billie Eilish's book only sold 64,000 copies

[ObsessedBritFan1]

20 hours ago, Urbanney said:

 

This. Also according to the NYT, JT’s book has sold 100,000 copies in 3 years vs Billie’s 65,000 in 6-7 months. 

If Billie’s book cost her publisher $1m, it’s selling for $17.50 per copy on Amazon right now, and with $64,000 hard copies sold, it’s made a profit. ($1,120,000 in sales = $120,000 in profit). This isn’t counting digital copies or all the sales that will come in the coming years.

Tired of people trying to tear down Billie and young female popstars in general. I love Billie, and I didn’t even know this book was released, so it sounds like it’s doing well enough to me.

I was going to say, it made profits. 😅

[Samer]

Why would this expect the book to sell a lot? It's a photo-filled book of Billie and not many will be interested in having such a book if there's nothing interesting to read about. 

[NachoCheese]

I had to Google that photo book cuz I had no idea it existed 

Below is the first sentence from the book's description on her website:

Legendary recording artist Billie Eilish shares an intimate inside look at her life and career—both on and off the stage—in this stunning, photo-filled book. Billie Eilish is a 21st century global pop-phenomenon.

So is the amount of copies sold equivalent to her alleged 'Legendary' status?

Don't come for me ya'll 

 

[bitbitboi]

It's a "book" (as in, a collection of printed sheets of paper) full of PICTURES...... of HERSELF. And that's it.

She's like 13 and she already released a collection of pictures of herself. Is she nuts, or a huge narcissist? She only recently has a second album out, and there's barely any text in the book, and the pictures are mediocre, so I don't understand what motivated her and her team to do this other than easy money... which obviously backfired.

But apparently her fragrance (yes) is doing well.

[Spicechinodiva]

The book costed me 35.00 at target. I can see why it flopped. It's not cheap. 

[bbbsss]

Probably her fans can’t read. 

[Freakshow__]

I love Billie but i would never buy a book from anyone... Except Britney obviously. 

[jordeezy river red]

Who has time to read a book when we have Exhale, tho? 

[brymo]

What is Billie going to do with the 63,500 copies she bought herself?

[Bigno]

I have nothing against her but this was a bad idea. Fame doesn't equal legendary status. It was too soon and a photo book for a generation that has Instagram? Yeah...

[jennyj]

I mean do any MUSIC artist's book sell that great in general unless there's some big controversary or drama behind it?   I'd say that's still a decent amount, especially given that a lot of her fanbase are younger and probably don't read physical books lol

[Asakura Hao]

Wait, are you suggesting her fan base does not consist of well-read, erudite literature enjoyers?

Color me shocked.

[Fizzmeister]

Was curious what “Stages” by Brit sold (I know it was a DVD package as well) but couldn’t find any figures on google or Wikipedia. 

[BratzBitch]

Girl what was she thinking  Her entire fanbase has Instagram for "free", why would they buy a book full of pictures of herself ?

[BUWYGF]

Doesn't that mean the book has sold over 1 million USD though? They have over 100k in profit. Also, this is counting only hard covers, paperback tends to sell much more because it is cheaper, so God knows how many of those have sold. Also, no data on digital copies which probably sold even more.

I'm no Billie fan, I know like 3-4 songs of hers, but I feel like the New York Times wrote this article to make Billie look bad? It's poorly researched  Journalism really is dead.

[girl_bye]

its n ot a bad number tho

some ppl would b happy to sell as many cds

[Jordan Miller]

On 12/8/2021 at 10:42 AM, THE_MIKY said:

Maybe the same reason you shared it.

Wig sent to Jupiter 

[Spicechinodiva]

7 hours ago, BUWYGF said:

Doesn't that mean the book has sold over 1 million USD though? They have over 100k in profit. Also, this is counting only hard covers, paperback tends to sell much more because it is cheaper, so God knows how many of those have sold. Also, no data on digital copies which probably sold even more.

I'm no Billie fan, I know like 3-4 songs of hers, but I feel like the New York Times wrote this article to make Billie look bad? It's poorly researched  Journalism really is dead.

These kind of books are a one time print. I doubt it will ever get to paper..

 

But if this is a flop, then I wanna know how many copies that 400.00 Rihanna book sold, so heavy it even came with it's own stand to hold the book.