Melanie Fiona pushes 34k copies of ‘The MF Life’…

Written by Toya
Posted March 28, 2012 at 8:55 pm

Melanie Fiona‘s latest album ‘The MF Life’ notched up a #7 position on the Billboard 200 chart this week with sales of 34,000 copies.

Winning a Grammy or two has not done wonders for the album. Sadly, people did not come out in droves to support it. But at least it’s a major step up from her 2009 debut ‘The Bridge’, which sold 4,000 copies in its opening week and debuted at #128. The album eventually peaked at #27 and overtime, pushed 350k units in total. So, it’s not all bad when you look at it. If an album can have opening sales of 4k and sell 350k, she could possibly go Gold with this one. Of course she would need a hit in order to drive those extra sales in the same vein as her debut album, with R&B smash ‘It Kills Me’. In a bid to attract more interest in the LP, she’s played a number of gigs across the country this week including Atlanta and Chicago. On top of that, she is set to perform at the Austin Urban Music Festival this coming Friday. You can download the deluxe edition of Melanie’s new album on iTunes. Click here to purchase your copy, if you have yet to do so.

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phexi laven

I adore the fact that she can sing, but…yes sadly there is a but. She is forgettable to me as of now. I mean look at the above promo shot. It looks like a model mayhem trade shot posted on lookbook or tumblr. It dosent scream hey remember me! She has cool songs, sometimes hit and misses. She is not very appealing. I don’t know if its the confusion of her race. I want to root for her, and maybe she is the underdog.
http://www.ready2speakbooks.com TMC

It is quite unfortunate the album is underperforming, despite all the televised promo shows she has done stateside. I actually bought the album and thought it was a solid effort. I’d give it a 3/5. There were a few filler songs, but overall it did have some standouts. Those standouts being: “Wrong Side of a Love Song,” “I Been That Girl,” “Running,” and to me, the best track, “Watch Me Work.” I think if she got rid of songs like “Bones” and had more uptempo songs like “Watch Me Work” she would have pushed more units. Unfortunately for her, she laced the album with too much sappy sad love songs. It’s spring, people want feel-good music.
Miles

Odd Future Vol.2 at #5!!! OFWGKTA
MH

This album is amazing! I love true R&B and that is exactly what this album gives me. This album forced me to go buy her first album and see what I’ve been missing. I can honestly say I am now a Melanie Fiona fan. ‘I Been That Girl’ ‘Wrong Side of a Love Song’ ‘This Time’ and ‘Watch Me Work’ are definitely worth checking out.
class of fitness

I doubt, that her winning ‘soul train’ best new artist of the year. in 2009 help ‘the bridge’ either? but her new album is good.
Kimmie

I love this album too! i play it over and over and she has SEVERAL songs that I love.

I am really digging, “Wrong Side of a Love Song”… because she is “sanging” that song…
http://www.toyazworld.com RCW

I’ve tried listening, but she sings in the same key all the time,maybe she doesn’t have range…I’ll try to give it another listen.
R&B_Connoisseur

I watched an interview with her when she went on The Breakfast Club and she seems very content with the way her career is going. Sweet girl. Very humble. I like her personality. She seems to genuinely make music because she loves the art, not to sell many albums, etc. However, I will say that while her music is good, she’s very forgettable. Idk I can’t seem to put a finger on it. Maybe it’s the content, producers, Idk. This album was just ok to me. I agree with TMC, we want feel good music around this time of the year. She’d have been better off releasing this in the fall or the winter. Spring-summer, we’re trying to party.
Dan

I think those numbers are amazing, she has only started to climb on the pop charts, she sold that based on Top 10 R&B song…I wouldn’t mind if she can become a Tamia-type artist in the long term
btw, Tamia’s new song debuted at 71 this week at Billboard’s R&B chart!!

Melanie Fiona pushes 34k copies of ‘The MF Life’…

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