Reported Robin Thicke sales figures are false

News Ltd have today reported Robin Thicke sold just 54 copies of his latest LP in its first week in Australia, TMN can reveal the report is based on false information.

Nick Bond, an entertainment reporter for News.com.au tweeted the following last night:

TMN spoke to a representative from ARIA his morning who said that while ARIA don’t even release official sales figures to the public, this week’s figures won’t be documented until 7pm Saturday night (July 12), as they are each week.

Paula, Thicke’s seventh LP and follow-up to last year’s ARIA #4 album Blurred Lines, was released last Friday (July 4).

News Ltd and other media who picked up the false figure suggested that because sales figures aren’t released for albums that chart outside the ARIA top 500, he may have sold even less than the alleged 54 copies.

Regardless, Thicke’s sales figures in the UK were reported on by The Guardian, and they are indeed woeful. Just 530 copies of Paula were sold, after the album dedicated to his estranged wife entered the Official UK Albums chart at #200, selling only 2% of the first week sales of Blurred Lines in the UK.

According to Billboard, Thicke sold approximately 25,000 copies of Paula in its debut week, down 152,000 from Blurred Lines’ first week success, where the Billboard #1 sold 177,000.