14 DAY TRIAL // It’s only a few days ago that Heidi Montag, star of the MTV reality show “The Hills,” was telling the entire world that she had invested about $2 million of her own money and had spent the past three years working on her debut album, “Superficial.” At the same time, she expressed her belief that the material would recoup the investment in a few weeks’ time but it might take years until that happens, based on numbers unveiled by The Hollywood Gossip.
Speaking with the media just hours before “Superficial” dropped, Montag said there was absolutely no way the album would not turn out to be a hit. According to her own estimations, she had about 1 million followers on Twitter alone and all of them had shown interest in the release, which would mean all of them would buy a copy. Heidi was certain she would break the mold in terms of selling albums and, most importantly, that she would rewrite pop history, with herself as the newly crowned Princess.
Unfortunately, things are nowhere near that, with “Superficial” selling about 658 copies in its first week of release. For those looking for something to compare this performance to, Kevin Federline’s album sold about 6,000 in a week and it was still described by critics as the biggest flop rap industry had ever witnessed. As if that wasn’t enough, in previous interviews, Montag also compared her own release with Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” saying “Superficial” would certainly prove to be a bigger hit.
“In its first week of release, the aspiring singer’s album, ‘Superficial,’ which she hilariously compared to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller,’ has sold under 1,000 copies. That’s about 109,999,000 fewer than ‘Thriller,’ for those keeping score. It gets worse for the ‘Tag. The album sold only 658 downloads so far,” the aforementioned publication says, making absolutely no excuse for the reality star with such high aspirations and dreams of making music history when she lacks the very things she should have thought of before launching in the industry: talent and a good voice.
“She’s a fairly well-known reality star too, so that number is probably a lot worse than it sounds. And she wonders why no record label gave her a deal... Last week, Heidi said (hopefully sarcastically) that she went broke making Superficial but thought ‘within the first week, we will definitely make our money back’.” THG goes on to say.