Anticlamactic?

[blinker12]

Again, not trying to be depressing - I'm just surprised we're not seeing more, well, stuff. I don't think age is the issue. Stevie has been 35+ since Wild Heart (!), and she has always gotten big pre-release pushes from the label on her albums since then.

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

Maybe they want the album to be a grower instead of being a big hit, then slowly falling away?

That's a good thought. It would be nice if this album reversed the trajectory of Stevie's last few albums, which opened with a bang and then faded.

Perhaps I am still stuck in the 1990s mentality of big first weeks, as others have suggested. Honestly, I don't follow any artist as closely as Mac/Stevie, so I haven't been tuned into how the publicity machine works since 2001-2003!