While I love the huge numbers for Cry Pretty. It’s also important to not mix up reality. Her tour numbers have always been strong and carried that album in its first week.
Had she not had the bundle she would’ve been around 100k-125k ish. That’s where all her peers that had similar sales figures were.
D&R was going to be another drop as it was. Mind you I think the drop was exaggerated due to poor planning and promo on her labels part. If she was firing on all cylinders, with good promo and a better connecting single, *cough and them making sure the album was actually available to buy in the stores *cough, think she would’ve debuted somewhere in the 50-60k range.