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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Troye Sivan Doesn’t Judge an Album’s Success by Its Sales · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: When Troye Sivan releases his upcoming album, She's the Best,
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  Speaker 2: he'll obviously be hoping it's a success, but not in
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  Speaker 2: the way many of his other fellow artists register it.
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  Speaker 3: Troye tells Las Culturistas he has never cared about his
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  Speaker 3: first week of sales. In fact, he couldn't tell you
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  Speaker 3: what any of his previous first week's totals were. on
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  Speaker 3: any project.
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  Speaker 4: Instead, what would break his heart would be if it
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  Speaker 4: came out and didn't make any sort of cultural impact.
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  Speaker 4: He admits that he'd be devastated, while at the same time,
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  Speaker 4: if it only sold a few thousand copies, he'd be like, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And that comes back to how Troy consumed music as
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  Speaker 2: a fan growing up. He has no idea how Christina
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  Speaker 2: Aguilera's song Dirty performed on the charts, but he still
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  Speaker 2: vividly remembers the first time he saw its video as
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  Speaker 2: a kid.
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  Speaker 1: Same goes for the movie Moulin Rouge. Did it debut
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  Speaker 1: at number one at the box office? He has no clue,
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  Speaker 1: but it meant everything to him.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the memories he's obsessed with, trying to give
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  Speaker 2: to the right fans, not a plaque telling him he's successful.
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  Speaker 2: She's the Best, out everywhere October 9. That's direct from Hollywood.