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Five Reasons No One Wants to Buy Robin Thicke's New Album

Rae Alexandra Jul 11, 2014 9:27 AM

If there was a Creep Olympics, Robin Thicke would take the gold every single time -- or at the very least, tie with R. Kelly. We've known for a long time that this man was a problem: Back in 2012, before "Blurred Lines" was even released, we used the word "rapey" to describe him. Also, he was a guest vocalist on R. Kelly's "Pregnant," which is an absolute skin-crawler of a song. But until recently, that creepiness hasn't hampered his music's popularity. Last week, however, everything changed. Thicke released his latest masterpiece, Paula -- the cherry on top of an extraordinarily undignified break-up with wife Paula Patton -- and its sales so far been completely dismal. In fact, reports suggest Thicke's seventh full-length has sold just 25,000 copies in the US, 530 in the UK, and -- WOW! -- "less than 50" in Australia. Here are five reasons why no one wants to buy this thing.