Nah, it's better this way because there's no assurance the album will hold well so this way it's able to help break the fall weeks from now.

CLB was 562k off of streams

How many hip hop acts could headline and sell out a arena tour is the point I’m getting at

And you still haven’t answered how many artist have sold more than 325k in the last year

exactly lol, guy doesn't know s***

did not think about that
guess it would depend on the quality of the music whether or not the leak and physicals dropping day one would hurt or help

That’s a anomaly

"Drake too big, he don't count"

drake* is an anomaly

Yeah but no one cares about the hold, it’s the first week that shapes narratives and this puts him a lot lower relative to “competition” than he was with his last release

Nah not that artist

Name others then you got me

Drake, Cole, Kendrick, Kanye, Jay Z, Eminem, Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Russ.

😭😭😭

I get that but look at it this way as well: the album leaks if physicals were ready to go. I'm guessing they were trying to avoid that as well.

Drake is stadium status now, lets just call it what it is. His next tour gonna need to be compared to pop acts. We talking >$200mil which he can do

He ain’t drake dummy

hold definitely matters long term > first week. If kendrick sales drop below my turn too fast 🌚

How is it an anomaly if someone did it?

hope he does not go to stadiums yet. only seen him once but i was too young to truly appreciate.

Again, Drake is an anomaly

I’m not comparing Kendrick to Drake in terms of numbers

They don’t even make the same music

Who’s doing that

Sad to say, but Drake and 3 Migos tour was the last chance for that

anomaly - something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.

you're probably right, but i think he was also just as big then and he still did arenas so there is hope.

Drake numbers aren’t the standard or normal

It’s a anomaly