Drake isn’t gonna f*** you no matter how hard you try to defend him

Drake doesn't need to do 600K+ next album to be a W, and Kendrick didn't need to do 600K+ this album either for it to be a W.

Yeah, for a reasonable person, this is true. But we’re playing by Drake Stan sales rules when it comes to Drake’s next album.

Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers on Spotify
Day 1:
WW — 99.6M
US — 53.3M

Day 2:
WW — 56.5M (-43%)
US — 28.6M (-38%)

Day 3:
WW — 39.2M (-31%)
US — 18.6M (-35%)

Day 4:
WW — 41.3M (+5%)
US — 19.4M (+4%)

Day 5:
WW — 35.0M (-15%)
US — 16.6M (-15%)

Day 6:
WW — 29.2M (-17%)
US — 13.98M (-16%)

You really do come off as stupid when you make posts like this. Do better.

It doesn't matter if Drake's next album fails to do 600k. Whatever decline he may experience surely won't be as bad at going from doing 600k to doing half of that and that's the point we're trying to make with Kendrick that you seem to not be getting.

His album certifications are always pretty strange imo

I could imagine that Graduation should be already 6x platinum. Seems like they're barely updating the certifications for his older albums

No, they should just do what fans are expected to do: support the work of the artist they're fans of.

What sparked the day 4 spike you think?

Your insecurities shine so brightly through the fake narratives that you try to push all the time. It’s okay that you’re obsessed with him, but he’s still not gonna f*** you

I don't think you can put someone in a sales category if they only ever hit that number once. Kendrick and Travis both did 500k, and that was thanks to bundles/pure sales. The fact that they never consistently did those numbers means they only hit those numbers at their respective commercial peaks. Same way I won't put Drake in the 1M category simply because he did it once. The only rapper out of all of Drake's peers that's ever been in the 500k category is Drake himself. He's done 500k 7 times. Every once of his peers that's done even 400k has only done it once.

No, that'd be Cole.

We won't know for sure till Sunday.

Fair point

Those are Monday numbers. Most albums/songs gain streams on Fridays/Mondays.

Why do you care who/who doesn't f*** me, you weirdo? F*** off.

Dish it but can’t take it, classic

As the sales guru who posts the same stuff on 5 different forums, I know that you know that the sales landscape, for a variety of reasons, is much different than it was 5 years ago and numbers comparisons 5 years apart are not really it. Though, I agree that Kendrick’s numbers are unimpressive compared to what was expected but I don’t think considering the drop from DAMN is really that relevant.

I could make a compilation of posts from this thread and others, however, by Drake Stans saying Drake will sell a million next time, etc. and that seems to be the dominant expectation from a lot of your section. And unless he doesn’t drop an album for 5 years, you will eat the L when he sells less than 600K.

Before this release it was

1. Drake
2. Kendrick

3. Cole

Now it’s obviously

1. Drake

2-3. Kendrick/Cole

Where is kanye

A lot of you are idiots who really don't have anything to contribute to discussions so you come in here with your stupid troll posts. Know that you'll get blocked the moment you try to pull some dumb s*** like that. We're all here discussing album figures. Yes, some people are more fans of some artists than others but we're all using numbers to back up whatever arguments we're having. If you don't like a narrative, use numbers to present a counter point, but don't come in here with troll posts about why people are discussing numbers in a sales thread or some stupid s*** about "artist A is not gonna f*** you because you're defending him" like we all haven't defended our favorite artists on this site.

Don't be dumb. At the end of the day, we're all just having fun here. It's not that deep.

This seems like another bad drop off for him

There is no obligation to support work in a specific way. Buying a GKMC vinyl vs this album is still supporting it. There is a difference between supporting and appreciating artist and music vs unhealthy obsession.

Kendrick's numbers are disappointing ONLY because it's Kendrick. It'd be the same if Adele dropped and did 200k. Why were Dawn FM's numbers seen as an L? Because it's the Weeknd. His previous 3 albums before Dawn FM did between 444k, 348k and 412k respectively. That creates an expectation, whether you like it or not. Now, if Dawn FM had done like 275k, no one in their right mind would call it an L because while it's a decline, it's not a steep decline. To show you how much of an L Dawn FM was, Starboy (2016) pulled more on-demand audio streams than an album released in 2022, so it wasn't just about a sales decline. The album legit flopped.

As for Kendrick, DAMN was released 5 years ago and did 340M on-demand audio streams. Not thoroughly outdoing those numbers now will be an L because streaming has grown and this album has more tracks. That's how the Ls are being classified.

If a Drake album does 300k tomorrow, even if no one else in the game is doing 200k, people will automatically see it as an L for Drake because it's Drake and because they know what he's used to doing. That's where this all comes from, not because anyone is trying to put Kendrick down.

As for you saying people think Drake's next album will do a million first week, I've personally never seen that and I'd like to assume no one in their right mind is stupid enough to think that will happen.

Fair enough. I just think if your favorite rapper drops their first album in 5 years, you'd go all out in support of it.