Sep 7, 2023
shaleiroseAlso, Travis and his team are extremely careful and calculated these days. If there was any realistic way they would’ve lost millions of dollars by running those discounts, then the discounts never would have happened. Stop being dense.
Losing money on the vinyls obviously (unless deal with vinyl makers) and recouping on the overpriced clothing
Sep 7, 2023·1 replythegreatdivineHe also posted about songs off Scorpion occupying 7 positions in the top 10, so like I said, you can count on one hand the number of times he's done that lmao.
He didn't post about One Dance going #1. Didn't acknowledge God's Plan/Nice for What/In My Feelings going #1 either. Didn't acknowledge CLB when it debuted 9 songs in the top 10 as well lol. For every time you can mention him acknowledging some stat or chart achievement, I can list you several other times when he hasn't.
Again, my thing isn't about Nicki acknowledging her stats at all. It's her making it her entire brand. She has DOZENS of tweets doing just this and it reeks of insecurity. It's ridiculous for an artist who has been in the game as long as she has and she always does it to shade someone else, not really to show appreciation to her fans for their support. It's always done to down someone else. Whatever lol.
I get what your saying lol. I agree she needs to tone it down a bit especially as we get closer to 11-17-23.
- Sep 7, 2023shaleirose
Also, Travis and his team are extremely careful and calculated these days. If there was any realistic way they would’ve lost millions of dollars by running those discounts, then the discounts never would have happened. Stop being dense.
he probably isn't losing money overall even with just vinyls. like if you sell one for $50 and another for $5 that probably isnt a loss. but imo the $5 vinyl themselves are a loss especially if they had free shipping.
- Sep 7, 2023Dedication 666
I get what your saying lol. I agree she needs to tone it down a bit especially as we get closer to 11-17-23.
It's not just her. There isn't a single rapper who constantly laments about their career or legacy online who doesn't get clowned or made to look crazy (see Meek Mill or Wale).
Nicki's legacy is solidified. I just wish she moved like she knew that.
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Sep 7, 2023·1 replyEpic Records made the call, said we aint fronting the costs anymore these $5 vinyl sales approaching a total $5mill+ loss
- Sep 7, 2023·1 reply
"A data-reporting error last weekend resulted in substantially overstated album sales this week for Travis Scott’s UTOPIA (Cactus Jack/Epic). Following the correction of that error, UTOPIA moves down to #3, with our projection now at 67k."
- Sep 7, 2023Deezed
"A data-reporting error last weekend resulted in substantially overstated album sales this week for Travis Scott’s UTOPIA (Cactus Jack/Epic). Following the correction of that error, UTOPIA moves down to #3, with our projection now at 67k."
- Sep 7, 2023https://twitter.com/talkofthecharts/status/1699863993374896374quadra
Ayo
- Sep 7, 2023·1 replyDeezed
Epic Records made the call, said we aint fronting the costs anymore these $5 vinyl sales approaching a total $5mill+ loss
More like they ran out of vinyls to discount
- Sep 7, 2023shaleirose
Again, NO RAPPER in the world not named Drake is selling 160K units in their sixth week if they discounted the price of a vinyl.
Y’all keep tryna diminish it just because of the discount, but the discount in itself is not guaranteed to make people want to buy it.
The reality is there are probably a lot of his fans who couldn’t afford the $50 + $10 shipping that the vinyl normally is, and those same fans jumped on the chance to buy one when it was reduced all the way down to $5 flat. That is unarguably a positive thing, only y’all weirdos on here are spinning it as a negative.
He has an impressive fanbase but he does use merch to double on sales and appear as though the album itself is being consumed like that.
It is what it is . He has to have bundles to keep up his superstar astronaut schtick
- Sep 7, 2023
Hating on discounts
Gotta love the blatant classism as America is about to enter another recession
- Sep 7, 2023thegreatdivine
More like they ran out of vinyls to discount
- Sep 7, 2023·1 replyshaleirose
Also, Travis and his team are extremely careful and calculated these days. If there was any realistic way they would’ve lost millions of dollars by running those discounts, then the discounts never would have happened. Stop being dense.
Wait so you think they somehow managed to get a deal where they could manufacture+ship vinyls to people for less than $5?
crazy if that's what they managed to do. doubt it tho
I've been thinkin bout it and I actually think the media of selling all these extra units might actually be worth 6-7 figs tbh. Arguable tho
scares me to think what Taylor could do with the same tactic. Probably 10m units in first year
rvi 🦜Sep 7, 2023zach W
- Sep 7, 2023·4 replies
Morgan Wallen's 5 month old album is now almost doubling the weekly streams of 4 week old Utopia
imma be saying this same thing bout Morgan outperforming Drake in a month
- rvi 🦜Sep 7, 2023mangotflu
Morgan Wallen's 5 month old album is now almost doubling the weekly streams of 4 week old Utopia
imma be saying this same thing bout Morgan outperforming Drake in a month
and wallens 2.5 year old album gonna be doing the same a few weeks from now
Sep 7, 2023·1 replyZach Bryan >>>>>
- Sep 7, 2023·editedmangotflu
Wait so you think they somehow managed to get a deal where they could manufacture+ship vinyls to people for less than $5?
crazy if that's what they managed to do. doubt it tho
I've been thinkin bout it and I actually think the media of selling all these extra units might actually be worth 6-7 figs tbh. Arguable tho
scares me to think what Taylor could do with the same tactic. Probably 10m units in first year
i mean taylor is doing 10M+ this year from mostly streams, and it's only early september. the frontloaded pre-orders were from last year,
edit:
i get what you mean now. she might be incentivized to do this with a brand new album - $5 vinyl with multiple variants, she might actually beat adele's 3.5m units first week record.
- Sep 7, 2023
Sep 7, 2023TIIIMMYBURNERBongos, hopefully this will be a refreshing sound/song for hip hop taking as to our roots and not a song about ass.
your putting to much faith on Cardi & Meg of all people
Sep 8, 2023·3 repliesneed a behemoth to drop their album same day and get this fat racist out the paint