5 covers later

She fumbled the rollout badly, only one single a month and a half before the album, along with a short album, terrible promotion too, this is about what i expected

I don't understand. These are good numbers

Not for Ariana grande

Why not ?

TY,N did over twice as much

Pop acts always do in between 100 and 200k

Let's all take a moment to remember that, in its early days, this thread was driven by people making fun of Kendrick doing 295k

different era

still embarrassing numbers for back then

What era are you talking about? Numbers been cooked since the pandemic

Only 3 different artists did 295k+ in all of 2020

5 in 2021

7 in 2022

5 in 2023

0 so far this year

Stop being a Pinhead

Solid numbers.

Ya'll gotta realize pop stars don't generally have strong fw sales.

Great numbers for Ariana

The true story will be if the album has staying power

Kenny doing close to 300k fw with his least accessible album is objectively good numbers.

MMTBS had a higher fw than any other rap album in 2022 besides Her Loss(even beating HNVM).

Whether you think the album is good or not Ariana not cracking 200k is the last nail in the coffin as far as her commercial reign goes. Taylor's as big as she was during her 1989 era and Olivia has surpassed her in both radio play and hit making output. If Dua manages to outsell this with her next album she'll officially be out of the top 3

Her antics outside of music have not done her any favors but the rollout felt really mismanaged it feels like she doesn't even care about the music anymore. If Wicked does good I could see this being her last album for a long time

I still can't believe SZA outsold. Kenny used to run TDE and now he retired from the label without the crown. I still think he self sabotaged and gave us a weak rollout and mid album because he wanted to save the real music for pgLang. His next album will be over 350k easily

Bingo. Rap is the only genre that prioritizes first week sales

Also this. Numbers have been going down and down every single year. Only the top of the top of the top (Drake, Taylor, etc.) are still putting up ridiculous numbers

Pop stars play the longevity game when it comes to their albums broski.

Positions sold 174k fw.

They will never understand this

'Mid album'
'Real music'

Okay Abel Graham.

If there's one album real af it's MMBS. If it has hit potential is something else

Kendrick's first rap album in 5 years beating a surprise dance album from Drake (who drops every year) is now some sort of W?

And it didn't have good longevity. Ariana hasn't charted an album on the Billboard 200 in years now.

tf y’all talking about Drake and Kendrick for? lmfaoo

Sales are a convenient way to talk about quality when you can't think for yourself and "mid" is the extent of your musical vocabulary.

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