thegreatdivine

2y

This is why No Pressure did the numbers it did (everyone except Drake used bundles to boost their numbers from 2018-2020). It wasn't because it was his "final" album:

Logic lands his fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as No Pressure arrives in the summit on the list dated Aug. 8. The LP, which the rapper has said is his final album, starts with 221,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 30, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

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Of that figure, 172,000 units derive in album sales (supported by a wide offering of merchandise/album bundles), 1,000 are in track-equivalent album units, while the remaining 48,000 come from streaming-equivalent album units, equaling 65.16 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs. The starting sum marks his second-best week for an album, behind only the 248,000-unit entrance of Everybody in 2017.

https://www.billboard.com/pro/logic-no-pressure-number-1-rb-hip-hop-albums-chart/

mangotflu

2y

Exactly. Yet people on here will tell you Logic can do 170k of those units yet Drake can't do 70k lmao.

mangotflu

2y

Who the f*** is hating on DBR selling 200k? You're making s*** up.

And yes. Listening to an album for 75 hours should carry more weight than spending $5 on one. Next? There's a reason first week album sales have decreased by a huge amount, and it's all because streaming is undervalued

mangotflu

2y

Ehh physical album sales have been proven to be faked many times over, you don't know what you're talking about unfortunately

Unisun

2y

Wasn't Bino's last project his final album under Childish Gambino?

That s*** sold like 34k so thats a lie

mangotflu

2y

can't believe people in here are trying to pretend Trav is known for merch/seen as a fashion icon lol

57m followers & only 75k merch sales. that's 0.13% of his audience that bought a tee from a so called "fashion trendsetter/icon"

americana

2y

No there wasn’t lol

mangotflu

2y

Opinions over statistics of course

Circus Maximus
686k tickets, $95m revenue

It's All A Blur
830k tickets
$215m revenue

mangotflu

2y

Trav was having issues selling out arenas, so he had to decrease the ticket prices a few days before a few of the shows

mangotflu

2y

Opinions over statistics of course

Circus Maximus
686k tickets, $95m revenue

It's All A Blur
830k tickets
$215m revenue

mangotflu

2y

ah we r back to pretending Travis can sell a lot of bundles/digitalalbums but artists like Drake can't

mangotflu

2y

Opinions over statistics of course

Circus Maximus
686k tickets, $95m revenue

It's All A Blur
830k tickets
$215m revenue

TheFader

2y

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind only did 24K in pure sales with those same bundle rules a year earlier idiot

Logic’s Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is expected to debut at No. 1 of the Billboard 200. According to HITS Daily Double, the Maryland rapper’s latest album will rake in 75,000 to 85,000 in total activity, with 15,000 to 20,000 from pure album sales. The album’s merchandise bundle sales could additionally increase those numbers, landing at an estimated six-figure range.

TheFader

2y

Travis’s tickets did not start out as high as Drake’s did.

mangotflu

2y

Trav was having issues selling out arenas, so he had to decrease the ticket prices a few days before a few of the shows

Midzy

2y

It's All a Blur Tour:
Tour by Drake, 21 Savage & J. Cole

Circus Maximus Tour:
Tour by Travis Scott

Not exactly a fair comparison. What did So Far Gone and Care Package do? Those would be good comparisons.

TheFader

2y

Streaming is not undervalued, it’s over exaggerated. It’s the most passive form of support. Pure sales will always weigh more and matter more than streaming numbers.

The reason the music industry is in the dirt right now is BECAUSE of streaming

Midzy

2y

It's All a Blur Tour:
Tour by Drake, 21 Savage & J. Cole

Circus Maximus Tour:
Tour by Travis Scott

Not exactly a fair comparison. What did So Far Gone and Care Package do? Those would be good comparisons.

mangotflu

2y

surely you don't think 21 was the reason Drake's tour doubled Travis's numbers? (the guy who's literally known as the #1 performer in rap)

This guy could barely even sell half his tickets to his own tour in 3 months lol

Midzy

2y

It isn't a fair comparison because one is a solo tour and one is co-headlined, doesn't matter who else is on it.

Besides, like i said both artists are filling the same venues at the same capacity so it doesn't really matter. You've been making up hypotheticals about how much Drake can sell if he included merch or whatever, meanwhile the guy couldn't even bother to print physicals for his fans. Hell the 100Gigs s*** didn't even have a cover art, and FATD artwork looks like a toddler drew it. Travis continuously puts out projects his fans are heavily into and the numbers prove that.

Midzy

2y

It isn't a fair comparison because one is a solo tour and one is co-headlined, doesn't matter who else is on it.

Besides, like i said both artists are filling the same venues at the same capacity so it doesn't really matter. You've been making up hypotheticals about how much Drake can sell if he included merch or whatever, meanwhile the guy couldn't even bother to print physicals for his fans. Hell the 100Gigs s*** didn't even have a cover art, and FATD artwork looks like a toddler drew it. Travis continuously puts out projects his fans are heavily into and the numbers prove that.

mangotflu

2y

How doesn't it matter when the artist is getting double the money for each person at the show? Lol that's insane. Trav would charge Drake numbers if he could, it's like you're trying to pretend he's being charitable charging lower prices to help his fans lol

What if an artist was charging $20 per ticket? would you still say "it doesn't matter" and it's the same as an artist charging $200? Crazy

I'd like Drake to do more outside of just the music however it's pretty difficult for a Drake fan to complain lmao, no other mainstream fanbase gets fed as much as Drake fans, Taylor was feeding her fans more for a bit but it looks like she's slowed down by a lot.

Also tbh - back on topic but Utopia wasn't really what his fans wanted, they wanted more Sicko Mode type s***, which the album lacked - hence why the album did worse than ASTROWORLD long term

K DOG 99

2y

Adonis did draw the FATD cover just an FYI lol

Midzy

2y

So spending more for a ticket means he has more fans... but last page you just said streaming (which costs $10 a month for unlimited music) should carry more weight than buying a $10 cd or $40 vinyl

The logic isn't adding up

TheFader

2y

He has been virtually nonexistent in the music world since 2018 so that doesn’t surprise me