Nah, I was originally responding to someone about Weeknd’s numbers and of course they made it specifically about Drake somehow

Imagine Luther hits #1 after the Super Bowl

The Gap between DWAS and everything else is so large that Luther might need an incredible Superbowl performance and a video to challenge it.

Luther SB performance and video debut right after would go crazy

I think he will get #1 album and #1 song again

Does MDL not count? It only did like 130k

Might need some sort of push to do that but isn't completely out of the realm of possibility.

Mixtape

Boyz II Men did that with only 3 or 4 songs, crazy

this what i meant by drakes streams exploding and theres no way 9 has a tiktok challenge

Thinking 300k-400k for the weeknd album. He should do pretty well on the physicals side

There's a birthday trend on tiktok that uses the song

bro wtf

tiktok trend for everything these days

@Hndrxx_Free hndrxx top 5

The Weeknd’s album is 22 songs long.

He is not doing 400K+, anyone predicting that is delusional.

He will finish somewhere between 250K and 300K.

he has never done less than 400k with physicals tho and apparently he printed a crazy amount of vinyls for this one

Starboy only did 348K

After Hours did 444K, yes, but with the help of random merch items that counted towards sales like lollipops and trading cards, and ticket bundles as well, two tactics that aren’t allowed by Billboard anymore.

HUT should finish between the 250K and 300K range

HUT first listen insane this thing deserves 1m fw

long term probably be a bit off because there's seemingly a lack of hits

300-350k considering 5 months of collector edition pure physicals

150k streaming 150k-200k pure. if he only sells 100k pure with 5 months of preorders+ all the different versions that'd be weird

If this does ANYTHING less than 400k, it's a massive underperformance imo.

This is his first album in 3 years.
He's had physicals on pre-order for months.
It's his longest album yet.
He just got off a massive, successful stadium world tour.
He has the angle of it being his last album as the Weeknd working for him.
He had a massive promotional campaign for the album through Apple Vision Pro.

If he can't even manage 400k first week then some conversations need to be had.

The word of mouth for this album is doing very well as of right now, so it could finish higher than 300K.

I still think it does under 400K though. I can see it peaking out around 350K or 375K

you say 22 songs long like that’s not helping the numbers lol. you’re tryna cope already

It will help it, no doubt about that. But he’s never been a big first week streamer. I don’t think an additional 6 songs is making him go from 150K first week streaming on average to like 300K+