I thought they were brought back?

If this is true i’m not expecting the $$$4U to do big numbers at all

A more interesting question: are there musical similarities across every lead single to an 800k+ first week selling album?

By genre ofc

Selling physical copies =/= selling bundles

It’s so nasty how the term “bundles” has been configured into meaning “anything that’s not streaming”

He selling standalone singles right? Then it’s just singles sales lol

i thought billboard banned bundles anyway?

Oh so now # of tracks doesn't matter? Lmao

Nothing new from HUT is in the top 10 of US Top 200 Daily after only 5 days, i can't remember the last time i saw this happen to a big artist

Even HNVM had 2 (Sticky at #9, Jimmy Cooks at #2)

the album has been highly praised by both critics and fans, so I don’t understand why it’s underperforming

I guess he’s just falling off now. he needs to figure out why this is happening

in which era

pre or post streaming

Some Weeknd stans would rather post tour stats than address this lmao. I was told word of mouth would help the album's streaming performance but that doesn't seem to be the case.

That Sabrina Carpenter album is so good, glad it’s still pushing

pretty much any time i look at his spotify page it's either #1, #2 or #3 in the world . saying that he's falling off or isn't a megastar is absurd dude

it's harder than ever to get high record sales and they rlly shouldn't b the sole way u determine whether an artist is popular or not .. some of u guys r way too twitter-brained

the only ppl still nailing it r pop girlies bcuz their fans go out of the way to make sure their numbers r high so they can win arguments online

weirdest thing to me is how he didn't get a truly inescapable megahit off of this or dawn.fm , but i don't rlly think that's what he's going for anyway

it’s almost like at this point it’s impossible for them to realize Weeknd is a slow burn artist, but that slow burn happens at a massive clip

that doesn’t automatically mean he’s fallen off. It deadass just means there’s a lot of new music and everyone not named the anomaly Taylor Swift is struggling to put up the numbers of yesteryear, even Drake

You're really really slow, you shouldn't be itt

One Of The Girls still getting 3 million streams daily. He had nonstop hits this whole decade if we're being real lol

You're right, just because his last 2 albums aren't instantly hitting with the mainstream doesn't mean he fell off. Blinding Lights was a flop on KTT2 too first btw

Yeah he's always gonna be big worldwide just like Ed Sheeran who's also like top 5 int he world. Yet their albums underperform in the US more and more every year

Bruh Timeless is about to cross 600m in 4 months, like what are we discussing rn man

This thread is so f***ing funny

The agenda to minimize Weeknd, Travis and Kendrick has definitely been a long effort lmfao

I can't take anything TGD says seriously after this post when HNVM dropped

S*** is so OD corny I can't believe a real human thinks this way about music

album didn’t hit for me on first listen and now it’s my most listened to Weeknd album

yea I’m good on discussion with shorty lmfao. she already showed me that in our discussion about HER favorite artist and I was more privy to the correct details. Crazy

lol, it’s funny how y’all get so mad whenever someone accurately points out that his recent albums aren’t doing great in the US

reality can be hard to accept sometimes

Theres no pattern tbh. The lead could flop and the album still do well or vv.