They’ve earned their stripes

Lol nah you’re missing the discussion here.

I’m not saying comeback automatically means failure, that’s clearly not the case and there’s plenty of examples to pick from. I’m saying over saturation is not the problem it was when people had to buy CDs every time you dropped lol. Which is better between the two, idk.

As far as the comebacks go - C5 is not a great example lol. C5 was a specifically awaited album that had a lot of controversy, and the Carter series always sold more than Wayne’s other albums (IANAHB1 to C4 is a much bigger sales jump than IANAHB2 to C5).

You could easily point to another comeback commercial misfire with Relapse - Em took 4 years off and went from 1.5 million first 10 days to 600k first week. On the positive side of comeback albums, Adele comes back after 4 year gap and does 3.5 million first week.

Bro, I know you been in this thread non stop for a week so why you lying. Cole sold 288k fw and everyone yesterday was clowning Kendrick for 286.

It was weird. That's what I'm saying.

What are yall basing that off because people say the same about Drake and Ye but it really wouldn't flop like this

You do know that you can fact check your post by searching before you hit send, right? Cole sold 282K first week.

“UPDATE (May 21): The final numbers are in. Cole’s The Off-Season moved 288k copies in the first week (39k pure sales) while Nicki’s Beam Me Up Scotty did 79k (10k pure copies).“

Last year y’all f***ed up on the listener, Who the f*** backin her? All been falsified.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Off-Season#Commercial_performance

In the United States, the album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, earning 282,000 album-equivalent units (including 37,000 copies as pure album sales) in its first week

I see that with the Wikipedia but different sources saying 288k. Regardless, the people clowning Kendrick were rocking with the 288k number.

Of The Off-Season’s 282,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending May 20, SEA units comprise 243,000 (equaling 325.05 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks), album sales comprise 37,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week) and TEA units comprise 2,000.

billboard.com/pro/j-cole-the-off-season-billboard-200-chart-number-one

Tpab only by a little but as time goes on I can already tell ima have big steppers at the top of the list.

All I’m seeing on this page is more Kendricks Ws.

Shut up.

I see that, doesn’t change that people in this thread were rocking with the 288k number, so I guess it’s a double L then for them

OP back in the thread after seeing Zack From The Six getting his ass beat

This the most validation for cole after dropping heavens ep lol

Lmao that was just what Fantano said. But not in a negative way was just joking

I thought Kendrick had it like that I guess not

At least don’t act like I’m crazy @Zackbrah

You are proving what people have been saying lol this thread is nothing more than you hating on other rappers