1 year and 6 months post-release on the Billboard 200:

GNX: #89

For All The Dogs: #93

Why was For All The Dogs lower on the chart than GNX 1.5 years after release?

A lot of those songs did make an impact. Migos would’ve been big regardless. But Kendrick was never known as that guy. DAMN’s intro was literally pushing away from that

So given Taylor Swift sold 4M first week with the Life of a Showgirl, about 10x as many sales as Iceman, surely all Drake fans can agree that album is about 10x better than Iceman, right? Since it’s the only metric that matters

i mean it should be something to brag about
people dont get excited for drake releases like that anymore
theyre just like "okay dope cant wait to hear it"

i wanna say the last one people were excited for was maybe clb

iceman had a pretty shaky rollout until recently so i gotta give drake that

kendrick has big moments that often leave indents in hiphop and I feel thats undeniable
whether that upsets you for whatever reason has nothing to do with me lol

Oh nah i would never say kendrick is a stimulus guy like that
baby keem is all i can give him and thats really different than just a rap feature stimulus

Who’s “people”. You’re in the sales thread. We have the numbers to know who people actually want to listen to and who has flash in the pan moments. Kendrick creating moments just for people to stop listening after is a negative. You pretending it’s something worth bragging about is embarrassing

Are you really trying to act like 89 vs 93 is some substantial difference? that s*** is in the noise dawg

Y’all were the same ones acting like 87 and 89 was a substantial difference last week

Yes, the guy with the longest-charting rap album of all-time and the only Double Diamond rap song of all-time creates “flash in the pan moments”

If anyone creates flash in the pan moments, isn’t it the guy who has to drop music every 12 months to remind us he’s still here?

Also no Kendrick fan ever called it the “dot era” that came from akademiks

Why are you in the sales thread if it doesn’t matter?

Dot era came and went so fast Kendrick fans are now running away from it

What is Iceman’s message? Not just one song but the whole album? Don’t say the beef is the message, this album has been promoted for. Year

Let’s laugh after the first month

The message is he’s the king and none of your hatred can stop his dominance. Read it and weep

We don’t have to wait. It’s just back to business as usual

Yeah but it was proven that none of that matter. MJ and Prince rarely charted and they are legends

weren't you niggas arguing about kendrick botting streams?

why are you suddenly spearheading this angle that numbers = listener authenticity? only when it's Drake right?

MJ is charting rn. ik your savior tried to pull a fast one with “Prince outlived Mike Jack” but they’re not on the same level

You’re in here more than me lol. You obviously care about numbers

Jesus made an album? You really think MJ and Drake are comparable

Thriller’s been charting. Omg no way you bought into Kendrick’s bs about MJ