yes we all agreed on that by now

like on 4 pages

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What is the point you're trying to make with the insistence that it was a surprise album? That it serves as a caveat and the sales expectations should be lowered?

Again, no you didn’t if you’re legit still arguing against it

we're not u just love to correct people

No, but surprise albums always sell a little less than an album that actually gets rolled out

Says the one who’s been trying to correct me for the past 30 minutes

like clockwork man

You can’t say “like clockwork” if you’re one of two people engaging in this two-sided conversation

as much as this guy likes to argue he's right this instance tbh

thank u mr corrector 🫡

I don’t even like to argue I swear niggas just find a problem with literally anything I say on here, I could say the sky is blue and they’d respond to tell me why it’s not

Thank you Mr. Continue the Argument and Complain About It 🫡

anyways..

someone rlly should have told kendrick's team that surprise albums sell less

would have been good info

I guess there are levels to 'surprises' and 'rollouts' then. A surprise album that comes after years of silence (no music releases, interviews, etc.) from an artist is different from a surprise album that comes after beef victory / #1 single / print interview / music video / Super Bowl announcement

I would not have lowered my expectations for Kendrick's album sales coming off his 2024 just because he hadn't told us explicitly that he had an album about to drop

I know what I said. And I still feel this way. I felt that way in 2024 after the beef when he didn’t reply to HP6. It was all smart marketing/strategy.

But even if he did go the route of your example, while the timing would be a surprise, there’s no way that Kendrick Lamar dropping an album less than a year removed from the beef should be a “surprise” or that it had no promotion. GNX definitely had promo. It was just indirect and probably one of the best marketing campaigns/strategies I’ve ever seen.

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What I'm saying is that GNX, along with every other surprise album in the history of music, would've sold a little more first week if it was announced and rolled out beforehand

It didn't have promo, if it had promo the internet wouldn't have blown up when it released

drake

It did have promo (indirectly). And that’s why the internet blew up when it was released.

imagine more promo tho