HDD: Drake's "Views" First Week Sales Projection (800-850k, 950k-1 MILLION SPS)

[LieutenantDan]

Saturday, April 30, 2016

NEW RELEASES: RETAIL VIEWS

Just yesterday, Columbia’s Beyoncé became only the second artist to have album streams over 100m in a single week. Justin Bieber’s Purpose was the only previous album to have that distinction. This week, Drake’s Views looks likely to shatter, and maybe even double, Lemonade’s first-week stream count. Here’s what we’re projecting as of this morning.

Drake (YMCMB/Republic) 800-850k album, 950-1m SPS
Now 57 (NOW) 37-42k
Rob Zombie (UMe) 34-39k, 35-40k

HITS Daily Double : Rumor Mill - NEW RELEASES: RETAIL VIEWS

 

[OfTheCross]

HITS Daily Double : Rumor Mill - NEW RELEASES: RETAIL VIEWS

So 1M - 730K = 270K actual listens to the album. That's not counting Hotline Bling being thrown in there...

With about 5 hours to go until Drake debuts his new album VIEWS on OVO Sound Radio, it looks like he’ll be smashing his previous first week sales record. Under the new RIAA regulations, which count 1,500 on demand audio/video streams as 1 album sale, VIEWS is already sitting well above Gold and on its way to Platinum status. As his recent releases “Pop Style” & “One Dance” have already accumulated 80 million Spotify streams, & “Hotline Bling” pulling in a massive 1,100,000,000 combined audio & video streams, VIEWS has tallied about 750K in sales..before its release.

1,500 audio/video streams = 10 track sales = 1 album sale

Pop Style + One Dance = 80,000,000 streams = 53,333 sales

Hotline Bling = 1,100,000,000 streams = 733,335 sales

If you’re interested in reading up on the RIAA’s new regulations, head over to their website here.
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'VIEWS' is already approaching Platinum status | Rap Favorites

 

[paidNfull]

this is what happens when u let wh___ people run our culture...hes basically a culture vulture... this cd have no reason selling this much and be celebrated the way it is...this ain't hip hop...this shyt is soft and trash

 

[45123]

Didn't think a rapper would ever go plat first week again

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

Still didn't check it, reviews I read on this site were pretty bad.
I'm on that Asap Ferg CD right now.... about done it after 2 weeks of it...

Worth checking that Drake CD?
I've never listened to any Drake album before though, so I have no idea how it would be
Am I missing something?

 

[BK The Great]

sales ruined hip hop. end of discussion. now everyone gonna use this as a way to say his music is great.

 

[BK The Great]

this is what happens when u let wh___ people run our culture...hes basically a culture vulture... this cd have no reason selling this much and be celebrated the way it is...this ain't hip hop...this shyt is soft and trash

not even white people, it's the big wig corporations like Apple who don't even know what hip hop should sound like. hip hop as we know it is finished. it's crossed over to something else.

 

[Rigamortus]

How much did it actually sell not including streams?

 

[tremonthustler1]

this is what happens when u let wh___ people run our culture...hes basically a culture vulture... this cd have no reason selling this much and be celebrated the way it is...this ain't hip hop...this shyt is soft and trash

Feelings

 

[LieutenantDan]

How much did it actually sell not including streams?

800-850k

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

Amazing feat in the new era. Quality is subjective. Numbers are not.

 

[Rigamortus]

800-850k

 

[TransJenner]

this is what happens when u let wh___ people run our culture...hes basically a culture vulture... this cd have no reason selling this much and be celebrated the way it is...this ain't hip hop...this shyt is soft and trash

Does that mean Barack is wh___ too ?

 

[Saiyajin]

So 1M - 730K = 270K actual listens to the album. That's not counting Hotline Bling being thrown in there...

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'VIEWS' is already approaching Platinum status | Rap Favorites

and he's not doing a physical release so no way of differentiating the sales from the streams, he wants to mislead the world into thinking he can drop an album same week as Beyonce and go plat

 

[Illuminatos]

this is what happens when u let wh___ people run our culture...hes basically a culture vulture... this cd have no reason selling this much and be celebrated the way it is...this ain't hip hop...this shyt is soft and trash