Drake 'Honestly, Nevermind' on pace to sell 210K first week.
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Saysumthinfunnymike
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Toe Jay Simpson
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That no rollout stuff dont apply no more. If a nikka want a whole stereo system he can get it without leaving his house the very next day. Once its out if people want it they’re going to get it within 7 days. You sell according to peoples interest level
Piff Perkins
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I’ll wait for final numbers. If this comes in under 295k I propose a ban for every Drake stan who refuses to call it an L. I ate that L with Kendrick’s numbers, y’all better do the same for your not if it turns out the boy from Compton is outselling him now…
if everyone's smart they'll wait on the final number.
Why even wait? This whole thing is goofy as fukk. Y'all literally arguing over which album these people bought.
Why do you care? Seriously? Why let the average American's decisions on music matter at all?
Saysumthinfunnymike
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Saysumthinfunnymike
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Well to some it might be but 
I’m telling ya’ll its not about Drake Vs Kendrick.
Drake’s flop doesn’t reflect on Kendrick and Kendrick not reaching Damn levels of sales doesn’t reflect upon Drake. Neither are W’s for the other.
Their in two different lanes. We been trying to force them to be different sides of the same coin because fans desperately want this generation’s Nas Vs Jay-Z and its NOT going to happen. These dudes don’t give two fukks about one another beyond 2017. They’re running completely different races.
And taking that out of the equation I STILL think the biggest losers in all of this are the artists themselves; and i’m talking ALL popular artists. The fact that streaming sales are set up the way they are is disgusting and a disservice to everyone involved. There’s no WAY that Cole, Drake, Kanye, & Kendrick are literally setting new records for first day streams, midweek streams, weekend streams, etc. Doing like 140 gazillion streams their first week and that only equals 250-300K. That shyt makes NO SENSE whatsoever and just feels like another way for labels to make money hand over fist while claiming that the biggest artists aren’t hitting “sales projections” and denying them leverage in future negotiations.
Piff Perkins
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Interesting point but I kinda disagree. In both cases there were odd or abrupt releases with no traditional promo (interviews, singles, etc) and no physical copies. Both artists controlled how they wanted to drop, and both clearly didn’t care about running up first week numbers. Drake is on a new, extremely favorable record contract and Kendrick is likely shooting for an extension or new one. Yet both approached this the same, refusing to use their leverage. Why?
Also technically the streaming era has been very favorable for artists outside of first week numbers. Both these albums could very easily still be doing 20k sales a week 8-9 months from now. Contract negotiations will look at total numbers more than first weeks. And having multiple projects that stream well a year plus after release>>>selling an extra 50-100k first week by doing an interview with Oprah and having physicals ready first week. GKMC, DAMN, CLB, Scorpion etc are still on the Billboard 200 chart.
My other post was moreso about the Drake stans here who need to face the music. Y’all said lowering projections meant people don’t fukk with the album. Let’s see where we are in 6 days…