Lil Nas X album set to be outsold by CLB's week 3 numbers

[BK The Great]

150K is not a low number.

There’s only 15 or so hip hop artists that can sell over 100K first week in this era.

It’s not but the way he’s promoted everywhere he should be pulling bigger numbers. It’s low for what he should be getting.

 

[Brer Dog]

he released a music video for every song on the album when it dropped.

Only one song got an actual music video so far. The rest are just visualizers.

 

[CrimsonTider]

It’s a flop but his label and management will stream farm the numbers to make it look like he’s a successful artist. His Breakfast Club interview didn’t do the numbers they expected either

How is this a flop?

Who was expecting Nas X to sell a lot?

this thread proves that people can’t understand what they consume on the internet is a bubble

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

How is this a flop?

Who was expecting Nas X to sell a lot?

this thread proves that people can’t understand what they consume on the internet is a bubble

They’ve put upwards of 10 million into his marketing, and that’s probably low end. They expected him to pop and he didn’t.

 

[DaHNIC82]

It’s not but the way he’s promoted everywhere he should be pulling bigger numbers. It’s low for what he should be getting.

10 million followers and did a 150k.

 

[BK The Great]

10 million followers and did a 150k.

That’s what’s I’m saying. He flopped.

 

[BK The Great]

Hes going platinum trust! Hes here to stay.

Yea he will eventually go platinum, but he still flopped first week sales.

 

[Po pimp]

Outsold the real Nas

Nas is an independent artist now whose album dropped less than two weeks after its announcement with very little promo or mainstream coverage. Nas dropped his debut album 27 years ago.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Based on how much I’ve seen and heard from him, I figured he’d do Carter 3 numbers first week

 

[Po pimp]

150k sales is piss poor for a country artist with his reach. Also, his fans don’t just consist of the LGBT, but also the white liberals and blavity blacks.

 

[Rembrandt]

No way his team is happy with only 150k

Yeah, I doubt they're over the moon with these sales but then again, he didn't flop like lil boat did with sub 50k first week.

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[tremonthustler1]

That’s a flop on his standards being promoted all over the place. He should be doing 300-400k.

So you’re saying he should be doing bigger numbers than Taylor Swift?

Olivia Rodrigo is bigger than Lil Nas X and she did 230K, but the reason why she’s bigger is because she constantly keeps selling after the first week. That might be the case again with him, but the Booth and their first weeks, man.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Nas is an independent artist now whose album dropped less than two weeks after its announcement with very little promo or mainstream coverage. Nas dropped his debut album 27 years ago.

Using the logic in this thread, the way everyone’s been slurping King’s Disease II, you’d think he’d last longer than THREE WEEKS on the Billboard 200.


Being a lightning rod for discussion doesn’t necessarily lead to sales. Visibility alone doesn’t lead to the first week being insane. Only hip-hop fans place crazy importance on week 1. Meanwhile the top 20-30 mostly has albums that have crazy legs.

 

[BK The Great]

So you’re saying he should be doing bigger numbers than Taylor Swift?

Olivia Rodrigo is bigger than Lil Nas X and she did 230K, but the reason why she’s bigger is because she constantly keeps selling after the first week. That might be the case again with him, but the Booth and their first weeks, man.

Well the amount of promotion these labels paying he should be selling a lot more. I don’t care about sales but these are the facts. His following don’t really care of his music. If he keeps this up he will be a fad.