Nas New Album Predicted To Sell 35k 1st Week

[Rivoli]

I forgot that this was an independent release.

 

[RoseWooD]

Thats why its best not to look too much into projections until Thursday or Friday because of all the weird factors that goes into what constitutes a “sale” nowadays. Nas has the album available on his own online store in both physical and digital, as you said he’s been number 1 on iTunes, Amazon, and Google since Saturday. He’s number 2 on Apple Music.


Also Nas has a history of outperforming initial sales projections. Life Is Good was projected to move 50K units and ended up at 100k more.

Yeah, I know. Predicted to do 200k for HHID but did 355k. I don't follow sales anymore because of what constitutes a "sale" now. But monitoring this for the first time in years, these charts are comical and mathematically impossible lmao. But I think KD will do about 70-75k and just fall short of #1

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Nas stans would be killing Hov if he had these numbers


Hov stans are much classier people in general

Hov hasn’t dropped a dope album like Kings Disease since The Blueprint

 

[DontEemTry]

Nas stans would be killing Hov if he had these numbers


Hov stans are much classier people in general

All I know is a Hov album thread has barely any mention of Nas, but a Nas album thread always has half the posts shytting on Hov.

shyts predictable.

 

[Ziggiy]

Yeah, I know. Predicted to do 200k for HHID but did 355k. I don't follow sales anymore because of what constitutes a "sale" now. But monitoring this for the first time in years, these charts are comical and mathematically impossible lmao. But I think KD will do about 70-75k and just fall short of #1

I think he’ll do more and get that number 1. Apparently youtube views count as well () and he just released the Ultra Black video which is already at over 100K views

 

[L. Deezy]

Sorry friend, but that was a Jay Electronica album. If you would like to see numbers from Jay Z’s last solo effort, please google “4:44”

Man, them bogus numbers. He hid his first week numbers by making it a Tidal exclusive and then bundled it free to Sprint and gave himself a plat plaque. His last numbers are 28g with Jay Elect. He jumped on it and got them numbers. Aint no excluding him..lol

 

[Cladyclad]

Man, them bogus numbers. He hid his first week numbers by making it a Tidal exclusive and then bundled it free to Sprint and gave himself a plat plaque. His last numbers are 28g with Jay Elect. He jumped on it and got them numbers. Aint no excluding him..lol

@mikishere
i try to stay out of shyt but this here is just a lie

But as therapeutic as the recording process of 4:44may have been, Jay still found a way to turn “my life into a nice first week release date.” Less than a week after its release, the album was RIAA-certified platinum due to Sprint’s purchase of 1 million advance downloads. Though none of the Sprint-purchased albums counted towards chart rankings, 4:44 still debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, earning 262,000 album-equivalent units; 174,000 units were in traditional sales.

so he gave away 1 million. Made it exclusive on tidal for a week

and still sold 262k week 2
Sold another 87k the following week

so just imagine what his first week would did without the free copies or exclusive to tidal

 

[L. Deezy]

@mikishere
i try to stay out of shyt but this here is just a lie

But as therapeutic as the recording process of 4:44may have been, Jay still found a way to turn “my life into a nice first week release date.” Less than a week after its release, the album was RIAA-certified platinum due to Sprint’s purchase of 1 million advance downloads. Though none of the Sprint-purchased albums counted towards chart rankings, 4:44 still debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, earning 262,000 album-equivalent units; 174,000 units were in traditional sales.

so he gave away 1 million. Made it exclusive on tidal for a week

and still sold 262k week 2
Sold another 87k the following week

so just imagine what his first week would did without the free copies or exclusive to tidal

He has had two releases since.. debunk them numbers too..Ill wait.

I dont respect the plat plaque for 4.44

 

[Cladyclad]

He has had two releases since.. debunk them numbers too..Ill wait.

I dont respect the plat plaque for 4.44

I don’t need to debunk nothing
He had a collab album since and it went gold within a 5 months . While it took nas 8 years to go gold with life is good. And besides collaboration don’t sell anything like solo albums. Being a nas stan u should know. DR would be Nas lowest selling album excluding this KD

 

[JordanWearinThe45]

Damn dassit?

 

[L. Deezy]

Damn dassit?

Legacy acts bruh..

Brandy only did 25k and look at her promotion and love she getting heading into Versuz.

adults aint streaming while working and caring for kids like that. lol

I bought the album, but stream it when I want to listen to it. Im not gonna just keep streaming back to back to back. I got other shyt to do

 

[Mike Wins]

Indy release from an artist almost 30 years in. Limited promo. Not in stores (physical copies only available through website and not shipping for weeks, this is a bigger thing for artists with older fanbases). Still looking at a top 5 debut. That's bad? Only hip hop artists in Nas' age bracket that'd do better are Jay, Dre and Em.

 

[L. Deezy]

Indy release from an artist almost 30 years in. Limited promo. Not in stores (physical copies only available through website and not shipping for weeks, this is a bigger thing for artists with older fanbases). Still looking at a top 5 debut. That's bad? Only hip hop artists in Nas' age bracket that'd do better are Jay, Dre and Em.

right. Snoop only sold 9000 first week last album.

I honestly dont know why Nas gets hate and Snoop don't. lol

Where is Nelly? Where are all these other acts that came in an ripped the sales charts up for a little stretch? they scared to drop a dud?

 

[prophecypro]

I dont care about the sales anymore I just hope people like it

Dude is still getting plaques from his old stuff so its all good

 

[pez]

Hov just did less than that this year with that collab album with Jay Electronica. fukk is u talkin bout?

What album?