Offset Set It Off sells 70k first week

[JordanWearinThe45]

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Has to be due to good promo cause though I think it’s a cool album, were there any radio/charting songs at all?

 

[banner34]

Rap records sales are slowly dying. The rap game needs a new superstar very fast.

 

[Ziggiy]

Rap records sales are slowly dying. The rap game needs a new superstar very fast.

Drake just had the biggest first week of ANY album this year off of a terrible album.



Rap is like any other genre, there are superstars, stars, those with niche fanbases, and your underground heroes. Rap will never “die” its mainstream popularity ebbs and flows just like anything else.

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

More than I expected honestly

 

[Harry B]

Rap records sales are slowly dying. The rap game needs a new superstar very fast.

Sales dynamics are different.

It’s hard to sell 200k first week through streaming. But if your album is good or has bangers it can keep on selling for years. Look at Baby, his album from before Covid is still doing 20k per week

 

[Knucklehead]

Drake just had the biggest first week of ANY album this year off of a terrible album.



Rap is like any other genre, there are superstars, stars, those with niche fanbases, and your underground heroes. Rap will never “die” its mainstream popularity ebbs and flows just like anything else.

Drakes album is actually 4th this year but a huge week nonetheless.
Not sure where people get these narratives look at the top 200 albums it’s hip-hop everywhere.
Even the worldwide charts have a ton of hip-hop and music highly influenced by hip-hop. It’s by far the dominant genre of music.

 

[OJ Simpsom]

Impressive

 

[Piff Perkins]

Rap records sales are slowly dying. The rap game needs a new superstar very fast.

What is this based off?

70k without a hit record, will prob stick around on the charts for weeks. He’s good.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

His album is way better than Quavo's trash ass album he released a few yrs ago

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

Drake just had the biggest first week of ANY album this year off of a terrible album.



Rap is like any other genre, there are superstars, stars, those with niche fanbases, and your underground heroes. Rap will never “die” its mainstream popularity ebbs and flows just like anything else.

He's not wrong but neither are you

You can't judge rap sales off an album like drakes in the streaming era because he's such a mega artist people will stream it just to say they heard it and whether they liked it or not,it counts as a stream. Guys like Drake, Kendrick, and Cole are going to the casual and on the fence fan to check for them because they're this generations big 3.

None of these other rappers are getting the crossover or casual fan to check for them and that's why the numbers seem so low