Polo G #1, 1st week sales @ 145k and Migos #2, 1st week sales 138k

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Look up my thread history. He’s the new J Cole and Nas

I listen to piano g… and j Cole or nas he is not

 

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to Polo G's label for staging that arrest and getting them numbers up

Super Facts

 

[hex]

Oh well yeah that explains it then…other genres have fans buying physical vinyl copies as hipster novelty collectors items…my guess is that random underground rap groups with a bunch of fans into to that type of shyt (I’m gonna throw RTJ out there without having no idea what their actual numbers are) probably have higher percentage of physical sales than most other rap acts too

yeah …the vinyl thing to me is some niche collector, hobbyist type thing…not necessarily about the consumption of music…like a person that buys the vinyl of some album still listens to the music more often than not streamed off their phone…while the vinyl sits on a shelf somewhere collecting dust until they pull it out to try to impress company maybe a couple times a year…

The whole hipster/underground rap/take-the-vinyl-out-once-a-year-to-show-off thing doesn't really make sense when Harry Styles did 232k in vinyl (from a 2x plat album) and Billie Ellish did 196k (off a 4x plat album) in vinyl.
That's more than most artists do first week these days. Hell, that's more than some artists do, total.

Lil Baby’s ‘My Turn’ Is MRC Data’s Top Album of 2020, Roddy Ricch’s ‘The Box’ Most-Streamed Song

Vinyl LP sales accounted for over a quarter of all album sales in 2020 – 26.9% (27.54 million of 102.4 million). Incredibly, vinyl LP sales comprised 40.5% of all physical albums sold in the U.S. in 2020 (27.54 million of 68.01 million). Both sums represent MRC Data-era records for vinyl’s share of the album sales market.

Vinyl is niche compared to streaming.....but not nearly as niche as you're making it out to be. Everyone from Wal-Mart to Kohls sells vinyl and record players now.

Fred.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

The whole hipster/underground rap/take-the-vinyl-out-once-a-year-to-show-off thing doesn't really make sense when Harry Styles did 232k in vinyl (from a 2x plat album) and Billie Ellish did 196k (off a 4x plat album) in vinyl.
That's more than most artists do first week these days. Hell, that's more than some artists do, total.

Lil Baby’s ‘My Turn’ Is MRC Data’s Top Album of 2020, Roddy Ricch’s ‘The Box’ Most-Streamed Song



Vinyl is niche compared to streaming.....but not nearly as niche as you're making it out to be. Everyone from Wal-Mart to Kohls sells vinyl and record players now.

Fred.

I mean, do you think people are installing record players in their cars and spinning vinyls in the gym and shyt? That’s cool that popstars have a bunch of hipster fans that like to collect ironic nostalgic media forms and all that good shyt…but to the original point, do you really think it’s odd that there ain’t hundreds of thousands of people buying a fukking Migos album on vinyl? Whatever cultural trend or gimmick that is making Harry Styles fans buy physical versions of music antiquated by like 50 years, doesn’t extend to mainstream hip hop in 2021…I don’t think that’s the odd part

 

[hex]

I mean, do you think people are installing record players in their cars and spinning vinyls in the gym and shyt? That’s cool that popstars have a bunch of hipster fans that like to collect ironic nostalgic media forms and all that good shyt…but to the original point, do you really think it’s odd that there ain’t hundreds of thousands of people buying a fukking Migos album on vinyl?

Cars? No of course not.
Do you live in your car though?

Do people not have houses? Do people not consume music in a lot of different ways?

And I never said anything about Migos. But if we're talking about rap....K Dot did 117k on vinyl in 2020, from the same article I linked.
You seriously believe 100k+ people are copping albums solely to let it collect dust and impress strangers?

You think record player sales growing exponentially in the last 10 years....isn't related to people actually playing these albums?

I don't get why you can't wrap your mind around all of this going on, totally independent of your own personal experiences.

I don't personally know anyone with a record player either, but the world doesn't begin or end with me or you.

Fred.

 

[staticshock]

Only reason I know who polo g is is because of that song he has on 2K 21. Never heard any of his music outside of that


But I’m 33. I’m probably not his targeted audience

 

[Wacky D]

Migos are oldheads

Bu bu but "theyre 30. They're young, they're the new generation."

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Cars? No of course not.
Do you live in your car though?

Do people not have houses? Do people not consume music in a lot of different ways?

And I never said anything about Migos. But if we're talking about rap....K Dot did 117k on vinyl in 2020, from the same article I linked.
You seriously believe 100k+ people are copping albums solely to let it collect dust and impress strangers?

You think record player sales growing exponentially in the last 10 years....isn't related to people actually playing these albums?

I don't get why you can't wrap your mind around all of this going on, totally independent of your own personal experiences.

I don't personally know anyone with a record player either, but the world doesn't begin or end with me or you.

Fred.

….you’re the one that came in here pretending to be confused and befuddled… You don’t know a soul with a record player, fully understand that streaming is far and away the predominant way music is consumed….but you find it odd that rap artists don’t arbitrarily have large numbers of physical sales, despite physical media in music essentially being completely dead and only exists as is by some arbitrary retro trend that doesn’t reflect how people actually listen to music

i’m saying the rap streaming sales are NOT the odd part…it makes perfect sense…

People buying antiquated dead media forms decades after its peak, is absolutely more odd…and performative trendy hipster posturing definitely plays a part in it

 

[hex]

….you’re the one that came in here pretending to be confused and befuddled… You don’t know a soul with a record player, fully understand that streaming is far and away the predominant way music is consumed….but you find it odd that rap artists don’t arbitrarily have large numbers of physical sales, despite physical media in music essentially being completely dead and only exists as is by some arbitrary retro trend that doesn’t reflect how people actually listen to music

i’m saying the rap sales are NOT the odd part…it makes perfect sense…

I don't know a single soul with a record player....streaming is the predominant way music is consumed....physical media is "completely dead and only exists as an arbitrary retro trend" in your words....yet other genres can do 200k physical sales no problem.

Rap IS the odd part because everything you said only pertains to rap. Not getting why this is so confusing.

"200k hipster Harry Styles fans went to Target to cop a record player and his LP to stunt on some retro shyt on IG"....no, other genres just care about owning the music more than rap fans. For whatever reason.

Fred.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

I don't know a single soul with a record player....streaming is the predominant way music is consumed....physical media is "completely dead and only exists as an arbitrary retro trend" in your words....yet other genres can do 200k physical sales no problem.

Rap IS the odd part because everything you said only pertains to rap. Not getting why this is so confusing.

"200k hipster Harry Styles fans went to Target to cop a record player and his LP to stunt on some retro shyt on IG"....no, other genres just care about owning the music more than rap fans. For whatever reason.

Fred.

vinyl has been dead for literally decades, two or three generations of music technology separate it from its peak…has seen a resurgence in recent years for certain acts…not because of some random retro trend that makes zero sense in any other context…but because non rap fans have randomly decided to take a stance on “owning music” in the form of 50 year old dead technology that is both more cumbersome to listen to and sonically inferior …gotcha