SALES PREDICTIONS: Katy Perry 300K and Dj Khaled 20K

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It's unfair to compare Katy's Teenage Dream numbers to Drake's Take Care numbers. For starters, Katy's label worked that album for 2 YEARS. It had a plethora of hit singles, a re-release, and then a documentary.

That's the main difference between Pop and Hip Hop releases. Pop thrives off multiple hit singles. There are exceptions, but in this climate, they have to have multiple Top 10 hits in order to sell. The most historic sales drops don't come from Hip Hop, but Pop.
 

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It's unfair to compare Katy's Teenage Dream numbers to Drake's Take Care numbers. For starters, Katy's label worked that album for 2 YEARS. It had a plethora of hit singles, a re-release, and then a documentary.

That's the main difference between Pop and Hip Hop releases. Pop thrives off multiple hit singles. There are exceptions, but in this climate, they have to have multiple Top 10 hits in order to sell. The most historic sales drops don't come from Hip Hop, but Pop.

drake had 4 top 15 singles off TC....the difference in the 2 is the buying tendencies of consumers from genre to genre
 

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Like previously discussed. Pop stars don't have crazy first week numbers, but they have longevity. I mentioned previously how, as big as Beyonce is, she's never sold more than 550K first week, that's damn near the baseline for the bigger hiphop acts (Kanye, Wayne when he was hit, Drake, Jay, 50 when he was hot, Em). Katy Perry only did 190k first week in her last album and she went on to go triple plat while somebody like Drake will sell 650k first week and just barely hit double plat.

As a matter of fact Imagine Dragons did Big Sean numbers their first week and still went plat and IIRC Adele didnt have crazy 1st week numbers and her shyt might be diamond at this point


Wayne is still hot c5 doing another milly

Yeezy last album flopped so dont discredit Wayne and not Kanye
 
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