So after a year of telling rappers they’re thinking Small, Hov is hiding 1st week sales numbers?

[Cladyclad]

So they blocked projections but can’t do anything to stop the official announcement

Ok y’all can’t say on one hand Jay is a powerless figure head but then say he has the power to block everyone else in the music industry numbers. Which one is it Nobody numbers are released yet btw

 

[CrimsonTider]

Ok y’all can’t say on one hand Jay is a powerless figure head but then say he has the power to block everyone else in the music industry numbers. Which one is it Nobody numbers are released yet btw

Who called him a powerless figurehead?

And every other artist has projections released

 

[Cladyclad]

Who called him a powerless figurehead?

And every other artist has projections released

And his intital Tidal exclusive numbers are released too tho. Jay has no control over apple or Spotify

 

[666 ReVeNGe 666]

Jay wants it to be one way but it's the other

 

[The Gimp]

He's been doing this type of shyt for over a decade now.

Jay's album sales been fugazi for a long time now

 

[March Madness]

#MoneyPhoneForever

 

[DontEemTry]

How exactly is he going to block apple and Spotify from reporting numbers ?

 

[Piff Perkins]

HDD projected 125-150k first week. Obviously it's hard to project because the album has limited availability on Spotify but even still this is ridulous. Even more pathetic when you consider the line on the album about "if I cared about streams I would have put lemonade on Spotify." Yea ok.

Hov and B are very controlling of their image. Any negative news is attacked. The tour is allegedly suffering from lower ticket sales than expected but you'll never hear Breakfast Club report that.

 

[Harry B]

Do you really think Hov cares about #s at this point? He wouldn't put 4:44 as exclusive and remove his whole discography from the biggest source of music consumption in Spotify, if that was the case. At least for this album they'll allow Spotify Premium.

The album was released on a non-standard day and exclusive, then allowed on some service, then remove, then only premium and on. Of course they couldn't produce an accurate forecast with that information. It's not even clear if Spotify will report numbers this week due to the exclusive thing.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Do you really think Hov cares about #s at this point? He wouldn't put 4:44 as exclusive and remove his whole discography from the biggest source of music consumption in Spotify, if that was the case. At least for this album they'll allow Spotify Premium.

The album was released on a non-standard day and exclusive, then allowed on some service, then remove, then only premium and on. Of course they couldn't produce an accurate forecast with that information. It's not even clear if Spotify will report numbers this week due to the exclusive thing.

Yes we think he cares about numbers like that because he’s pulled stunts on his last 3 releases

 

[Harry B]

Yes we think he cares about numbers like that because he’s pulled stunts on his last 3 releases

What stunt?
You can't stunt billboard #s, you can only stunt certifications (always have because they go by shipped numbers).
So is Samsung giving you 10 million bucks or whatever for you endorsing them, a stunt or good business . Everyone knows that Sprint and Samsung bought a million copies from him, that was the whole promotion. Those numbers are not reported to Billboard though.

If you care about #s you won't do exclusives on small ass Tidal, you do exclusives because it pays more than #s. Same shyt Kanye did, they were obviously not thinking about "oh what will CrimsonTider think about my sales now?" When our tour will do 200 million bucks, Sprint take 200 million buck positions in our company, us getting great reviews and people listening to our shyt, illegally or not.

Meaning that money is what you care about, not sales for some people on the coli. People forget how few people care about record sale numbers. Net worth is what people care about.

 

[Skip b]

Yes we think he cares about numbers like that because he’s pulled stunts on his last 3 releases

In addition to lying about his numbers

 

[Maude]

#new rules

 

[Zero]

Chatty patty thread with loser ass posters ready to hate

 

[Harry B]

#new rules

Dudes are slow, Jays whole thing with #Newrules was that the old ways of the record industry was dead but the labels didn't wanna adjust. That's why he left Def Jam.

In their stone age thinking they think that people that do exclusives on Tidal's most important thing in life is record sales. Or that Jay-z can stop companies worth 1000 times more than him from following the rules of the industry.
It's really impossible to know when people are dumb or trolling in the spot