so for all the drake hype, he has only sold 5 million albums worldwide?
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Cabbage Patch
The Media scene in V is for Vendetta is the clue
What's more garbage about that statement is adding Pitbull into the conversation. Pitbull really is an internationally known artist, but his output is crap. Might as well say "Ha ha ha Drake only sold X and nobody knows him outside the US .. but look at Pitbull, that's real hip hop, he's the man, everybody knows him!"
Focusing on sales alone is a sucker's game.
Teko
All Star
The numbers given by the OP are incorrect for the most part but its true that worldwide numbers arent that great relative to America for most acts that arent straight pop like Rihanna. In most big markets outside the US, like Canada, UK, Japan, Australia, selling 100,000 units is a big success. For rap, u can add the Netherlands and France but we are talking about a 60k market at best concentrated in the big cities. 50k first week in the UK is a good week. LA alone is alone is a bigger market than the UK. The money is in touring where people turn up in a big way and pay a lot of money to see the artists.
The_King_of_Everything
Yeah.
Pretty sure he just toured Europe and played in arenas.. he played o2 arena with a capacity of 20k....
Make blanket statements with no factual evidence to back them up lol
osama bin fly
al shabab
even you don't believe that
1) Drake has sold more than 5 million albums worldwide. In the US TML sold 1.7 million, Take care has sold 2.1 million, and Nothing was the same is already past 1.5 million. That is 5.3 million from just the USA alone
2) Drake does sell internationally. "Nothing was the same" Debuted in the top 5 in the US, Canada, Denmark, Australia, UK, Ireland, New Zealand. Also reached the top 10 in the Netherlands and Sweden.
http://m.acharts.us/album/80378
3) People that are "Not a worldwide phenom" do not do an 18 stop tour through Europe at massive arenas in 2012
http://www.rap-up.com/2011/12/13/drake-announces-club-paradise-tour-dates/
Then go again 2 years later in 2014 for 23 more shows
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Would_You_like_a_Tour?
Doing 6 massive stadium shows back-to-back in England alone, 3 of which were in London and sold 50,000 tickets between them, completely sold out
11 Drake, The Weeknd O2 Arena London, U.K. March 24-26, 2014 $4,272,630 50,832 / 50,832 3 / 3 $164.84, $74.18 Live Nation
4) While 7 million total WW may not seem like a lot, what other rapper not named Eminem comes even close 2010-2014?
Kanye would be closest with about 4 million, Jay Z and wayne behind him with about 3 million each. So being that it is a horrible sales climate, drake is well above everybody else
2) Drake does sell internationally. "Nothing was the same" Debuted in the top 5 in the US, Canada, Denmark, Australia, UK, Ireland, New Zealand. Also reached the top 10 in the Netherlands and Sweden.
http://m.acharts.us/album/80378
3) People that are "Not a worldwide phenom" do not do an 18 stop tour through Europe at massive arenas in 2012
http://www.rap-up.com/2011/12/13/drake-announces-club-paradise-tour-dates/
Then go again 2 years later in 2014 for 23 more shows
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Would_You_like_a_Tour?
Doing 6 massive stadium shows back-to-back in England alone, 3 of which were in London and sold 50,000 tickets between them, completely sold out
11 Drake, The Weeknd O2 Arena London, U.K. March 24-26, 2014 $4,272,630 50,832 / 50,832 3 / 3 $164.84, $74.18 Live Nation
4) While 7 million total WW may not seem like a lot, what other rapper not named Eminem comes even close 2010-2014?
Kanye would be closest with about 4 million, Jay Z and wayne behind him with about 3 million each. So being that it is a horrible sales climate, drake is well above everybody else
End Cruelty
Yuffie butter!
This nikka said ONLY 5 million. He invented the piano necktie. What you ever done? Nothing!
kingdizzy01
ATXBBOY
Bondye Vodou
Proud practitioner of the "High Science"
Drake is a b*tch....but all dem nikkaz u listed been out longer than Drake & was releasing albums before the internet fked up album sales.
Drake has sold over 5 million albums worldwide. according to nydaily news.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_(rapper) third paragraph
the way ya'll talk bout this yellowest of nikkaz you would think he doing 50 Cent 2003/2005 numbers. 3 albums, constant songs in circulation, rihanna celelbrity relationship etc. this nikka stuck at 5 million albums.
i give him props for his tour money though, $42 million
eminem-100 million albums wordwide
2pac-75 million albums
jay z-50 million albums
50 cent-30 million albums
nelly-30 million albums
outkast-20million albums
biggie-30 million albums
snoop-25 million albums
dr dre-20 million albums
I know chiks from Finland and Iceland who go back and forth to the staes, all 3 said Drake is huge in both countries. People know who he is bruh
2manyFCKNrappers
mentally i measure kilos
That's a million albums a year on average since he's been in the game.
The Devil's Advocate
Call me Dad
funny thing is most of y'all are arguing are wrong.... being top worldwide ain't shyt.. cause nothing sells worldwide like it does in america...
GRODT didn't go diamond in the states... none of 50's albums did... when he says it sold 11 million, he means worldwide.. which they only count diamond and other sales as US for plaques... but it did sell 9 million in the US... so in our country the shyt sells 9 million... in the combined entire rest of the world, it only sold another 2 million..
look at thriller... sold 29 million in the states.. the next closest country was the UK with 4 milliion...
look at those ratios... so you can believe if you going gold over here.. most likely you're a nobody across the world... and if you doing plat and double plat here.. you might be selling 500k worldwide
the mistake the TS made was... you forget single sales, features and being tied to 2-3 other multiplatinum stars in baby, wayne and nicki.... and now rihanna. they might not buy his music.. but they damn sure know who is he and come to the shows to see him
which brings me to something else... ny to la is far.. but it's all the US... take that same distance in europe and you just flew over 40 different countries
so when you have a tour like that.. and all i have to do is hop on a train for 3 hours and see an artist who might not be around again for 3 years....... it's a little different then me being in dc and he gonna be in ny, pa, nj, dc, va and nc all in the same week, and i know it'll be 10 more like this next year where i can see him
which is why international tours are always in stadiums and sell out quick and artists make more money
GRODT didn't go diamond in the states... none of 50's albums did... when he says it sold 11 million, he means worldwide.. which they only count diamond and other sales as US for plaques... but it did sell 9 million in the US... so in our country the shyt sells 9 million... in the combined entire rest of the world, it only sold another 2 million..
look at thriller... sold 29 million in the states.. the next closest country was the UK with 4 milliion...
look at those ratios... so you can believe if you going gold over here.. most likely you're a nobody across the world... and if you doing plat and double plat here.. you might be selling 500k worldwide
the mistake the TS made was... you forget single sales, features and being tied to 2-3 other multiplatinum stars in baby, wayne and nicki.... and now rihanna. they might not buy his music.. but they damn sure know who is he and come to the shows to see him
which brings me to something else... ny to la is far.. but it's all the US... take that same distance in europe and you just flew over 40 different countries
so when you have a tour like that.. and all i have to do is hop on a train for 3 hours and see an artist who might not be around again for 3 years....... it's a little different then me being in dc and he gonna be in ny, pa, nj, dc, va and nc all in the same week, and i know it'll be 10 more like this next year where i can see him
which is why international tours are always in stadiums and sell out quick and artists make more money
thats just terrible.....lmao
