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Nah illmatic didn't go plat till like 03 or 04Sales used to not matter until 50 Cent made it a measuring stick
And I don't need sales to tell me it's
Sales don't mean **** to me
Only the music
Ghostface fishscale should be quadruple platinum
But it ain't
Doesn't deminish how dope it is
Nah Im all for the new RIAA rules and it has nothing to do with drake. Top Dawg from TDE was wrong and silly and misguided for saying that plaque thing IMO
You cant equate old school ways of counting record sales with today's climate
The way ppl consume music has drastically changed and album sales should reflect that.
Like...I didnt think it was fair that for 5 bucks a month you could stream any artist's album that you wanted, an infinite amount of times, and it not count for anything in regards to the artist. That makes no sense to me.
With how prevalent streaming sites are, there's no incentive for a consumer to go out and spend 50 dollars on 5 albums when for 10 dollars a month they can listen to whoever they want. Therefore, you had ppl listening and streaming albums 100s of times and the RIAA didnt reflect that. Now they do
Im all for it
Yeah just like how people say a label bought so and so's project to up its salesWhat about all the groupies and fanboys that play albums on repeat all day long to add to the stream? Including youtube videos and songs. Why add that? I understand that the climate has changed. I'm the old man still going to the store and buying CDs when I like them but they gotta come up with a different award. Dumb as **** to have an album that sold 70K and certify it gold because it was streamed and had three singles that sold 150K each. I don't agree with that. Tyga got an album that was certified double or triple platinum and his album didn't even scan 500K. That's dumb.
50 wasn't the first rapper to talk about sales. Mad rappers had talked about it before him. Pac, Jay, Big, Master P and so on.
Sales used to not matter until 50 Cent made it a measuring stick
Nah I just think they alstarted paying attention more to the money aspect of salesSales used to not matter until 50 Cent made it a measuring stick
and that's when the entire rap game went to crap, people stopped caring about quality and cared about perception and sales when it never really mattered.
Y'all think he could do a milli first week? With the reception of these singles I'm not so sure anymore.
I'm guessing 800k first week
Nah I just think they alstarted paying attention more to the money aspect of sales
Churning out stuff faster and quicker for a flip
Which resulted in lower quality
Man if you don't stop talking CRAZY! Drake pushing 2 Million? Now he's Adele and Nsync? Hahahahhahahabsolutely, what now one here factored in is that drake hit over 500k first week when his last 2 were leaked a week prior.. imagine drakes sales if those albums never leaked, easily 2mill first week, if not more...
Man if you don't stop talking CRAZY! Drake pushing 2 Million? Now he's Adele and Nsync? Hahahahhahah
bruh, hate to bust your bubble! NO WAYYYYYY he was going to sell 2 million in a week? Like really? IYRTITL is only at 1.1 million (over a year later) WATTBA barely at 550k ish (know it's not a Drake solo album, but still). Nobody but Nsync and Adele sold 2 million in a week yet you think Drake would have? All albums leaks before it comes out. Carter 3 and basically Carter 4 still went on to sell a million in a week with leaks."IF HIS ALBUMS DIDN'T LEAK"
without a doubt..
all 3 of drakes full feature albums leaked WEEKS prior to the release.. no doubt it will again! so yes I can confidently say he would've hit 2mill, he's the promo king, considering his 2 songs went to #1 and #2 of top 100 within hours and work was sitting at #1 before that.. unfortunately we'll never know bc they leak, so 3/4 of his listeners don't even buy the album..
WATTBA is plat and IFRT is double
Man if you don't stop talking CRAZY! Drake pushing 2 Million? Now he's Adele and Nsync? Hahahahhahah
Not even with the new rules he's not coming close to 2 million in a week. NOT CLOSEEEEEE AT ALL!!!!!!!!
Maybe if they going by today's rules. Streams, YouTube views then it's possible. But 2 million people buying his album in a day, **** no.
I'm talking artistically. I don't care about record sales.
after all this anticipation, all the b grade bars on WATTBA AND IRFT (mixtapes I still like in spite of), all the waiting, the lack of singles.
If he drops Views and it has garbage tracks like Pop Style on it, I'll be really REALLY disappointed. It will be an big L in my eyes.
and I'm a toronto guy.
Sounds like a drake single. Not close, not close at alllllll. I wanted your heart, but I'm not close at allllll.Not even with the new rules he's not coming close to 2 million in a week. NOT CLOSEEEEEE AT ALL!!!!!!!!
Sad times. Country grammar always appreciated thodude took 3 years off after this and killed his own career
Never got the magic back
Random fact: I was the only dudes with a cpu, internet with a cd burner in my hood way back when. I called myself being the cd guy, used to buy cds make copies and flip em. The first cd I burned and downloaded song by song was Chingy first album thought I was on my way to the big money after that.I don't know why I still remember this, but Country Grammar was the first song I ever downloaded on Napster
That whole album is dope though, might have to revisit it right now
it's been done before...