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  • Cosmic Warrior

    how many artists you think doing 500k+ in 2020?

    adele, taylor swift and who else?

    Only those two. Taylor knew what she was doing dropping her album before the new Billboard rules kicked in. That's why she was able to manage such a huge first week.

    It won't be so easy for her the next time she drops an album.

  • Aug 23, 2020
    Cosmic Warrior

    300-350k

    and drake will never do bundles

    Lmao you’re smoking crack.

  • Aug 23, 2020
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    I will say this, though. If Drake plans on using merch bundles for his album, he should announce the date for the album a month before hand, drop the merch the next week and keep adding new items as much as is needed leading up to the album release week.

    He can start shipping out the orders as soon as they're ready so everything will be able to count for the album release week.

    That's one way to get around it. If he drops enough items, I could see him doing 200-300K in pure sales, maybe more. Of course, it'll all depend on how many items he's able to sell out. Streaming could pull about 300-375K.

  • Aug 23, 2020
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    thegreatdivine

    He isn't doing 500K without bundles. His units from iTunes will be even lower this time around than they were when he dropped Scorpion. He'll be lucky to pull up to 50K from iTunes alone. Do you know how many streams he would need to pull to do 500K from streams alone?

    I'll give you a hint:
    Dark Lane Demo Tapes pulled 269 million streams and that equated to 204K units. Even if his next album somehow managed to pull twice the number of streams that Dark Lane Demo Tapes did (which I don't see happening, especially if it's 14-16 tracks long), that adds up to 408K. Add in the iTunes sales and that's about 458K, 460K if you round it up.

    Anyone thinking Drake is doing 500K without bundles either hasn't done the calculations to see that won't be possible, or is just being delusional.

    Facts. I don’t think people understand that Drake would need another Gods Plan and In my feelings level songs on the album to reach those numbers again.

  • Aug 23, 2020
    The 7 Day Theory

    Facts. I don’t think people understand that Drake would need another Gods Plan and In my feelings level songs on the album to reach those numbers again.

    He'll need more than that, but I get your point.

  • Aug 23, 2020
    beast444

    I think 500k with 100k pure

    Yep! And these are great numbers but they will hate either way.

  • Aug 23, 2020

    Damn didn’t expect so many good responses you guys are awesome, I guess a side question would be do you think maybe another high charting single before the album maybe with the merch or something to get better streaming numbers?

  • Aug 23, 2020

    A billi like his streams

  • Aug 23, 2020
    Escobar

    Depends on how the rollout goes.

    If he does another surprise drop I see +300k

    If this gets a proper rollout, date in advance +500k

    If he does Bundles 700k - 1m

  • Aug 23, 2020
    kiddash3r

    Around 600k.
    Bundles dont work anymore,but hes the biggest artist ITW i dont see him doing less than 550k

  • Aug 23, 2020
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    He’s coming off the hype of a handful of hits. Anything under 600k is a flop

  • Aug 23, 2020
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    thegreatdivine

    I will say this, though. If Drake plans on using merch bundles for his album, he should announce the date for the album a month before hand, drop the merch the next week and keep adding new items as much as is needed leading up to the album release week.

    He can start shipping out the orders as soon as they're ready so everything will be able to count for the album release week.

    That's one way to get around it. If he drops enough items, I could see him doing 200-300K in pure sales, maybe more. Of course, it'll all depend on how many items he's able to sell out. Streaming could pull about 300-375K.

    Couldn't he do "reverse" bundles? Only letting people buy merch after they bought a digital version of the album?

  • Aug 23, 2020

    450k

  • Aug 23, 2020
    bobby j

    He’s coming off the hype of a handful of hits. Anything under 600k is a flop

    sales numbers arent what they used to be

  • Aug 23, 2020

    730k

  • Aug 23, 2020
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    500k+ is a good look in this climate for a studio album

  • Aug 23, 2020
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    Y’all need to be prepared for 300+ and an album that has some good legs Hopefully

    Some of these numbers unrealistic

    People gonna call it bad numbers regardless

    Unless he got an Adele + Gods plan smash in the tuck then maybe.

  • Aug 23, 2020
    CLB Rasec

    Couldn't he do "reverse" bundles? Only letting people buy merch after they bought a digital version of the album?

    The whole point of selling enough merch units is making it count towards the album's first week. Of course, he could also sell merch as it's own separate thing before or after then.

  • Aug 23, 2020
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    quadra

    500k+ is a good look in this climate for a studio album

    The thing is that I don't even see him reaching the 500K mark without bundles.

  • Aug 23, 2020
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    thegreatdivine

    The thing is that I don't even see him reaching the 500K mark without bundles.

    I have a feeling a different approach will come into play in the way this album gets sold to help it sell more copies as opposed to previous albums

  • Aug 23, 2020
    quadra

    I have a feeling a different approach will come into play in the way this album gets sold to help it sell more copies as opposed to previous albums

    We'll see.

  • Aug 23, 2020
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    thegreatdivine

    The thing is that I don't even see him reaching the 500K mark without bundles.

    You out your mind if you think Drizzy not selling 500k. 😂 Juiceworld just moved 500 like 3 weeks ago stop it

  • Aug 23, 2020
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    Breezy

    You out your mind if you think Drizzy not selling 500k. 😂 Juiceworld just moved 500 like 3 weeks ago stop it

    Juice is huge with the youth rn and it was a posthumous release

    Not even comparable

  • Aug 23, 2020
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    Breezy

    You out your mind if you think Drizzy not selling 500k. 😂 Juiceworld just moved 500 like 3 weeks ago stop it

    He used bundles, genius. And it was 6 weeks ago, not 3.

  • Aug 23, 2020

    500k I feel like.