thegreatdivine

5y

I hear you and I get where you're coming from but AGAIN, you're comparing CLB to the two biggest albums of his career. You're the one who has said several times that you expected the Views era to be his commercial peak and that you were blown away by the success of the Scorpion era. You also said you knew for sure that Scorpion was his peak era and so you didn't have high commercial expectations for CLB so I don't get where these comparisons are coming from because they're not consistent with what you've been saying for months now. All you've done is act disappointed at CLB's numbers/it's performance. All it took for you to come in here panicking was for HDD to suggest that YoungBoy's album was #1 over CLB in it's FOURTH week.

CLB dropped closer to December than either Views or Scorpion so yes, it will spend less weeks in the top 10 before Christmas than either of those albums did. I don't get why you're bringing up the album leaving the top 10 during Christmas as some sort of criticism about it's performance when we all know that both the Hot 100/Billboard 200 top 10 will be flooded by Christmas songs/albums, thereby pushing out several stable songs/albums in the process.

I'm completely with you on Drake pushing more singles off the album (like I said earlier, GWG is already getting a radio push and all that's left is a music video) but CLB was released unlike any other Drake album before it. This is the first Drake album to have 0 pre-released singles. Every song was new. Views had Hotline Bling tacked on it and has a monster hit in One Dance released right before it dropped. Same for Scorpion with God's Plan/Nice for What/In My Feelings so why are you directly comparing CLB's performance to the performance of those albums when you're well aware of the clear differences? CLB's first 4 weeks were a massive success. Some more hits off the album would be nice but all that matters now is the album stablilizing in the 30-50k range moving forward.

I really don't know what you expected from this album commercially to act so disappointed at it's performance but to each his own, I guess.

iHype

5y

Girl I literally did not try to compare it to Views/Scorpion until y'all then proceeded to catch an attitude with me comparing it to DLDT and said they shouldn't be compared. Any artist will have their numbers compared to prior releases somehow.

If we can't compare it to all 3 of those.... then what can it be compared to?

I never said the numbers were disappointing, CLB is def still a nice success even if it fell off the charts next week. I just wanted it to hold better.

But anyways, I'm not gonna do this whole paragraphs when someone says something y'all simply don't like. Blocked.

Yazzy

5y

we on the same team man cut it out

Sarpanchsaab

5y

Some of my niggas don't love me

Yazzy

5y

we on the same team man cut it out

iHype

5y

Girl I literally did not try to compare it to Views/Scorpion until y'all then proceeded to catch an attitude with me comparing it to DLDT and said they shouldn't be compared. Any artist will have their numbers compared to prior releases somehow.

If we can't compare it to all 3 of those.... then what can it be compared to?

I never said the numbers were disappointing, CLB is def still a nice success even if it fell off the charts next week. I just wanted it to hold better.

But anyways, I'm not gonna do this whole paragraphs when someone says something y'all simply don't like. Blocked.

Sarpanchsaab

5y

Some of my niggas don't love me

thegreatdivine

5y

All you've done is complain about the album not holding better, dropping too quickly and making that a bigger deal than it actually is considering the album has performed better than almost every album so far this year and is holding as well as could be expected, considering.

You've been doing the most since the first week numbers with you acting like less than 600k was some sort of disappointment. That's why I quoted you because I noticed you've found a way to act disappointed at the performance of the album despite it's resounding success and you got quoted by other people because of your post doing the most about YoungBoy's album debuting above CLB in it's 4th week.

If you don't wanna be responded to or challenged on your thoughts/opinions, don't post on a open forum for discussion.

Risky

5y

ayyo what is goin on in here lol

drake prolly don't even know he's been #1 the last 2 weeks, that mf don't care about his 4th week he chillin.

let's let youngboy enjoy a #1 man deserves it

thegreatdivine

5y

Expensive Pain is performing a lot worse than Championships (not like that should be a surprise to anyone).

Championships
#2. Going Bad (feat. Drake): 1,647,775
#15. Uptown Vibes (feat. Fabolous & Anuel AA): 882,196
#17. What's Free (feat. Rick Ross & JAY-Z): 860,871
#23. On Me (feat. Cardi B): 827,356
#47. Intro: 632,525
#60. Trauma: 558,838
#61. Respect the Game: 550,886
#66. Tic Tac Toe (feat. Kodak Black): 534,931
#74. Splash Warning (feat. Future, Roddy Ricch & Young Thug): 503,701
#77. Championships: 479,489
#78. Almost Slipped: 476,138
#82. Pay You Back (feat. 21 Savage): 470,580
#88. Oodles O' Noodles Babies: 450,319
#110. Dangerous (feat. Jeremih & PnB Rock): 419,333
#119. 24/7 (feat. Ella Mai): 407,442
#176. 100 Summers: 304,548
#196 Wit the Sh*ts (W.T.S) feat. Melii: 277,732
Total: 10,284,660

Expensive Pain
#19. Sharing Locations (feat. Lil Baby & Lil Durk: 651,773
#27. Intro (Hate on Me): 567,168
#77. Blue Notes 2 (feat. Lil Uzi Vert): 317,074
#106. Outside (100 MPH): 287,321
#113. Hot (feat. Moneybagg Yo): 278,631
#167. Me (FWM) feat. A$AP Ferg: 238,742
#173. On My Soul: 237,046
#189. Expensive Pain: 230,914
Total: 2,808,669

Championships debuted at #1 with 229k units (42k pure sales/235M streams). Expensive Taste is gonna debut with much lower numbers.

SinceKumbaya

5y

Who’s your bet for number 1 next week? Taylor likely?

thegreatdivine

5y

Expensive Pain is performing a lot worse than Championships (not like that should be a surprise to anyone).

Championships
#2. Going Bad (feat. Drake): 1,647,775
#15. Uptown Vibes (feat. Fabolous & Anuel AA): 882,196
#17. What's Free (feat. Rick Ross & JAY-Z): 860,871
#23. On Me (feat. Cardi B): 827,356
#47. Intro: 632,525
#60. Trauma: 558,838
#61. Respect the Game: 550,886
#66. Tic Tac Toe (feat. Kodak Black): 534,931
#74. Splash Warning (feat. Future, Roddy Ricch & Young Thug): 503,701
#77. Championships: 479,489
#78. Almost Slipped: 476,138
#82. Pay You Back (feat. 21 Savage): 470,580
#88. Oodles O' Noodles Babies: 450,319
#110. Dangerous (feat. Jeremih & PnB Rock): 419,333
#119. 24/7 (feat. Ella Mai): 407,442
#176. 100 Summers: 304,548
#196 Wit the Sh*ts (W.T.S) feat. Melii: 277,732
Total: 10,284,660

Expensive Pain
#19. Sharing Locations (feat. Lil Baby & Lil Durk: 651,773
#27. Intro (Hate on Me): 567,168
#77. Blue Notes 2 (feat. Lil Uzi Vert): 317,074
#106. Outside (100 MPH): 287,321
#113. Hot (feat. Moneybagg Yo): 278,631
#167. Me (FWM) feat. A$AP Ferg: 238,742
#173. On My Soul: 237,046
#189. Expensive Pain: 230,914
Total: 2,808,669

Championships debuted at #1 with 229k units (42k pure sales/235M streams). Expensive Taste is gonna debut with much lower numbers.

PolarSZN

5y

Didn't Meek say this was his best album or something haha

VAAANTAAA

5y

Sales not always equal quality. Drake’s best album isn’t his best selling.

PolarSZN

5y

You'd expect Meek to be doing better though.

VAAANTAAA

5y

100% but there’s a lot of greats songs in this album and he sounds hungry again in a lot of his lyrics. He really took it back.

PolarSZN

5y

Yeah, i'm not disagreeing with the quality of the music, just that it shouldn't have been this poorly chart wise.

This is the Meek we know.