The same thing happened with Encore

pretty sure 50 cent had a similar situation with THe Massacre

its first week was only 4 or 5 days and it still sold over a milli

yes, but thats not first week. for 50 cents massacre we use the mid week #s, for donda we use mid week #s. so why dont we take first 7 days for them too? s*** 50s first 7 may be more than em shows first 7...

yes. read the "why does this matter" section, i touch on that, thats part of reason i made this thread haha

deadass read that part after i commented

good looks

The reality is even more impressive shut up, OP

He don’t count anyways so

yea i think it did 700K the mid week, and then 800ish the second week (first full week) right?

but they dont push that one like they push em show..

im not saying its not impressive, read the whole post please. im just saying every artist should get that benefit

I agree. We should be tracking the albums first 7 days, regardless of when it was released

yea either that or be consistent with counting the mid week for everyone

this changes everything

Seek therapy

leave me alone pnw

Wait, this doesn't make any sense because albums used to be released on a Tuesday?

yup. em show dropped sunday

I definitely think Massacre could even have higher first week than MMLP if we counted mid week

Were you even alive when TES dropped?

yes lol

and billboard article from release is there if you need a further source/proof

I got you lol

Dweebs be talkin bout “revisionist history” when they been lying to yall 😴😴

Here’s a solution

Count either what’s considered the first week, or count the first full week. Whatever is bigger is what you go with.

For TES, counting the first full week benefits it. For Donda, it would not benefit it.

End of the day it’s just a stat for fans, and people interested can understand the details. I think it would be dumb to exclude TES from “most hyped albums” conversations because it released a day early.