La Flame

4mo

Not Like Us was ran into the ground, because it became like a meme to the casuals and the big masses. Sort of like not wanting to miss out on what is going on and flocking like sheep because people talking about it on social media. It was a big moment, but doesnt necessarily mean people will check for a whole album or are now big Kendrick fans. People, in general, will just have listened to that song because it became big but they dont got more attachment than that to the situation. They dont really care. They just played that song for a couple of months, because it was being played a lot and people were talking about the beef.

Over 300 would not be terrible but below expectations, based on if you thought social media hype and the beef would generate a lot of albums sales. Type of predictions that was wrong, just like when it came to the election.

But he will catch a second wind with Grammys and SB though. That will spike numbers.

Go on Tour.

WRF

4mo

just want to highlight

we have seen ZERO tweets about this breaking or coming close to any day 1 streaming records

ak4real

4mo

we are not gonna let ya'll forget the last 10 months of build up for kendrick's most anticipated album of his career to playdown that it's undperforming expectations because its mid again

--- started the year largest feature dissing drake
--- huge beef that made him a household name across the world
--- record breaking diss track, largest song of his whole career
--- pop out concert
--- superbowl announcement
--- every brand and nba team tweeting mustard

if this s*** don't do more than FATD (drake's lowest rap solo) then he fumbled the bag

XCX Spice

4mo

lets say 350

TheFader

4mo

“If this 12 song surprise album doesn’t stream as much as a heavily promoted 23 track album then it’s a fumble according to me”

Kr0niic

4mo

Wait

GNX did 74 million second day streams??

That’s only 1 less than FATD and FATD has 11 more songs

ak4real

4mo

what were the last 10 months lmao kendrick has the most promotion for this album than anyone ever

without the beef this s*** might barely do 150k records

Kr0niic

4mo

Wait

GNX did 74 million second day streams??

That’s only 1 less than FATD and FATD has 11 more songs

TheFader

4mo

This album was never promoted man, nobody knew when it was coming until it released

ak4real

4mo

suddenly no one could have expected a kendrick album to drop this year

you can't even make the cope up, and the numbers haven't released...

maybe it does well..

Kr0niic

4mo

Been telling this thread honestly nevermind is the base

Surprise drop from a mainstream hip hop artist in the streaming era with no physicals

That album did like 203k.

That’s the baseline

TheFader

4mo

· edited

Did I say nobody expected a Kendrick album or did I say this one wasn’t promoted whatsoever until it released?

Please learn what words mean

When this album dropped, my exact prediction for it was no more than 400K (physicals excluded). You can check my post in the sales thread.

Anyone who expected this to do more than 400K with streaming alone is an idiot

ak4real

4mo

this one wasn’t promoted whatsoever until it released?

TheFader

4mo

Please show me the promotion for this album. I will wait.

ak4real

4mo

it's ok bro i don't feel like picking on you go play some "MUSTAAAAAAAAAARD" on repeat

run the numbers up

ak4real

4mo

suddenly no one could have expected a kendrick album to drop this year

you can't even make the cope up, and the numbers haven't released...

maybe it does well..

WT777

4mo

The main narrative going around in drake sn was “papi keeping us fed, kbots starving with no broccoli in sight”. Stop it lmao

ak4real

4mo

while ya'll was saying drake washed he can only do 400k with fatd

we get it we got it

ak4real

4mo

it's ok bro i don't feel like picking on you go play some "MUSTAAAAAAAAAARD" on repeat

run the numbers up