this is just the internet as a whole

i'll give you that, but pushin P with 3 mill views beating sacrifice with 18 mill views is still wild lol

why does it still show
Encanto as #1

But it’s not really fair ground considering that hip hop dominates streaming and everyone knows that

Pop doesn’t stream as strong as rap does, and it benefits way more from physicals and merch sales than hip hop does

Weeknd stans keep mentioning that he didn't have any physicals out, well no s*** Gunna didn't either so how is that an argument

Man really can’t get a hit without a machine behind him

Youtube views don’t count for much cuz they’re free - Gunna is killing it on Apple Music which are all paid streams

ok but who cares about merch sales in a conversation about music??

i’m sure people are buying Gunna vinyls

That’s just a problem with the way Billboard weighs streams

The merch comes with copies of the album, and sometimes fans will buy merch as well as a digital copy to support the artist

why baby d***s on your mind tho? feds want answers

i didn't even see u mention drake at first like i just saw u say that he's not that popular

like if you were just trying to say he's not as popular as drake yea thts true

Hip hop dominates streaming more than any other genre

Pop benefits way more from physical sales and merch sales

This is not that hard to understand

I assure u he can make "way 2 sexy" he just doesn't want to

the weeknd isn't really that popular besides the few hits

i know the conversation started with me asking about drake and the weeknd on tik tok, but the sentence above was a standalone post and what i was replying to afterwards. that sentence alone just doesn't read accurately.

but sure not many people would deny the weeknd isn't as popular as drake. if your whole argument was in comparison to drake then my bad but i have no idea where Psy came from if that's the case

i think the point with that is if they counted physicals based on pre-orders like they have in past years this wouldnt have been close. weeknd now gonna sell like 100k on a random week in april bc of vinyl shipping then

but it's pointless argument anyway bc this s*** doesn't matter lol

And do you realize why that is the case? Because the stans of pop artists go crazy and buy the same album or merch 1000s times. And guess what, that just confirms that they aren't more popular. They rely on their crazy stans to mass buy their products to inflate their sales. The charts are supposed to show who's the most popular among the population and streaming is the perfect metric to show that.

People are trying to say Dawn was a surprise rollout but DS4 actually was one and Dawn wasn't. There's no way we can spin this

lucky mods won’t unlock the other sales thread cause there’s tons of takes that aged like milk of magnesium

Would Gunna have outsold him without the features? what is the narrative here?

I assure you Weeknd does not have a fanbase like that. I don’t think it’s fair that physical copies of an album aren’t counted just because they’re pre orders.

Also if a fan wants to buy multiple physical copies of an album to support an artist they love, what’s wrong with that? It’s still a real person spending real dollars on a copy of the album, it’s not like some fans do where they fake streams by letting an album play on mute or in the background to get the streaming numbers up

A stan buying an album three times is an infinitely more engaged consumer than a guy who hears a gunna song 10 times cuz he shuffles rap caviar on the way to work