He used the hype from that on SL2 which did 120k first week and that’s great for a compilation album. He dropped punk too quick after that so it fell flat.

C’mon I thought this has already been explained countless times lmao

A Gangsters Pain was huge last year it literally sold more than Donda and The Off Season but no one on here really talked about it. I think we really are losing touch. Rod Wave's album was bigger than all 3

That’s a L a compilation album outselling your solo album

Explain to me please

Puffin on Zootiez boutta go diamond off my plays alone

We just dont really f*** w mid

How’s that a L. He probably make more money from his label than his own music lol.

He dropped way too much in the last 2-3 years with After Hours, the deluxe and it felt like he did 100 features. He was everywhere.

It doesn't mean Dawn FM is bad but people were def exhausted of Abel lately. He needs to take a full break for 1-2 years

This is the biggest first week of his career.

Punk was a good album. A little better than INLY to me. But both were good.

Wow, Future is officially a superstar

Dawn FM was actually an amazing album. Really worked well as an album

Sales wise it just didnt do well

who knew the only roll out he would need is a GQ cover

What would you say is the cutoff sales wise for superstar?

He been a superstar since 2016 if we being honest

But KTT nerds been hating on it??? Makes sense, they don’t go outside

Literally been since DS2

Weeknd is a pop artist now, pop doesn’t benefit from streaming first week numbers half as much as hip-hop does (besides the few exceptions).

Even Bieber’s last album only did 154K first week, but it was one of the biggest albums of 2021 by year’s end. And Ed Sheeran’s newest album only did 118K first week, but he’s still one of the biggest artists in the world.

Pop benefits mostly off of physical and merch sales, but because of Billboard changing its’ rules, they don’t count towards first week numbers because they don’t count until the week that they ship now, and Weeknd didn’t have any physicals or merch shipping first week with Dawn FM.

Dawn FM and DS4Ever dropped on the same day, and although Gunna outsold Weeknd in the first week, Dawn passed a billion Spotify streams last month and DS4 still hasn’t. Pop is about the long game, not the first week numbers.

Real music wins again

Nah, besides a few exceptions, pop just doesn’t have huge first week streaming numbers in this new era. That’s all it is.

Peopled listened to sl2 for gunna not thug and it shows Lmfaooo that’s why gunna last solo outsold thugs last solo

And then they’ll say we brought it up

Nah sorry people are 100% exhausted of Abel lately and thats the truth