An above average IQ

Bro said "I never heard it where Im at so it wasn't a hit"

Alot of you guys overvalue yourselves

"and it didn't do notable numbers"

back catalog

We’re using the word commercial. That can be quantified. His reach didn’t expand in demographics as much as it was replaced, and arguably his new demographics were smaller

His numbers were literally cut in half all around from 808s onward

And Donda was released on a Sunday too, less tracking days for the charts

He's the closest to Michael Jackson, thats why

He got it almost back with MBDTF and then he dropped Yeezus

He got it almost back with TLOP and then he dropped ye and JIK

It will be always the same with him. His next album could be his biggest since Graduation and his next album after this is some very experimental s*** again. He lives for this

Feel like All Day was his last real attempt at a hit

or I Love It

move to kanye section

All Day? He literally tried it with TLOP lmao

Famous?

You can’t exclude CD because it’s his first. 😂

All I’m saying is that he has consistently sold 450. He had two other times where he cleared that number drastically. That’s his peak. You cant use his peak to say he declined. Everyone declines from their peak.

felt like All Day got a bigger push or atleast it felt that way

but yeah Famous was a great radio record

Either way it’s been a hot minute

yeezus is his most licensed album in movies, commercials

What song was a consistent top 10 hit. its f***ing kanye west so when he drops off course half the album will chart.

You can exclude it because it’s his first. Sales are built off the previous release, a factor that doesn’t benefit your very first project

The normal number is really established with the sophomore release. And subsequent releases can either do as much, less, or the same depending on how it delivers to the same audience that gave you the numbers before

And it’s easy to look at 800-1m as nothing more than a peak because “1m first week” is such a buzzy term, but it’s abundantly clear that the 800-900k range became the norm for Kanye, he just alienated the audience that gave him those numbers right after. Like sure it was relatively a peak looking back, but it wasn’t inherently such

Who was it replaced by? lol there’s still no one that offers what Ye did in the rap/music space at that time

Charts trash anyway

Guy has multiple plat songs in last years

No I’m saying he replaced his trilogy audience with the audience he got from 808s/MBDTF/Yeezus

By being the GOAT

The point was that the experimental music that he makes came with a cost. Said cost is popularity within mainstraim music ergo my statement about not being able to have a hit song. A hit song is being on billboard top 15 for consecutive weeks, heavy radio play etc

Nobody is arguing his succes its fcking kanye west

If you sell more than these chart hits and have multi plat songs (not even talking albums), that's as real as a hit can be

That radio doesnt play it i cant help

I Love It (& Lil Pump)

The song premiered at the 2018 P***hub Awards. "I Love It" reached number one in Canada, Finland, New Zealand and Sweden, as well as the top 10 in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILove_It(Kanye_West_and_Lil_Pump_song)

HUrricane too