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Drake fans in shambles

Quality > Quantity always

Drake stan’s when they realize first week sales never mattered

He's partially right

If the music is worth it, it'll follow up with the numbers for the weeks to come, but people don't check in the first time for no reason

For a mainstream label, it matters to an extent.

Mainstream labels use fw sales and streams to determine how in demand you are and gauging how much investment they should put into an artist.

But, for quality of music, it doesn't matter one bit.

None of Nas's recent albums went number 1 and I found all of them except Magic 2 to be enjoyable.

Little Simz's albums this decade didn't go number 1 either.

And tons of quality music didn't have big fw sales.

Honestly, the fw sales discussion only seems to get fixated by chart watchers using Stan Twitter logic to shape narratives around different artists.

sounds like cope

If sales matter as much as people on here said, you'd have to concede that Taylor Swift and Morgan Wallen are the greatest artists in the world.

But I'm sure most of us including myself aren't fans of them so obviously there's much more to music than sales.

Definitely unrelated to his last album going triple plastic

Joey anti vaxx and transphobic bad ass?

They only seem to realize it when Taylor Swift outsells the whole rap game funnily enough.

His last album had some heat

it never did outside of arguments/bragging and share holder meetings

W take

It would be silly of mfs to look at a tape like 1999 and be caring about how many downloads it got on DatPiff and that’s his point. I remember when we didn’t give a f*** about what someone sold

Drake fans panicking in the back

He’s speaking facts you’re a RapCaviar streaming farm bot if u not agree with this

I’ve thought/said this since the mid 2010’s

it’s no purpose to call them album sales even if they counted 1 to 1 for a stream and calling them album sales but you have to actually stream them 1000x is a sinister move to make it seem like everyone outside of a chosen few flopping

Streamed dozens of millions of times shouldn’t be reported as sold a couple thousand copies

They do need adjust the stream = unit conversion tho. Feel like that's something that's been needing to happen for a while now

Take him out of it someone’s music getting streamed 20 million times and that getting reported as 20k copies sold so niggas who can’t get 100 views on YouTube if they set themselves on fire can clown them is crazy