Streaming era.

As long as people are streaming the album, it will keep “selling” and charting. If you keep listening to the album, you are constantly adding to the numbers.

Before streaming, you bought the album once and your sale only counted for that one week.

Usher slander is insane what in the f*** are we doing

Happy for Noah Kahan album slaps

I don't buy that. Album units are a lot down since the 2000s from what I understand

There was way more albums selling 5m in the 2000s compared to now. Streaming era has made it easier to sell 1m of a single but harder to sell 1m of an album

If people are streaming songs like Kill Bill and Snooze, their streams are going to the album and they are helping the album chart

That’s why we have some many compilations charting now. Because people are streaming these artists biggest songs and their streams are going to these compilations. That’s why The Weeknd’s The Highlights was one of the biggest albums of 2023.

This wasn’t a thing before streaming

If I bought Katy Perry’s Firework on iTunes in 2011 and kept listening to it everyday for months, my one sale would count just that one week when I bought it and it wouldn’t affect the album’s chart run at all.

That’s a naive mindset honestly. Taylor could drop independent and Apple Music would pay her to put it front page, it would make literally no sense for them not to do that

Donda is still getting played to this day

Why can’t Kanye stans understand that he is literally a neo-nazi

If corporations don’t want to associate with him or promote him, they are completely right 💀 I wouldn’t want my brand propping a nazi that looks like he hasn’t showered in months either

Talking about him being "blackballed" as if he only showed his nipple on TV or something

Yeah I get what ur saying, im just saying it isn't resulting in it being easier to have a high selling album. cos albums don't sell anywhere near the units they used to

No Strings Attached by NSYNC sold 9.5m units in 2000 etc, it's extremely rare for an artist to sell 5m units of an album now, even Taylor Swift's Midnights "only" sold 3m in 2023

Kanye gotta be the greatest rap artist OAT

Bro got blackballed and still managed to go #1 with a collab album that had multiple delays and little promotion

He’s easily top 1 OAT at this point tbh

Noah Kahan really him now

Using sales for the metric of GOAT

He the new Mumford and Sons

What? Ty is the best part of the album lmao

This is extra funny because he still clears every other metric we can think of besides lyrical ability.

But the stuff we know he wrote is still mega underatted.

Nobody playing donda and nobody playing this garbage sorry

imagine they count merch/ vynl orders on vultures

500k first week

objectively couldn’t be more wrong

Why u sorry bout being wrong for happens to best of us

and most rappers are murderers who openly discuss murder

still have brand deals and get payola

your moral argument is nonsensical

kill other black people and sell d**** to black people

say mean things about jewish executives and doctors

be upset at both, or don’t try to morph the public consciousness to your benefit

Half of that was physicals lol, this is mostly going to be from streaming. Big difference