if you compare the first 4 days of Chromokopia streaming v Utopia & Mr Morale, Chromokopia did just as well/a little better in the US though?

i don't think anyone expected that

At least half his numbers will come from bundles/physicals.

True, but it could be one time thing tho

We'll see

Tyler's numbers are very impressive any way you wanna look at it. He doesn't have the mainstream appeal Kendrick has and doesn't make any mainstream-sounding music. If he dropped his album on a Friday, I don't see how he doesn't come really close or even surpass 400k first week. Him doing almost 300k off of less than 4 tracking days is INSANE, bundles or no.

This tour is his third time playing arenas. I believe Kendrick has only played arenas twice. Kendrick should have a bigger album but Tyler isn't a slouch either and the success of his album certainly closes the distance between him and Kendrick by a considerable amount.

This level of d***riding is crazy. Tyler himself would disagree with you

Did you say that too about Kendrick when he dropped DAMN and outsold Drake? No, cause you probably looked to all numbers like you should

One album doesn't make Tyler bigger or come close. We'll see how Tylers and Kendricks numbers will be from now on tho. Could be that he eventually surpasses him

how is tyler proof

Kendrick is a weird artist though because his name is bigger than his music, that isn't the case with any other rappers, I'm pretty sure Drake/Ye/Travis's back catalogs have outsold kendrick's by a LOT since 2020. Even Cole's probably has

Am i tripping? Isnt kendrick in the top 10 most streamed rappers?

this is an interesting take considering music videos are the least popular they've ever been

Yeah but i think everyone would agree he's the #2 biggest rapper (And about to become #1 next year) but I think he's probably the 5th most streamed rapper of the last few years, his status in the game isn't translating to people listening to the music, probably cause he barely releases new music & his last album was just... not a replayable project

first 6 months streams in the US

Mr Morale 1.1b
Honestly Nvm 1b
Dawn FM 745m

@fader and you call me a hater, when you say HNVM flopped & Mr Morale & Dawn FM didn't :

i don’t see it sounds expensive to make + most people listen to music in the background doing other s***

That's different. Drake is the biggest rapper in the game and has been for well over a decade with several massive albums to his name. Drake's debut album back in 2010 did almost 450k and he's still doing those numbers almost 15 years later. Even with 2 consecutive successful albums, I wouldn't have said Kendrick was bigger or as big as him.

In terms of success, Kendrick and Tyler are a lot more comparable than Drake and Kendrick. Kendrick really only has 2 major album eras to his name: GKMC and DAMN. TPAB wasn't a flop but it wasn't a massive commercial success and MMATBS was a little less successful than TPAB.

Tyler is a viable touring act, much like Kendrick (Tyler's current tour is his third time playing arenas while Kendrick has only played arenas twice) and now we've seen that he can drop an album that matches Kendrick's numbers so that closes the gap, to me at least.

Of course, like I said earlier, Kendrick is still a bigger artist to me and his next album should be a lot more successful than Tyler's. I just think Tyler closes a lot of that gap right now because we're currently judging Kendrick on the success of his last album era not what he might do on his next album era. Kendrick is still a bigger hit maker to me as well but like I said, Tyler has never tried to make mainstream hit records.

Crazy how i got into tyler when my sister was born and now shes in high school discussing his new album with me

These niggas are genuinely insane.

When people said Travis is bigger than Drake because Utopia outsold For All the Dogs last year, they said that was crazy and called Travis a bundle merchant.

Now Tyler outsells Kendrick’s two-year-old album by 2K units and he’s “closed the gap by a considerable amount”

Do you just wake up thinking about The Weeknd’s numbers or something?

Yes there's a huge difference between doing it via streams & doing it via gimmicks like bundles, obviously

Nah I looked into Mr Morale's numbers based on the discussion & decided to compare to Weeknd+Drake. So like I said, you were just completely wrong

Sao Paulo up to 7th globally (4.87m)
54th in US (717k)

Uzi's album is absolutely completely flopping lol, highest song is 8th in the US, only 3 songs in the top 20. Tyler still has 6

he had a good run

chromokopia 18.9m on its 5th day in US is insane, it has outstreamed utopia & mr morale's 5th days with a lot less songs

5th days:
Utopia 18.8m
Mr Morale 16.6m

Good riddance.

Thank god this type of music is played out