240-275 this is landing at lol. I can’t wait to see Joe buddens podcast with the excuses. Yesterdays episode they were gassing it saying this is doing 700k easy. Akademiks even said it’ll outsell FATD. They were all loud and wrong lmaoo

It's impressive for sure, but it means far less than it used to is what I'm sayin, especially if a huge % of those are in markets that barely pay anything. You see way more songs hitting 1b now, because of spotify now being big in asia, when it wasnt 5 years ago

APT is a great example of this. Most of its streams are from countries that pay far less than the primary markets

Okay? Are we pocket watching millionaire artists now?

I’m soooo sad that Bruno and Weeknd are getting paid a little less from smaller markets

yeah everyone did the same w/ Mr Morale lol

i also thought he'd grow with this

aren't you one of the people who were complaining streaming barely pays artists therefor its worse than people actually buying music? lol huh

Sabrina carpenter is peak btw

Budden’s podcast is notoriously out of touch with numbers, and I’m pretty sure Ak was tryna set him up.

300-400K without physicals was always the realistic expectation, it’s 12 songs

Bro wtf is São Paulo

If you could read, I specifically said that streaming only benefits the biggest artists.

Millionaires making a few less millions because their streams are coming from smaller markets isn’t getting sympathy from me, nor am I watching the pockets of artists who have millions

Pretty sure you also said it's bad because they're generally making less money.

The money difference is actually huge btw, we're talking about 5x less per stream, not like 20%

“He might sell 300k today..” “he might.” These guys are all clowns.

A song that’s about to pass 100 million streams just a month after release

I hope the vinyl factories recovered from T Swizzle and Adele cause he's gonna need them for the real album drop

I specified many times that it does benefit bigger artists and my concerns were for smaller, independent, or non-mainstream artists trying to gain a fanbase

uhh it has 66m after 4 weeks, that's trash for a superstar's single

Need a magnifying glass to find it on the Hot 100

Wait?

It's not on there at all?

🤒

meanwhile there's more smaller artists blowing up than ever lol

5 minute Brazilian funk record btw

I had to block that dude. He’s literally deranged. Lmao

Name one Brazilian funk record that’s ever been a hit in the USA. I’ll wait

No, there aren’t

Wait

Is Abel's rollout a Brazilian funk song, a failed Carti attempt, and a rehash of the last 2 albums' singles?

Name is Big Dog and your avi is a laughing emoji with the words Big Dog and a middle finger over it… but sure, I’m the mentally deranged one

sabrina/chappel just demolished dawn fm's/eternal sunshine's numbers for fun lol, lets be real here

The funniest thing of all is we know Kendrick doesn’t flood the market like that. I wouldn’t be shocked if this really was the album. Fans usually make these rumors up when they aren’t too satisfied with what they got lol.