It was nice seeing her fakeness overshadowed by real cultural impact like sabrina, charli, billie and kendrick

3 months of pre-orders shipped out for its first week sales.

Denying reality and making up your own statistics like the MAGA crew

Your spreadsheets prove it spent 3 days straight outperforming Chromakopia and the only underperforming day was day 1. Dropped 6 hours later than Chromakopia. And was a surprise. And looks to be on pace to beat it when todays charts drop

Cheers

Well, it didn’t “kinda” become true, his first week sales have dwindled with each release since 2017

Yes, they are

Half of the Tyler number was bundles.

Kendrick doing it with streaming alone is more impressive

This just means that Kendrick got 210M streams from the other DSPs and Tyler only got 90M additional

Spotify isn’t the only streaming service

People saying someone selling nearly 300k records in this climate is mehh...it really isn't and there are very few artists in the world doing it

Internet full of weird ass haters

Internet full of weird Drake groupies*

What are you talking about. You’re comparing Kendrick’s 325m projected seven day total and Tyler’s four day total. Are you a complete moron.

You really saw Kendrick did 115m in the first four days on Spotify and said “Well he must have done 200m on other DSPs.” Is he going to do 0 streams on Spotify in the remaining three days then? Idiot

yesterday's numbers should be out soon right?

Taking a while cause UMG cooking the numbers #bots

UMG cooking numbers again? Drake needs to sue a third time I guess!

Not just that but Kendrick is playing the long game. Super Bowl and 2025 Grammys are coming up. Then GNX is eligible for the 2026 Grammys.

Next few years is gonna be tough for the haters

Kendrick Lamar less than Tyler?

It cannot be!!!!

KTT number gurus bout to have a field day.

Man I already knew the numbers war was underway when I saw K Dot doing slightly less than Tyler

West coast running the rap game

1st week sales are increasingly a dated metric to begin with, and increasingly lifetime sales matter more as the real metric of popularity. 291k is a really good number in a vacuum, but it is low in consideration of the year Kendrick’s had overall, his general hype, and the success of NLU (album or not). It doesn’t actually mean Kendrick underperformed though as much as it shows how much of a cultural vacuum the beef (and thus his hype cycle) actually existed in.
By comparison, just because we HAVE to make this comparison, everything else HNVM from Drake has done almost 1.5-2x sales from this. This is obviously without the context and hype Kendrick has had going into his album cycle (surprise drop or not) - I think the real lesson here is how little these cultural things actually affect material popularity to casual listeners (who drive the majority of music consumption).
Hype for artists is definitely measured more in lifetime residual sales now anyway. Everyone clowned Doja Cat’s first album’s first week album sales then she went on to sell like 50k-60k every week for more than a year - so who knows, it’s possible Kendrick could still be hyper-competitive sales numbers wise year-over-year.

why are you still being a complete weirdo about tyler? you know he had 3 less days yet you're still spouting this nonsense

so did 99% of artists because pure sales are down, the weeknd and kendrick incl lol

hence why comparing streaming units makes far more sense

Why are you still trying to purport the idea that Tyler is anywhere near Kendrick?

Wrong and wrong.

The Weeknd’s first week sales have went up and down his entire career.

And Kendrick’s sales have been pretty consistent his entire career, DAMN. was the only outlier.

Drake is the one who’s first week sales consistently dwindled since 2017

Nice way to flip a fact that kendrick hit his peak with DAMN and never returned. You could’ve said that drake hit his peak in 2016-2018 and those were the outlier years.

cope. its dog s*** numbers for an artist who just supposedly had a bigger year than drake

• biggest rap beef of all time
• biggest streaming year of his entire career
• broke records for the biggest song in terms of streaming which Gods Plan once held
• rick ross fat as s***
• superbowl announcement
• white elitist publications doing interviews
• meat munchers the entire year talking about kendricks new album gonna shake the game
• ASAP Rocky.

he just did Mr Morale numbers, on a year like this.

2 factors that COULDA HAVE caused this let down:

1. Single/diss songs were actually botted and the streams didnt equal real demand

OR

2. The album was a let down and NEUTRAL fans didnt even bother listening to it.