thegreatdivine

2y

I had to unblock your ass right quick to respond to this but get this: you can't have it both ways.

You can't spend all day bragging about the Weeknd being one of the biggest artists in the world but then conveniently make excuses for him when you think an album of his will underperform. It doesn't work that way.

We literally judge every other major artist in this very thread by their first week numbers. Every single one. When one underperforms or flops, we point it out. You know this.

The Weeknd isn't Rihanna who has never done up to 240k units first week. He's debuted with 300k+ units three times in the 5 albums he's released so far but I'm insane for suggesting that with him releasing his longest album yet, having physicals on pre-order for MONTHS, having the hype of this being his last album as the Weeknd, just coming off a massive stadium world tour as well as the huge promotional campaign for Vision Pro in line with the album, all those things should be enough for him to manage a 400k+ debut? I'm not suggesting 500k or something he's never done before. Like what are we saying here? I'd never make that suggestion if the album was dropping without physicals like Dawn FM or if he was doing something left-field like making a rock album or a country album. He's doing what he's always done.

It's also not like we haven't seen an R&B album perform well on streaming. SOS dropped with 23 songs (with a bunch of songs we'd heard already as singles) and debuted with over 400M US streams. SOS is SZA's second studio album. She'd never even played arenas before dropping that album and doing those numbers.

I just don't get how you can't keep making excuses for dude because you'd never let anyone else get away with it.

thegreatdivine

2y

Sure thing, bud.

SWAN

2y

haven’t y’all been saying for the past year that he’s not big in the US? lol

TheFader

2y

Pull up a post where I said either of those things and you got it.

You won’t be able to, because I never said either of those things

thegreatdivine

2y

You went by @shaleirose when Honestly, Nevermind dropped but good try.

TheFader

2y

More incorrect statements

thegreatdivine

2y

Tell that to @Elemental.

Elemental

2y

I don’t 🧢 lol

Deezed

2y

1mili

thegreatdivine

2y

The Weeknd: drops a 100-track album

@fader: "Don't expect this album to do more than 50k first week. You know the Weeknd has never done massive first week numbers before 🥺"

Drake: drops a black demon rock album

@fader: "This better do 500k first week. After all, it's a Drake album 🤪"

thegreatdivine

2y

Try again.

thegreatdivine

2y

He even repeated the same thing @shaleirose said after hating on Drake by claiming Drake is his #2 favorite artist. Repeated the exact same s*** lmao

He also defends the exact same artists @shaleirose defends

thegreatdivine

2y

The Weeknd: drops a 100-track album

@fader: "Don't expect this album to do more than 50k first week. You know the Weeknd has never done massive first week numbers before 🥺"

Drake: drops a black demon rock album

@fader: "This better do 500k first week. After all, it's a Drake album 🤪"

TheFader

2y

Reminder, this is who’s speaking:

thegreatdivine

2y

He better do that 400k+ is all I know because some conversations will be had otherwise :jordanlaff3:

TheFader

2y

Yes because only one other person in the entire world has Drake has one of their favorite artists, that’s definitely how that works

thegreatdivine

2y

Who are you trying to convince with this s***? Me or @Elemental?