First-day stream numbers came in much lower than I expected, not gonna lie. 😬 It’s not looking good unless it stays stable for the rest of the week

Tyler debuted with 85M if I remember correctly

What did I say

I tought my prediction of 75M first-day streams was pretty conservative, cause that’s just 15M more than Dawn FM

Hopefully, he pulls a Bad Bunny

I think he will, the word of mouth has been super strong, plus it’s 22 tracks

I think it’ll finish with between 200M and 230M first week streams

Less streams than DAwn FM with 4 more tracks (being charitable not counting interludes) is weird considering this had waaaaay more promo

This had promo?

Open Hearts is magic

Well with those Spotify numbers, Drake and PND got nothing to worry about. 😮‍💨

Drakes Honestly NVM (a dance album) had 13 tracks while this has over 20 and it still outstreamed it lmao.

they’re so brain rotted dawg

4 songs from HUT in top 10 of US spotify

Dawn FM had 9

very odd

Lil Pup 💔

bro it had 3 singles, 1 of which was promoted by Apple for the new iPhone lol

that single wasnt even added to the album though cause it didnt do too hot

plus about 10 different collector edition vinyls/cds

That was pretty evident when looking at Apple charts

Usually big albums dominate the top ten in about 12 hours this still has just 2 or three songs

Yes, and despite all that, there were loads of people saying on album release day saying that he didn’t do any promo for this album.

The extensive promo was there, but for some reason it didn’t reach the audiences it needed to reach

Child trying to put a sphere in a square hole

Honestly, I don’t think promo matters that much anymore

Cowboy Carter had just 10 days of promo, and Tyler announced his album with one Instagram post before dropping it a week later

Both still had much better debut numbers

I have a feeling word of mouth will carry this tho, we’ll see

itll carry it in terms of it being a critical acclaimed album by people

but not numbers wise imo, cause there's just a lack of Save Your Tears type tracks on here which people are used to for The Weeknd. This album is very different

maybe ill be wrong

Also, he has been very silent about this album for whatever reason. Day of the album drop all he did was reveal the cover, and he still hasn’t even acknowledged the Open Hearts Kimmel performance whatsoever @mangotflu

I’m not one that believes there was no promo, but there was an odd feeling to the promo we did get this time around

Possibly. If any tracks do blow up it’ll be Cry For Me, Open Hearts, or Niagara Falls.

But the problem with those three is:

• Cry For Me sounds a little too similar to São Paulo, which was an extremely regional record and didn’t blow up
• Open Hearts is more of the 80s synth-pop revival stuff, which the general public seems to be over at this point
• Niagara Falls doesn’t really have a solid hook for people to latch onto

There is a chance this could be sort of his CLB though. A record that had extremely long legs and sold well week after week for years but didn’t really have one big single hit on it to point to

no it didnt

It did. Dawn had one single and then four months of silence.

It had a ton of promo, but I guess it didn’t connect because a ton of people like yourself keep echoing the sentiment that it was barely promoted

bro Dawn FM released with like 1 single and the release date was announced a week before release lmaoo