Bad Bunny dropped a f***ing 10/10 classic that’s resonating with an entire country and community of people. I’m not making any excuses. Hurry Up Tomorrow won’t have that same effect on people, it’s just a great album.

But The Weeknd was the #2 most streamed artist on Spotify in 2024 without even having an album out.

You used a Spotify stat, so I used one right back

But yet again, y’all play dumb to the fact that The Weeknd is a slow burn artist.

Hurry Up Tomorrow literally outperformed After Hours’s week one performance on Spotify. Is After Hours a failure now?

Do you think Spotify is the only music streaming service? Do you think The Weeknd is the only artist selling out stadiums around the world?

According to you, he's #2 Globally behind only Taylor and yet, according to the IFPI, which considers units for all artists across their entire music catalog across all music streaming platforms and DSPs in every music market in the world they have numbers for, the Weeknd has never ranked higher than #4 in ANY year.

So, he's #2 because you feel so?

You are giving an excuse. Taylor doesn't need to drop a 10/10 album that resonates with the whole world to put up massive numbers in her debut week. That's why she's #1.

And I'm challenging your point of him being #2 Globally. That's wrong. You can't use Spotify as your reason for that because Spotify isn't the only streaming service in the world. That's why you see a handful of K-Pop acts who made zero noise in the US ranking higher than many US acts in the yearly IFPI Global Artists chart. The Weeknd ranking #2 on Spotify doesn't automatically make him the #2 artist in the world. That's such a silly way of looking at things.

Nigga you JUST used a Spotify stat, then when I use one back it’s “do you think Spotify is the only music streaming service”?

No, it’s not. But it is BY A WIDE MARGIN the most used streaming service on the planet

I used a Spotify stat because that's what you've been using to insist the album is performing well Globally, genius. Haven't you been in here posting the daily Spotify Global numbers of HUT to make a point of it performing well? I posted that despite that, it still couldn't outdo a 5-week Bad Bunny Bunny album and you're hitting with dumb excuses yet again.

You've been acting like we're bullies for pointing to the US streaming performance of the album. I focus on Spotify Global numbers, which you've been posting to prove the album is performing well and here you are with more excuses

That doesn't mean ranking #2 on Spotify as the second most-streamed artist in the world automatically makes you the #2 artist in the world, genius. Bad Bunny was the most-streamed artist on Spotify for THREE straight years and didn't crack the IFPI Global Artists top 10 even once

Nah y’all are EXTREMELY disingenuous.

Y’all said last month Bad Bunny couldn’t be called the biggest artist on the planet because he was only listened to by Spanish speaking countries.

Now you’re saying a K-pop group that makes zero noise in the US can be called the 2nd biggest act in the world

Y’all literally move goalposts whenever it’s convenient to fit a narrative that’s insane

Hurry Up Tomorrow had a better week one performance on Spotify than After Hours did. Hope this helps

Tell me the year The Weeknd has ever ranked as the #2 artist as the world. I'll wait.

ktt2.com/ifpi-top-10-global-recording-artists-thread-2022-top-10-currently-32543509

Why can't the #2 artist in the world out-stream a 5-week Bad Bunny album? If Taylor dropped an album and came #2 to a 5-week Bad Bunny album, we wouldn't be having a conversation about it? Why are you being so disingenuous?

Aren't you the one always trying to exclude the US when speaking of Global numbers, like the US isn't a part of the world? Now the US is all-important? Stick the one narrative, stop jumping all over the place.

It’s like talking to a wall. Jesus would come back before The Weeknd ever releases an album that does crazy numbers first week. Hope this helps.

Disingenuous and mentally ill

I hope you have money on The Weeknd’s numbers because if not, the obsession is very embarrassing

Nigga said sum BTS

More excuses. Never fails with you.

All you've proved is that you made a silly, baseless claim of the Weeknd being the #2 artist in the world that you can't back up in any meaningful way. Glad we got that cleared up.

Damn weeknd really sold like crazy

I didn’t. The Weeknd IS the #2 biggest artist in the world. Hope this helps.

I haven’t made a single excuse whatsoever, the nigga has never cleared 450K first week and you treating him like he should be doing a million

Context is a foreign concept to someone such as yourself

This just in: if Drake’s next album does NOT clear 750K first week, it is a FLOP.

Spread the word!

The biggest rapper in the world should sell a million first week, no?

Its a rap album?