Abel magnum opus. Those numbers well deserved

Yes, I was saying that BECAUSE those people were saying there was no hype for the album as late as the day of the album’s release.

I never believed there was no hype, but who am I to say there was for the tons of people that were saying there wasn’t?

And I never said I saw it doing 450K. I said I was wrong and it overperformed.

What I was laughing at was the fact that there was months of people saying the album had no hype (from people in this thread as well, you included), only for it to score his highest first week debut ever

So where is the 500k coming from? The gap between now and when sales were finalized?

That could just be the singles’ pre-release performance factored in. Those don’t contribute towards the first week numbers

Crazy W for Weeknd! It’s official now he’s on a different level compared to Drake and it's not even close.

HUT moved nearly 3x the numbers of Drake’s last weedplate, damn. Drake ain't even the biggest name in Toronto anymore let alone the US smh.

Hockey stans @thegreatdivine @quadra @mangotflu @Wally3500 will cope as usual. Divine looney was hating on Weeknd since last summer and just took a HUGE L lol.

First they hated on Travis then Bad Bunny (didn't work) and now Weeknd just handed them another L.

Drake is officially #2 in his own city lol. And while everyone else is pulling record streams Drake is the only one struggling. That’s what happens when karma catches up.

130k streaming is very low though.

It’s 4K off from Dawn, and 30K off from After Hours. It’s literally consistent with the range he’s always streamed first week, he’s never been a big first week streamer

Damn Abel

This is some weak ass bait

bored as f***.

THE GOAT

First time realizing Weeknd that short damn like a solid 5’6 without the hair

we know how them year end lists gonna look

450K first week but not many songs debuting in the top 10????

Make it make sense.

Terrible

I Can’t Wait To Get Thereeeee

Streaming isn’t the end all be all.

Just because REDACTED is too incompetent and/or lazy to produce physicals anymore, or even do digital sales, doesn’t mean streaming is the only metric that matters

The Weeknd’s best album scores him the best numbers of his career? Poetic justice.

So this was bundles then?

Idk. I didn’t even give it a listen yet. Just curious.

Bait used to be believable

I’m so serious. I’ve only been listening to bad bunny. I can show you my scrobbles 😭

No, it was mostly physical copies

Yep, he was selling graham crackers and inflatable balloons this time around