Correct me if im wrong, but i think the bundles you're reffering to and the old bundles are very different. I dont see what's wrong with selling an album + t shirt for the price of the album and the t shirt. It's techincally a bundle, but it brings no ulterior benefit, to the consumer or to the artist

Its only a problem when someone drake fans hate does it !!

I hate beyonce and tyler

How did that hurt his case? 4x4 went #1 completely organically

Exactly. They’re being totally disingenuous in here.

Yes, bundles still exist, but they are HEAVILY restricted now and COMPLETELY different to what they were a few years ago.

Before they changed the rules, you could sell literally any product whatsoever and attach a digital album for free onto it and it would count as a sale. You could also attach digital albums to tour tickets and it would count as an album sale. The items also didn’t have to ship by any specific time and they would count.

Nowadays, ONLY physical copies can be bundled with merch for the FULL price of the physical copy, and only TWO different variations of those merch bundles can exist. Not only that, but the merch item HAS to be available to purchase independently from the physical copy, and also they HAVE to ship in order to count as a sale.

So for example, anyone who wants a T-shirt that costs $30 can’t just buy a physical bundle for $31 total, because the physical copy has to be included at full price. No one is being forced to buy the bundle, nor are they persuaded to do so by way of a discount

+400k? TGD won, damn.

Damn, she is having a moment

Cause they're coping. They let Taylor Swift slide with it and never go at her neck in this thread lol

Tbf there’s nothing non-musical between the fan and the music that you can argue Swifties are buying the music for, it comes down to a new version to the music - or all new music - at worst

Happy for this because I haven't stopped playing Die with a Smile, Disease and Abracadabra since they dropped.

Be serious man, just glanced over her site for literally 10 seconds and saw 4 different vinyl color variations for the same album. Saying the fans are just buying stuff for new music is disingenuous

What happend with that Lady Gaga Thing. Why is she #1? I mean…this is coming so damn unexpected

The chemistry between Kendrick and SZA is super dope. If they put on a great performance and if Luther gets a MV after, the song could blow up even more.

All The Stars is an even bigger surprise to me...almost 2 billion streams and still getting over 2 million a day after almost 7 yrs. Kendrick and SZA have so many hits together I just hope they drop a collab album this summer.

If you take the 11 lowest streamed songs off Scorpion it is about the same as DAMN. DAMN got a few boosts years later so it will probably over take Scorpion in Streams/Units.

Huh? How does that make sense?

That would mean the 14 highest streamed songs only make up like a billion streams

The real "bundle" thats a cheat code now is boxsets that are discounted. Travis did this with Utopia I think.

5 dollar cds & vinyl with free shipping

Huh? I'm saying the highest 14 songs on Scorpion have about as many streams as DAMN.

Another diamond song on the way

Kendrick really gave us more hit songs in 8 months than Drake did in 8 yrs

Math is not mathing

Ohhhh, then that would mean the 11 lowest songs only Scorpion only make up like a billion streams, which isn’t great either

impressive fw for the weeknd

That is how it usually is for most big rap albums. 4-5 songs are usually majority of the streams.

Surprised by this Abracadabra song being this big

Yea it's so bad. But you can tell it's made for a certain demographic only.