The D2C digital deluxe trend that’s been rampant recently has nothing to do with “signed digital copies” and everything to do with exclusive deluxe songs that are only available via the artist’s webstore. You literally have no idea what it is you’re talking about lmao

The fact Drake was only able to pull 250k, even after participating in the most watched rap event in decades, shows that he won’t outsell GNX with his next one

Yeah but it’s a collab album in name only really

I of all people would’ve loved if Drake went hard into rnb with more party involvement. I was actually disappointed by how much solo stuff was there, because I would’ve much rather the collab been an actual collab and the solo would’ve felt fresher as well

taylors last album did 700k SEA pure streaming

Yeah, these are clearly aimed at Taylor Swift.

i forgot all about the “signed digital copy” s***, that was nasty work man

And again, you’re not convincing me he suddenly got 200k sales when he put a bonus track on an album lmao.

Deluxes ain’t never boosted sales that much to the point a nigga would sell an extra six figures by making a deluxe with one more song

She'll still do crazy numbers in pure sales, just not as crazy as before.

those "digital deluxe" sales have always been weird to me. i refuse to believe there are 50k people out there who went out of their way to buy a lil baby album, or 60k people who bought that yeat album. it just makes no sense lol.

You’re forgetting the initial ones were the 00XO collabs, so Carti fans mistakenly bought them thinking there would be extra Carti songs on them.

Then there was one more with Pharrell during the album’s release week.

She’ll still do a mill. Just not 2.6 mill that her last album did

It also had 31 songs.

This nigga don’t realize that the sales don’t count if the physical albums don’t ship

Funny coming from someone who literally handed the album in at 7 AM on a Friday

Yep Lil Baby was another example of obviously faking it too.

He can’t even sell 5,000 CDs but we supposed to believe 50,000 trap niggas rushed to his site to buy an album to hear ONE more song

It’s always “faking it” when an artist you don’t like does it

Carti fans aren’t even buying his own album digitally 200,000 times so why the f*** do you think anyone would believe they’d buy another artist album that many times for a collaboration?

ya the s*** a fraud, especially when its their own website, u just report whatever number u want and cook the books

thats why billboard adding this new rule in, if ur caught with 3 fraudulent reported sales in a 12-month period, u get a 9 month ban from all sales reported

Artist website

Nigga dropped the album at 7:30 in the morning. He f***ed himself over

Yall think Labels will still find a loophole through this?

nigga aint no way lil baby had 50,000 people buying an itunes album s*** is NOT REAL

I never said it was all the Carti fans

Also we don’t know what the digital sales numbers are for MUSIC yet. But the only “deluxe” song is a song that’s been out since 2023, so I doubt the digital sales will be that high