Yeah, because having fans who buy enough physicals for an artist to move 70k vinyls in one week but don't continue to stream the albums they bought are better than people who stream your music for years and years lmao.

He's over though

This argument would work if artists were compensated properly for their high streaming numbers, but they aren’t.

You can pretend like lazily streaming an album is on par with spending money (actual, tangible support) for a physical copy if that makes you feel better.

Any artist on the planet would rather have 100K fans buy a physical copy than they would have 100K fans stream a song. You just d***ride streams because that’s where Drake dominates.

Taylor Swift is not the biggest artist in the world because she outstreams everyone, she’s the biggest artist in the world because she has millions of fans that regularly and routinely support her by buying physical copies of her work en masse

It also confuses me the prestige placed on streaming numbers since they’re apparently so easily manipulated and gamified but that would require consistency and standards… we know that doesn’t exist in this thread.

instead of d***riding foreign celebrities for free, you can do this too by using that energy on something productive

Yeah d***riding the same process that you think was the reason your GOAT got embarrassed is certainty a choice

how the hell did sleep token sell over 100k

shoutout Kali man she’s got such a lowkey successful career. Don won

you really thought this ate

im cooler than every single person in this thread combined and squared and id never in my life post my location like that niggas really are actual losers

nigga in Barcelona still on ktt talkin s*** bout drake

You were until you said that yikes

-1.5b aura

5 name changes none of them stuck

-10 trillion aura + self perma

That was the point of changing them niggas was d***riding too hard

Think I did too good with the last one tho, spawned a few copy cats

Good stuff for Sleep Token

Just came in this thread to say Nokia is soty.
Y'all can keep talking about sales

are they holding back some of the vinyls for later weeks or did $$$ fr push 9k vinyls after 3 months??

It fr pushed 9K vinyl after three months

Anxiety soty actually

i mean its like if applebees sold pizzas lmfao its gonna take a full album cycle to even train his fans to buying vinyls because for so long bro just didnt make any. barely any physicals, merch not tied with albums etc

very unfair comparison imo, for someone who literally trained the entire world to use streaming opposed to physical media, kinda makes sense

You agreeing with what I’m saying but they called me crazy for these sentiments all year

lol i agree with this but that's the problem man he shoulda been onnat

It all boils down to the terms of your contract. If you have a f***ed up record deal, you won't make nearly enough money from your music whether via physical/digital sales or streaming.

And yet artists will ALWAYS make more through physicals sales regardless of how f***ed up a contract is