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  • Jul 20, 2025
    thegreatdivine

    How's her music? I haven't tapped in yet.

    It's remarkable.

  • Jul 20, 2025
    TheFader

    Sheesh!

    https://twitter.com/brianzisook/status/1946370552567886243

    Cole.

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    Why do people continue to act like Travis is the only artist that does bundles just because he has the most success with it? Does he not realize over half of Clipse’s first week total is from physicals & bundles as well?

    Also he’s extremely corny for being a media member and s***ting on physical media

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    TheFader

    Why do people continue to act like Travis is the only artist that does bundles just because he has the most success with it? Does he not realize over half of Clipse’s first week total is from physicals & bundles as well?

    Also he’s extremely corny for being a media member and s***ting on physical media

    https://twitter.com/chatnigga101/status/1946687588351266977

    I think its mostly because the music is not that good

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    TheFader

    Why do people continue to act like Travis is the only artist that does bundles just because he has the most success with it? Does he not realize over half of Clipse’s first week total is from physicals & bundles as well?

    Also he’s extremely corny for being a media member and s***ting on physical media

    https://twitter.com/chatnigga101/status/1946687588351266977

    Elliot Wilson is close to Jay-Z and has worked at Tidal

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    SpiderMan

    Elliot Wilson is close to Jay-Z and has worked at Tidal

    Does Jay hate travis? How does that correlate?

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    Gosh

    Does Jay hate travis? How does that correlate?

    He won't talk s*** about Clipse having half their sales from merch bundles cause they released the album under Roc Nation.
    He's probably dunking on Travis for doing that cause he surprise dropped the album same time as them too and is beefing with Clipse.

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    SpiderMan

    He won't talk s*** about Clipse having half their sales from merch bundles cause they released the album under Roc Nation.
    He's probably dunking on Travis for doing that cause he surprise dropped the album same time as them too and is beefing with Clipse.

    I just dont think a 50 year old man needs Jay Z to tell him not to support Travis Scott

    This isnt the first time he was called a bundle merchant, Jay Z didnt create that narrative

    Obviously its hypocritical, but I dont think Jay is the reason personally

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    Gosh

    I just dont think a 50 year old man needs Jay Z to tell him not to support Travis Scott

    This isnt the first time he was called a bundle merchant, Jay Z didnt create that narrative

    Obviously its hypocritical, but I dont think Jay is the reason personally

    Ofcourse I'm not saying Jay-Z directly told him to do that but he has allegiance to Jay-Z and won't talk s*** about the artists who just released their music under him.

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    SpiderMan

    He won't talk s*** about Clipse having half their sales from merch bundles cause they released the album under Roc Nation.
    He's probably dunking on Travis for doing that cause he surprise dropped the album same time as them too and is beefing with Clipse.

    Is it merch bundles tho, I have a vinyl I bought.

    Buy pure physical copies isn’t the same as buying clothing packaged with album

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    Expert

    Is it merch bundles tho, I have a vinyl I bought.

    Buy pure physical copies isn’t the same as buying clothing packaged with album

    Lot of them were boxset options on the site afaik, there were like 6 or 7.

    I don't think there's anything wrong with them though and should be counted.

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    Expert

    Is it merch bundles tho, I have a vinyl I bought.

    Buy pure physical copies isn’t the same as buying clothing packaged with album

    Clipse website has 6 merch bundles currently for sale. 6 others are sold out

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    SpiderMan

    Lot of them were boxset options on the site afaik, there were like 6 or 7.

    I don't think there's anything wrong with them though and should be counted.

    I don’t blame artists for using the system but I see a difference between buying actual music vs s*** where music is secondary object

    For example if Rihanna drops an album and sells vinyls, for me that’s valid. But she packaging album copy with Fenty drop where people are more in it for make up, I see it differently.

    In the end I don’t make the rules tho and I don’t blame artists for capitalizing

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    Expert

    I don’t blame artists for using the system but I see a difference between buying actual music vs s*** where music is secondary object

    For example if Rihanna drops an album and sells vinyls, for me that’s valid. But she packaging album copy with Fenty drop where people are more in it for make up, I see it differently.

    In the end I don’t make the rules tho and I don’t blame artists for capitalizing

    I don't think people have been doing that recently, it was crazy earlier with people selling lollipops and keychains and whatnot but recently it's only been normal merch like t-shirts and hoodies. I guess it's cause they need to ship the limited physical copies first week itself and why waste them on something people may not buy.

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    TheFader

    Why do people continue to act like Travis is the only artist that does bundles just because he has the most success with it? Does he not realize over half of Clipse’s first week total is from physicals & bundles as well?

    Also he’s extremely corny for being a media member and s***ting on physical media

    https://twitter.com/chatnigga101/status/1946687588351266977

    because he's probably a top 10 artist in the world (popularity) and 80% of his new album sales are from bundling

    i dont think theres any other top tier artist abusing it that much

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    trav only doing 70k streaming units with a 20 track tape thats been hyped for a long time is really weird tbh, massive underperformance

    but i think spotify & AM changed their algos away from rap this year, will see in a few days with tyler's album

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    mangotflu

    because he's probably a top 10 artist in the world (popularity) and 80% of his new album sales are from bundling

    i dont think theres any other top tier artist abusing it that much

    How is he “abusing” it because he has a fanbase that’s more willing to buy his products?

    Also, 73% of The Tortured Poets Department’s first week sales were pure sales

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    Didn't yall say physical purchases were more important than streams

    What's the problem now

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    quadra

    Didn't yall say physical purchases were more important than streams

    What's the problem now

    They are and always will be

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    TheFader

    They are and always will be

    You were probably oen of the people defending the lollipops

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    quadra

    Didn't yall say physical purchases were more important than streams

    What's the problem now

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