Ngl after all that Metro hype I thought this one is still going to do 80k+ but I guess nobody cared about it since 90% of the features are washed or fell off like 15 years ago

I don't mean this negative btw there are some great songs on it

Drake fans have been focusing on the sales, numbers, and performance of everyone on the “op list”

A nigga can’t have a stomach ache without them saying it was for betraying Drake

Your album has to be a moment now, wether it was like GNX, or LGSEO, it needs to be something the people can root for

Metros mixtape will be appreciated by the people it’s for, but as far as other more typical mainstream releases, it can’t be empty anymore and still move crazy numbers

She was deadass saying the number of tracks on a project shouldn't mean more streams when people were talking about Drake projects in here a few months ago Talk about moving goalposts

I was saying to my group of friends it would do 300k+ after BBL Drizzy

That s*** honestly made it corny lmao

Metro was doing way too much

If you're talking about the post I found of you saying sales = quality after saying you never did, it didn't take me that much time. Knew I just had to go to 13 May 2022 and skim every page reading every post with Jeremy Fragrance next to it

The person who made this thread titled "Kendrick Lamar fans are setting him up for failure with their unrealistic sales expectations" is in here still talking about "That album should've done 350k+" over 3 years later

First two were albums with major features

Third is a mixtape with features who haven’t been relevant in 10+ years

These things are not the same

Still waiting for anyone to name two producer mixtapes that did more than 30K first week

Future, Thug, Lil Baby, 21 Savage and Quavo haven't been relevant in 10+ years?

Future, Thug, Baby, and 21 are on a combined 5/24 songs. (Future, Thug, and 21 are on one song each)

And yes, Quavo really hasn’t been relevant recently either. His last solo album did 32K first week. I don’t know anyone who is eagerly anticipating a new Quavo album.

The majority of the features on here are older Atlanta artists who wouldn’t clear 15K if they dropped a new album tomorrow.

Compared to HEROES & VILLAINS, which had multiple features from guys like Travis & Weeknd who both fill up stadiums by themselves

eh sounds like bs to me LGSEO was only like that cause they had the best roll out ever and only sold 100k (58k from nostalgia bundles i even copped) and GNX is obviously gonna be huge cause UMG

when in reality all this is is just drake fatigue, FATD still sold more than gnx, SSS4U damn near did too

hip hop is falling out of mainstream favor because of radio coming back to be as important as it was in the 00s. there are certain examples of hip hop songs benefiting from this (NLU and Luther) but on a grand scale, it's literally there to keep hip hop from dominating out of the industries control.

if you can sit here with a straight face and tell me those songs that are holding the top 10 are actually big rn and not being backed by label radio play

we literally watched hip hop get nerfed in real time and everyone is smoking copium about f***ing "roll outs" literally every HUGE album from this decade didnt have one barely.

quavo also showed why he is the goat on this metro album like hes just easily top 10 rappers personally ever (along with takeoff)

on disc 2 of a mixtape with no features listed lmfao, let’s not ignore how the project missed opportunities to be heard more

like if GNX had a fully week i think at max it woulda did 400k

brah damn went so crazy first week sales wise and id argue that GNX is culturally his biggest album yet. Dont get me wrong damn had HITS but like GNX was like a full on cultural takeover

first disc of metro album is actually flawless ill probably come to the same conclusion for side 2 also

This radio bogeyman bullshit gotta stop man. There are zero rap songs in the Top 25 of US Spotify right now. Niggas just aren’t listening to the music because most of the music has been weak

He’s also ignoring the fact that Future & 21 are on one total song, and Young Thug is on one total song. So those three combined are on 2 out of 24 tracks

not on apple music

also were in the same lul we were in when this entire "hip hop has fallen off" discourse started. it never really did it was just the end of the decade and no one was really dropping. literally all it takes is drake dot carti to drop an album and the top 20 gonna change asap

also morgan wallen eating tf up rn

You think she listened?

Apple Music is more hip-hop dominant, yes, but even on there as of right now there are TWO rap songs in the Top 25 and one of them is a Lil Baby song from eight years ago

People are just not checking in for new rap en masse, it has nothing to do with radio

So this was a lie?

Third is a mixtape with features who haven’t been relevant in 10+ years

So 5/24 songs sums up the entire project? Do you hear yourself?

Future, 21, and Thug are on a combined 2 out of 24 songs so you cherry picked like crazy

The MAJORITY of features on the mixtape are Atlanta artists who have not been relevant in years. That better?

do u realize that all of that has to do with how labels are pushing the music?

drakes run in the 2010s put him in a position to completely level the music industry, ofc they aint pushing hip hop and changing the rules. these niggas that are #1 would never do that, morgan wallen would never red button lucien

dot wont either

that little jewish boy though....