Subreddit full of 1000s of @CliCity

president and the first man

nah fr like its kinda like how the internet kinda leveled out a lot of life, trump presidency did that but instead of equal opportunity for creatives and spreading ur art easily and creating businesses overnight etc its like that for being a f***ing idiot and fear mongering. like over night niggas can just start a theory that turns into a subreddit that turns into a discord then boom someone is assassinated. its like lightning speed psychosis

the irony that the physical sales actually did come in handy, but all they did was spare him the embarrassment of doing sub-50k.

the physicals just came in <3

wow i was a full percent of the physical sales

plot twist they are all different variants some just have the same cover lmao

Can we not act like Views Scorpion CLB was some big drop at least. Or 🗿

you do know that in 2025, the amount of albums sold in any given week is literally 1/50-100th that of any week in 2014-2015? so her making 100 variants would actually just be leveling the field lol

Do you really believe 3 million with 100 variants in 2025 is the same as 6 million with 2 variants in 2015?

And streaming counts towards first week sales.

you the only nigga I see on here that talks about “dj hed”

nobody else cares

i dont believe theyre the same, ive been saying selling 3M in 2025 is a hell lot harder than selling 3M in 2015, even given the extra variants. the sales market has shrunk to 1/50th of what it was 10 years ago, and one T swift Vinyl is worth 50 bucks + shipping, while adele had 1.5 million itunes sales which were $9.99.

and as you have mentioned, there is streaming. we know that the albums with the most unique listeners are t swift's. even her last album, 'TTPD' had 13 million unique listeners on spotify in the US alone first week. and we know apple music +amazon music actually has more listeners in the US than spotify.

so her new albums are easily being listened to by 20-30 million different individuals in the US first week. all those millions of listeners translated into 800M streams first week which only translated to 700k album-equivalent sales. had the go-to method of music consumption been buying albums instead of streaming, like it was 10 years ago, she EASILY would shatter the 3M record without any variants.
however, im not here to say if adele had released '25' today under the same stardom as back then, that she could or couldnt outdo T Swift. all im saying is selling albums today is a lot harder than in 2015, so when you see variants, its just a necessary tool to revitalize sales and make it possible to compete to the sales numbers from the last decade. it is time we collectively acknolwedge this simple fact.

So far, "Am I The Drama?" is more acclaimed than Taylor's latest album.

That's kinda insane lmao.

Bro why are you obsessed with me literally all you do is follow me around this site brah like god damn give me a break

Explains drake

Kendrick stans really still saying Drake is the top rapper just so they have a leg up in sales discussions?

I’m sure Kendrick will tell you he’s the top rapper post beef

Kendrick and most rap fans have always said Kendrick is the top “rapper” since TPAB dropped and DAMN solidified him in the commercial space

But when it comes to sales and popularity it’s obviously Drakes realm, he’s just not even close to the rapper Kendrick is

DOT Era 🏆

The entire reason for the beef is because Kendrick was never the top rapper in his entire career yet he always felt like he should be

Now we’re post beef and Kendrick has the ear of every casual rap fan across the globe. He’s #1 and he should be expected to sell the most

Anyone still saying Drake should outsell him is capping with ulterior motives

“Anyone still saying Drake should outsell him is capping with ulterior motives”

Or they’re being realistic

the issue is he had the ear of the casual audience after the big industry push and they don't like what he has to offer very much. that's why his streaming numbers have been on a freefall

I think it’s much more complex than that since they’ve been throwing shots for 10 years

A battle at 40 years old doesn’t just shift an entire career of streams and sales, that’s already cemented in history, and because of streaming drake is able to comfortably rest on his back catalogue.

I do agree if both dropped at the same time Kendrick should be able to outsell him unless drake did bundles and Kendrick didn’t

But say Kendrick pivoted again and did something experimental like TPAB or introspective like MMATBS, while Drake focused on hits, it wouldn’t be a shock for drake to outsell