Whatcouldgowrong

6mo

Is drake even in competition with the weeknd anymore at this point?

TheFader

6mo

Drake’s next project is not clearing 400K. His ceiling for his next one is 325K.

His studio albums have slowly but consistently trended downward in first week sales with every album since Views:

Views: 1 million
Scorpion: 732K
CLB: 603K
Honestly, Nevermind: 204K (dance album)
For All the Dogs: 402K

His next one should sell somewhere between 300K and 325K first week.

And that’s not true about Weeknd. The only album of his that benefitted from bundles was After Hours.

BBTM did 412K and Starboy did 366K both without bundles, and MDM did 169K as well.

TheFader

6mo

Those numbers you cited are not sourced, and if they are accurate, it makes your point look even worse about Views being bigger globally. S*** only sold 1M outside the US

Zack From The Six

6mo

You forgot that the Weeknd albums you mentioned were pre-streaming era. First week sales are very different now

ElementalDeezed

6mo

i think u are right in the sense that drake will prob sell around ~400k again maybe slightly less

but the difference in sales will always come down to physicals, which drake does not release

for example, weeknd is no where on the top 20 biggest album debut weeks for streaming, becuase a lot of his sales come from physicals which allows him to still have massive first weeks similar to trav

not saying 1 is better than the other, just giving a breakdown on the differences

https://ktt2.com/biggest-streaming-weeks-on-the-billboard-200-76952

1. The Tortured Poets Department - 891 million
2. Scorpion - 745 million
3. Certified Lover Boy - 743 million
4. Midnights - 549 million
5. For All the Dogs - 514 million
6. Her Loss - 513 million
7. One Thing at a Time - 498 million
8. Tha Carter V - 433 million
9. Beerbongs & Bentleys - 431 million
10. The Tortured Poets Department (2nd week) - 428 million
11. Legends Never Die - 422 million
12. SOS - 404 million
13. Eternal Atake - 400 million
14. Scorpion (2nd week) - 390 million
15. More Life - 384 million
16. 1989 (Taylor's Version) - 375 million
17. Hollywood's Bleeding - 365 million
18. Donda - 357 million
19. Un Verano Sin Ti - 356 million
20. Astroworld - 349 million

The Darkest Angel

6mo

If I posted them you'd call it spreadsheets. If I don't them I'm not citing my sources. I can't win when you got goalposts set up every which way and already started the thread off bias af. We could've been celebrating this milestone for Abel and you went with the mindset of battling Drake stans like Zack and Divine on page 1 because you got something to prove

You claim the global numbers for Starboy are bigger than Views but when we look at every country on Earth with certifications it comes in at under 3 million less than Views

Whatcouldgowrong

6mo

Is drake even in competition with the weeknd anymore at this point?

New NIGHTMAN

6mo

his worst album and still a classic

Zack From The Six

6mo

Nothing Without You, Starboy, Reminder, Secrets, Six Feet Under, Attention (a few other great tracks) all on the same album
Fantastic album, well deserved

HURRY UP K DOG

6mo

Secrets is the best song on this album

TheFader

6mo

You said “all of his major albums used bundles”

That is categorically untrue since he’s only even used bundles one time

TheFader

6mo

Outside of the US, Drake is just not as big as The Weeknd, and he hasn’t been for quite some years now.

Zack From The Six

6mo

You are right, probably mixed it up with bundling singles. But my main point still stand: nothing suggests Weeknd would outsell Drake if they dropped albums on the same day

MarcoPreme

6mo

Daft Punk only gon work with certain artists and Abel is one of them ones