RIP MY SISTER

not doing physicals is kind of a self-inflicted L, but i guess he's really committed to not dressing up the numbers in any way, shape, or form.

He's committed to the "they had to press play" bit and I don't mind it

no $5 vinyls with free shipping, no lollipops, no boxsets, no fanpacks, no meme alternative covers.

Completely insane

And yet somehow people will tell you all he cares about are numbers

It’s me twice in my Big 3, I had to leave you out

drake elimination

shout out @thegreatdivine

I put a skirt on the whip and a crown on the six
But there's no need to dress up the numbers

Lmfaaaoooo wait WHAT?

who else would it be?

He has all the top 5? that’s just crazy to me

the highest non-drake streaming week for a rap album is tha carter V, which had 433M first week.

last time a non-drake rapper debuted with over 400M streams was juice WRLD with legends never die back in 2020. at this rate nobody is joining that club for a long time.

50 million less streams than FATD/her loss but 60k more units is crazy

honestly f*** billboard for not doing this formula change at the height of streaming

This is why I've been saying for years they need to just start tracking & reporting sales and streams separately. As time passes and they eventually keep lowering the amount of streams needed for a sale, all it does is inflate the total number. There's no reason that "sales-equivalent units" have to exist.

They can literally just say "New album did X amount of streams and X amount of pure sales first week"

The sales-equivalent metric made sense when streaming was new and had to be folded into the system, but in 2026 it's completely arbitrary

Only one possible would be Kendrick with an actual rollout and an album that was at least 15 songs. He got close with GNX

mafia boss fr🧊🦉👌🏿

fake intimidation

Niggas was selling plastic shipping containers 🤣🤣🤣