Right, but that's because music is the only medium that has fully transitioned to the subscription model for new releases. If new games were available to play on a subscription model as well, people wouldn't buy them en masse either

Bro forgot game pass exists

You can't play every single new major release day one on Game Pass

Even with the extra 200 million streams from what did I miss Iceman isn't on track to beat GNX's time to 2 billion streams

My perma looking less likely by the day even

Madonna is a legend. Why is noone talking about that record??

2 months post release iceman vs GNX stats

Iceman streams: 1.5 billion (twice the tracks and 200 million single included

GNX: 1.39 billion

Source; web.archive.org/web/20250127103210/https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/2YZyLoL8N0Wb9xBt1NhZWg_albums.html
kworb.net/spotify/artist/3TVXtAsR1Inumwj472S9r4_albums.html

Iceman daily streams: 9 million
GNX daily streams: 13 million

Sad sad stuff from Drake

it's the week of a future album and a year old ella langley song is #1 on apple music. it's so over for mainstream rap it isn't even funny.

kinda deserved
most niggas itt are celebrating like cornball whenever these yt popstars have been outselling drake and other rap artists

instead of bigging up artists we have users that have been hating daily for multiple years already

no healthy ecosystem when most of the people are just hating on artists and try to s*** on everyone who feels diffrent

Olivia (Rodrigo) songs already out of the top 10

Half because the Future album is getting (wrongfully imo) s***ted on

Half because that Ella song really just is huge right now and not getting carried by radio. For context, the #2 song on AM is Janice STFU, which got about 13.3M US streams this week. Choosin’ Texas got 25.5M US streams this week:

Yeah mainstream rap is just in a bad spot right now commercially

Boggles my mind why octane is the one exception to that this year

any predictions on the real me fw numbers yet ?

high level botting apparently

Damn this is embarrassing for Drake

Nah the album is just genuinely popular

66k this late after release my goodness

behemoth

GNX was selling the same amount two months post-release yet y’all act like that album wasn’t popular

wow thats incredible

kendrick and drake two of the only remaining behemoths

Respect

Crazy that the two biggest rap albums of the 2020s are by guys who debuted 15+ years ago

He’s Mr. Consistent when it comes to first week sales

12K pure sales though

He really don’t have a pure sales fanbase at all