Thought this would come in under mixtape Pluto based off of first day and the reception

different situation

drake doing numbers while beefing with the label and calling the CEO a bum, while also having 10 other tapes on the charts.

dot did these numbers backed by the industry (grammys/superbowl) that were happening the same time.

so he is doing Habibti numbers with +20 track album ?

not gonna lie it feels like atlanta niggas suffered the most from the beef and kendrick reinventing the history.

these are solid numbers, but the last metro tape, thug, 21, lil baby and them been doing worse and worse every since 24.

maybe about 10-15k better than i was expecting tbh. impressive considering his spotify numbers have been catastrophically bad, apple music still has enough motion to sort of cancel that out.

word of mouth is kinda bad, so it might not have legs needed to really stick around for the summer

With the new streaming rule in place, i thought future would of benefited more

Baddie friend of mine that loves future and clubbing admitted to me that it was straight ass it’s cooked for his summer longevity tbh

If this ends up being the number

More than wsdty and mixtape pluto

GNX was doing 66K a week in mid-January 2025, weeks before the Grammys and the Super Bowl

Why do y’all act dense on here

Drake is 3x more popular on streaming than Future

promo for the grammys and super bowl were already in full affect

drake is doing after getting 'killed' and with 10 other album charting

just sayin

HIM nearly dd 700k combined first week

meanwhile future was doing +200k before and shortly after the beef. this is a decrease for him, so its fair to say he suffered post beef as many other atlanta cats did.

kendrick made niggas believe that drake exploited and needed them, now atlanta is looking worse than ever numbers wise. sad to see, they had the game on lock when they were united.

Future only has done 200K+ first week twice in his career, that is his peak

He usually does somewhere between 110K and 150K first week

Whereas 200K is the low end for Drake

You’re comparing apples to oranges

There’s no way y’all still believe these conspiracies in July 2026

The average person is not thinking about the politics of the music industry when they go into their DSP and press play on an album they want to hear

Nobody in January 2025 was like “oh yeah I love what Lucien is cooking up by giving Kendrick the Super Bowl and the four Grammys he’s about to win in six weeks, let me go click play on GNX because of that”

Also if you wanna say Atlanta had the game on lock when they were united, then let’s go back to 2023. What Atlanta rap album was so successful that year?

Complaining about marketing in a sales thread is also incredibly brain dead

Iceman was marketed for damn near 2 years, not that it matters, that’s literally the point of a label

Noooo way this is real

ATL rap was not united in 2023, that’s literally when s*** was at peak beef with Gunna saying yes ma’am December 2022 so of course s*** suffered for that one year

only major artist that dropped 2023 are Thug, Gunna and depending on how you view Metro with Heroes and Villains which was huge. YSL were recovering from jail or still in jail and 21 dropped top of the year 2024 an album that took him on a $42M tour and Future had his 3 #1 albums in 2024 lol so a one off year to determine the entire decade a lil crazy when that year had Fukumean, Fe!n, and Creepin

What I’m saying is the beef isn’t the reason some of the guys have been underperforming commercially lately. It’s the music + the labels deprioritizing rap as the 2020s have progressed. It’s not because Drake and Kendrick said some mean words to each other

eh, ATLs biggest label was essentially shutdown for 2 years and lost its 2 biggest members at the same time Gucci’s label was falling apart cause of prison/deaths as well

feel like it was more than just “labels deprioritizing rap” in a quick time for ATL and they still held on with Future (INLY), Metro and 21

Wait guys... I thought Drake returning was gonna save the genre ?

thats what im talking about

drake himself is still good. but the beef affected a lot of other niggas that jumped in for no reason, they lost fans with the pick a side s***.

s*** looking different without the stimulus. dot did his thing and left everyone else struggling.

wonder what Ross is gonna do numbers wise.
nigga were obsessed with ending drake that the forgot how it would affect themselves.

future, cole. metro etc, all doing less after the beef then they did before. meanwhile iceman is outperforming fatd.

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