Like it’s cool to track sales of artists just to get an idea of what’s hot rn

But I don’t know how people have entire discussions going back and forth about sales. It reminds me of people who go on endlessly about sports statistics. Never made sense to me but there’s a niche for it

that's why i said yes and no.

That falls more in the "impact" category.

True.

Like previous posters said. No one really cared about sales until 50 cent came into the game.
It's turned into kinda rooting for your favorite team/artist for the casual listener.

The 50 vs Kanye sale war changed th a paradigm of the music industry though. That meant something even to the casual listener. We were kinda investing in the future of hip hop during that time

I don’t care about album sales but I like seeing my favorite artists do well and break records

Why is this thread made every week

I see 50 Cent as a toxic influence for this and it ended up blowing in his face so karma maybe

this isnt true. Sales been discussed before that. Jay discussed it. Biggie did. Puffy did. Tupac would bring it up when he dissed people. Sales always mattered lol

Eh I was too young for those guys. The 50 cent/g unit era was first time seeing sales being discussed.

Also before streaming era everyone was selling 250-500k at the least. So it wasn't a big deal until 50 made it a literal sport

Plot twist: greetings is drake

the youth has the concept of comparison so ingrained into them by the time they can communicate that they know nothing else

so they use sales to make comparisons

It's always been a thing

The real problem is fake views/sales tbh

we don't

Because if someone says a lie like Lil Baby or Travis Scott is hotter than Drake we can use objective numbers to prove them wrong

so how do you use numbers to prove Future’s legendary run in 2015

this nigga wont respond

Nah he’s cute af with his dreads grown out

cause its the only "objective" metric people can use to prove that their favourite album is the best album "objectively"

other than that they have nothing so some people cling to it hard

same thing for movies

theres people that f***ing have 4 page lokg convos going back and forth on Box Office numbers and opening week and domestic vs international runs

like bro thats coool to see how succesful and popular the music is, but y’all should be discussing the film not the numbers LMAO

We shouldn't lol

G Eazy>Lil Peep you correct

new weekly thread idea: why is music section so pressed over people that like to keep up with sales

blame drake

jay z started this and 50 ran w it.

tbf to them, it’s just a twist on ‘i’m richer than you’