Mar 21, 2017

"More Life will open atop the tally with perhaps 500,000 to 550,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending March 23, powered largely by streams of the set’s songs. Of its unit sum, traditional album sales could equal around 200,000 to 250,000."

http://www.billboard.com/articles/c...ng-record?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

1. Views - 1.04 Million
2. NWTS - 650,000
3. Take Care - 630,000
4/5. If You're Reading This It's Too Late - 540,000
4/5. More Life - 500,000 - 550,000
6. Thank Me Later - 450,000

What gives Ovihoes? Breaking first day streaming records and then selling half the numbers of his last tradgedy? Maybe people couldn't sit through 22 tracks in full?

Or maybe billboard is wrong, after all it's just projections...

 

Mar 21, 2017

Reminder that it's a playlist/mixtape

 

Mar 21, 2017

Still a commercial project

 

Mar 21, 2017

d--- pure sales are weaker than 4yeo's.

 

Mar 21, 2017

Drakes going the 50 Cent path.

 

Mar 21, 2017

He didnt promote it the same way he promoted his albums

 

Mar 21, 2017

Not sure the "its a playlist" argument works. How long had the release been hyped up for?

But at the same time those numbers aren't even bad

 

Mar 21, 2017

Ya'll criticize me for saying its not an album when you say its album of the year but then when it doesn't sell as well ya'll say its not an album

 

Mar 21, 2017

True, but the hype behind it should of made this sell like wildfire. Twitter during its release was pure #morelife tweeys

 

Mar 21, 2017

This dude is at his relevance peak also, he shouldnt be doing even IYRTITL numbers, after all, didnt he drop IYRTITL out of nowhere?

 

Mar 21, 2017

Backlash from Views.
Without streaming Drake is only selling 250k 1st week.

That is 100k lower than J Cole did with 4 Your Eyez Only.

 

Mar 21, 2017

That's sad because it's eons better than his last two projects

 

Mar 21, 2017

Who cares. Sales don't equate to quality

 

Mar 21, 2017

mmmm you forget that a main point constantly used by his stans is how much he sells

 

Mar 21, 2017

About what I expected. He'll do close to the same numbers next week.

 

Mar 21, 2017

seriously? I'd thought he be doing around 750k first week. You're right though, this is probably gonna pick up in the next few weeks. I sense plat in a month

 

Mar 21, 2017

Yeah he really didn't do much promo until that IG video with the release date. Not having a One Dance or HLB hurts it as well.

 

Mar 21, 2017

Fake Love has been bordering the top 10 on the 100 since its release, so thats half a hit

 

Mar 21, 2017

Because sales are stupid and streaming is the future.

Drake’s latest project More Life was streamed 89.9 million times in its first 24 hours on Apple Music, breaking the single-day album streams record for every music service, Apple tellsThe Verge. Apple Music far outpaced Spotify, which streamed the album 61.3 million times in its first day, a record for the service.

 

Mar 21, 2017

Yeah, he broke first day records, but you're failing to remember that streaming now counts, and has been counted for nearly two years now. There isn't any excuse why the biggest rapper and pop artist in the game is doing less first week numbers than J Cole