Kanye West Best Posts: Ye first week sales 75k pure

  1. JFK
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    JFK Bleach on my t-shirt

    Jun 7, 2018
    I dunno how this surprises anyone. Counting first week "sales" is antiquated. The seven song album had 100 million streams in three days.

    There were no singles to count for first week streams (which is also ridiculous). Artists can go platinum before they even release their album thanks to streaming rules for singles.

    I'd have to stream the entirety of Ye 214 times to count for one "sale".

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  2. Boos
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    Jun 7, 2018
    A) no physicals
    b) everyone streams music these day
    c) wait for the total for pure/stream
     
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  3. Lil Squeed
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    Jun 7, 2018
    d--- you can chalk me up for three "sales" then
     
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  4. JFK
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    Jun 13, 2018
    Someday this may be a thing, but it's probably cheaper (and easier) to just buy physical albums.

    Let's say each song is on average 3 minutes (generous). 1000 Spotify accounts running 24 hours = 480,000 premium streams, which equals 384 album sales per day. If those ran all year, it'd be 140,160 in album sales. Artists used to do 1,000,000+ in a week.

    To achieve 1 million premium sales in one week, you'd need 372,023 Spotify accounts streaming songs (3 min) all week. Spotify is $10/mo. That's $3,720,230 for a month, or $930,057 for the week.

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  5. DKC
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    Jun 7, 2018
    I'd like to think they could find a fair way to make it "equivalent" to sales but I feel like that's not really possible. Cuz you could buy and album and listen to it zero times or buy an album and listen to it thousands of times. Idk how you could account for that with streaming.
     
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  6. Lil Squeed
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    Jun 7, 2018
    yea f--- you Shawn Mendes
     
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