2013 Juicy J has no expectations of selling big numbers to even quantify anything he does to be a flop, unless it was insanely low Kreyshawn type number...honestly don't think it would've mattered when they released the album in relation to Bandz...Blurred Lines was a number one pop record in the country for like 2 months straight damn near with corporate sponsers that had it serve as the theme song to major corporate roll outs... and Robin Thicke ain't clear 200k first week...the current incarnation of Juicy J is something roughly approximating a mixtape trap (party anthem) rapper...all things considered, I'm betting he's feeling blessed
There's a reason why ain't a soul on here even thought beforehand to ponder what he'd do his first week before the sh!t dropped on some "OMG is Juicy J gonna flop" shyt
Big singles are their own markers of success, independent of album sales...Bandz being a hit that resurrected his entire career > an arbitrary extra 35K copies sold first week from the album...don't understand this backsward thinking where people hold big singles against acts like they're some type of liability instead of an asset
It definitely mattered. That's when his popularity was at its highest. If he can do 70 now he could have easily cleared 100 or maybe mid 90s back then.