Does Digital Sales Vs Physical Sales...Tell us who really got the streets?

[Still Benefited]

Is physical album sales vs digital album sells the best way to figure this out once and for all?Since y'all don't think me sayin I heard 10 nikkas drive by bumpin it in the past hour is accurate enough

Young Jeezy Thug Motivation 103 Hustlerz Ambition Album Sales : Digital vs Physical | That Retail Chick
77% 22%digital

Nas
Nas Life Is Good Physical vs Digital Album Sales | That Retail Chick
59% 41% digital

Rick Ross
Rick Ross God Forgives I Don't Digital vs Physical Album Sales | That Retail Chick
62% 38%

Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne Tha Carter IV Album Sales : Digital Album Sales vs Physical Album Sales | That Retail Chick
67% 33%digital

Drake
Lil Wayne Tha Carter IV Album Sales : Digital Album Sales vs Physical Album Sales | That Retail Chick
60% 40%digital

Big Krit
Big KRIT Live From The Underground Album Sales : Digital Album Sales vs Physical Album Sales | That Retail Chick
60% 40%digital

Jayz and Kany3

51% 49%digital


Future
[Url]http://www.thatretailchick.me/trc-music-industry-news/future-pluto-album-sales-digital-album-sales-vs-physical-album-sales/#.UJXBzng1haQ]Jay Z and Kanye West Watch The Throne Album Sales : Digital vs Physical | That Retail Chick
70% 30%digital


God damn my nikka Jeezy...can't say I'm suprised

 

[Harry B]

Of course, just look at Jeezys twitter.
400k on twitter and sells 6-700k, these other rappers got 2-3+ million and can't even go gold with all the promotion in the world.

 

[xd21]

Well damn at those stats. Nice work on collecting that data @StillNotSoft

 

[Greenstrings]

Not necessarily. Depends how and where an album is marketed. and if an artist has a strong local fanbase where a label can focus its promo. Watch The Throne was available on Itunes a week before physical release. There's just tons of other shyt to factor in.

I'm not saying that Jeezy doesn't have a remarkable grassroots fanbase but themselves these stats don't tell you much.

 

[unstoppable589]

not surprising one bit, jeezy

 

[nineteeneightysix]

But which streets are we talking about though...?

In which areas and IP addresses are the majority of copies being purchased...?

It's more complicated than just looking at those numbers...

 

[Harry B]

But which streets are we talking about though...?

In which areas and IP addresses are the majority of copies being purchased...?

It's more complicated than just looking at those numbers...

Given that rappers from the west coast, Florida, GA, NY, Canada, Mississippi got about the same percentages I think it's safe to assume that it's evenly distributed across the board.

 

[Still Benefited]

Not necessarily. Depends how and where an album is marketed. and if an artist has a strong local fanbase where a label can focus its promo. Watch The Throne was available on Itunes a week before physical release. There's just tons of other shyt to factor in.

I'm not saying that Jeezy doesn't have a remarkable grassroots fanbase but themselves these stats don't tell you much.

For real?I think these stats tellin so much I can't believe what they tellin...let's be honest its suprising how many nikkas don't know how to download they own music or don't care too in the year 2012,either don't have the meanns or don't know where to go to do it or don't know.....but nikkas will always prefer to have the physical copy over a digital copy for car purposes and plain convienience...we goin to the store or too the bootleg man.

I just wish we could gather numbers from the bootleg man...that's why you guys tellin us how many nikkas u heard drive by bumpin the cd is still so important to the discussion,we need to know if ya bootleg man tells u he sold out of that tm103 cuz everybody buyin it....but I do think these stats are a good start....cuz these numbers just feel right and are in the exact order I woulve expected....only flaw is comparin nikkas who sold 2million records versus dudes sellin 500K

 

[ThaPrez]

Good info... some interesting numbers up there.

But it's too simplistic to say that physical = the streets and digital = not streets.

Take the case of people who are too hood to have internet. Are they really going to drop $$$ for every retail CD when they can cop the bootlegs for a fraction of the price? As you said in your last post.

And then think about all the other people who are copping CDs instead of downloading who aren't "the streets".

 

[28 Gramz]

Take the case of people who are too hood to have internet.

It's 2012 nikka, dopeboys are walkin around with tablets and iphones and stay on instagram and twitter..it's only a small percentage of nikkas who aren't at least semi tech saavy nowadays.

 

[the rhyme king]

man physical sales tells who got the streets not no damm digital sales cause at the end of the day if u ain't got the streets u ain't shyt imo !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Still Benefited]

It's 2012 nikka, dopeboys are walkin around with tablets and iphones and stay on instagram and twitter..it's only a small percentage of nikkas who aren't at least semi tech saavy nowadays.

nikkas ain't tryna listen to no album on a tablet or iphone..that shyts for facebook and twitter lol....god invented car speakers and home speakers for a reason....gotta have the physical copy

 

[NatiboyB]

It's 2012 nikka, dopeboys are walkin around with tablets and iphones and stay on instagram and twitter..it's only a small percentage of nikkas who aren't at least semi tech saavy nowadays.

nikka it's dopeboys and hood nikkaz on this site. ya'll some entertaining cats.

 

[ThaPrez]

It's 2012 nikka, dopeboys are walkin around with tablets and iphones and stay on instagram and twitter..it's only a small percentage of nikkas who aren't at least semi tech saavy nowadays.

you're right, internet was the wrong word... I mean downloading music for free basically...

Which you can't really do on iphone, ipad, etc... can you?

 

[Gotright]

No way u can tell who got the streets by any sales cause 80% of the streets buy bootlegs