Drake & PartyNextDoor "$$$ 4 U" Out Feb 14th.

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The only thing drake smashed is extending his losing streak. It's projected to sell less than Kendrick's 1st week, despite drake having an entire rollout, preorders, vs a full and short surprise album that is supposed to get less streams (but ended up getting more than drake new release) :ohhh:

what are they projecting ?
 

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I am out of my depth there, but the way I understood it, back in the 90's and 2000's Billboard was something like the NASDAQ, where you could launch an IPO and see what it does. Same with an album. It was neutral to an extent. They just reported what it did.

But streamers like Apple Music, Spotify, are in business with the labels. They make money together. They pay distribution, exclusives, licenesing, however that shyt works. It's no longer in anyones interests for albums to flop, so they come up with all these tiers and ways of saying whatever they want. Whatever suits their purpose. A lot of the records Kendrick broke were bullshyt too. Not that he didn't do numbers.

"87 weeks in a row from an artist under 45, in the third consecutive May since 2022"
But some artist are just to big to fail.

Before streaming you had to make music that would get play on radio in between all the new music from new artist. It was damn near impossible for old artist to have songs that would matter to the 12-22 year olds that were consuming radio

You don’t even need a single these days, just a fanbase
 
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