Drake's mixtape IYRTITL first album released in 2015 to sell 1M PURE (no streams) copies.

[ManBearPig]

good shyt

 

[DillaTUDE]

Because Drake is a rapper and not a pop star. Even if you are a commercial rapper, very seldom will you sell more than a popular white artist of another genre. Adele makes music that people of all ages can listen to (same with Swift and she appeals to young women who buy music and their parents). Go look at the top selling albums of the 90s and wait how long it is until you get to a rap album. Eminem, Nelly and 50 were anomalies and 50's sales were partially off the strength of the Eminem affiliation. Even then Nelly was getting out sold by the N Syncs and Britney Spears of the world.

But Eminem, Nelly and 50 aren't anomalies... being "a rapper and not a pop star" did not prevent DMX, Jay-Z, Lauryn Hill/Fugees, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Bones-Thug-N-Harmony, Mase, Puffy, B.I.G., 2Pac, OutKast, Snoop, Dr. Dre, etc. from exceeding sales of 1-2 million.

Why can't the biggest rapper of this generation get over the 1-2 million sales hump? Kanye, Jay-Z and Eminem all present a valid case for being the biggest rappers today despite being past their prime because of Drake's inability to do amazing numbers. Even Kendrick does when you look at the fact that GKMC has sold 1.5 million copies in the US alone.

Drake just isn't as successful as the media is trying to make him appear to be.

 

[Mr. Togo]

I like his music, but Drake's got to be the most overrated "pop-star" ever. The only thing really preventing Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole from ascending to his level of popularity is the lack of support/backing that they receive from the media (e.g. all those transnational companies tweeting their support for Drake when he dropped 'Charged Up' and 'Back to Back').

How does it take one of the biggest acts in music today seven months to go platinum when Taylor Swift's last two albums went platinum within the first week of them dropping? That's appalling...

How come all his albums always stale out at 1-2 million sold when Adele's last album sold 10 million in the US and 30 million globally?

I give Drake props for going Gold in a short week, but when you grow up with The Massacre selling 1.14 million on a Thursday, Eminem's Encore selling 710,000 copies when it was a Friday release and Kanye basically selling a million in his first week with Graduation when it was released in the same week as 50 Cent's Curtis, you start to realise that Drake really isn't "running" shyt like the media/his fan-base are trying to make it seem...

The fact that you have to compare him to Taylor Swift and Adele to shyt on his accomplishments just proves he is as big as people say he is

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

All hail 6 god

 

[Kitsch]

I never hear the disses they try and point out to me
But it's whatever if somebody wan' make it a thing

He's really been waiting for the opportunity.

 

[T.he I.nformant]

Please let us know when you find any reference tapes for his albums.

Please explain