We agree that Billboard chart placement doesn’t always accurately reflect how big a single was then.
Ok. Let’s try it this way. Would the fact that a 90s album went 6x platinum during its run make it more likely that it would outstream a 90s album that went gold during its run?
Yes or no.
By the same token, Smilez and Southstar could sell twenty million copies of their album tomorrow. Is it too early to say that GRODT outsold it?
Of course this is subject to change. We can talk about the current state of the data that we have access to and draw conclusions. It’s not “insane”.
That’s exactly what this thread is
But you’ve already acknowledged that Infamous and 2001 aren’t equals because of how much more commercially successful 2001 was in real time. Which is essentially the whole point of the thread.
And before you brought it up, I brought it up in the OP (Bone and Puffy).
So we agree it isn’t “insane” to look at the Spotify numbers.
This was never my point or my logic. Usually your reading comprehension is pretty good. You feeling alright?
Yet the other 11 albums were commercial juggernauts, so I don’t see the logic to say that it has nothing to do with it.
