The Official Joe Budden Podcast Thread

[Overpss]

I’m talking factual numbers as far as the number of people who consumed and became new fans of 50 in a one year period.

He is too. Billboard is the authority figure when it comes to numbers. They confirmed last month DAMN was the 2nd biggest rap album of the 21st century from an objective angle in terms of charts dominance, sales, commercial impact,...

Do what you want with this objective metric, feel free to subjectively enjoy another album if you want, but it is what it is. It was bigger, period. Your personal and subjective observations really doesn't matter against the company that does the official tracking of sales, streams, charts, hits, radio,,...

 

[lib123]

He is too. Billboard is the authority figure when it comes to numbers. They confirmed last month DAMN was the 2nd biggest rap album of the 21st century from an objective angle in terms of charts dominance, sales, commercial impact,...

Do what you want with this objective metric, feel free to subjectively enjoy another album if you want, but it is what it is. It was bigger, period. Your personal and subjective observations really doesn't matter against the company that does the official tracking of sales, streams, charts, hits, radio,,...

DAMN did not have the commercial impact of Get Rich or Die Trying lol. Do you realize GRODT went diamond in the US alone? And this is pre-streaming meaning people got in their cars, drove to Tower Records or wherever and purchased the album.

 

[MINT]

DAMN did not have the commercial impact of Get Rich or Die Trying lol. Do you realize GRODT went diamond in the US alone? And this is pre-streaming meaning people got in their cars, drove to Tower Records or wherever and purchased the album.

It was bigger than GRODT, are you saying billbaord are wrong lmfao?

DAMN is about to go diamond too... so what?
DO you realize music consumption has changed? we don't consume music the same way, but it can still be tracked even though the way we consume is different.

Please avoid commenting on this topic, you don't seem qualified.

 

[Overpss]

It was bigger than GRODT, are you saying billbaord are wrong lmfao?

DAMN is about to go diamond too... so what?
DO you realize music consumption has changed? we don't consume music the same way, but it can still be tracked even though the way we consume is different.

Please avoid commenting on this topic, you don't seem qualified.

This, dude is cool and all but hes just giving his subjective take on an objective ranking billboard themselves pulled based on the charts, the sales and the commercial impact. You can't refute this.
Not to mention the impact in real life could be felt as well.

 

[Uchiha God]

shyt came across my TL and I’m laughing at this shyt all over again

 

[lib123]

It was bigger than GRODT, are you saying billbaord are wrong lmfao?

DAMN is about to go diamond too... so what?
DO you realize music consumption has changed? we don't consume music the same way, but it can still be tracked even though the way we consume is different.

Please avoid commenting on this topic, you don't seem qualified.

DAMN isn’t about to go diamond.

 

[Overpss]

DAMN isn’t about to go diamond.

But it is... it was like 8x platinum when I checked and it keeps selling close to 1 mill each year.

 

[Overpss]

So here it is, in the US damn is at ~8 million.

2017: 2,747,000
2018: 1,032,000
2019: 540,000
2020: 474,000
2021: 530,000
2022: 700,000
2023: 771,000
2024: 910,000
2025: xxx

Worldwide though "Kendrick Lamar’s “DAMN” has now sold 12.3 MILLION Equivalent Album Sales Worldwide."

 

[REdefinition]

So here it is, in the US damn is nearing 9 million.

Worldwide though "Kendrick Lamar’s “DAMN” has now sold 12.3 MILLION Equivalent Album Sales Worldwide."

What is a "sale" in the streaming era?

 

[Overpss]

What is a "sale" in the streaming era?

1500 streams = one sale. It excludes free subscriptions.

Billboard did say it way more difficult nowadays to have sales due to these rules. So it's actually impressive when these artists sell 300-400K, thats the equivalent of doing 1 mill+ back in the days.

Worth noting Kendrick and Eminem are the last rappers to have half of their final units in pure sales (most of the time)

Worth noting Kendrick sales are also boosted by the fact he's among the best sellers (in any genre) in vinyl format.
Matter of fact, gkmc is the best selling rap album on vinyl in the last 25 years.

 

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[Harry B]

So here it is, in the US damn is at ~8 million.

2017: 2,747,000
2018: 1,032,000
2019: 540,000
2020: 474,000
2021: 530,000
2022: 700,000
2023: 771,000
2024: 910,000
2025: xxx

Worldwide though "Kendrick Lamar’s “DAMN” has now sold 12.3 MILLION Equivalent Album Sales Worldwide."

Classic albums really keep on generating bags with streaming

Top Dawg probably waiting to update the RIAA until it hits diamond

 

[lib123]

So here it is, in the US damn is at ~8 million.

2017: 2,747,000
2018: 1,032,000
2019: 540,000
2020: 474,000
2021: 530,000
2022: 700,000
2023: 771,000
2024: 910,000
2025: xxx

Worldwide though "Kendrick Lamar’s “DAMN” has now sold 12.3 MILLION Equivalent Album Sales Worldwide."

GRODT sold 12 million copies worldwide in its first year of release. So yes, it did have more impact than an album that has taken 8 years to reach the same milestone.

 

[Overpss]

GRODT sold 12 million copies worldwide in its first year of release. So yes, it did have more impact than an album that has taken 8 years to reach the same milestone.

We don't consume music the same way............................ what do you now understand?

But the commercial impact was bigger, billboard literally confirmed it

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

I see queenzflip ig story is him asking YouTubers to reach out to him to interview people who were “in da room”

Who wants to interview nikkas like backwoody

He’s reaching for views