Breh, you're not making any sense. DMX had three albums on the Billboard 200 at the same time. All of these albums were still moving units when he dropped the next one. It was all concurrent. Same with Juvenile's 400 Degreez. No, it's not "rocket science", but you seem to not understand that all of these albums were still selling when they dropped new ones.
They didn't give Wayne better promotion. Tha Block Is Hot only had one proper single. Juve had two. And again, Wayne was new and NEEDED more promo.
It doesn't matter what I expected it to sell. The point is it didn't even move half of what the previous album moved. G Code didn't go double platinum. Wiki lies. The RIAA has that album at 1X platinum. You're in here copping pleas for whatever promo you felt Juve deserved and G Code was still a flop.
You used false information as an example.
In music, you don't brick and rebound on the same album. A brick is a brick.
They aren't on record saying "Rain" saved that album. They are on record saying "Rain" was the only song on the album they liked because it's the only one that sounds like an SWV song, which for the most part is true. That whole album was Hip Hop feature after Hip Hop feature and it didn't even sound like an SWV album. SWV flopped with this album. This is a group who came out the gate with a 3X platinum album and another that went platinum. Going gold for them was a flop.
You can't play the "too caught up in numbers" card when this whole exchange is about whether or not an album was a flop. Unless you're talking critical acclaim, the only other way to justify an album flopping is numbers.
AGAIN, please show me where a DMX video from a previous album, over-lapped the singles from the next album.
and AGAIN, please show me where a new artist got more promotion than the bread-winner of the label. we had this argument in a previous thread, and you refused to answer that question.
and wayne had two videos for TBIH, and the 2nd video was actually released on time. the problem is, it flopped.
IT ABSOLUTELY DOES MATTER what its expected to sell. you cant say its a flop because it didn't sell like 400 degreez, if it clearly wasn't designed to sell like 400 degreez.
and ive seen g-code listed as double platinum, way back before I even knew what Wikipedia was. regardless, whether it went 1x or 2x, its still not bad when you look at the big picture. im not coppin pleas for anything. youre just too much of an A&B thinker.
in 1999 IN REAL-TIME, that 2nd missy album was seen as a brick. she rebounded in 2000 and saved the album. but before that, the album was out for a long ass time and was seen as a brick, whether you like it or not. LOL. youre a missy fan, I get it. but you cant retroactively go back and pretend that this wasn't how the album was viewed in '99. I still have MTV mentioning it with the bricked albums on VHS before the hot boyz video came out.
SWV is indeed on record saying that Rain saved the album. go watch their Unsung. lol. AGAIN. this is more chit that I have in my collection, while youre just arguing just to argue out of emotion.
and nah, going gold isn't a flop. their 3x platinum album was ancient by that point, and we were a couple years removed from their second platinum album by that point, as well. and they were never a pop-friendly group.
this exchange is originally about missy. and yes, she is indeed an artist that's 'all about the numbers'. she was never an artist whose chit was hot in the streets and bootlegged like that. shes a crossover hybrid commercial rap singer. IT IS INDEED all about the sales for her.
