OK so Drakes first week sales are 460k...

Originally Posted by damnitzvin

so far gone > thank me later ?
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Originally Posted by rocyaice

This the thing about having "hype" though. Hype can kill you just as much as it can help you. People wanted the album and they wanted the album now. Then the album was out 2 weeks before it hit stores? Everyone downloaded it. The fact that he got 400k people to buy it proves to me he fulfilled his hype. He had a lot. But hype doesn't guarantee success.

Not to mention dude is a pop artist. Pop artists usually have weaker first week sales than this but their albums have such staying power that they can be double and triple platinum by the end of the year. Drake has a lot of potential #1 hits on his album.
i gotta agree with that. before i thought he was going to go a Milli first week like no one expected with Wayne but that just didnt happen.

The amount of downloading and all that killed him. He has hits on the album that will sustain him and he could go 2x platinum and be good. Hell be alright.

This dude 50 got us looking at these first week numbers too much now
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Originally Posted by rocyaice

This the thing about having "hype" though. Hype can kill you just as much as it can help you. People wanted the album and they wanted the album now. Then the album was out 2 weeks before it hit stores? Everyone downloaded it. The fact that he got 400k people to buy it proves to me he fulfilled his hype. He had a lot. But hype doesn't guarantee success.

Not to mention dude is a pop artist. Pop artists usually have weaker first week sales than this but their albums have such staying power that they can be double and triple platinum by the end of the year. Drake has a lot of potential #1 hits on his album.
i gotta agree with that. before i thought he was going to go a Milli first week like no one expected with Wayne but that just didnt happen.

The amount of downloading and all that killed him. He has hits on the album that will sustain him and he could go 2x platinum and be good. Hell be alright.

This dude 50 got us looking at these first week numbers too much now
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Originally Posted by nyk buc

Originally Posted by MusicalExcellence

yea... people need to understand that hype only gets u so far... his singles are lightweight garbage and he still went damn near gold in a week... thats the buzz working right there... if he had singles that were actually dope he wouldve sold a bit more...
find your love is #5 on the billboard this week. if top 5 for a hip hop song is not a hit, what the hell is a hit? and this song was released before the album release.

the thing is his album is pretty average (outside of find your love or karaoke, none of the songs can be commercial). check the ratings on places like amazon or itunes. it's like 3.5-4 out of 5. the word of mouth just isn't there.

compare to em's album who sales increases day by day this week. it was predicted 600k, then 650k, now could be as high as 750-800k. and fans' ratings of recovery have been high (4.5-5).
nah dude needed a HIT. he needed a yeah!, in the club, lollipop. He could have over came that lack of a huge hit if the album wasn't ehhh. but all in all drake did great for missing on all fronts.
 
Originally Posted by nyk buc

Originally Posted by MusicalExcellence

yea... people need to understand that hype only gets u so far... his singles are lightweight garbage and he still went damn near gold in a week... thats the buzz working right there... if he had singles that were actually dope he wouldve sold a bit more...
find your love is #5 on the billboard this week. if top 5 for a hip hop song is not a hit, what the hell is a hit? and this song was released before the album release.

the thing is his album is pretty average (outside of find your love or karaoke, none of the songs can be commercial). check the ratings on places like amazon or itunes. it's like 3.5-4 out of 5. the word of mouth just isn't there.

compare to em's album who sales increases day by day this week. it was predicted 600k, then 650k, now could be as high as 750-800k. and fans' ratings of recovery have been high (4.5-5).
nah dude needed a HIT. he needed a yeah!, in the club, lollipop. He could have over came that lack of a huge hit if the album wasn't ehhh. but all in all drake did great for missing on all fronts.
 
Lil' Wayne BARELY did a Million. Dude was like 63 records away from not going platinum and dude had hype from 1000000 songs. No one is doing a Million in the first week now adays, well in the rap game.
 
Lil' Wayne BARELY did a Million. Dude was like 63 records away from not going platinum and dude had hype from 1000000 songs. No one is doing a Million in the first week now adays, well in the rap game.
 
It's definitely not a flop, but I do know his label expected more. By no means was it a flop though
 
It's definitely not a flop, but I do know his label expected more. By no means was it a flop though
 
Originally Posted by southzeztpdot

Lil' Wayne BARELY did a Million. Dude was like 63 records away from not going platinum and dude had hype from 1000000 songs. No one is doing a Million in the first week now adays, well in the rap game.

But he did the mill none the less, right? So I don't know why it matters if the barely did it.

And in the age of burnt cds and leaks, CDs are acquired by a simple click of a mouse. So if you think 460 is bad you really need your head checked.
 
Originally Posted by southzeztpdot

Lil' Wayne BARELY did a Million. Dude was like 63 records away from not going platinum and dude had hype from 1000000 songs. No one is doing a Million in the first week now adays, well in the rap game.

But he did the mill none the less, right? So I don't know why it matters if the barely did it.

And in the age of burnt cds and leaks, CDs are acquired by a simple click of a mouse. So if you think 460 is bad you really need your head checked.
 
Originally Posted by nyk buc



the thing is his album is pretty average (outside of find your love or karaoke, none of the songs can be commercial). check the ratings on places like amazon or itunes. it's like 3.5-4 out of 5. the word of mouth just isn't there.


I'm sorry but "Show Me A Good Time" can be a damn monster... that catchy %*% chorus & beat= WIN, not to mention that he's actually spitting on it as well. I can't count the amount of times I've heard it in traffic.  Speaking of which Karaoke is wack as hell to me one of the two songs I just won't play, the other being "Fancy" I just don't like Swiss Beats productions style and chorus's
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Furthermore I'm not sure what people were expecting from his album, you weren't getting any TROY, Award Tours, Dead Presidents, Memory Lanes, Juicy's etc his music is what it is... Everyone loved So Far Gone, claims for it being the best mixtape ever were rampant (as stupid as they were) and this is like and extension of it yet its weak... Hilarious. There is no pleasing people I tell you
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Originally Posted by nyk buc



the thing is his album is pretty average (outside of find your love or karaoke, none of the songs can be commercial). check the ratings on places like amazon or itunes. it's like 3.5-4 out of 5. the word of mouth just isn't there.


I'm sorry but "Show Me A Good Time" can be a damn monster... that catchy %*% chorus & beat= WIN, not to mention that he's actually spitting on it as well. I can't count the amount of times I've heard it in traffic.  Speaking of which Karaoke is wack as hell to me one of the two songs I just won't play, the other being "Fancy" I just don't like Swiss Beats productions style and chorus's
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Furthermore I'm not sure what people were expecting from his album, you weren't getting any TROY, Award Tours, Dead Presidents, Memory Lanes, Juicy's etc his music is what it is... Everyone loved So Far Gone, claims for it being the best mixtape ever were rampant (as stupid as they were) and this is like and extension of it yet its weak... Hilarious. There is no pleasing people I tell you
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Originally Posted by Seymore CAKE

Originally Posted by nyk buc



the thing is his album is pretty average (outside of find your love or karaoke, none of the songs can be commercial). check the ratings on places like amazon or itunes. it's like 3.5-4 out of 5. the word of mouth just isn't there.


I'm sorry but "Show Me A Good Time" can be a damn monster... that catchy %*% chorus & beat= WIN, not to mention that he's actually spitting on it as well. I can't count the amount of times I've heard it in traffic.  Speaking of which Karaoke is wack as hell to me one of the two songs I just won't play, the other being "Fancy" I just don't like Swiss Beats productions style and chorus's
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Furthermore I'm not sure what people were expecting from his album, you weren't getting any TROY, Award Tours, Dead Presidents, Memory Lanes, Juicy's etc his music is what it is... Everyone loved So Far Gone, claims for it being the best mixtape ever were rampant (as stupid as they were) and this is like and extension of it yet its weak... Hilarious. There is no pleasing people I tell you
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I normally agree with lots of the *%@+ you say but damn my dude
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Originally Posted by Seymore CAKE

Originally Posted by nyk buc



the thing is his album is pretty average (outside of find your love or karaoke, none of the songs can be commercial). check the ratings on places like amazon or itunes. it's like 3.5-4 out of 5. the word of mouth just isn't there.


I'm sorry but "Show Me A Good Time" can be a damn monster... that catchy %*% chorus & beat= WIN, not to mention that he's actually spitting on it as well. I can't count the amount of times I've heard it in traffic.  Speaking of which Karaoke is wack as hell to me one of the two songs I just won't play, the other being "Fancy" I just don't like Swiss Beats productions style and chorus's
sick.gif
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Furthermore I'm not sure what people were expecting from his album, you weren't getting any TROY, Award Tours, Dead Presidents, Memory Lanes, Juicy's etc his music is what it is... Everyone loved So Far Gone, claims for it being the best mixtape ever were rampant (as stupid as they were) and this is like and extension of it yet its weak... Hilarious. There is no pleasing people I tell you
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I normally agree with lots of the *%@+ you say but damn my dude
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SFG > TML

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Every song on "Thank Me Later" is single material.... & like said above, potential #1 hits...
 
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