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TOP 50: DRAKE'S DOGS HAS ITS DAY

Drake's For All the Dogs (OVO/Republic) opens at #1 on the HITS Top 50 with 410k. His eighth studio album debuts with the biggest streaming week of 2023, earning 500m+. FATD gives House Lipman its 22nd week at #1 this year.

Rounding out the Top 5 are Big Loud/Mercury/Republic's Morgan Wallen, Alamo's Rod Wave, Geffen's Olivia Rodrigo and Warner's Zach Bryan.

Other top entries include Junior H's $ad Boyz 4 Life II (Rancho Humilde/Warner Latina) at #13 and NCT 127's Fact Check (SM/Virgin) at #20.

Streeting this week are new titles by Rimas' Bad Bunny, Capitol's Troye Sivan, BIGHIT/Republic's TOMORROW X TOGETHER, QC/Motown/Capitol's Offset, Big Machine's Riley Green and Darkroom/Polydor's Holly Humberstone as well as an EP by Interscope's boygenius.

See the full chart here. Suddenly, we're in the mood for a hot dog.

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Edited October 14, 20232 yr by B-Luke

Most consistent artist of all time: wow

tanked, less than Utopia, 200k less than CLB. he is indeed on his way OUT. his next album will do sub-300k and then he'll fade into a legacy act

Republic Records about to have 4 of the 5 biggest debuts of the year after '1989 (TV)'…

Too bad he's uninterested in getting physicals ready with release. Still good #s. 

People in this thread forcing themselves to act like it's bad  

Edited October 7, 20232 yr by Squall

This is actually better than I expected. I was thinking something like 350k.

How is 400k+ a commercial failure? Only 4 artists could match this. 

 

Save the lashings for when he'll do below 200k. 

Edited October 7, 20232 yr by Klein

imagine thinking these numbers are bad. 

5 minutes ago, Squall said:

People in this thread forcing themselves to act like it's bad  

how is it not? 200k less than his last proper album

People acting like this is bad

2 minutes ago, favorite crime said:

how is it not? 200k less than his last proper album

He keeps releasing again and again. Given his releasing rhythm, there's absolutely nothing bad here.

It's a decline for sure. But if you can hit at least 300k first week, you're a-list.

 

This is the new climate. But these predictions may be adjusted lower I feel. The shock value of the disses are getting old.

I get that ppl here don't like Drake, but calling 400k a flop is a take you'd only find on ATRL.

8 minutes ago, favorite crime said:

how is it not? 200k less than his last proper album

First of all his last album was Honestly, Nevermind which opened with 204,000 copies. So this is a major increase. Idk what you mean by proper.

 

Also Evermore opened with 500,000 less than Folklore. Is Taylor over / a bomb?

6 minutes ago, Squall said:

He keeps releasing again and again. Given his releasing rhythm, there's absolutely nothing bad here.

Interesting cuz this forum will have you believe that Taylor is only successful due to constant new releases. Seems like it doesn't work for every artist... 

1 minute ago, Rico Shameless v2 said:

First of all his last album was Honestly, Nevermind which opened with 204,000 copies. So this is a major increase. Idk what you mean by proper.

 

Also Evermore opened with 500,000 less than Folklore. Is Taylor over / a bomb?

While I agree with your message, this comparison makes no sense as the album was missing physicals (Taylor's biggest force).

Flop!

This isn't that bad at all actually, I wonder how much more it would've been if he had physicals included. 

How are those numbers bad?

59 minutes ago, favorite crime said:

tanked, less than Utopia, 200k less than CLB. he is indeed on his way OUT. his next album will do sub-300k and then he'll fade into a legacy act

 

Utopia had physicals unlike Drake

 

ATRL members are something else. I don't even like Drake but based on some posts here only Taylor does great numbers and the rest are flops 

400k same numbers as Her Loss

400k and nine top ten singles that’s a hit tbh