By aligning himself with Birdman and naming his mixtape Barter 6 (stream it here), Young Thug has almost forced himself into the place of Lil Wayne’s successor. Except he has yet to sell records like Tunechi, and his first week sales for B6 will do nothing to aid that cause.
Thug’s first solo effort in two years brought in a paltry 18,714 sales plus streams, enough to land him at #21 on the Billboard 200 chart according to HitsDailyDouble.
There are a few caveats here that have to be taken into consideration. Thug had only a three-day sales window, little promotion beyond a few Instagram videos, no radio play, only two videos (“Check” and “Constantly Hatin”), no tour or official single. It was a halfhearted promotion by handled jointly by 300 and Atlantic, and, judging by their announcing the project the day of the release, it may have been that way purposely.
What probably happened is Thug was going to release this music one way or another, and much like Cash Money did for Drake’s If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late, the label stepped in and slapped a price tag on the project before he could give it away for free. It’s not a complete loss either since the mixtape album project costs $13.99 on iTunes, and there were 16,782 actual sales, we can estimate the label brought in about $235k.
So scrutinize the sales all you want, but bringing in nearly a quarter million bucks is never a bad week. Now, the suits can turn its attention to the real debut album, Hy!£UN35, in August, which is sure to feature a few singles, glossy label-funded videos and a full promotional cycle that will undoubtedly boost the sales numbers above the meager numbers B6 brought in this weekend.
(via HitsDailyDouble)
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There’s also the “Check” song video
Nigga put out “check” as a video on YouTube for worldstar lol I’m going to assume this will end up at about 50k in a couple of weeks and everything will be recouped..I wonder would drake work with him come lp time if he called? Lol
Sounds about right.
His demographic doesn’t buy albums.
Essentially
“Little promotion”……….. yet i couldn’t escape hearing about this weirdo for the last year and his Wayne saga the last three months, if I were to move to Mars
excuses vs. reality
Gossip = traditional promotion?
you don’t agree….? There once was a girl named Iggy Azalia…
@Grandfather….just because people attack or bitch about Iggy isn’t promotion, the girl had three singles chart very high…so what are you saying because none of that makes sense
i’m saying that clearly these days traditional “promotion” is gone. Controversy sells. Especially for acts like Iggy or Young Thug.
If you don’t understand that or simply denying it the conversation is over.
@GRANDfathercloc I’m late but controversy has been around since the start, so idk what you mean by these days
This the title of his album right?
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Well Cocaine Pinata did 9,000 and PRhyme did 13,500 first week, so Thugger ain’t doin too bad. And he doesn’t even have a verse from Mac Miller or Ab-Soul.
Those are actual independent artist. Not niggas who came up thru development deals.
It’s only like 4 to 5 artists in the hip-hop industry that can do great numbers, and Thugger is def NOT in that category. And plus he would say “it’s a mixtape not album, so fuck them numbers”.
TBH I’m kinda at the point where IDGAF about album sales, just make sure that your album is GOOD!!!
As it should be. Consumers/fans/your average person/etc., have no need to concern themselves with numbers.
Not like it makes the music any better… or worse.
I might be hatin, but it seems each month I feel alittle better about KRIT’s numbers…..lol
@lucky lefty
I will forever be tight about K.R.I.T.’s sells. Dude had the arguably the best album last year and hands down the best from his generation of up and comers and only did 42k.But lyricism and good music is back. SMH.
I’m tight too. He needs to be independent ASAP.
Numbers these days don’t matter like that. It still matters but its not the early 2000s, Thugger shows are always packed. The article was a good write up because it used common sense and objectivity. No matter how you feel about the guy and what he wears, this was not a real album. Actually how much Section80 sell first week??? For the record, Thugger mixtape last min turned album sold more in 3 days than Section80 did in two weeks. So he didn’t do bad at all.
Section 80 is gold. Just sayin.
not a great comparison really… considering Section.80 was pretty much kdots breakout project and he wasnt that well known at the time. Where as everyone knows who young thug is right now and we have been hearing about this project dropping for the last two months…
Section80 is gold…now but didn’t start out that way. But you right, bad comparison.
if wayne was smart, he’d drop free weezy … stunt on this lil nigga… and end his career with 10x the downloads real quick
Or fail
I can tell from this write up Bansky might favor this loser. This guys sells are never coming up. You know why?? He’s horrible. The universe has a way of wiping guys like this off the map. Here today, gone tomorrow
the second coming of trinidad james… and many others alike.
Actually he isn’t a second coming. He has more than one hit unlike those others.
I may be an old nigga, but what the fuck is “Hy!£UN35?” I dont speak this New Nigga language. Somebody explain plz
I think it means “Homo.”
Its Hitunes
I thought the gay community would come out & support him in droves. I guess he gotta stop toeing the line & come all the way out the closet if he really wants that rainbow dollar.
That 235k doesnt count the studio time and cost of beats purchased from London on Da Track etc…so yeh…still an L
plenty of costs to consider im sure. but how much is thug really paying for all of that shit?