Much like his ‘FourFiveSeconds’ co-star Rihanna, the campaign surrounding Kanye West‘s latest opus, ‘The Life Of Pablo,’ has been a rollercoaster to say the least.
Despite being greeted by critical acclaim from music industry insiders to fans alike, the album’s sales have been…umm…interesting considering it’s only been available for stream via Tidal and for purchase via his own official web site.
Well, that was, until last week.
Now with spins being earned on Spotify, Apple Music, and more, West may very well be ready to see that “rollercoaster” ride him right to the top of the Billboard 200. Challenging next week’s top contenders for the spot – Zayn Malik, Jhene Aiko/Big Sean, and Rih, ‘Pablo’ is set to see new life breathed into it. The feat, if accomplished, will be accompanied by some history-making news:
Via HDD:
Since going wide to Spotify, Apple Music and other services last week, preliminary data suggests Pablo (G.O.O.D./Def Jam) is on track for some 90m streams, which would put him at 60k+ SEA.
This would be the first time an album hit #1 SPS with virtually no sales—a benchmark for the new era.
If West does surpass the competition to land a new number 1 album on streaming alone, we’re sure tongues will be wagging in disagreement. For, with streams alone, he would snatch the title of ‘lowest sales of any #1 album in history’ from his Roc Nation sister Rihanna (read more on that here).
Keep it locked on That Grape Juice for more on this story as it develops.
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Go kanye
Where’s Formation? Teehee
Formation? Oh the song that failed to outchart Dance Like Were Making Love? ?
Lol. I wonder why Dumbyonce is not releasing Formation’s streaming numbers? Too embarrassed? Lol
You already know girl
Slay Kanye!
Damn GET YO LIFE KANYE!!!!
ABSOLUTE DEATH!!! At him possibly nabbing the Lowest sales for a #1 on the BB200 from FRih!! So errbody just gunna slay Anti!?!?!? ??????????
Anti always on ya mind niiggga stfu
Yes and where is floorAtion? Should I go to guantonomo bay in Cuba to find it girl
Daddy deserves it.
Can someone address the toy I’ve gotten tired of. It seems to not understand the words leave me alone. Kinda creepy tbh.
Aww the weak coward ass bitttch has nothing to say now that Tyler and A*** aren’t here.
consider s******
kanye doing is thing.
I’m shocked the flea hives are still showing their faces after the epic smack down they received today from all of the stanbases
The way Matt aka the Gaga stan dragged tyler today i lived.
Lens Crafters is having a sell on eyewear.
The hives have a lot of nerve to come on here drag people when they so broke and can’t even purchase a single for bey you know these are really welfare recepients stealing Internet services b****** use the energy and get formation out the gutter bully ass suckers
Anti’s impact.
QUEEN OF POP
As a Kanye stan, imma leave this here for a certain stanbase who think Anti did s***….
https://cdn5.statista.com/images/infografik/small/4367_n.jpg
Kii yas!! You betta pull out all the RECEIPTS!!!
What is it like to be as dumb as fake as Nicki’s ass? Anti only received full exclusivity on Tidal for 24 hours before being released to all online music retailers. Meanwhile, TLOP’s Tidal influence came the day after his Yeezy Season 3 debut in Madison Square Garden that he announced that TLOP would only be available on Tidal. Furthermore, tell me what’s Nicki been up to these days? It looks like Iggy might have the potential to get her 2nd #1 and that’s coming from a manufactured, corny, inflatable white bish… #WhatDoesThatSayAboutNicki #WhatDoesItSayAboutHerStans #AreYouReallyThatDumb #Yep
Umm Fabio aka Imitator Tard, what does Google search charts has to do with Tidal and the success of streaming albums? The reach to try to hate on the Digital Queen, meanwhile Doughnut Licking Woman is flopping just like Out Of Focus.
Screams
So Kanye can do this with just streaming, so where is formation?
Kiii what will the hives excuses be?
Patiently waiting to hear them
Molly the hives have only one excuse the hives troll others and try to deflect people from bey failing ass you know molly flooration is a big time flop from such a big artist like bey if that were rih this site and Wendy would be talking about it but behind close door people are like damn bey probably running scared that’s why she went on 50 magazine
Big ups to West, but I hate how he’s getting credit for what Anti’s work. Anti revived Tidal, Anti gave out 60 day trials to Tidal, weeks later West album came out. Anti went #1 weeks later with mostly streaming, yet they called it a flop. Anti is why streaming is being takien serious and Anti WILL get the credit for it.
Exactly, Rih is the pioneer. Queen of the millennial age
Meanwhile Ariana Grande is slaying Kiss It Better on Veve and she didn’t need to show her nips to do it kii!!
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What was it Wendy said about Kim Kay showing at that.nudity ony to be slayed by Selena Gomez on Insta…. Oh thats its “She must feel pretty stupid!” ???
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Ariana Dangerous Woman 15m
Kiss It Better 11m
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She spread that gap by 4m. It was 2m yesterday LOL!!!
But rih has twenty million subscribers I’m sure Arianna is bringing out all the p********* in the world who wants to watch a little girl trying to play dress up no thanks save it for law and order
A Beyonce stan bringing up vevo views when Bey bearly averages 150 million per video #BasicAf… Rihanna has plenty of videos over 400million views even one with over a billion views
How many vevo views does The
Rock have?
The hive are now using Ariana Grande to drag… Le struggle ???
Funny how Kayne can hit #1 with streams and Beyonce can’t even go #1 on bubbling under chart with Shitmation being performed on superbowl… The hives should put less energy into dragging folks on twitter and focus on Beys streaming points cause..
Beyonce can’t chart, period! lol
Chile, I’m just waiting on “Famous” to crack the top 10 like….?? Somebody gon’ learn soon!
If someone want to comapare video view count, then let’s see the graps between Formation (36M) and Work (209M). Mind you Flopmation came out two weeks before Work and was perform in from of over 100 Million viewers. Another huge gap would be the #1 song in the US for the seventh week and the 104 peek of Formation. Of wait, Billboard only post 100 songs on the charts, so #4 of the DEAD Under charts.
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Not #104, peak
Too early lawd I’m dead at 104 lol the hives should just fly back into the bees nest this is epic failure at its finest
You’d think they would learn to not get in my way, because my disses are at a whole other level. Better level up by battling the Ciara stans, because I’ll have your self esteem lowing than Formation chart position.
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The meaning of the name Fabio is: Bean farmer. Don’t make me vote for Trump and have your family deported.
QOAJAVZZTSISNSN!!! I CANNOT @MARSHA CLAIMING HE GIVES LASHINGS BISH I JUST FLATLINED!!!!!! ?????
How the hell formation was performed in front of f****** 100 million people and stuck at 36 million views while work is at 209 million b**** you on here calling people a flop do the math go hide yourself the hives ain’t interested in their hood queen no more you know that song is whack and tired same old trap music
Kiii don’t know how any one thinks they’re dragging, when they continuously use a FREE BUZZ SINGLE THATS EXCLUSIVE TO TIDAL to try and put their fav on a pedestal.
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Meanwhile Formation is at 36m views and the struggle to find it is real!!! So many people leaving comments to this day about how hard it is for them to find the Vid. Here’s the link for Anybody that wants to watch it.
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https://youtu.be/LrCHz1gwzTo
Formation was sent to all radio station formats; meanwhile, American Oxygen was never once formatted for radio play. Furthermore, Formation was performed for 114 million people yet even failed to have a cultural impact more profound than a Worldstar unsigned artist of the week. Let’s talk about that…
Can you provide receipts of Formation being sent to all radio formats. I’ve tried researching this after i read you comment about that a few weeks back, but could only find that it was sent to a UK radio station.
Here you go 🙂 Oh, check out it’s position on urban radio…It’s a little less bleek
http://kworb.net/radio/
I was asking for more along the line’s of Names of radio station’s it was sent to. This link gives me number of spins it gets.
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Um why do you keep saying AO wasn’t sent to radio. It was indeed sent to radio stations. It was sent to Hot/Modern/AC and contemporary hit radio station’s.
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Plus I remember reading The Navy had an uproar over it getting little to no airplay and started a petition to make Obama play it LMFAO!!!
Why it ain’t charting and leaving the bubbling under
Chartnews stopped reporting on Flopmation so I guess it fell out of the Bubbling Under Hot 100 charts after just a month. SCREAMING @ it failing to chart when Beybøla performed that chicken shìt song to an audience of 114.1 million people. ?????
LMAO. This is absolutely groundbreaking!
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Every Rihanna hater here wants to moan, groan, bîțćh, seethe and fume about ‘ANTI’ charting at #1 x2 (and still sitting comfortably in Top 3 of the BB200) based on high streams and yet now there’s a high chance that “The Life Of Pablo” is going to chart at #1 based on streams alone and with pure sales of less than 3K. Yes… 3K.
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This is where we need to now realise that ‘streaming’ is the future and that the Billboard charts (especially the BB200) are no longer judged by sales alone but by popularity in streams/downloads and, according to recent statistics presented by the RIAA, it is clear that 82% of the U.S population are now preferring to pay to stream/download albums rather than purchase them physically.
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How Rihanna was able to dominate the digital era and now the streaming era with such ease and fluidity is beyond me – she’s ushered in this new age perfectly and is the real pioneer. 😉
Better opening numbers than anti
MESS @ ‘For, with streams alone, he would snatch the title of ‘lowest sales of any #1 album in history’ from his Roc Nation sister Rihanna’
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KingYe!
didn’t the submarines say AntiSuccess is going yo be #1?
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weren’t they bragging all week long?
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stay in y’all singles lane!
Poor Navy, Bey ain’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Y’all can clown the navy if you want but I seen them on Twitter one day promoting a buyworkonitunes hashtag they dedicated an entire 24 hrs to streaming work and buying work on iTunes do you know how many iTunes account and gift cards you gotta buy for that they are dedicated as f*** and that’s why work as basic of a song it is is still #1
Yall on here doing battle mess all the times. Good for kanye west