This week has been an attention-grabbing one for album releases.
Clipse, fabricated from Pusha T and Malice dropped their extremely anticipated new album Let Received Kind Em Out. It got here after a kind of rollercoaster trip for them who parted methods with Def Jam over obvious inventive variations and partnered with Roc Nation distribution for a license deal.
The album is at the moment projected to maneuver 90k copies within the first week with about 40k out of that coming from pure gross sales, studies HDD. That is absolutely a robust quantity for an indie launch but it surely tells you that strong music and a sturdy press marketing campaign continues to be the best way to go.
Travis Scott and his Jackboys crew disrupted the market with a shock drop JACKBOYS 2 on Friday as effectively. It’s at the moment on tempo to debut at #1 with 253k copies within the first week. Round 188k out of that’s set to return from pure gross sales (D2C).
Justin Bieber’s shock drop SWAG is projected to maneuver 165k copies, powered by a robust streaming opening week of 200 million or so.
