Bundles are back! Akademiks speaks on The Weeknd's album leaking & the Bundles Finesse!

Published: Sep 07, 2024 Duration: 00:29:38 Category: Comedy

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weekend album is leaked now if you guys don't know uh the weekend announced his new album which is called did he tell us a name he just says pre-order in BIO and I'm going to tell you exactly why his album leaked because if you click on his bio everybody is on the Travis Scott wave now see Travis Scott just sold you see all them records Travis Scott sold bundles and vinyls my [ __ ] so the weekend trying to sell 600k or 700k so he come with the same [ __ ] bundles and vinyls here's the vinyls and here's the merch okay this is how you sell this is a cheat code and by the way Drake I'm I'm telling you this now your ass better do this dumb [ __ ] too or else your numbers going to look crazy next time and when I mean crazy like I don't know if the next Drake album is selling over 500k if he don't do this pre-order [ __ ] okay this is the new finesse people are buying vinyls like a Drake a a weekend they're going to sell like 100 150 maybe 200,000 vinyls Taylor Swift is selling a million vinyls that's how she be doing it million that's how she move around yes million okay so this is way if y'all want to get sales cuz again streaming is hit a plateau all y'all is streaming about the same amount 150 million streams 100 million streams yeah around 150 million for like the big artist but you're not getting more and more streams so y'all gota y' gotta do this so again Abel announces the album and it immediately drops the link this is how Travis Scott got all his sales if you don't know okay sell the vinyl here's the problem with that though and someone very close to the situation obviously not Drake they told me this they said because I said why Drake be seeming like he don't give a [ __ ] I don't like that about that I don't like that about Drake and Drake's my guy like why the [ __ ] you don't put no effort into it Taylor Swift be going dumb hard they said the thing with vinyl and rap music is that somehow Taylor Swift music do not get bootlegged by her fans t Swift fans wait for the date of the release none of them want to be asshol to be like oh it's leaked they said the thing with rap music if it's a coveted rap album the way how vinyls go like historically people like Drake or even the weekend they're turning their album with two weeks or three weeks historically I've heard Drake turns his album in a couple days before it's set to be released so he'll give a a release date sometimes two weeks but the the label don't get the album before a couple days that's why his music Don't leak no more when you do vinyls you got to send your music in two months before three months before so you know why because for these vinyls to count these vinl this is according to billboard rules these vinyls have to be in existence on the day and the week of your release now it takes two months for these to be pressed up in the quantity that you want you get what I'm saying so essentially the weekend turned his album into some plant and somebody at the plant is like what the [ __ ] the weekend album [ __ ] I'm about to leak this [ __ ] now if it was Taylor Swift either her fans are just stupid or they just don't want to leak her music because she does vinyls all the time but that's why you don't get it leaked now here's the thing supposedly well I guess this album is called hurry up tomorrow look damn oh this [ __ ] trying to sell a lot this [ __ ] selling hats God damn he's selling he's selling damn almost wife beaters hats he's selling everything and everything here's the thing I I forgot the rule that billboard said um the album the cheapest you can make a bundled album is like 15 bucks not 15 bucks uh I think 10 I I forgot what it was but that's why you're going to see most prices over $35 like over 35 does this come with the album too you might say digital something let's see San Paulo oh those oh no these don't have it never mind uh oh no oh these are some Brazil hats never mind so this is Brazil this is Brazil this is Brazil this is Brazil this is Brazil let me see what is this right here oh this [ __ ] doing some [ __ ] in Brazil I know he performing oh it's probably because he did some crazy concert in Brazil so he's GNA remove these by like two or three days because he just did the the S Paulo sou Paulo [ __ ] today okay so so these are like merch for people you know they're not they sell hell of merch at the venue EXO merch does great oio merch too obviously like these are Big artists right let me see oh yeah these aren't even tied to the album yet all all these are tied to uh yeah it don't say digital release usually usually would say if this is part of the bundle package so okay so the the merch bundle Packers didn't Dro yet these are these are these are Sal Paulo shirts so I guess he did a stadium in sou Paulo I think he did it today the weekend sou Paulo oh [ __ ] he brought out Anita Playboy cardi and premiered several songs yeah I got to see how many people that [ __ ] that that [ __ ] held hold on uh what was um sorry what the [ __ ] sorry I just got to suspend the ad blocker on this um where did he perform in s Paulo let's let's look at Stadium what's the name of the stadium oh the the morum B Stadium it's a one night only Stadium all right let me see Stadium capacity oh okay so he sold out 67 ,000 people and I don't know if they didn't sell merch at the venue but he put it on the site I guess they could get on the site so the site has all Brazil type [ __ ] so even people who didn't go to the show could still cop cop merch and then the weekend and then the only thing up there now so he's going to put merch there eventually but right now the only thing there for the album is is the album itself first pressing CD $12 yeah I think 12 is the minimum and then the vinyl which is 33 but he's after a couple days he's going to remove all the South Paulo [ __ ] and start putting merch bundle EXO merch bundled with hurry up tomorrow trying to run up the sales but here's the problem the music just got leaked just off the fact that my [ __ ] you did vinyls this is what I heard they said this is why rappers aren't doing vinyls for their for the initial release they're doing it for deluxes because [ __ ] Ain't That thirsty to leak a deluxe but [ __ ] is thirsty to leak her album initially so that's why Taylor Swift comes out does 2 million and Drake does 400,000 they say Drake could do a million records Like To This Day Drake could do a million but Drake has to do vinyls and he has to press up [ __ ] but his album is going to get leaked you get what I'm saying it's going to get leaked a month and a half before so if he doesn't want his album to get leaked he can't do this now granted I still think he doesn't do deluxes like I mean did he do Deluxe with um for all the dogs I don't really think he did or not well he did Delux for all the dogs with the scary hour [ __ ] but I don't think he did the vinyls did he scary hours three for all the dogs vinyl did he do vinyl oh yeah Dre be having the laziest release on Earth bro look like he kind of did I don't know when he did it but whatever anyway I'm tell you the meta the the The Meta to get all them sales you get what I'm saying cuz streaming is only going to get you these days all these top artists are capping around like 300 350k in in just pure stream numbers like the weekend I I don't think his pure stream numbers is going to be over 350k domestically now granted he's a worldwide artist he's getting streamed much more but for Billboards and what we count we only count domestically so like really in the United States streaming is capped like like we we're at a saturation point right it was growing growing growing we're at a saturation point so the weekend's going to do like 300,000 just pure streaming now if he wants to get to 500,000 he got to start bundling you get what I'm saying so 300,000 is going to be for stream or 350,000 going to be straight streaming and now he got a bundle the thing is it it did y'all ever look at um I don't know if you ever seen this right Taylor Swift first week tortured poets that's her last album and it look crazy crazy look disgusting right look it sold it sold over 2 million records hold on let me see if I I want to get the actual data right give me a second give me a second [Music] cool uh we want to see the first week uh let me see if I can get her right numbers just just to show you I'm just showing you the game and unfortunately rappers rappers are [ __ ] in that because like rap gets bootleg way more than pop okay I think I [ __ ] oh let me just Taylor Swift tortur poets first week I'll just look at the build board joint okay yeah look at this bro look at this she sold 1.9 pure sales 1.9 million [ __ ] she sold 1.9 vinyls and keychains my [ __ ] like come on so really Taylor Swift only sold like 700,000 which is a lot still like that's still more than Drake in streaming like so just Off streaming she does beat Drake right but it's not like it makes it look crazy when Drake does 600k with clb and this chick does 2.6 million you get what I'm saying it's like she did two two extra million in Drake no she sold two million products and then had 600 million streams you get what I'm saying so it's not that she's not that much you know on a consumption level now I ain't going to lie to you her Torin I think is more prolific than Drake like like Drake can never sell the amount of tickets that she sells just personally I believe um and and [ __ ] [ __ ] she's doing Arenas he's doing even though he'll do an AR no no she she's doing Stadium he's doing an arena even though he'll do an arena like eight times gr I get it but like it's Taylor Swift she's bigger than Drake right but it's not as vast as we think bro she's just selling product the thing with Drake he don't sell no product the [ __ ] just put out his streams he give two tweets oh I'm doing a radio show on Friday like nothing the [ __ ] don't really promote [ __ ] that's one of my biggest problems with Drake you don't promote [ __ ] you get what I'm saying yo Taylor Swift sells colorcoded [ __ ] yo you want the red version of the album do you want the pink version do you want this version and her fans like no I got to get the whole collection because I love you so much Taylor Taylor I love you I'll take my soul Taylor take my soul I'll buy everything yes you get what I'm saying so really I'm glad it's starting to seep it in hip-hop all of these rappers who are flopping they just watched what what Travis Scott did and Travis Scott did the right thing hey [ __ ] Y'all flopping ass [ __ ] You Know Travis Scott numbers he only sold 30k with streaming right you know this whole thing like yo Travis look yo Travis Scott did 361 with a 10-year-old mixtape yeah he sold 30k streaming his stream numbers was only 30k he just sold 300,000 product days before before Rodeo billboard we'll just read it off the billboard site look look days before Rodeo 10th anniversary opens with 361 right and by the way for the for the dick riders who was on Twitter saying oh a was posting fake [ __ ] it's from illuminate website it costs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to be a member there that's why you don't you don't know that site so you could look up anything on that site but you don't know that site his record label uses that site everybody else uses that site so what and billboard gets their information from the site you you see what it says according to illuminant remember that screenshot I posted like where did I get the screenshot from stupid I don't even need to give y the game like I I got to stop giving [ __ ] the game because [ __ ] be so [ __ ] stupid like [ __ ] stick to hit Staley Dublin and whoever else you get it from all right anyway um of of of days before the rodeo 330 one came through album sales [ __ ] not buying albums [ __ ] bought merch and [ __ ] bought vinyls you see what I'm trying to tell you of 361 331 came from sales bro the bundles everybody knows Travis been the bundle king that's why Nicki Minaj was so tight remember Nicki Minaj like going crazy yeah [ __ ] yeah she was going crazy cuz Travis sells like and by the way you know who learned it uh uh you know why the weekend did it like this too remember EXO do it too EXO did it for nav nav sold 100,000 shirts and and that counted to her first week you get what I'm saying days before the rodeo 331,000 of the units came this is why like with all the respect and I love y'all Travis's team y'all can't even be that mad as Sabrina Carpenter she out streamed y'all she outc consumed y'all with just music listening via streaming services y'all definitely outsold her when it came to selling product y'all are selling product like Travis Scott could open up a store like he could open up like Travis Scott sells product my [ __ ] look um 331 came from album sales given the mixtap the best sales week for any hip-hop title in more more than 7even years since Kendrick Lamar Dam sold 353 again remember I keep telling you Drake albums is mostly streams that's why like Drake is really like two or three times bigger than Kendrick Lamar Drake is just [ __ ] lazy when he comes to putting out out he don't sell product look the remember Dam sold 600k but 350 yo that was the only time Kendrick ever beat Drake and Sals for a year more lifee did like almost like did 300K um Dam did 600k why cuz he sold 300 353,000 copies I guarantee if we go back let's go look at the bundles for that and by the way you know why Travis is also goat Travis keeps up with the rules of billboards for bundling because they've changed it a lot these days the bundling rule says um per shipping address and per credit card you only count once once you buy so usually they usually have one credit card and they buy 20 different things and they would think it's 20 different sales no it's one now and then also anything you buy has to be shipped out the same week or be available in a warehouse and you have to show proof to luminate Luminate SL billboard off its availability which means this ain't Drop Shipping you can't order like for example say say say Travis Scott has is trying to bundle t-shirts but he only has 50,000 t-shirts printed up anything over 50,000 that they had in a warehouse you can't be like oh yeah you could sell it it's still money but it won't count for sales because if you don't have that product available that week this ain't Drop Shipping where you order and they make it later it's not going to count so um what happens now they get these big ass warehouses they they order vinyl from long from 3 months ago they get the vinyl there they have a order in process that makees sure you do have 300,000 vinyl that's how it works I don't know if you know I feel like I'll be giving y the game a little bit too much what the hell did damn um damn Kendrick Kendrick Lamar bundle he must had a bundle right was it merch I don't know he he's so anytime you see a [ __ ] selling that much like music sucks bro like people people don't buy people don't people don't get on iTunes and buy albums [ __ ] like essentially what happens is you got to give some [ __ ] products like [ __ ] really think music is worthless so you got to give like a vinyl you got to give a t-shirt you got to give a keychain a [ __ ] hat something like that so this is why like I've always thought I I think Kanye could still sell the most cuz he's the biggest product guy he sells Yeezys I'm sorry I don't care if you who did um nav partner with was her name again [Music] um nav shirts oh vone yeah [ __ ] vone is not more popular than Yeezy [ __ ] EXO is not more popular than Yeezy whatever Drake could partner with is not going to be more popular than Yeezy [ __ ] [ __ ] if if I could buy some new some new one of them Yeezy runners or one of them weird ass Yeezy whatever he want to call it and it comes with an album I wouldn't give a [ __ ] I would just buy just a bite like yeezy's a guy but but but Kanye don't do bundles like that which is kind of odd not kind of odd I guess he's not incentivized to do it because he don't really give [ __ ] about the sales like that no more and also he don't want to cross contaminate his business because to help his record sales it would be hurting the availability and the Mystique of Yeezy right so he just doesn't do it which I you know I respect it but if he really wanted to like do some astronomical numbers he could do that and [ __ ] everybody up like I ain't gonna lie I talked to the streamer the the streamer exec they said yo people think Kanye is is is is done or Kanye whatever they said we're having this interesting conversation they said before the the Drake and Kendrick beef Kanye was the biggest musical moment which he did that independently so Kanye so Kanye my [ __ ] who cares if he gets his dick suck on a [ __ ] boat while it's driving is riding on some [ __ ] River who gives a [ __ ] if his girl is is walking around in like a [ __ ] you know lambskin condom who gives a [ __ ] his Kanye West [ __ ] like that's just what it is bro we like come on bro yeah okay so yeah ironically uh ironically Travis Scott sold he sold 30,000 via streams and 300,000 via or 331,000 via via VIA merch and you know what crazy they're like yo we got robbed I mean I guess I got robbed but it's not like bro y selling y selling bundles whatever who cares who cares anyway I guess I still all that to say that's why the weekend's albums leak I see everybody send me the link yeah it got leaked cuz he's trying to do some big sales but still buy his album too buy his album yeah still buy his album oh [ __ ] trying to send me that oh yeah somebody from Universal hit me they said act do not play that [ __ ] on your [ __ ] stream [ __ ] we [ __ ] with you but do not you know and I get it they're like a we do a lot of business with you but you ain't gonna [ __ ] up our back by playing one of our biggest artist songs to encourage bootlegging [ __ ] [ __ ] out of here [ __ ] you better talk about it you better not play a [ __ ] song yeah [ __ ] apparently this [ __ ] is leak I play one song they taking out his goddamn stream they a say that but you know it's implied like y bro don't don't do it don't do it don't do it all right shout out to the weekend I Be Wondering yo is the weekend and Drake fighting over Playboy cardi it's like a lover quar I don't be knowing what's going on bro remember cardi was on no face Drake dropped it cardi not on no face no more what's going on with that now the weekend just brought out cardi in Brazil and then I look at this and he's showing that he got cardia chain look at this look at this look at this look at this people you got cardia chain y what's going on what's G by the way Drake let me tell you this I I know you said no friends in the industry but you know they ain't no friends in the industry Drake let me just wave my hands and tell you this the industry is ready to try to embarrass you so make sure your next step your best step the weekend fa [ __ ] on you or trying to [ __ ] on you with sales they're all trying to show that you fell off or you ain't who you are no more I'm telling you this the weekend trying to [ __ ] on you this is why this is why he came with bundles he's trying to [ __ ] on you [ __ ] okay they all believe Kendrick is going to [ __ ] on you when it comes to we're talking about sales everybody believes that if Kendrick dropped the series beating drakeon sales the weekend's trying to one up him in sales and it's to the point I'm hearing they think that if futur spin back again he might beat you in sales which I think that's crazy that one's crazy that one's a little bit that's a little bit crazy but they're also thinking that which Travis that bundle should be having people souped up Travis Scott is not bigger than Drake because I'mma also say this too and and for y'all Drake fans please like y'all gotta realize I'm doing my job too like I I'm not just hit a lot of people I believe if Drake drops a project and does his normal lack of promo I think you know again a project within the next I want to say seven to eight months I think it might be the first time we see Drake sell under well it wouldn't be the first time we've seen him sell I think he does under 400 I think he does like three 370 360 which isn't Drake numbers Drake numbers is 500 500 plus you feel what I'm saying which that's why I think Drake should drop next summer but this party nextd door project I think that's a 300 something album if it drops in November but I think that's going to be more of a mixtape Vibe so it's gonna be passable Drake next project keep in mind Drake's last real album I know y'all want to say for all the dogs that's not what it is even though yeah I don't know if I could cop if all the dogs he kind of did Mark it as an album but it came so quick after two other projects CB [ __ ] clb did 600 okay and we expect when Drake drops a proper album for it to be 500k that's like a barometer if Drake if Drake ain't hitting the if it's 470 cool but if Drake below that 400 Mark that 400 Mark is going to be the mark for Drake 400 if he below that we're going to be like over that yeah we'll see I think I think the weekend dropped them vinyls because he want to do 550 he want to do like close to 600 he wanted to do over 500 everybody think by the way I I talk to Industry Executives this this what everybody says that Kendrick is Kendrick is in is over the these are the ranges I'm hearing for they say if Drake drop a project that's not he doesn't fall back a bit and gear up with a crazy release for a album they think he's going to do less than 400 first week they think if Kendrick drops this year he's doing 500 to 600 okay weekend they think he's 450 to 550 but who knows I think he dropped them BS he trying to get to even bigger okay Travis to honestly Travis to me is really a 250 artist like he's just a bundles guy you know what I mean like like a lot of these numbers are smoking M I don't think Travis Scott is even bigger than um Jay Cole ju to be honest y'all might be shocked by that I don't think he's bigger than J.Cole but he's a bundles guy like he knows how to finesse numbers better than anybody in the game Travis is amazing you get what I'm saying so Travis is going to drop the bundled up [ __ ] put it with tour tickets this by the way you know a lot of people ain't doing the tour ticket [ __ ] no more right remember remember [ __ ] used to be selling selling their albums with tour tickets they stopped doing that why billboard change the rules that [ __ ] don't work no more you feel what I'm saying so that's the current projections they're saying it's a possibility we see Drake drop a project that's below 400 there's a um if if if Kendrick capitalize they believe he's hitting over 500 the weekend they believe he's in that range Travis he's just a [ __ ] finesser he's going to still be in that he's going to be in that 400 500 range but when you see Travis sell 400 that's not regular 400 like that's that [ __ ] just open up a allall that's it you open up what I'm saying somebody say check Little Dirk story my boy smirky yo whatk got going on

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