There’s Only 10 Rappers Capable of Selling Over 100k In Today’s Age

HiClass said

Dre would go wood in todays age lol

He don’t reinvent himself to keep up with times, sorta like 50

I think if he actually dropped detox and it was good it would do over 100 could be wrong tho. My little brother and other people his age and younger still listen to his sh*t he's only 18. Maybe not like older people do but dres music was so classic and he's got fans dating back to the 80s that are gonna buy or at least stream if the music's good

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murderers said

Snoop has 75 m and can't go wood. Meek has 40 mill and his last album flopped

That’s cuz in most of these cases, they care more about the lifestyle then the music. Especially when you get 2 those 10s of millions of followers. But at the same time these people get millions and millions of streams and video views and they still only amount to hundreds of thousands of listens. So the numbers actually do add up for the most part.

Some fan bases are just a lot more rabid and faithful to where they will consistently stream,dl,buy certain songs or albums. All those followers are much more important then them buying music. Those followers will dictate what sponsors you get and endorsement deals. It’s for all the money outside of music. No matter how anybody cut it, having followers is the most important aspect of modern entertainment. The more people checking for you will get you the bigger checks

Florida still active? Carti has a fanbase with the buying power of 100k?

Damn Im oldhead as fu*k

MHP Trotty said

Dudes be giving way too much power/credit to someone clicking a follow button on a celebrity that is recommended for you to follow on the app.

Followers are just a form of social credit

100% agree.

Jcole easily does 100k every drop

21 21 ?

cuzjuan said

Jcole easily does 100k every drop

Came here to say this

Cole is a lock

No Nas? Last I heard he had about 10 classics.

Unless it's a Carter Wayne isn't doing 100k in a week

GOLDUST said

Flo Rida and Pitbull selling 100k

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Flo Rida is a piece of fu*king trash

Why the fu*k do y'all care about first week sales more than how good the album is? The reason why so much bullsh*t is out right now

2pack?

Cole? Youngboy? Travis? Tyler? Harlow? I might be missing a few

Candidn*gga said

Uzi and carti both sold 100k+ their last albums

You really out of touch bro

Homie said Cardi doing 100k the first week…

She just put a whole single with Durk and Kanye and that sh*t bricked

I don’t even bump Youngboy like that but he just did 110k on the project just dropped.

Lol honorable mention Travis Scott

Dude still selling off Astroworld bro

obviously the internet/streaming/piracy play a part but at the end of the day it comes down to demographics.

if you a top country or latin artist you gonna still sell records. the majority of this country? middle america whites and latinos. easy money. if not? gotta catch lightning in a bottle. pop acts will come and go. some have staying power like a lady gaga, you got soul acts like adele that can still sell but it's really rare especially in rap to k*ll on first week sales.

not to mention this young generation (gen z) is the smallest generation by population in our nation's history. before them it was gen x. but gen x was sandwiched in between the baby boomers and millennials (the two biggest generations in our nation's history) so those acts had enough consumers to sell records. these new artists gotta hope and pray old boomers and cranky millennials who hate how rap has changed buy their records to be able to sell. not a good recipe. that's why a lot of the acts you listed that can still sell are typically from the millennial's coming of age timeline. demographics matter.