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Squall
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Why can't Views outsell Lemonade?
Despite two huge hits, Views isn't able to outsell Lemonade in the US, why so?
(I'm talking about this week's chart mainly)
Dannyyyyyyyyy
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Post #2
Why does it matter?
TayDine1989
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Post #3
Because Lemonade is a masterpiece 🙌
Floyd Mayweather
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Originally posted by
Dannyyyyyyyyy
Why does it matter?
This
FutureHive
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I thought streaming was the future
Make up your minds
Kamren
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Because Beyoncé always wins.
pieuxvu
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1. Lemonade is a much better album
2. Streaming hurts his album sales.
Nemo
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Squall
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Dannyyyyyyyyy
Why does it matter?
Because I decided it does?
Notorious K.E.N
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Cause its the streaming era and Drake put his album up for streaming on all formats, hence why Beyonce cant outchart Views for her life
Squall
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Notorious K.E.N
Cause its the streaming era and Drake put his album up for streaming on all formats, hence why Beyonce cant outchart Views for her life
Who cares? At the end of the day, sales >>> streams.
ThisCharmingMan
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TAW.
RobynFKA
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ugh can we leave that trash View album behind...
MusicNews
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Squall
Because I decided it does?
and who are you to decide what matters?
drake is doing good on both streaming and sales. plus streaming is more important nowadays than sales so this is irrelevant.
JonginBey
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Squall
Because I decided it does?
Smilers
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Drake's sales were cannibalized by streaming while Beyonce makes her album exclusively available in only sales so...
I mean he's still topping BB200, his streamings are HUGE
Notorious K.E.N
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Squall
Who cares? At the end of the day, sales >>> streams.
You asked the question, not me. The Hive will probably have more threads like this when the BB200 year wnd chart is released and Views is above Lemonade
MusicNews
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Squall
Who cares? At the end of the day, sales >>> streams.
why? cos they are sales? it's not like artists aren't getting money off streaming. your point is stupid.
sales=numbers
streaming=numbers
and you can't say sales are much more important when streaming is taking over.
Black Umbrella
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Post #19
Even though Lemonade> Views. But why do y'all care so much?
Squall
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MusicNews
why? cos they are sales? it's not like artists aren't getting money off streaming. your point is stupid.
sales=numbers
streaming=numbers
and you can't say sales are much more important when streaming is taking over.
The only reason why streaming became so important is because sales are the pits. Some artists like Beyoncé don't need streaming to catch up for sales.
A $17.99 sale > 1000 free plays
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