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Originally posted by Eternium
I'm not misunderstanding anything. He tried to revolutionize album releases and had a shot to do 400k first week U.S. with a traditional release yet the release strategy he went for ended up yielding under 400k equivalents total.
I wouldn't call that a success.
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I'm not talking about "equivalents", I'm talking about actual popularity. This is the album that had record-breaking amounts of illegal downloads and almost broke the streaming record two months after its release.
If he wanted to sell, he wouldn't have made the album Tidal-exclusive for two months and only available to purchase on his site after that.