21 Savage Secures Controversial Official First Week Sales For “WHTTS?”

According to the publication, WHTTS? debuted at No. 3 on the chart behind Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl at No. 1 and Morgan Wallen’s I’m The Problem at No. 2. Savage’s new LP bought 73K album-equivalent items, which is someplace in between preliminary projections and the newest ones. 48K of these are streaming items (virtually 66 million streams throughout the tracklist) and 25K are in pure album gross sales, with track-equivalent items offering a negligible sum. It’s the Atlanta MC’s seventh Billboard 200 prime 5 placement.

According to Kurrco, Billboard filtered about 37K items in pure album gross sales from its last tally, for causes unknown. While some followers launched botting allegations, there have been additionally varied projected numbers floating round. As such, take the whole lot with a grain of salt.

This all appears to be an effort to advertise extra unity in Atlanta rap and past, given their turbulent previous few years. But some followers assume this complete factor really does signify a want to spice up gross sales for the album. Whether you imagine that or not, the adverse reception is manifesting in different methods.

Many other MCs don’t agree with 21 Savage. Folks like 6ix9ine, Blueface, Lil Zay Osama, BossMan Dlow, and extra have pushed again towards these messages, calling them hypocritical, disingenuous, or disrespectful.

Sadly, there’s virtually an equally divisive debate round first week gross sales numbers today, irrespective of who of us are speaking about. Hopefully the ultimate debut signifies that they’ll transfer on to different conversations and discussions.

With all this in thoughts, we’ll see how the legacy of WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS? continues to evolve.