Joey Bada$$’s “Lonely At The Top” Fails To Chart Despite Hype

There’s the age-old argument in music that gross sales are an especially vital determinant of an album’s success. The traditional counterargument to that’s that high quality issues extra ultimately. However generally, the music can fall someplace within the center to the place the gross sales mirror that.

For Joey Bada$$ and Lonely At The High, it is a fairly attention-grabbing case. The lead as much as his industrial return was fairly unbelievable. The singles he was dropping, particularly throughout his battle with quite a few West Coast MCs, was one thing particular to observe.

After all, there’s the truth that many spectators topped Joey Bada$$ the winner of mentioned feud, regardless of him virtually being alone. Different East Coast MCs, together with Professional Period‘s personal, CJ Fly, stepped in to help. Nonetheless, Ray Vaughn, Daylyt, AZ Chike, and others had been all concentrating on Joey of their responses to his disses.

Nonetheless, regardless of that aggressive back-and-forth and the lyrical shows he put forth, the reception wasn’t the identical for the album. That is to not say that there weren’t individuals who had been enamored with Lonely At The High although both.

If you happen to verify evaluation boards like AOTY, they’re principally constructive. However true critics felt Joey performed it a bit too by the numbers.

The Brooklyn MC himself mentioned he was going for a extra digestible listening expertise. “Made this album in underneath 6 months within the spirit of a mixtape. Actually simply wished to get some raps off and feed the core, nothing extra,” he mentioned partly.

Whereas he might not care in regards to the laborious numbers, it looks like his course for it was not the precise one for some followers and critics alike. That is as a result of Lonely At The High was not capable of crack the Sizzling 200 chart, promoting underneath 9,000 models.

In consequence, that is now the primary time Joey did not debut on the Sizzling 200 in his profession per Hip Hop All Day. However once more, there’s some high quality available on the 11-song tracklist. There are stable visitor performances as effectively from A$AP Ferg (FERG), Ty Dolla $ign, Westside Gunn, CJ Fly, amongst others.

In the end, it was a decent effort from the revered lyricist, however maybe a distinct strategy and the points with Columbia Information obtained in the best way from a industrial smash.