The Bey talk is where people conveniently conflate musical popularity and Q rating popularity. She boosted his Q rating pop culture popularity. His music shit was what it was.
For the sake of argument let’s use first week.
2003 Dangerously in Love did 317k first week.
B’Day
2006 B’Day 541k...
Day One Purchase
Jay(if dropping rumors true)
Dot
Drake
Cole
Nas
Stove
Q
Future
First Week Purchase
Wale
Push
Jay Rock
Clipse
Durk
Tyler
Conway
Westside
Keem
Ransom
Boldy
Wait & See
Banks
Benny
Ab Soul
Herb
JID
Wayne (unfortunately nowadays)
Meek
Rocky
Ghost
Styles
Coppin Bootleg
YG...
Let’s say Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, YouTube Music, etc. all disappear overnight. Digital purchases are also gone.
We’re back to physically buying albums solely in person.
Obviously you don’t have to remember every single artist. In 2026, who are some active/semi active artists that you’re...
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