The latest Soundscan numbers were released Wednesday (June 10) and Troy Ave sold 4,373 copies of his album, Major Without a Deal. Only Hip Hop Facts posted on Twitter yesterday (June 11) that the album sold 30 physical copies.
The New York rapper took to Twitter yesterday to explain the sales numbers.
“official #’s in Fri or Mon. since album dropped last Fri but at 95% +30K singles sold & hosting’s I Prob made 120 THOUSAND in 1 week #RT that,” Troy Ave’s post reads.
The tradition is for albums to be released Tuesday, so since Major Without a Deal was released on a Friday, Ave is saying his numbers will naturally be lower than usual. Because he is an independent rapper, he is also saying he will retain almost all of the profit as compared to artists who sign deals that give record companies a large cut of the profit. He estimates that he sold 30,000 individual songs. Adding in club appearances to all of those factors, the rapper is expecting to make $120,000 in a week.
Billboard also explains the sales numbers and says the album reaches four charts.
It says that the physical copy of the album was not available to the public until Tuesday (June 9), so would not have factored into the listed sales figures.
“Any CD copies of the album that were sold in the week ending June 7 (it was indeed a negligible figure),” the outlet says, “were CDs sold by retailers who ignored the physical CD’s street date, and opted to sell the CD early. These sales are often referred to as ‘street date violation’ sales.”
“Based on its first three days of digital-only sales, Major Without a Deal launches at No. 2 on the Heatseekers Albums chart, No. 13 on Rap Albums, No. 14 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and No. 14 on Independent Albums.”
For additional Troy Ave coverage, watch the following DX Daily:
this dude is terrible. for anyone talkin bout bring “nyc back” this is what you get. ASAP. Bronson, Bodega Bamz, Underachievers, Zombies, Dave East, etc all WAY better than this clown
You don’t know hip hop my man
Eat a dick got AIDS from troy ave
All those heavy features and he STILL flopped? This nigga trash, go humble yourself and stop trying to convince people the real #’s will be better. 5K total lol
These new rappers…. Making up sales figures against the actual… 5k is 5k… Son that album is DOA.. Send that joint to DatPiff and go for the show money….
He better save that. That’s all that’s coming in for the rest of the career
The guy’s like “You see, the way I got my bank account set up, I got a checkings and a savings, but all my money is in my savings, so I gotta switch it to my checkings, but it’s gonna take 3 business days” LOL
Why we talkin when most of u clowns commenting we need 2 support it because a lot of bullshit go platinum r getting a lot of recognition like fetty wap wack ass but yall support nicki or iggy or wacklemore or next mc t swift fuck dat support this man and any other emcee that can actually rhyme just saying black artist have 2 dumb down shit fuck the industry killing the culture
Eli Porter
Dam its sad yall commenting on his sales , but the fact still remains the young blk kid own his shit and doing it independent fuck sales how can you hate that..
For myself i don’t think he’s a good rapper ay all. Money hot him here or else man its a lot of wackness on the radio so blame the djs m radio stations