Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly is expected to sell between 300,000 and 325,000 units its first week in sales, according to Hits Daily Double.
The Sales Plus Streaming sales figure is projected to be between 350,000 and 375,000.
Both figures are expected to make To Pimp A Butterfly the #1 album in the country when the next sales tally is released next Wednesday (March 25).
By comparison, good kid, m.A.A.d city sold 242,122 its first week in stores in October 2012.
To Pimp A Butterfly’s sales may have been affected by its release Sunday (March 15), nine days prior to its scheduled March 24 release date and its removal on iTunes Monday (March 16).
Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly was streamed more than 9.6 million times on Spotify Monday (March 16), its first day of availability.
That sets a global record for the most album streams in a single day worldwide on Spotify.
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great numbers..thanks for another classic
GKMC was better
Nah TPAB best Hip hop album in the last 10 years
The stannery today is just out of control. Thanks for another classic?? Best album in the last 10 years? Shit hasn’t even been officially released yet. Hopefully y’all are just trolling.
Alot of people under pressure in the industry to give this a good review. But like many classics before the streets need to talk. And when all the promotion and hype is over we will see how people still feel about it.
not a classic yet.
Flooooooooooooooooop. Told y’all this shit was gonna flop but you wouldn’t listen to me. If it sells less than Drake’s 535k first week sales, then it’s a flop. Those streams weren’t shit. Nice try, Kendoll, Aftermath, Interscope and TDE. Y’all lost. Drake still reigns supreme in this rap game. OVO BITCHES!!!
This dude ^^^ knows nothing about the industry or business, or how people make money into todays climate of music.. FAIL
Stop feeding this troll. How hard can it be?
You really are retarded. This album is about to sell more than GKMC, that’s a success, not a flop. The streams weren’t shit? They are. Kendrick, Aftermath, Interscope, and TDE won. Drake ain’t reigning supreme in anything.
It’s still gonna go platinum.
Kendrick still ain’t have grammys, still ain’t reaching drake’s level of fame, and still ain’t shit.
Have you been living under a rock? Kendrick just won two Grammys this year and he’s still famous, much better than pop ass Drake.
Kendrick lost the only award that matters to Drunklemore. Drake already got his for take care. Call me when kendrick ever sells that much.
None of the Grammys matter. Kendrick still won two of them.
And yet dumbo lost best rap album to a drunk named macklemore. Drake got his with best rap album. How does that not make a drake a legend?
Macklemore ain’t a drunk, and Kendrick still won two Grammys, the categories doesn’t matter. Drake is not a legend. Winning awards doesn’t make you one.
Its fucking grammys. The top music honor. Drake now cemements his status as a legend due to the best rap album win. Kendrick’s 2 awards for some crap song ain’t making him shit.
WHY DONT YOU BLOW DRAKE THEN? HE’LL WRITE A SONG ABOUT HOW YOU HURT HIM.
The Grammys doesn’t know anything about hip-hop and is run by a bunch of old white men. Grammys doesn’t make you a legend. Drake is not a legend and will never be one. Kendrick is already one with two classic albums (BTW, i isn’t crap).
If that doesn’t make you a legend, what does?
The music does and Drake’s music isn’t all that.
Shut up hoe.
Drake is absolute garbage he’s only good at being light skinned and crooning for white girls and homosexuals.He hasn’t made a classic album yet. And alb sales an old white men’s opinions mean nothing to me. We already got a Drake, his name is Lil Wayne. Good night you no knowledge Hip hop lover.
That aint shit. My nigga JA RULE sold 361k without all that streaming and itunes crap.
HOLLAAAA!!
Funny thing. Drake lost grammy for best rap album to Macklemore too. Get your facts right before trolling
Drake sucks bro.
Sales would’ve bedmate higher if the physical was in stores.
I saw dozens of unsold copies of to pimp a butterfly at a best buy. Couldn’t find a drake album though.
^ That’s a lie. You never went to Best Buy at all.
And you did? Lying ass bitch. There were dozens of copies on the shelves.
It’s you who’s the liar making up shit.
Yeah, weak platinum maybe. Drake is going strong platinum and will continue to dominate.
Shut your ass up. How mad could you possibly be that Kendrick is winnin. Take an L, Aubrey fan base choir
Shut the fuck up and just accept that Gay-Dot is losing and we at OVO winning.
No such thing as weak or strong platinum, platinum is platinum. K-Dot is winning and Aubey ain’t dominating anything. You’re not part of OVO, who isn’t winning.
While your idol is TDE’s bitch, Drake got his own label running with Partynextdoor, Majid Jordan, Ilovemaokken, and OB Brian.
Nope. Also, Drake is Lil Wayne and Birdman’s bitch. All of those OVO artists are wack weed carriers.
Birdman and Wayne crawled to him and drake got the favorable end of the deal. Also, how can his artists be weed carriers if partynext door has 2 hit albums, Majid Jordan had the hit song, hold on we’re going home, and ILOVEMAKKON had the hit turn up anthem, Tuesday?
More like Drake crawled to them. Partnextdoor’s albums are flops, Hold On is not Majid Jordan’s song, and shitty ass Tuesday wouldn’t be anything withou Drake.
Drake got famous on his own and wayne and birdman crawled to him. Tuesday got a ton of attention before drake hopped on the remix. Dope song too. My club is seeing a rise in attendence on tuesdays now.
Nah, Drake crawled to Wayne and Birdman. Tuesday disn’t get any attention until Drake showed up. And no, Tuesday sucks. You don’t have a club, BTW.
Dumbo may be going weak platinum but drake will be at strong platinum then.
No such thing as weak or strong platinum, platinum is platinum and that’s an automatic win.
Drake going platinum first and will sell more though.
And Kendrick will still have the better album.
In your mind. For many others, OVO is far better.
Not just my mind, many people, who aren’t even thinking aout wack ass OVO.
And many others aren’t even thinking about TDE.
They are.
PLenty don’t though. Don’t speak for everyone.
Same can be said for you.
I see teethbitch the troll stole OVO’s name.
Flop LOL
How is selling 375K a flop when most rappers can barely sell 100K?
Pretty good numbers but it don’t think it will hold long because I don’t think the album was that great myself GKMC was a lot better I had my hopes up for this album but was disappointed I think Yelawolf is gonna have the album of the summer from the joints I have heard #LOVESTORY 4/21
Phryme killed this shit hhdx is getting paid mad money for that perfect five smh I loved section 80 though good kid was aight
Compton nigga rocking a Yankees hat. One of the many reasons why Kendrick is bullhsit.
*bullshit*
You’re dumb.
Alot of people under pressure in the industry to give this a good review. But like many classics before the streets need to talk. And when all the promotion and hype is over we will see how people still feel about it.
People really judging an album just on sales?? KL is an emcee, drake is a pop artist
Why the fan wars over sales and grammys? It used to be about beats and bars. smh.
Well I just bought my copy, this is a classic and I’m from the streets so there you go, streets have talked, best hip hop album since Chronic 2001, now shut the fuck up and buy it. Homosexuals will not like this album because it doesn’t have Drake on it.
Even if you dont like this shit you cant deny that its the best/most creative full album that has dropped in a long while.
no-one else could have made this album but Kendrick
any random nigga could have spit about the same shit on IYRTITL Yall need to get off that OVO shit and clain the truth.
Drake is great for the radio and so called “bangers”
Be we all know who gets the most RESPECT