Tory Lanez’ latest project Sorry 4 What has likely moved more units than Freddie Gibbs, Kid Cudi and YG in its first-week sales.
While Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti will undoubtedly snag the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for its 13th nonconsecutive week, the Canadian rapper reportedly moved 25,500 units, and is likely to debut at No. 10.
The project will beat out Kid Cudi’s Entergalactic and Freddie Gibbs $oul $old $eperately, which will likely debut at No. 13 and No. 14 respectively with 22,000 album equivalent units and 6,800 album equivalent units sold, per Billboard. YG’s numbers weren’t immediately available.
The good news for Tory comes as he gears up for his criminal trial against Megan Thee Stallion. The trial — in which Lanez is accused of shooting at Megan and wounding both of her feet in July 2020 — was set to kick off in September, but was ultimately pushed back after Tory asked a judge to delay the start date due to his lawyers being busy with other trials. The trial will now commence between November 28 and December 8.
The Chixtape rapper has been relatively quiet about details surrounding the case, but clarified on DJ Akademiks Off The Record podcast that it is just not the “time and place” to offer such details.
“It’s three words brother: time and place,” Lanez said. “There’s gonna be a time and a place for that. But I do know this is not the time and place. The internet, like I said, is not a therapist. It doesn’t matter what I say to those people online. Until it is in that black and white it doesn’t matter anyway, so there will be a time and a place.”
He continued, “I am in an open case and maybe I make this shit look really beautiful, but I am facing 24 years, I’m making shit look beautiful, don’t I? But guys, I am actively facing 24 years next month. Like this is no play play situation. I’ve been in this for three years. I’ve never played internet games with you guys. I’m not gonna start now.”
The L.A. County D.A.’s Office charged Lanez with a felony count of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and one count of carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle in October 2020.
On the music side, Tory’s Sorry 4 What is the first full length from the rapper since 2021’s Alone At Prom.
I blame Lebron James for this
What? Really?
The sales from this album are going towards his upcoming Commissary money account for his prison stay.
Sounds like commy speak to me.
Do you even know what that word really means?
This mf constantly delivers heat!! Well deserved
Yeah he does, Megan Thee Stallion’s foot got the receipt as proof lol.
Fuk that hos foot! That horse faced ass biatch!!!!
Guessing Screw public school education too because you type like a mentally handicapped third grader.
The album was fire! Good music will always win in the end
Foh, shit is pop r@b
How’s Cudi only sellin 22k after the year he’s had after headlining Rolling Loud
IN MOST CASES, ONLY LEGACY MATERIAL BENEFITS FROM MAJOR CONCERTS. NOT NEW STUFF.
Fart Noise.
Gibbs sold 6800 unit equivalents. Talk about a FLOP.
I guess all them tough tweets and beef with Benny didn’t transpire into streams huh. Shame though because the album is dope. But like Game, Gibbs talk too much.
it doesnt take much research to find out he sold 22k
If Drake is Canada’s Hay Z, then Tory is their Nas. This has Stillmatic vibes. Straight bangers start to finish
“Canada run hip hop”. Please stop trolling. You just compared corny, fake, popstar Drake to Jay-Z and cornball midget Tory Lanez to Nas. If you’re not trolling you have horrible taste in music. The only people over here listening to Drake are teenage girls and I don’t know anybody who even knows who Tory Lanez is. I do and I wish I didn’t. His music is trash. Please tell me you’re trolling.
Not even 30k in the first week lol How is this guy even considered famous besides being mentioned on hip hop sites? The people at his concerts must be the only people that even know who he is.
tory fire … let em walk
Man I didn’t listen to the album so I didn’t help things but it bums me out if Moon Man can’t sell records anymore.
The only thing I have seen in forever was himself saying he was the most hated man in hip hop or something. That’s dumb af
so you only blacked balled when your album dont sell? lol
album of the year
1 Future
2 Gibbs
The way music is “sold” now makes billboard irrelevant. Back when you had to buy a physical CD to hear the music, numbers mattered. Streaming destroyed music. If I depended on the internet to “hear” music without physically owning it, why would I pay money when youtube and datpiff let you hear music for free ? These numbers dont reflect the amount of people buying your shit. It just reflects the amount of simps who give you a listen.
Everybody is on the same scale now regardless of what it used to be. YouTube views are still counted towards Billboard album charts. So even if an albums charts lower/higher than what it would’ve been 20 years ago, we can still compare current sales from each artist to compare popularity. Artists still put up high numbers. Look at Drake, Bad Bunny, Adele, KPop etc. Some of them are breaking all time records in the streaming era. So if all views counts including YouTube and everybody is on the same scale, what’s the issue?
StReAmInG rUiNeD mUsIc durrrrr