After months of silence following the Megan Thee Stallion incident, Tory Lanez returned with his surprise album DAYSTAR on September 25 to address the situation. However, the reception might not have been as great as the Canadian rapper had hoped.
The LP debuted at No. 10 on the Billboard 200 chart with roughly 36,000 equivalent album units, marking the lowest opening week of his career in terms of both chart position and overall numbers. The figure for his sixth top 10 album is made up of 34,000 SEA units (47.7 million on-demand song streams) and 2,000 album sales.
Earlier this year, Tory’s commercial mixtape The New Toronto 3 debuted at No. 2 with 64,000 units. Before that, Chixtape 5 debuted at No. 2 in 2019 (83,000 units), Love Me Now! debuted at No. 4 and Memories Don’t Die debuted at No. 3 in 2018 (both 54,000 units), and his first album I Told You debuted at No. 4 in 2016 (52,000 units).
DAYSTAR is Tory’s first album as an independent artist, after completing his five-album deal with Interscope Records in April. In an interview with Beats 1’s Ebro Darden, he revealed he was holding on to his best songs for future projects.
“I don’t want to give the label I was with at the time, not the label but the team I was with, I didn’t want to give the team those records I felt were my Earth Changing records,” he said. “That’s why I haven’t released any of my golden songs.”
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Tory has been criticized for releasing his DAYSTAR project in an attempt to clear his name of recent controversy. On the album opener “Money Over Fallouts,” Tory straight-up denies shooting Megan.
“Can’t cry now, I’m gonna laugh later/Girl you had the nerve to write that statement on that affidavit, knowing I don’t do it,” he raps.
Later in the song, he says, “How the fuck you get shot in your foot, don’t hit no bones or tendons?”
Tory took to his Instagram Stories on September 29 to respond to those who questioned why he waited so long to speak out and whoever is against him.
“I don’t move on social media’s time,” he wrote. “I move on Gods time. I don’t operate in fear, I operate in FAITH. I don’t bow down to the lies of man. I stick with the TRUTH of god. And for those reasons, it doesn’t matter who rises against me in this hour and small season. BIG OR SMALL OBSTACLE … I will PREVAIL and RISE to GREATNESS as GOD SAID I WILL.”
Tory seemed unbothered over the weekend when Brooklyn rapper Casanova spotted him at a club in New Jersey and posted a video to his Instagram Stories.
“Oh shit, oh shit, oh he outside,” Casanova said after seeing him, before asking Tory, “Ayo, what the fuck is you doing out here? What the fuck is going on?”
Tory responded by shrugging his shoulders and mouthing “I don’t know.” The two rappers previously collaborated on the 2019 song “2AM,” also featuring Davido.
Wack ass rappers no word play no nothing just living off our money .let’s stop streaming and buying this bullshit for real
Start will lil baby the yatchs Travis scotts bitch ass and like the other 20osers start with the tory flames all of them
Cool, so many wrappers closer to going away for good … it happens when yo bitch asses wanna fake the funk! ‘Eeewww I held back my golden songs’ get tha fuck lost boy boy
Watch your mouth pussy
Meh dude will have his fans and probably will gain more this year. Daystar was a dope album for independent artist. Lets goooo
Albums hard. Is Megan’s label paying you to trash Tory?
36K independent is really good if he gets to keep the majority of the money.
More evidence of what this era is. He put out the best music of his career, and people won’t listen to it because they don’t like him over something that’s questionable at best happening. Shit is crazy in this generation. Dudes were bitches back in the 90s choosing up on beefs, but they still would listen to the other dude’s music even if they rode with one side or the other.
the boy Indy now tho. that’s a win
Journalism is dead. Tory’s video for Most High has over 17 million streams on YouTube and counting and reached as high as #3 on trending over the weekend. Not to mention he was the 8th highest streamed artist in the US this past week after being blackballed. Way to give the negative slant. It’s the media that has canceled him but fans have managed to find the music and support the music in spite of articles like this, zero radio support, zero playlisting. He’s being canceled for an allegation. No charges for an actual shooting have even been filed against him – only accusation – but you conveniently left that out. If it is revealed that Thee Stallion fabricated this story we can hope that you will bare minimum give an equally light but redeeming mention. If it proves he’s guilty then so be it. Fans will have to reckon with that and should. Violence against women shouldn’t be tolerated however, neither should false accusation. Until then. Stream Daystar. Support Meg. Do your job as a journalist.
Just say you a fan and move on. We didn’t need a whole paragraph of slurping.
What you mean “we” ? Speak for yourself
I agree with this, we shouldn’t be too quick to take the see of whoever spoke first. However, what I don’t like is how Tory went about it. Everyone’s been waiting for his side of the story and he used this “bad press” as clout to drop an album. He’s been called out for shooting another person that couldn’t defer themselves appropriately. This isn’t about Meg the Stallion. This is about small dick energy.
??♂️ The world will always point fingers.. if someone falsely accuse you… how would you feel? Would you take in the considerations of strangers on how you would or should reply? Ones feelings will always be scrutinized when it comes to the public eye. There are just too many views and opinions. None of which matters because none of us were there to witnesses the incident… let the man breathe he’s an artist, if he chooses to reply in a song or an album that’s his way of replying. Trying to silence someone because of their lack of communication or the method of which they choose to communicate is ridiculous. Trying appease people like you who already say he’s guilty before being tried lol…. what would be the fucking point. Y’all are so hypocritical and hateful. If he’s guilty at his court hearing, then he’ll suffer the consequences; but in the mean time stfu and enjoy the music. Half of y’all bumping wap like it doesn’t fucking perpetrator women as sex objects, black women at that!! This shit is hypocrisy and ? corny as fuck!!! #bawwwwww sheoples #bawwwwww
Lmaooooo. Tory did like 9 million views on Most High in the FIRST 24 HOURS ALONE. Everyone is bumping the album and talking about it. Numbers lie now. This is all controlled. Fuck The Industry
For a indie album. Thats a Win. Niggas pressed. Tory all day.
People make excuses for everything lmao
Plus Apple music remove is album on they platform this week
After selling a pathetic 37k, next week, that shit’s gonna hit rock bottom off the fking charts. Nobody wants to hear that b.s.
Awesome but they want to hear lil baby go kill yourself?
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