CHICAGO, IL. (THECOUNT) — “Chance The Rapper‘s new album, ‘The Big Day,’ is flopping.” And that’s not just us talking, that’s how almost every urban-friendly gossip outlet reported it Monday citing what many claim are lower than expected record sales.
Well traveled MTO, aka MediaTakeOut, put it this way:
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“Chance is in a dark place right now. The rapper claims that he feels like fans want him to commit suicide, now that his new album is flopping.”
On paper – Chance’s first week numbers don’t appear to be all that bad.
MTO went on to explain:
“But for a rapper that was once panned as the next big thing – those numbers are extremely disappointing.”
The Big Day is expected to sell somewhere between 110,000 to 125,000 units and Chance’s album debuted as Number 1 on the Billboard charts, that is, until 9 hours later – when he was already unceremoniously dethroned by even newer, new up-and-comer, Nathan Feuerstein.
A gushing TheRinger broke this bit of lovely news:
“Pop music has a new overlord, and pop culture has a new Person You Need to Know About Now, and hip-hop has a new Greatest Rapper Alive. I don’t make the rules. Say hello to Nathan Feuerstein, the Michigan rapper known professionally as NF, whose fourth major-label album, The Search, topped Monday’s Billboard album chart, edging out, yes, Chance the Rapper’s The Big Day, a shocking upset that maybe shouldn’t be so shocking. You have flippant questions. We have flippant answers. Just be aware going in that this dude is not flippant in the slightest.”
When it comes to record sales and maybe to put them in a little more perspective, Tyler The Creator‘s new album, which received about 1 percent of the promo dollars Chance did, was seen as a moderate success selling 165,000 units in its first week.
According to Chance, he now feels pressure, from fans to commit suicide. The rapper told fans that he needed to “let some of these feelings [out] and that’s what Twitter is for.”
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