[OFFICIAL] THE FUNERAL (Appreciation/Discussion)

[lilwayne-carter]

Funeral had promotion like any other album

139k first week

[martian master]

- "As reported by Hits Daily Double, DJ Khaled’s 12th studio album Khaled Khaled is set to move 80,000 to 100,000 units with 5,000 to 7,000 in pure album sales".

- "Slime Language 2 - 113,000K , first week".


139K for "Funeral", it wasn't that bad. (without any promotion)

there was a rule change in october 2020 that affected sales. They havent been the same since bundles stopped counting (which funeral had).

compared to most mainstream 2020 rap albums, funeral either got outsold first week or overall.

also funeral had tons of promo, more than 2018 C5

[KnockMeOut]

How did Funeral have more promo than C5? lol
C5 had like half a decade of him talking about it being his last album, songs like Dusse, Moment, We Alright etc, rapping about it on features, albums, mixtapes. The whole CM beef served as huge promo. He did a few TV spots and interviews etc. when Funeral dropped and there was social media stuff but there's no way it had more promo than C5 unless you're talking only about performances on TV and stuff like that... which he also did for C5.

[BrewCityCM]

How did Funeral have more promo than C5? lol
C5 had like half a decade of him talking about it being his last album, songs like Dusse, Moment, We Alright etc, rapping about it on features, albums, mixtapes. The whole CM beef served as huge promo. He did a few TV spots and interviews etc. when Funeral dropped and there was social media stuff but there's no way it had more promo than C5 unless you're talking only about performances on TV and stuff like that... which he also did for C5.

TV performance week of album release
2 challenges attempted to be started week of release (Ball Hard Challenge, Clap For Em Challenge)
2 singles sent to radio (I Do It, Shimmy)
3-4 Music Videos (Big Worm, Mama Mia, Piano Trap/Not Me) & 1 Animated Video (I Don't Sleep)
Deluxe Edition released with an announcement on an Apple Music radio show hosted by Wayne himself

[KnockMeOut]

TV performance week of album release
2 challenges attempted to be started week of release (Ball Hard Challenge, Clap For Em Challenge)
2 singles sent to radio (I Do It, Shimmy)
3-4 Music Videos (Big Worm, Mama Mia, Piano Trap/Not Me) & 1 Animated Video (I Don't Sleep)
Deluxe Edition released with an announcement on an Apple Music radio show hosted by Wayne himself

not more promo than C5

[mania983]

TV performance week of album release
2 challenges attempted to be started week of release (Ball Hard Challenge, Clap For Em Challenge)
2 singles sent to radio (I Do It, Shimmy)
3-4 Music Videos (Big Worm, Mama Mia, Piano Trap/Not Me) & 1 Animated Video (I Don't Sleep)
Deluxe Edition released with an announcement on an Apple Music radio show hosted by Wayne himself

shut up troll

[BrewCityCM]

not more promo than C5

Only because Funeral wasn’t pushed back

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shut up troll

How am I a troll? kys my man

[Mnjaro]

How did Funeral have more promo than C5? lol
C5 had like half a decade of him talking about it being his last album, songs like Dusse, Moment, We Alright etc, rapping about it on features, albums, mixtapes. The whole CM beef served as huge promo. He did a few TV spots and interviews etc. when Funeral dropped and there was social media stuff but there's no way it had more promo than C5 unless you're talking only about performances on TV and stuff like that... which he also did for C5.

Post album release I think argument can be made funeral had more promo than C5, but ya funeral did not have anywhere near history C5 did for “promo” pre album drop agreed there

[when_it_snow_im_on_top]

there was a rule change in october 2020 that affected sales. They havent been the same since bundles stopped counting (which funeral had).

compared to most mainstream 2020 rap albums, funeral either got outsold first week or overall.

also funeral had tons of promo, more than 2018 C5

funeral did 100k in just streams tho so still outsold DJ Khaled

[BrewCityCM]

funeral did 100k in just streams tho so still outsold DJ Khaled

Um good? It should..

[KnockMeOut]

Post album release I think argument can be made funeral had more promo than C5, but ya funeral did not have anywhere near history C5 did for “promo” pre album drop agreed there

All that other stuff is pretty insignificant compared to several years of hyping up and building anticipation. C5 and the fact that it wasn't out was central to Wayne's whole career for all that time, Funeral is just another album.

[WeEeEeEzZzZyYy]

i cant wait for funeral to be platinum so we can stop talking about the sales lol

ps: i know it wont be platinum before 2030