Durable

Wanda’s opps: Tony, Shield, Agatha, White Vision, Pietro, Geraldine, Sword, Billy, Doctor Strange, America Chavez, Hawkeye, Hulk, Cap, Wong, Kamar-Taj, Reed Richards, Black Bolt, Captain Carter, Maria Rambeau, Professor X, Christine, Westview

Please, tell me why the music industry (jay included) uses album sales to determine who dominated in a given year? Think hard. What is the only metric that is comparable between every single album that dropped that year? And tell me why that is the only metric comparable

Each year Jay dropped: ‘96 PAC 566k, ‘97 BIG 690k, ‘98 DMX 670k, ‘99 DMX 698k, ‘00 EM 1.76M, ‘01 DMX 439k, ‘02 EM 1.3M, ‘03 50CENT 872k, ‘06 MARY J. 727k, ‘07 YE 957k, ‘09 EM 609k, ‘13 EM 792k, ‘17 DOT 603k

he’s smoking what now?

Key word of the day: dominance

“Even without the numbers”

Yes

So JayZ did not dominate 98 AS I SAID

He knew when to release his album, I’ll give him that. Yet wasn’t the biggest first sales week for that given year for a hiphop/r&b album…

Yes, jay is top 3 top 5, not 1 though

He was not running music. He was top 3 top 5 WITHOUT QUESTION. Number one in any of those years? No. How can we tell? Numbers? Why numbers? Bc Jay said so HIMSELF

Jay is definitely consistently a top 4 rapper. Cant say he’s been dominant as number 1 fr though

THAT’S GOOD!! When we talk about money, we can bring that up!! 😀 we’re talking about dominating years in music right now though

That’s like saying because Jamal Crawford was one of only 13 niggas to be in the nba 20+ seasons that we can say he dominated a given year, when bird, MJ, magic all had less time in the league but each won ringsssss

Don’t talk about Jay like that. I know he was never THEE dominant nigga in any year, but he still is one of the goats

Tell me why the industry (including jay) uses first week sales to determine dominance in a given year? Think about it long and hard. BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY COMPARABLE METRIC BETWEEN ARTISTS, IRRESPECTIVE OF WHEN THEY DROPPED THAT YEAR

AHT AHT AHT AHT AHT. The industry uses first week sales to determine dominance in a year because that is the only metric THAT IS THE SAME for all artists, IRREGARDLESS OF WHEN IN THE YEAR THEY DROPPED. COPE