Cordae Explains Why He Doesn't Care About First Week Sales

Cordae is considered by many to be one of the best rappers of his generation. 

He does a good job of appealing to rap purists who prefer lyrically driven music  and don't just want turn-up songs.

His third album, The Crossroads, will be released on Friday, November 15, and it'll be interesting to see how it does in its first week.

Regardless of how it sells, the 27-year-old said he isn't concerned with first-week sales and explained himself on X.

Want to say this now I don’t give 1 fuck about a first week sale. It’s a very inaccurate way to calculate impact, especially with the current streaming metrics. I seen somebody do 11K first week and then do a ARENA TOUR off the same album. That’s the end of my Ted talk *2nd one

— Cordae (@cordae) November 12, 2024

Niggas said my last project first week numbers wasn’t good and I ended up doing a sold out headline world tour….

— Cordae (@cordae) November 12, 2024

In the 90/2000s music was consumed by people actually going to the stores and buying albums. When you did 100K first week that meant 100 thousand people went and bought the cd. Now you can have 300,000 people Listening to your album on streaming, and the units Equivalent is 200🤔

— Cordae (@cordae) November 12, 2024

Whole point is let’s stop making music about numbers and money, it’s killing something that’s so pure.

— Cordae (@cordae) November 12, 2024

"Want to say this now I don’t give 1 f*ck about a first week sale," tweeted Cordae. "It’s a very inaccurate way to calculate impact, especially with the current streaming metrics. I seen somebody do 11K first week and then do a ARENA TOUR off the same album ... N*ggas said my last project first week numbers wasn’t good and I ended up doing a sold out headline world tour."

"In the 90/2000s music was consumed by people actually going to the stores and buying albums. When you did 100K first week that meant 100 thousand people went and bought the cd. Now you can have 300,000 people listening to your album on streaming, and the units Equivalent is 200🤔 ... Whole point is let’s stop making music about numbers and money, it’s killing something that’s so pure."

Do you agree or disagree with Cordae's reasoning?