Cordae has a whole lot of critical acclaim.
But that has yet to translate to big sales.
His first two albums both peaked at 13 on the Billboard charts. Solid but not spectacular.
But he took a step back with this third album, The Crossroads, which opened at 143 last month and only sold 10K in its first week.
When Cordae did The Breakfast Club, Charlamagne confronted him with a headline that called the album a flop.
Cordae pushed back on that by first attacking the messenger.
Charlamagne asks Cordae on The Breakfast Club if he thinks his album flopped after debuting with 10k first-week sales 👀
— RapTV (@Rap) December 18, 2024
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"No because, the probability of that it's like some white boy in Indiana. Not that it's a race thing but it's the truth of the people that run those. And if you look at channels like that, their whole channel subscribes to negativity," he said.
Then he explained that his first week was fine in the scheme of things.
"Why spend all this time focusing on one week when there is 52 weeks in the year. You gonna just give up on an album because it didn't have a super strong first week. I get compared to like, megastars, like if you compare a Cordae first week sales to a Kendrick Lamar first week sales of course there is a discrepancy. But when it comes to my actual peers that do my type of music ... we're all doing the same type of numbers.