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Honestly, for a guy whose brand was on the verge of death, doing what he did was brilliant.

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Oh really -was it about to die?

I think his views are probably quite legitimate - he has, after all, faced such significant backlash for them.

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His last couple albums saw sales absolutely collapse compared to his heyday as I recall.

Could be wrong but here’s a list:

“The College Dropout” (2004): 441,000 copies sold in the first week “Late Registration” (2005): 860,000 copies sold in the first week “Graduation” (2007): 957,000 copies sold in the first week “808s & Heartbreak” (2008): 450,000 copies sold in the first week “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” (2010): 496,000 copies sold in the first week “Yeezus” (2013): 327,000 copies sold in the first week “The Life of Pablo” (2016): 94,000 copies sold in the first week “Ye” (2018): 208,000 equivalent album units sold in the first week “Jesus is King” (2019): 264,000 equivalent album units sold in the first week

The life of Pablo collapse was probably what I was remembering.

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I have no doubt that this is also impacted by technology.

Nonetheless, he is one of the most famous musicians, and I imagine the royalties he gets from all the work he has done on other people’s albums is also non-negligible.

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