Meek Mill Thinks That Labels Pretend First-Week Album Gross sales Numbers

Meek Mill has been on a little bit of a rebellious streak currently, talking out towards music trade practices he sees as outdated or unfair. After Kanye West posted a number of pages of document deal revisions to Twitter in 2020, Meek claimed he wished to do the identical in 2021, writing, “I’m about to make my document deal public… simply to let the world see what these individuals on!”

Whereas he by no means fairly adopted by on that individual risk, he has continued to air out his points with the recording trade. Most just lately, he denounced the trade’s trendy emphasis on publicizing first-week album gross sales numbers. In Meek’s opinion, that is an unhealthy approach to do enterprise; it unfairly hurts the general public notion of artists and the way their labels take care of them. He additionally believes that labels have extra management over these statistics than they let on.

“We don’t go off first week numbers,” he wrote. “Labels run that shit … and a lot of the numbers be faux … you may clearly see all of the artist that’s killing shit! Focus in your model and impression!!” In a follow-up tweet, he described what he believes is the detrimental impact that is having on the music enterprise. “They crashing the rap sport out,” he predicted. “That everyone drop on Friday bs …. Wtf is that … why would you need to promote your product on the identical day because the competitors… for a billboard look? lol what does that do for the artist?”

Whereas Meek’s points seem like with the recording trade generally, his MMG boss Rick Ross doesn’t consider Meek has points with MMG. Somewhat, Ross just lately mentioned he thinks Meek’s label complaints are centered on Atlantic Data, which at the moment distributes his music.

Meek Mill is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an unbiased subsidiary of Warner Music Group.