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How Important Are First-Week Sales in Hip-Hop?

Rick Ross is the latest Hip-Hop artist over 40 years old to drop a solid piece of art, yet public perception is questioning its success and vitality because of one thing: First-week sales. During a time when record sales are more or less left to complicated streaming formulas, some of our most prolific artists are being defined by a fairly new—and arguably unjust—metric. Does anyone truly know how streaming sales are calculated?

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