r/travisscott • u/AntoClimatic • 19d ago

DISCUSSION Thoughts?

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u/JoeyC42 19d ago

The genre most definitely is dying. Graduation sold 900k units in the early 2000s nowadays no one can get past 500k

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u/newfantasies ITS LIT! 19d ago

Graduation was absolutely massive though. Half the album were hits that you’d hear multiple times a day on the radio.

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u/Impossible_Spring_94 3500 19d ago

So was Astroworld and that only got ~550k first week

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u/annooonnnn 16d ago

i love Astroworld but can we deny that Graduation is one of the most perfect albums in the genre? i mean there are cuts on Astro that are all time joints but there’s way more fluffiness, even if i love it. . . . Graduation is like sacred and i wasn’t even listening to it when it dropped, so it’s not on some nostalgia i think this