Doja Cat is dropping her highly-anticipated album, Planet Her, this coming Friday. While there is an ongoing debate on whether she is a rapper who can do Pop or a Pop artist who can rap; there is no denying she is talented.
Doja Cat - the always entertaining, occasionally frustrating star who is piecing together a body of work that feels like the logical conclusion to what Pink Friday first attempted. -Via Vulture
Vulture Magazine gave the album a favorable review, but calling it "the logical conclusion to what Pink Friday first attempted" may be setting up the project for undue scrutiny. Anyways, the singles "Kiss Me More" and "Need To Know" are doing good on the charts, plus she plans to release her song with The Weeknd on Friday too.
I have noticed that there has not been much first-week album prediction/expectations being posted. One person back in May predicted 90K-125K (25-30K pure sales).
I want to know what are y'all predictions/expectations for this album?
I think with The Weeknd song and her other songs still moving, she should easily get over 100K. I wouldn't even be shocked at 200K to be honest, just because she does have the Pop fans.
UPDATED: 6/26
HITS Daily has released the sales projections of Tyler, The Creator, and Doja Cat's new project. Tyler will have the #1 album with around 175K first-week sales. While Doja Cat will be battling for the #2 spot with around 100K sales.
I was way off thinking she could possibly do 200K. I was thinking this album was going to be better than Hot Pink and really have that "diversity" everyone has spoken about. This album was a regular Pop album. It wasn't Pink Friday and it wasn't Thank You, Next. I'm not saying the album had to be either, but she is pushed as that Pop girl who can rap as good as the rap girls. I knew she was going Pop, but I thought it would be more creative and interesting. When she borrowed Coi Leray's flow, I knew something was up.
Now, at least I know my sales guess was just that...a guess. There was really no sales data for me to go off on for this album. I remember a time when the bar was moved for Megan, just so people could call her album, with a Grammy-winning song, a flop. First, it was she needed to do 100K, then when it became clear she was going to do that, Akademiks pushed the bar to the ridiculous 150K based on hype. A lot of Meg haters/ Doja lovers used the hype argument to justify their bullshit.
Doja Cat gets a lot of hype...so how do y'all feel about these projected sales??? As a reminder, these are projections, not final numbers.
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On Twitter Nicki fans think Doja Cat is dissing Nicki Minaj....here we go again.
My prediction was wrong too, I overestimated how I thought she would do especially with big features like AG and Weeknd. And honestly I’m surprised she is battling Sour for the number two spot (didn’t that album come out weeks ago). I saw that she recently dropped a deluxe, I dont follow stuff like that so idk if it’s normal or not. If it’s not normal, I wonder what would make her and her team push to do that one day after the album release. I did expect more from the album, I had my hopes higher tbh. It’s enjoyable and a few songs standout to me and will be added to my playlist. I do get more pop vibes…
I’m very surprised about her projection and she’s dropping the deluxe tonight
100k in this climate is decent. However imma keep the same energy people gave Meg. Doja has the weekend and Ari on her album and can’t pull bigger numbers than that? She‘s overhyped and had big support after she didn’t win a Grammy. I don’t like comparing the 2 because I don’t consider Doja rapper at all. And she’s not as musically creative as people make her out to be. She’s in the same lane as Ari, Dua, Olivia etc yet she’s hardly compared to them because deep down her fans know that she can’t do their numbers or garner the same big audience/support as those girls. So they force her into the rap girl lane with mainly Megan. Th…
You hit the nail on the head with the "may be setting up the project for undue scrutiny" Nicki's debut album numbers are still unmatched and that was before streaming platforms even "Ole Girl" had better debut numbers!!!!!!
I like Doja Cat and I like some of the songs on the album but I felt a little underwhelmed!!!! I thought based off of her own words it was going to be more rap tracks but the songs were okay!!!!! I think what really would have taken this album over the edge is if she had nothing but female artist, features, cameos, etc. revolving around the Planet Her theme, I thought that's what we were getting but sadly no!!!!
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