Sonny Digital has some questions on a sure artist’s new undertaking gross sales after the quantity started circulating on social media this weekend. Rumors have surfaced relating to Saweetie’s alleged low first-week gross sales of her newest EP, The Single Life.
On Friday (Nov. 25), Sonny Digital didn’t point out any artist by identify when he jumped on his Twitter account and reacted to a rumor of a 2,000 first-week gross sales projection for somebody, seemingly Saweetie’s The Single Life EP. Although the gross sales totals haven’t been verified, it seems Digital might have been reacting to DJ Vlad’s tweet the day earlier than the place he recommended that if the “Icy Grl” rapper got here on his platform earlier than she dropped her EP, her gross sales totals would have been significantly better.
“If Saweetie did a VladTV interview she would have easily done 10x her first week sales, which was 2000 copies. We actually reached out through one of our people and were told ‘she won’t do Vlad’. Her loss,” Vlad tweeted on Thanksgiving Day.
Nevertheless, Sonny Digital couldn’t determine how Saweetie’s thousands and thousands of followers on social media do not equate to thousands and thousands of gross sales for the rapper.
“13 million followers , hundreds of thousands likes on all pictures but album sold less than 2000 copies. That’s crazy. The math ain’t adding up,” he tweeted.
“If I had millions of followers and my album sold 2k I probably would just delete all my social media cause y’all lying to me,” he continued.
Sonny Digital additionally responded to critics who might have felt that he was hating on Saweetie, which isn’t the case.
“Before I came here to give my opinion I did listen to the album. I actually listened to everything that dropped that day. Just out of curiosity to see what the competition was on,” he wrote.
The studio maverick additionally retweeted a fan who supplied some readability about his critique of Saweetie’s rumored low album gross sales.
“The fact that yall looking at this statement as ‘hating’ instead of a legitimate question coming from an industry veteran is wild. yall go off though i guess,” the individual tweeted.
Sonny Digital wasn’t the one producer questioning Saweetie’s album gross sales. Fellow observe grasp Hitmaka feels somebody on the rapper’s label needs to be hearth for dropping the ball.
“Saweetie selling 2k is bad A&R vibes. Someone’s supposed to tell u this ain’t it! I also have issues with her having multiple platinum singles & not sticking with same formula that got her here. Someone gotta get fired,” he wrote.
“That’s why I can’t stand analytics! People couldn’t wait to not have to stand on gut feelings & goosebumps! If it’s trending u sign them & it doesn’t work it takes away being accountable for what u signed. Now u can lean on ‘oh the numbers said’ …… MANNNN FUK ALL DAT,” he continued.
Hitmaka concluded: “I don’t wanna be friends I wanna make a difference. [umbrella with raindrops emoji] I encourage everyone in the office to really bet on who they sign. This is what I mean if your artist doesn’t win are you prepared to lose with them? Like lose ya Job????? If we all lived by these rules the care would be Thru the roof & a lot of fluff acts wouldn’t be here.”
All of this come after Saweetie garnered extra criticisms from Joe Bidden and others for her tune “Don’t Say Nothin'” the place she cryptically addressed rumors about herself and her connections to Offset and Lil Baby.
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