Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "JACK HARLOW JACKMAN SELLS 36,000 UNITS FIRST WEEK A 68% DECREASE FROM HIS PREVIOUS ALBUM (113K).”

Episode Date: May 10, 2023

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Analytic After a riveting weekend of new music, Monday (April 8), has brought with it the first-week sales numbers for some major recent releases. Among them is Jack Harlow's surprise Jackman effort, which found him delivering bars on bars across 10 featureless titles at the end of April. While  many were happy to hear the Kentucky native return to his rapper roots, the project has failed to achieve the same support that his sophomore release Come Home The Kids Miss You, amassed in 2022. That album, which features Pharrell, Justin Timberlake, Drake, and more, landed at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 after earning 113K album-equivalent units (including 8K pure sales) during its first week out. Jackman, on the other hand, earned Harlow a spot at No. 13, with just over 34K in streaming sales and 2K in pure for a total of 36K. This puts the 25-year-old behind artists like Trippie Redd and Kali Uchis, with their Mansion Musik and Red Moon In Venus efforts respectively.source: Jack Harlow’s “Jackman” First-Week Sales Numbers Are In - TGM RadioPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jack Harlow came back thinking, what hasn't Drake done? Because at first, you had come home to kids miss you. And you couldn't tell me that that man didn't look up every discography of the goat, aka Arby Graham, and just try to mimic everything that worked. So once he tried to be himself rapping about past experiences, personal experiences that only Jack can go through. He finally gave us an amazing body of work. Now, I would hit the applause button,

but we assume that Jack Harlow was going to bounce back from Come Home to Kids Miss You. Obviously, a lot of people was wanting Jack Harlow to fall off, and you could probably understand why they would want that as we've had a lot of rappers in his ethnic background. come through and just be completely corny, trash, and straight up atrocious. Shout out to Logic. I know he's half black, but come on now.

Shout out to McElmore. Shout out to G.E.Z. I think that's it. So Jack Harlow wasn't trying to be in addition to that list as Jackman is an album full of straight bars. now I once heard Funkflex say one of the best things about a rapper he said y'all you don't know nothing about that that's straight bars now of course the way I just said it isn't the way he said it so let me get an actual rendition of him saying that that's straight bars because that's how I feel about this entire album One of the most classic iconic lines ever spoken by a hip-hop media head. As Jack Carlo really came through in this album, and it's just straight bars from start to finish. I mean, he said, forget a chorus.

He said, forget a hook. He said, I'm just going to rap, and y'all are going to listen to it. Because technically, somebody listened to it, as his first week projections are around 50,000, which is definitely not high for Jack Hallo at all as come home the kids miss you debuted at number three with 113 first week sales so 50,000 compared to 113,000 but I am going to come and cape for Jack Harlow pause I think the reason for the low sales is because this man had an album full of rap songs and that's one reason I think Drake never made the album full of rap songs because when you do that you do that you You're lower, I can't say it.

You're lowering, hopefully I said that right. I don't know why I can't say that word. The quality, the replay value. So you're raising the quality, but you're lowering. Yeah, I'm definitely messing that word up. The replay value. As the replay value adds to your streams. And the quality is just what people say about the project.

Your replay value, would mean nothing if your quality is bad as we've seen would come home the kids miss you those was 113,000 first week sales of everybody saying it was straight up garbage this one is 50,000 first week sales of everybody saying this is some of Jack Harlow's best work now you let me know which type of public praise or public reaction Jack Harlow wanted so anyways with this album I think in general my overall consumption of it was very quick. I've listened to this album a bunch of times. You know, this is one of those type of albums you can play as you work out.

It's certain songs in here like gang gang that you probably shouldn't just play in the whip, you know, when you're going to the club or the party or out with your friends. It's not one of them type of tracks, you know. Some people may start looking at you kind of weird, wondering why you play in those type of tracks, you know? So a lot of these tracks are just for consumption by yourself. It's not really for you to put it out to the masses at a party. But other tracks, like they don't love it, ambitious.

It can't be. It's just straight up fire. I'm talking about the subject matter. I'm talking about the double triple entendres, the way he has his vocal inflection, his cadence is very smooth in a way that when you're listening to it is not something that you just think is straight up corny. You actually want to continue to listen to it because best believe me, he does have corny bars in there. Like, oh, my beer's kind of scruffy, but I like it though. Like, nobody can like, bro, like, who cares? But the way he

delivers it is in a fashion where more people will give it a chance than not. So I feel like the only reason that Jack Harlow has came through with this album is because everybody was considering him quote unquote washed up and his feature on was it it wasn't drama was it Calais album with um was it Rottie Rich I forget who it was he had a feature after his album that a lot of people disliked and everybody was just calling him washed up from there from there like everything he touched they just said it was washed up which is why when Chris Brown came out with Breezy and he had a track with Jack Harlow that had an actual serviceable verse everybody was like man even Chris Brown can

turn around Jack Harlow to make good music so it was to that point where everybody thought Jack Harlow was washed up and with this new album Jack Man I feel like he really bounced back as this is his own this is only his third studio album so you can't really critique it that harshly because a lot of people have subscribed to this mantra of sophomore slump. So they were saying Jack Harlow had a sophomore slump, but his bounce back with Jackman let us know that it was a slump and that he was actually going to bounce back.

Because, you know, some artists that could just be them. They could just have one lucky debut album and then never make anything close to that quality ever again. You know, shout out to Bryson Tiller. But anyways, in general, I want to get into the actual album because it's very interesting how it's only how long is this album is like 25 minutes long I believe and for it to be only 25 minutes long I feel like he really jam-packed it with quality bars I mean I'm not going to go track by track I am going to get my three favorite

tracks from the album so number one would be common ground because I feel like that just kicked off the entire. I like albums where the first track lets you know the entire tone of the album. Like, I don't like tracks where it just sounds like a track listing, if that makes sense. Like, it's just, oh, it's like a DJ just mixing tracks. Like, I like albums from one artist being a cohesive body of work that slows the tempo down when needed, but if they slow it down for a little bit, speeds it back up in the next two tracks. Like, I like cohesion and albums. And subject matter is also another one of those where Common Ground really kicked. off what he was trying to say.

Like he was literally saying, this is not my opinion. This is just what I see. So it's like one of those things where he's coming from his perspective, literally. Number two is it can't be because I love when white rappers acknowledge and just confirm that they have white privilege in the world. And him just saying, it must like, hold on, let me see, let me try to pull up these looks. He said, it must be my skin.

I can't think of any other reason I win. Obviously, he was being a little sarcastic, but there's a little bit of truth in every comedic line. So with Jack Carlo, obviously we know the lighter skin rappers in hip-hop have the most success as Drake, Eminem. You could bring up Jay Z, P. Diddy, and Dr. Dre. But when we're talking about the top-of-the-top,

streaming-wise, Drake and Eminem are at the top of a predominantly black sport. And why is that? Anyways, and obviously, I can keep going on and on. I mean, we have what? L.L. Cool J. We had Nelly. Oh, don't even get me started with Nelly.

Nellie was like Drake before Drake came. Like, he was light Drake. He was like Diet Drake. And then Drake came. I think there's a reason for that. But, you know, I'm not just going to blame it all on colorism. but it is interesting how we have all these predominantly black rappers and the lighter skin was at the top of the streaming charts anyways let me keep let me keep going before somebody

get mad so anyways um those are my two favorite tracks and then my third favorite track is um they don't love it because i love when rappers come out and they claim the throne they don't just say oh i'm here and i'm glad to be here jack harlowe could easily say that with this being his third studio album he's came out and said no i deserve to be here and not only i deserve to be here he gave us a bar saying who is this at it's probably the hardest bar on the whole album he said the hardest white boy since the one who rapped about vomit and sweaters and hold the comments because i promise you i'm honestly better than whoever came to your head right then and no he didn't stop there. He kept going, ladies and gentlemen. This man said, they ain't cut from the same

thread like him. They don't study doing work to get ahead like him. They don't toss around and turn into bed like him. And then he went into the chorus saying, because they don't love it. If that's not a classic, I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. So those are my three favorite tracks from the album. In general, the whole album is just a lyrical exercise. That's why it's only 25 to 30 minutes long. It's not a long listen at all. You can probably breeze through it. in like a session of working out. But at the end of the day, Jack Harlow has bounced back with Jackman,

and I'm not going to say I'm surprised, but for him coming with this high-quality lyrics, also with a little bit of replay value, I have to say it's probably my favorite album of the year because everything he was facing, putting this out was a huge risk, because everybody could just say he gave us a rap album full of trash, corny bars.

But everybody seems to enjoy it. And me personally, I love it when artists come out and try to claim the throne. Because we have too many mumble rappers out here rhyming cat, hat, and bat, and doing outlandish stunts to get attention. I like when artists claim the throne, but they do it with lyrical quality instead of just mumbling and changing the size of their shirt. So anyways, click my link to my bio and let me know in one of my social medias. what do you think about Jackman? What do you think about Jack Harlow and the Jackman album? And also, if you've given it a listen, what is your favorite track?