Dave Matthews Band Outsold Kanye West and Kid Cudi
Published: June 18, 2018
As originally published by Josiah Hughes on
Exclaim!We're deep in the throes of music's blockbuster season, with enormous albums dropping at an alarming pace. Along the way, it appears that the
Dave Matthews Band have made a comeback. After all, the highly musical jam rock act recently outsold a hugely anticipated
Kanye West project.
As the
New York Times points out, DMB's
Come Tomorrow managed to outpace Kanye and
Kid Cudi's collaborative album
Kids See Ghosts.
Of course, it's all part of the wacky way in which numbers are tabulated in this day and age.
Kids See Ghosts had 10 times the amount of streams as
Come Tomorrow, but actual album sales are worth more in calculations than streams.
DMB managed to sell a
shit ton of records, in part because they bundled the album with ticket sales for their summer tour. As a result,
Come Tomorrow beat out Kanye and Cudi's collaboration.