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Top Dawg Entertainment artist Ab-Soul should easily find himself on the sales chart next week with projections for his These Days... up to 17,000 copies. #CountEmUp
Early estimates have the new solo release selling at least 15,000 copies in its first seven days.
YOUR NEW RELEASES: X marks the spot… Although these numbers are still relatively tentative, it’s pretty damn clear that Ed Sheeran’s x will bow at #1 next week. Ed Sheeran (Atlantic) 180-200k G-Eazy (Blueprint/G-Eazy) 40-45k Phish (ATO) 25-30k Mastodon (Warner Bros.) 25-30k Ab Soul (TDE) 15-17k (HITS Daily Double)
Digital retailer Amazon provided a preview of Ab’s new album earlier this month.
If you haven’t been marking your calendars, we’re just ten days away from the release of Ab-Soul’s highly-anticipated album These Days… (6/24)! Yesterday we got to hear the title track and take a look at the official tracklisting. Now, thanks to Amazon, we’re blessed with snippets of each track. I know there are many fans (including myself) that don’t like to ruin the first impression, but let’s face it… there are even more people out there that eat this type of thing up. (2 Dope Boyz)
The elusive rapper’s new album track listing hit the in mid-June.
These Days… Tracklisting: 1. “God’s Reign” feat. SZA (produced by Purity Ring) 2. “Tree of Life” (produced Curti$$ King and DJ Dahi) 3. “Hunnid Stax” feat. ScHoolboy Q (produced by Kenny Beats) 4. “Dub Sac” (produced by Dave Free & Tommy Black) 5. “World Runners” feat. Lupe Fiasco and Nikki Jean (produced by Tae Beast) 6. “Nevermind That” feat. Rick Ross (produced by The Kathy) 7. “TWACT” feat. Jinx and Short Dawg (produced by DNYC3) 8. “Just Have Fun” (produced by Like and Blended Babies) 9. “Kendrick Lamar’s Interlude” feat. Kendrick Lamar (produced by Terrace Martin) 10. “Closure” (produced by Sounwave) 11. “Sapiosexual” (produced by J. Cole) 12. “Stigmata” feat. Action Bronson and Asaad (produced by Rahki) 13. “Feelin’ Us” feat. Jay Rock and RaVaughn (produced by Skhye Hutch) 14. “Ride Slow” feat. Danny Brown and Delusional Thomas (produced by Larry Fisherman) 15. “W.R.O.H.” feat. JMSN (produced by Tae Beast) (These Days…)
Ab recently detailed how much thought went into the album title.
“Originally, I didn’t want a super conceptual title. I didn’t want to freak anybody out. A lot of people do like that concept-driven perspective and that’s cool, but I just wanted to loosen up a bit. I wanted to make the overall concept broader. I wanted it to be like a time capsule to represent where I’ve been between my last project and this one.” (Life + Times)
