Trapt’s New Album Sells 600 Copies First Week, Band Says Not So Fast
Nu-metal outfit Trapt — which have been extremely active on Twitter in recent months — couldn’t put their albums sales where their tweets are. The group only sold 600 copies of their new album in its first week, according to SoundScan data, but the group insists there’s roughly 3,400 additional copies trapped somewhere else (get it?).
The new record, Shadow Work, officially dropped on July 3 — although The PRP reported it was available to stream in June — and “Headstrong” singer Chris Taylor Brown isn’t convinced the recently reported numbers are correct.
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“We sold almost 4k albums from July 3 to July 9,” Brown wrote on the band’s Twitter account Wednesday. “Not bad for a band that did everything ourselves and got zero word said about it on any DSPs??????? We’re happy with it. Not sure what chart you are looking at, cause they would be missing quite a few.”
We sold almost 4k albums from July 3 to July 9….. Not bad for a band that did everything ourselves and got zero word said about it on any DSPs
We’re happy with it. Not sure what chart you are looking at, cause they would be missing quite a few.
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) July 15, 2020
The reported sales numbers might be shocking to fans, as the group announced in May that the album would be “probably one of the top 5 albums that will ever exist for all of time.”
The new TRAPT album “Shadow Work” is the best piece of music trapt has put out and probably one of the top 5 albums that will ever exist for all of time
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) May 8, 2020
Still, this comes after the group challenged rap legend Ice T to a fistfight in April and later tweeted that they earn more streams than him, which may not have aged that well.
So you are threatening me because I’m saying your stream counts are far lower than my band’s? Okay…. Wow
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) April 14, 2020
Wonder who came out on top in this feud…
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