Was Troy Ave's Album a FLOP or Success you be the judge!

Rapper Troy Ave manages to only sell 5000 copies in the first week of his album release. It is understandable that he only sold this much because he is an INDEPENDENT ARTIST. Although no one is talking about this anymore, I find this interesting that he was the laughing stock of twitter two weeks ago. Everyone who did care enough to re tweet and mock the rapper, failed to realize that for an independent artist, his sales were actually  decent. This man pays for studio time, setting up concert tours, and tickets to fly himself out to these events to  promote his brand/ music. 
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