DJ Akademiks provided a snapshot of how successful Tekashi 6ix9ine's "Day69" mixtape drop was, citing it as the highest selling/streaming artist debut, via his Instagram page over the weekend.
A screenshot that has since been shared across several publications shows the breakout project charting just behind the Migos' Culture II, for the number 4 spot with 55,319 units sold. The figure actually left Tekashi less than 1,000 sales short of eclipsing the Quality Control trio, although it still did well short of the 97,821 that Kendrick Lamar's Black Panther: The Album compilation did to hold down the best showing for a hip-hop album.
Akademiks cropped the photo in order to show how Blac Youngsta's 223 offering did in comparison. Youngsta entered the week at number 38 with a little over 12,000 in sales. He came in ahead of The Weeknd's Starboy and Kodak Black's Heart Break Kodak and Project Baby 2.
Tekashi's sales are a good look considering the Brooklyn rapper is said to have invested somewhere in the ballpark of $100,000 to record it. Within a couple of days after its release, there was talk of it would do 60,000 or better. Although Day69 didn't quite break those early projections, it did exceed initial expectations that it might do between 25,000 and 30,000.
