To match all the hype, it looks like Future's DS2 (Dirty Sprite 2) is going to be his most successful album yet. Hits Daily Double has estimated the album's first-week sales, predicting that DS2 will top the charts and become the Freebandz leader's first No. 1 album.
Honest, Future's last album from April 2014, debuted at No. 2, selling around 53,000. His 2012 debut, Pluto, debuted at No. 8, selling just over 40,000. The predicted numbers for DS2 — an estimated 125,000-135,000 (and 135,000-145,000 including streams) — crush those figures. Going off those numbers, DS2 will easily go No. 1.
It looks Future's hard work, releasing three album-quality mixtapes in less than five months (Monster, Beast Mode and 56 Nights), has paid off. Surprisingly, DS2 ignores all pop appeal for the street-focused content of Future's recent mixtapes, spat with a drug-fueled irreverence courtesy of his favorite Sprite cocktail.
If the predictions stand, DS2 will have the fifth best-selling first-week of all 2015 rap releases, just ahead of A$AP Rocky's ALLA and just behind Big Sean's Dark Sky Paradise. Future's numbers still pale in comparison to the near 500,000 posted by Drake, DS2's lone feature, on "Where Ya At."
DS2 features production from Metro Boomin, Southside, Sonny Digital and Zaytoven. The regular version includes 13 tracks and the deluxe edition has five extra, such as "Trap N*ggas," "Real Sisters" and "F*ck Up Some Commas," which were originally mixtape tracks.
Here's the video to "Blow a Bag," DS2's lead single.
We recently hailed the album as an ATL classic. What do you think? Did we speak too soon?
