"JT Needs To Take The Offset Route" Fans Claim After City Girls Album Sales Revealed

BYLavender AlexandriaPublished on October 23, 20237.5K Views

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - OCTOBER 09: JT of City Girls performs onstage during Day 2 of the 2022 ONE MusicFest at Central Park on October 09, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

Some fans think she would sell more records as a solo artist.

Over the weekend, City Girls, AKA JT and Yung Miami released their new album RAW. The title stands for "Real A*s Wh*res" and the hard-hitting, sexually charged songs throughout the album live up to that title. While there are plenty of fans praising the album, that hasn't translated into a great sales total. The album is projected to land somewhere between 6k and 8k sales in its first week. Those numbers are pretty disappointing for a pair whose previous album debuted in the top 30 of the Billboard 200.

Now, other fans are thinking they have the explanation. On in particular claimed that one half of the duo needs to go solo. "I love City Girls and don't hate me for saying this.. But I think JT needs to take the Offset route," their tweet reads. By "the Offset route" she means breaking off as a solo artist. Just this week the former Migos rapper debuted his feature-packed new album Set It Off in the top 5 of the Billboard 200 with impressive first week sales figures. Clearly, there are some fans out there claiming that JT could sell more albums as a solo artist than as a member of City Girls. Check out the tweet below.

Should JT Go Solo Instead?

Fans in the comments debated if a solo career would fix the issue. "Nah what happened was they needed more promo, they really didn’t have a song out that made you anticipate the album. Honestly they should have pushed it back," one of the top comments reads. "Y’all want JT TO GO SOLO SO BAD BUT AINT GONE BUY HER SH*TTTT WHEN IT DROP," another suggests.

JT may put the fan theories to test sooner rather than later. In an interview she did last month she mentioned specifically that she wanted to pursue solo work following the release of RAW. Do you think JT would sell more albums if she broke out as a solo artist? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Lavender Alexandria

Lavender Alexandria is a music and culture journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She’s covered dozens of musical genres and styles from the most mainstream to the most experimental and underground on her blog and accompanying YouTube channel that looks at music, pop culture, and Billboard charts since 2017: Lav’s Music Corner. Lavender has produced editorial and listicle content both in written and video form over the past far years and has also interviewed up-and-coming artists like Censored Dialogue. Her experiences covering culture have taken her from Hyperpop parties in LA to underground rap shows in Atlanta, to DIY punk shows in Charlotte. Lavender has also written for iHeartRadio, covering some of the biggest artists in Hip Hop such as Ice Spice, Drake, Doja Cat and Cardi B. She also has bylines with ScreenRant and continues to write for Ringtone magazine. Lavender is a lifelong Charlotte Hornets fan and her favorite rap artists include Clipping, Little Simz, Earl Sweatshirt, and Kendrick Lamar.