Drake wouldn't even have 5 #1 in a non streaming era

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Semi unrelated but album sales until the early 1990s were reported over the phone by store owners

And the conspiracy theories are about faking streams. The old numbers need to be audited lets be fr

Always been partial to the triple back when they had the yellow branding

nah it really does lmaoooooo this something i never thought of either

The one thing I wish Drake did was pull the bullshit these other people are doing too boost sales. Aside from the Scorpion takeover Drakes done almost no bundling and physicals and have had minimal marketing and radio. Taylor Swift sold 500k if you don’t count physicals but because she had all the physicals the rules would allow she sold millions, Drake could sell a crazy amount if he wanted to

What has this to do with anything?

It doesn't make sense at all if you think about it for literally two seconds

I prefaced by saying Semi unrelated

Just saying them old numbers need to be reviewed (not MJ specficially)

I mean less pure sales but in that era, MJ was the hottest thing smoking
I feel like his streams would’ve been astronomical even compared to a Drake because his fanbase was literally driven to worship/ obsession, and even beyond that his music is infectious, literally you just let it run.
I know in my personal life, my mom had a Thriller CD, and when we got the XBOX 360, we burned it onto the hard drive and would play songs from that album as we played GTA, madden, 2k, etc for years on end. There’s no equivalent compensation or centralized tracking for the value or consumption we got from that singular purchase. So I can’t really say it would make much difference

Pre streaming he had a lot of top 5s which was before his true mainstream dominance he would have an album worth of number 1s regardless of the era

I am saying in mj time it was MORE difficult

If one artist sold this much then it's definitely MJ. When I was a young kid everyone had Thriller at home

The Beatles and Elvis both needs to be reviewed imo

My point still stands

Not everything needs to be compared in short and this specific comparison is just bait for fanboys

Mike's number ones but I'm taking Drake's catalog over Mike's atp

Reasonable take

7.Toosie Slide - 1 week
8. What’s Next - 1 week
9. Way 2 Sexy - 1 week
10. WAIT FOR U - 1 week
11. Jimmy Cooks - 1 week
12. Slime You Out - 1 week
13. First Person Shooter - 1 week
14. Janice STFU - ? weeks

lmao

It doesn't at all if you think about it for two seconds

I agree, but the person I was responding to was saying otherwise

Drake has a crazy/obsessed fan base too

Fans outside his hotel in Berlin
instagram.com/reel/DNdZuJUOnRl

Fans have a dress up as drake contest in Toronto
tiktok.com/@​hotfreestyletv/video/7448402853456055558

And this is in the internet era. Seeing Drake isnt special because we can see him online whenever we want. And they still line up and cosplay as him

And my MOM asked me about iceman this week and even looked up the songs herself on YouTube

Shes a 60 year old immigrant who needs my help to order anything online to give you an idea of her internet literacy

Oh well everyone telling you this isn’t a great comparison . Think about it for 2 seconds we not all bugging . You need to think of why you comparing a 40 year old man who started rapping and branched out to a dead man who would be near 70 from a time without internet being as common , streaming and entirely different view of black people .

Asking a forum of many people who were barely born when he died

Drake clears that waste yute fam

Man f***ing stop comparing Drake with MJ

radio back then determined #1s