Wesley Snipes

2y

Drake having an official single pushed to the radio (You Broke My Heart) hovering in the 50's with a peak outside the top 10 is kind of reinforcing everyones point that he was a lot bigger 5-6 years ago.

Fax My Brother

2y

its amazing how meaningless this all is when all those drake songs fall off the billboard chart within a week of charting lol

just utterly meaningless statpadding nonsense

thegreatdivine

2y

He's still topping everybody regardless so what does it matter? LeBron isn't at his peak anymore but he's still a top 5 player in the NBA on any night. That's Drake right now. Being mad that people praise his run/dominance is a foolish exercise because no one will ever replicate what he's done in rap commercially.

Midzy

2y

Carnival this week: 33.6m streams

Laugh Now Cry Later: 66.5m streams

thegreatdivine

2y

They always think pulling up these stats takes some sort of Herculean effort when it's something that can be done in less than 3 minutes

deleteduser579

2y

first it was “kanye is washed he’s done haha naziye he doesn’t have the juice anymore papi won”

then it was “of course it did numbers, it’s Kanye 🙄 “

then it was “lol vultures came and went, gone within the first week 😊 “

and now it’s “okay he has a hit b-b-but the charts are the weakest they’ve ever been” (although they were gassing that Slime You Out and First Person shooter slop)

these niggas really just don’t stop im amazed

Dino

2y

Didn’t hear anything about how weak the charts were when he tied MJ record for most number 1s either

thegreatdivine

2y

He's still topping everybody regardless so what does it matter? LeBron isn't at his peak anymore but he's still a top 5 player in the NBA on any night. That's Drake right now. Being mad that people praise his run/dominance is a foolish exercise because no one will ever replicate what he's done in rap commercially.

thegreatdivine

2y

The music is all that matters because that's what people will be listening to for years to come. You can have the most bombastic rollout ever. If the music is trash or perceived to be trash, people won't return to it.

thegreatdivine

2y

Drake has 32 songs released this decade that have spent at least 10 weeks on the Hot 100. Kanye only has 3 songs that have done that.

You just gotta let them run with their narratives. It ain't their fault Kanye hasn't had a hit to his name in so long lmao.

Fax My Brother

2y

its amazing how meaningless this all is when all those drake songs fall off the billboard chart within a week of charting lol

just utterly meaningless statpadding nonsense

Jim Napster

2y

It's Drake and Taylor, at points Weeknd

then the rest of the world

stop the nonsense

Noir

2y

It's Taylor

Then everybody else.

If Taylor and Drake dropped a new album the same week, Taylor would lap Drake's sales 3 times over. There is no comparison between Midnights and FATD sales-wise.

quadra

2y

Them 3x white sales ain't moving anybody
It's like prime Eminem

No impact

quadra

2y

Them 3x white sales ain't moving anybody
It's like prime Eminem

No impact

Midzy

2y

@Brave

Noir

2y

Let's not pretend new Drake music is influencing the culture like that in 2024.

Like all great legacy acts, including Taylor, he can move the fans that are already going to his shows in droves. And when FATD songs get played, they move to the bathroom.

Midzy

2y

@Brave

Free YoungBoy

2y

Remember they tried telling us every rapper was gonna be making dance music and honestly never mind remix’s were gonna be everywhere

2words

2y

Who talking bout years to come though? Thought this was a first week convo. First week is more about the hype and getting as many people as possible to check it out than it is about the music having staying power lol

You’re talking about pop music as if it’s a meritocracy having a stronger single helps but there’s many other factors outside quality that determine success. It’s really not about quality at all because musical quality isn’t actually a real thing, it’s entirely subjective. Successful music doesn’t succeed because of its imaginary “quality”, it succeeds based on how much the artist connects with the general public, and if the music or imagery lines up with the trends and what people are interested in currently.