OKAY TRAV

The truth is people are going to pick and choose stats that favor their argument and get tunnel vision for that stat

These numbers are silly to focus so much on because of how easily they're manipulated anyway. Especially first week

This generational from Kenny

Leave that clown to keep coping.

Yeah, that s*** is very weird tbh lol.

Kinda funny that a Drake stan pretends that this is weird while Drake did this multiple times in the past too

Drake hasn't toured Europe in over 5 years, buddy.

Watch Sabrina pull some strings :jordanlaff3:

There's a massive difference about posting how ur #1 #2 #3 on Billboard Hot 100 vs posting s*** about how "TheWeeknd is the 1st artist to be #1 monthly listeners for 10 days in a row" lol

Insane cope

When did I ever talk about success of the albums lol

After Hours is a more successful album than CLB 100%, in the US + Worldwide, by a huge margin of course

that's not what i'm saying though. i'm saying the best way to measure artists popularity is through first day/week streams/sales. That shows how hungry people are for their music. Mr Morale for example did huge numbers first day/week because he's wildly popular. The album went triple cardboard longterm cause of the contents of the music wasn't replayable enough. But Kendrick is probably the 5th most popular artist in the US/maybe world rn

You'd probably defend him if he posted s*** like "Dancing in the Flames is the most streamed song this week by a black canadian artist that was previously homeless who is on the same label as an Indian rapper"

Drake doesn't even post a quarter of his stats lmao. He's had multiple songs go #1 that he's never acknowledged. Drake fans on Twitter/X stay complaining about how he doesn't flex his stats enough.

There's nothing wrong with posting stats, especially noteworthy ones. It's just cringe-worthy with the Weeknd because he takes it upon himself to post every silly, made-up "stat" his fan pages post. Screams insecurity to me.

Yeah we have different definitions of success if 24th on the charts is successful for a superstar for you lol.

Ahh really so every artist who does the superbowl releases a greatest hits?

Can't wait for Kendricks in 6 months!

So why are his streaming debuts so much worse than Drake's in Europe?

Another word would be *interest. As huge a star as people love to insist the Weeknd is, the lack of major interest in his music upon release from the GP, even when it's massively promoted, suggests he isn't nearly as huge a star as they believe, at least in the US. His songs also take a long-ass time to register with fans overseas.

I think Dancing in the Flames is his most promoted lead single ever. It's also being promoted as the lead single to his last album as the Weeknd. You really can't escape all the ads and promo spots that have been run for the song, even before it was released officially and yet, it's first-week performance isn't reflecting it's level of promotion.

Since you guys think monthly listeners mean sooo much
weeknd

drake

I don't know... I think an album that sold 2 million copies in its first months and stayed in the top 20 for over months with four weeks at #1 is pretty successful

Again, you said they dropped The Highlights because AH was "struggling" and that's not true. Move on.

Check Spotify artist charts, it's much closer than you think in Europe, with Drake taking the lead in a lot of countries

asia/mexico is where The Weeknd dominates

& as such Drake probably makes 10x more money from his music than The Weeknd. Those indonesia streams are worthless

I don't know why he keeps trying it after that embarrassing thread he made about The Weeknd not being able to tour stadiums

Damn, Drake is really local

Ah okay, so you just think The Weeknd being outsold by Lil Baby & Pop Smoke is right & that's where his level is then, I see.

Jakarta Weeknd stans are diehard you just dont get it

Again, your obsession with Lil Baby

You know you can have multiple successful albums at the same time, right?

Lil Baby, Pop Smoke AND The Weeknd all had successful albums that year. Is this a difficult concept for you to understand? Lil Baby's album being bigger in the US that year doesn't make After Hours less successful. They were both big. And rap is generally more popular than pop in the US, especially in 2020.