thegreatdivine

1y

By these numbers, majority of its streams are still from the US. If 1 country accounts for almost half of its total streams, that means the rest of its streams come from the other 75 countries Spotify counts streams from and I bet markets like the UK, Australia and Canada make up at least 85-90% of its total streams so yeah, it isn't a huge song outside the US (and that's okay, most rap songs aren't).

Expert

1y

This is NLU accomplishments within it's first year:

• Going to be diamond soon
• Anthem for sports teams unlike any rap song before.
• 5X Grammies including SOTY, ROTY while not having cookie cutter content.
• Performed at the Superbowl
• S*** being so vile got adopted by countless multinational companies for memes as soon as it came out and still exists til this day. Shoutout dualingo.

No rap song, let alone a rap song calling someone a pdf and giving a history lesson to someone who makes mockery of slavery has gotten close to this.

All this while s*** a cultural phenomenon being played everywhere at cookouts and clubs and being a pure rap diss song.

Only Lose Yourself and In Da Club in the convo and NLU will surpass that as well. This song is engrained in HBCU anthems till the end of time

All this while being unapologetically black

pimpin

1y

Still crazy to me how Drake/hockey stans keep acting like he’s 10x bigger than Kendrick lol. I don’t get it. Kendrick’s biggest hits are just as big as Drake’s and he actually has more of them. The only real outlier for Drake is “One Dance" other than that they’re pretty much on the same level when it comes to big hits (songs with over 1.5 billion streams).

TOP 5 (without One Dance):

Drake: God's Plan 2.7 Billion (700k daily)
Kendrick: Humble: 2.5 Billion (1.6M daily/20x Platinum)

Drake: Sicko Mode: 2.3 Billion (650k daily)
Kendrick: Goosebumps: 2.7 Billion (1.2M daily)

Drake: Passionfruit 1.8 Billion (700k daily)
Kendrick: All The Stars 2 Billion (2.8M daily)

Drake: Work: 1.5 Billion (400k daily)
Kendrick: Money Trees: 1.7 Billion (1.7M Daily)

Drake: In My Feelings: 1.43 Billion (144k daily lol)
Kendrick: Love: 1.52 Billion (900k daily)

Hotline Bling: 1.42 Billion (400k daily)
DNA: 1.3 Billion (600k daily)

Most of Drake’s biggest hits ain't even pulling 500K streams a day while Kendrick’s are doing millions daily. NLU is already at 1.1B streams and will pass God’s Plan within two years.

And considering Kendrick has released two non commercial albums (TPAB and MM) his numbers are even more impressive.

On top of that, Drake has released nearly 10 more major albums than Kendrick. His numbers just ain't as impressive as some of yall try to make them seem no matter how much yall twist it. If Drake is a superstar then so is Kendrick.

Drake is definitely not 10x bigger than Kendrick lol.

Tooooooooooot

1y

The song was huge in french hip hop and pop radio stations all summer 🤷
Even colleagues from work who are not really into American rap music knew about the song

Bow_And_Arrow

1y

All of Kendrick’s music got a massive boost? That can’t be possible I was told it was the worst Halftime show of all time

pimpin

1y

Luther

Bow_And_Arrow

1y

All of Kendrick’s music got a massive boost? That can’t be possible I was told it was the worst Halftime show of all time

quadra

1y

Best hip hop music video ever

Mafia Boss

1y

Spotify is one platform. It would be more accurate to compare album units from same era. Also Kendricks numbers have spiked recently so it's not really a fair comparison to use daily Spotify streams.

Neither of those are "non commercial albums"

No one said Drake was 10x bigger than Kendrick.

pimpin

1y

It’s hilarious that you mentioned Spotify as just one streaming platform cause Kendrick is killing it even harder on Apple Music lol. Show me a Drake album where he actually experiments and isn’t just chasing hits?

Both TPAB and MM are considered non commercial at the level of Drake and Kendrick. If Kendrick really wanted to make a commercial album after GKMC it definitely wouldnt have been TPAB.

Obviously I didn’t mean literally 10x bigger but ice hockey stans act like he’s way way more popular than Kendrick which is just not true at all.

quadra

1y

Hey why haven't you answered me yet

pimpin

1y

It’s hilarious that you mentioned Spotify as just one streaming platform cause Kendrick is killing it even harder on Apple Music lol. Show me a Drake album where he actually experiments and isn’t just chasing hits?

Both TPAB and MM are considered non commercial at the level of Drake and Kendrick. If Kendrick really wanted to make a commercial album after GKMC it definitely wouldnt have been TPAB.

Obviously I didn’t mean literally 10x bigger but ice hockey stans act like he’s way way more popular than Kendrick which is just not true at all.

mangotflu

1y

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quadra

1y

What's the reason for excluding One Dance?

Mafia Boss

1y

Spotify is one platform. It would be more accurate to compare album units from same era. Also Kendricks numbers have spiked recently so it's not really a fair comparison to use daily Spotify streams.

Neither of those are "non commercial albums"

No one said Drake was 10x bigger than Kendrick.

mangotflu

1y

vs God's Plan:
Broke streaming records on Spotify + Apple Music
Diamond in 12 months
11 weeks at #1 (NLU 2 weeks)
9 weeks at #1 in the UK (NLU 0 weeks, peaked at #6)
10 weeks at #1 in Canada (NLU never went #1)

#1 in 14 countries globally (NLU went #1 in 4 countries, US, Latvia, New Zealand, South Africa)

Expert

1y

this is the difference, you literally missed the cultural aspect

Not Like Us so prophetic

mangotflu

1y

vs God's Plan:
Broke streaming records on Spotify + Apple Music
Diamond in 12 months
11 weeks at #1 (NLU 2 weeks)
9 weeks at #1 in the UK (NLU 0 weeks, peaked at #6)
10 weeks at #1 in Canada (NLU never went #1)

#1 in 14 countries globally (NLU went #1 in 4 countries, US, Latvia, New Zealand, South Africa)