iHype

1y

Being objective, a lot of the Spotify blacklist accusations are baseless or don’t hold much weight as of current.

However one thing I do find legitimately shady is why his one song on Today’s Top Hits isn’t even top 10 on the playlist. “Somebody Loves Me” is #13

He is the biggest artist on the platform in history, every album drop usually has a song that’s directly like #1 or top 3 on the playlist just off that.

Same if Taylor, Bad Bunny, etc drop because they’re top artists.

Sabrina is placed directly #1 with a deluxe re-release song before any numbers came in. But you mean to tell me Drake releasing a new album entirely doesn’t merit top 10 placement?…

mov

1y

People saying Spotify is trying to f*** over Drake are f***ing dumb, he's the most streamed artist on Spotify too with over 100 million streams. Spotify makes money with him. They will never blackball him in any way

goretex

1y

its wild after umg just signed another big deal with spotify all of this happens i guess were just crazy

TheFader

1y

More misinformation. I will include songs that are past 450M since they will reach 500M sometime very soon this year.

All 2020s Weeknd songs with 500M+ streams on Spotify:

1. Blinding Lights
2. Save Your Tears
3. Save Your Tears Remix
4. One of the Girls
5. Creepin’
6. After Hours
7. Die For You Remix
8. Heartless
9. Moth to a Flame
10. Popular
11. In Your Eyes
12. You Right
13. Is There Someone Else?
14. One Right Now
15. Timeless
16. Out of Time
17. LA FAMA
18. Smile (493M)
19. Take My Breath (482M)

Excluding Hurry Up Tomorrow since it just came out, The Weeknd in the 2020s decade has released:

• 2 studio albums
• 1 soundtrack album that was split into numerous EPs
• 1 standalone single
• a handful of features

All 2020s Drake songs with 500M+ streams on Spotify:

1. Life is Good
2. Jimmy Cooks
3. Toosie Slide
4. Laugh Now Cry Later
5. WAIT FOR U
6. Fair Trade
7. Rich Flex
8. Wants and Needs
9. Chicago Freestyle
10. Knife Talk
11. POPSTAR
12. Way 2 Sexy
13. GREECE
14. Rich Baby Daddy
15. Girls Want Girls
16. IDGAF

Excluding $$$4U since it just came out, Drake in the 2020s has released:

• 3 solo studio albums
• 1 mixtape
• 1 collab studio album
• 1 EP
• numerous standalone singles
• a vast amount of features

mov

1y

"However one thing I do find legitimately shady is why his one song on Today’s Top Hits isn’t even top 10 on the playlist. “Somebody Loves Me” is #13"

This isn't on Spotify, it's more on UMG because they're paying money to promote their artists. I guess they didn't gave enough money this time.

iHype

1y

UMG tells them songs they’d like playlist focus on, but I think the placements themselves mostly come down to Spotify’s own choice.

If it was as simple as paying then you’d see plenty of random artists put at #1

iHype

1y

UMG tells them songs they’d like playlist focus on, but I think the placements themselves mostly come down to Spotify’s own choice.

If it was as simple as paying then you’d see plenty of random artists put at #1

mov

1y

People saying Spotify is trying to f*** over Drake are f***ing dumb, he's the most streamed artist on Spotify too with over 100 million streams. Spotify makes money with him. They will never blackball him in any way

mov

1y

Wasn't Somebody Loves Me at #3 first in that playlist?

mangotflu

1y

then why was there no banner, no tweet?

they've doine that for every other drake album ever

they're clearly trying to stunt the popularity of the album by not promoting it like they normally do

mangotflu

1y

then why was there no banner, no tweet?

they've doine that for every other drake album ever

they're clearly trying to stunt the popularity of the album by not promoting it like they normally do

Deezed

1y

end of the day im not into the consipracy theories either im just saying the discrepancy between AM and spotify right now ive never seen before on any drake album (its normally 60/40 in favour of AM, some albums were 55/45)

its so bad that if u tried to predict his first week sales solely off spotify numbers you would be getting a 120-130k first week, thats how imbalanced it is towards AM to allow from to do 230k off streaming units alone

mangotflu

1y

Including like 5 Weeknd songs that came out before 2020 is so hilarious man

at least try to hide your bias

Lets include God's Plan, One Dance and all the others too then

mangotflu

1y

Including like 5 Weeknd songs that came out before 2020 is so hilarious man

at least try to hide your bias

Lets include God's Plan, One Dance and all the others too then

CRACKASTEPPAVEGAN

1y

I'm not completely dismissing these claims of Spotify numbers looking funny. I can see where the concerns are. Homie sued the company and clocked in for work, so there's reason to think there's foul play. I've seen nothing but promo on Spotify this whole week so idk

shady23axd

1y

They all came out in the 2020s (Die For You was released in 2016 but it became very popular in 2023 on tiktok and the remix with Ariana was released later that year)

mangotflu

1y

Including like 5 Weeknd songs that came out before 2020 is so hilarious man

at least try to hide your bias

Lets include God's Plan, One Dance and all the others too then

mangotflu

1y

Many of them were released in previous years, tht's my point

Drake had many songs still popping in 2020/2021 that were released prior, counting them is stupid

TheFader

1y

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???

The only one you can really call 2019 releases are Blinding Lights and Heartless, but even then they released right at the end of 2019 and were on a 2020 album. Blinding Lights also did not become a hit until 2020.

Save Your Tears (2020)
Save Your Tears Remix (2021)
One of the Girls (2023)
Creepin' (2022)
After Hours (2020)
Die For You Remix (2023)
Moth to a Flame (2021/2022)
Popular (2023)
In Your Eyes (2020)
You Right (2021)
Is There Someone Else? (2022)
One Right Now (2021)
Timeless (2024)
Out of Time (2022)
LA FAMA (2021/2022)
Smile (2020)
Take My Breath (2021)

What are you talking about?