Hate is a sickness. Find a way to heal.

Sometimes i wish this person would use their data collection skills for something positive/useful

But we all have to pass the time somehow so I shouldn't hate

Who told you I don't? How is this negative?

Strange lie

852,000 U.S. copies***

Close enough

And before then:
447k.
631k.
658k.
535k.
375k.

While I appreciate OP posting this list, it doesn’t really qualify anything for me and is vulnerable to volume shooters to collect weeks for their all-time tally.

I’m more curious of the average of weeks based on the number of projects. For example,

Drake - 3307 / 16 Billboard-eligible releases with major-label marketing

= 206 weeks avg per project

Kendrick Lamar - 1346 / 6 Billboard-eligible releases with major-label marketing

= 224 weeks avg per project

Yes...and they are still 2nd on this list which is why I am surprised they ever left the chart given how popular their music still is and their consistent releases.

do u think drake is being targeted for being as successful as he is?

You're answering your own question. They're obviously not as popular consumption-wise as they used to be.

Doesn't really matter what I think tbh.

I didn't put this list together so you could compare Drake and Kendrick. There are dozens of artists on this list.

I put the list together because charting even 1 album for a single week on the Billboard 200 is impressive and the artists who made these lists have managed to keep numerous albums on that chart for years.

Lil Wayne being so low is all you need to see to know all these numbers mean nothing

charts didn’t make sense pre-2016 if anything

before streaming, charts relied on radio play way too heavily

the period from iTunes’s debut through streaming’s debut was terrible for charts

Pre and post streaming numbers should not be compared. It's literally meaningless.

He did WHAT?

25. Kendrick Lamar — 1,346 weeks
26. Kanye West — 1,347 weeks

Add it to the lawsuit

Tbh i dont take billboard as seriously as a long term thing anymore after streaming. Its cool for first weeks and other posterity purposes tho

Also, to address your point, simply having many projects released doesn't mean you'll have many weeks charted. People still have to continue streaming those projects, enough for them to chart on the Billboard 200. If anything releasing more projects weakens your ability to keep them charting because you're giving your fanbase a lot more music to focus their attention on than if you had fewer projects out.

Regarding your calculations, what you're really supposed to measure are the number of projects available on streaming, not the projects that were released on a major label.

Running your own calculations that way, someone like Future, who currently has 30 projects available on streaming and has charted for 1,131 weeks, would have an average of 37.7 weeks per project. Kendrick Lamar, who currently has 8 projects available on streaming and has charted for 1,346 weeks, would have an average of 168.25 weeks per project. Drake, who has 16 projects available on streaming and has charted for 3,307 weeks, would have charted for 206.68 weeks per project.

By your own theory, shouldn't Future have charted for more weeks and also have a higher average of weeks charted per album? After all, he has more projects available on streaming than both Kendrick and Drake combined.

Look again

No, it isn't. Context just has to be offered.

What line of reasoning is this?

I wasn’t questioning your OP intentions, even with your well-known allegiances.

I was implying that posting a list without an actual message allows for literalist, non-contextual takes, which doesn’t do anyone favors. I also get that you toe the line between hard data posts and providing context that supports your own positions. That’s expected and fair.

I’ll get to your other response about subjective criteria for the list, which I think is a better convo to have.

when you see who OP is, see who number #1 is, then make the whole connection