There aren't exact stats on that released by any official sources

drake’s “absence” put into numbers

2020: 14 track mixtape, laugh now cry later and 7 guest features

2021: 3 track EP, 21 track album and 9 guest features

2022: 14 track album, 16 track album and 3 guest features

2023: 23 track album, 6 track deluxe edition album, search and rescue and 6 guest features

2024: 5 track EP, 4 diss tracks in the most publicized rap battle ever, 5 guest features

2025: 21 track album

2026: 18 track album, 14 track album, 11 track album

Maybe they meant 0 good songs so they felt an absence

Ngl the beef ain't even make me hop off Kendrick wave it was the peeling back the curtain antics he did during it. If you would've told me during GKMC-TPAB era he'd link up with all the gatekeepers, pump up his numbers, throw out twitter bars, tap dance for the NFL, and basically sell his soul to the industry I would've called you a goofy. He used to be the grassroots underdog but we seen the real side of him and it's hard to go back through his catalog and know this is the path he chose for himself

We ain't even really get any good bars or verses from any of this either. Broccoli snippet hype was crazy then Squabble Up was a play once classic. I'm just wondering where he go from here because it don't seem planned out

I’m sure many rap artists will start outselling Drake now that these new rules are in place

No, because Drake is the most popular rapper. Nobody said he wasn't

Nobody said that?

They really try to say that the game's been quiet without him, the nigga never left

Dot "era" put into numbers

2023: FATD last Drake solo release

2024: 3 hip-hop hits (Like That, NLU, Luther). 1 #1 Rap album throughout the year (GNX)

2025: 1 rap hit (Nokia by Drake) 0 Rap albums make noise

2026: 43 top 100 songs are from the artist currently known as Drake and the top 3 Billboard 200 are from him too

I'm starting to think when Papi's Angels talk about a Drake absence they're referring to the fact that there was an "elimination of Drake" and they Top said we're in the "Dot era" only for neither to pan out and Drake bringing life into the genre again

drake stans went “why is he so confident! what does he know? 😩 day 16 no response from kendrick! drop, drop, drop!”, quoting the lucian lines on away from home as proof that drake had more power at UMG than we knew and claiming drake owned all of his opps publishing after push ups to saying the industry was using kendrick to destroy him after kendrick finally responded

2024: 2 hip-hop hits (NLU & Luther). 1 #1 Rap album throughout the year (GNX)

This is blatantly untrue, 2024 had 9 different rap albums go #1 before GNX

shambles itt

history on da charts

worms in they brains

pain in they hearts

2024 had 10 rap albums go #1, and 2025 had 7 rap albums go #1

2023 only had 5 rap albums go #1

Most importantly

Rap is back

and 2 other #1 songs before like that

and the dot era s*** is something akademiks and drake stans made up, so the made-up drake absence narrative is a response to themselves? these niggas are suffering from mass psychosis

we didnt make that up. elliot wilson made that up dumbass

Yeah and y'all are the only ones who took that seriously

The Dot era was short-lived, but I'm glad yall had a fun little moment

There was no Dot era dog

so you sped niggas lied about drake being absent to counter elliot wilson ragebaiting you?

S*** was shorter that that lil baby era they tried to get going. And a lot less successful too

elliot wilson said it’s the dot era let’s pretend drake hasn’t dropped any music 👆🤓

Man shut the f*** up nigga they made podcasts off this s***

Yeah one group of weird journalists

No fan or regular person ever unironically used the term "Dot Era"