Unless! they're a stan who's boosting their favs numbers for shallow records and padded stats

If people were regularly listening to albums from start to finish, then stream counts on albums would be more consistent from top to bottom. But that's not the case at all, and we see it during debut weeks when an album's first 4-5 songs chart the highest and the lowest charting songs are literally always the final few on the album

Well he has 3 albums in the top 200 with 0 songs in the top 200. he clearly isn't just having 2-3 hits from his albums added to playlists and listened to with loads of other artists in the playlist, his fanbase are listening to huge parts of the albums regularly. I genuinely believe a lot of people stick to only 1-3 artists a lot more now than 5 years ago. the game has changed a lot

3 hits making up 40% of your streams on a 15 year album is insane. So the other 60% is coming from deep cuts. That's what I'm talking about. That's not from people clicking shuffle on a 500 song playlist filled with other artists.

wow its on bilboard too
what tiktok did this

good research flu
keep it up

And in Take Care's case, that once again ties back into the length of the album. Look at NWTS, which has half of its 5B streams coming from its 3 biggest songs.

Going back to your original point, Hot Fuss and I Love You both only have 11 songs, so it makes sense that the bigger percentage of their streams are coming from the most popular songs

Drake won

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I'm just saying it's far more popular now than 2016-2018. A lot of that is because the new music coming out is way worse than then. Back then making playlists made sense as you got a lot of good new music from a lot of different artists every week almost. Now it's much rarer

Now people are listening to 1 artist only playlists far more, and albums front to back a lot more

Look at singles man, this is undeniable there is no f***ing way anyone can deny that single releases are so much less effective now than ever before. Barely anyone gives a f*** about singles now. But s*** I actually think new album hype is the biggest its been in 20+ years. Why doesn't that hype exist for new singles? It used to in 2018

Because people want full-length projects that they can pick their favorite songs from

If the single was dead then there wouldn't be songs that blow up crazy after full albums get released (luther, Opalite, BIRDS OF A FEATHER, Janice STFU, etc.)

Those albums are just not great outside of those songs though, so people listen to those hits and never the rest of the album, this is what Drake understood early and what made him so popular. Limiting your album to 2~ hits and filling the rest with scraps was a very common thing until the streaming era took off, so you could keep em for the next one

SOUR 11 songs, 6.1m a day
deja vu 1.00m
traitor 0.98m
drivers license 0.9m
2.88m. 47% streams from top 3 hits

the life of a showgirl, 12 songs, 6.8m a day
Ophelia 2.65m
opalite 1.4m
elizabeth taylor 0.49m
4.54m, 66% streams from top 3 hits

gnx 12 songs, 2.5m a day
luther 0.95m
tv off 0.58m
squabble up 0.31m
1.84m, 73% streams from top 3 hits

Look at SOUR v Showgirl/GNX... Showgirl has a way bigger hit than SOUR right now but sour is so much more replayable than sour so it's almost outstreaming it daily, and probably will be within a few months

You always use Sour as the barometer for short albums and fail to realize that it's the exception to the rule. The performance of that album is a complete anomaly in the streaming era.

17 billion streams for an 11-track album is completely unheard of.

In the streaming era, Sour is probably the closest thing to a Thriller-type album where almost every single one of its 9-11 songs is extremely popular

Short n Sweet is also 12 songs, 5.3m a day
hit me hard and soft is 10 songs, 6.7m a day

meanwhile taylor swift
tortured poets department 31 songs, 4.6m a day

Maybe I'm just in a bubble. I know a lot of people now that prefer just putting an album on and listening front to back. Skipping when bored, to the next album. Short albums are much better for this, because very few artists can pull off long albums. Taylor is not one of those. Morgan/Drake/Bad Bunny are

Drake won

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You are definitely in a bubble. The vast majority of people (especially younger people) are not regularly listening to albums start to finish

What you're describing is exactly the playlist phenomenon

So why doesn't the playlist phenonmeon exist when artists release new singles anymore? It used to in 2018

The big labels have even stopped releasing singles a lot of the time lol

Even damn BTS didn't have a comeback single before ARIANG

Because labels have realized that it's more cost-effective to let the public decide what the hits are first and then put the marketing dollars behind those songs, rather than taking a gamble by releasing what they think will be the hit

And plenty of artists still release singles, the big labels haven't stopped at all. But what's happening more lately is that the songs that become big are the ones that release after the full album drops

crazy how everyone but drake does this at the top of the charts

Yeah but even when artists do it the general public cares way less than ever before. A lot of these artists like Olivia/Ariana have even stopped putting out traditional pop singles, it's songs that 10 years ago would have been deep cuts instead. There's definitely a reason behind that... it's not like there's a big cost behind putting a single out either

oh jen

AOTY

love to see it

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Olivia released two singles before Guts, and those two songs are still the biggest songs on the album to this day. So far she's released two singles for her new album, and they've been performing pretty well.

Ariana released one single before Positions, the title track, and it's her 8th highest streamed song ever with 1.7B streams. For eternal sunshine, she only dropped yes, and? before the album's release, and that debuted at #1 and was pretty successful. So far, this new album is the only one that she's dropped with a more lowkey lead single, but it could be a different type of project for her