Tbh I still don’t really know if the bot allegations were legit or if it was just kind of part of the beef back and forth. Kind of assumed every label does paid streams/payola

I don’t think bots are legit on either side. Not like us was genuinely very popular. And Drake has a huge fan base that will turn up for the new album. It reeks of being insecure someone else was able to match those numbers he did

It's not as replayable as scorp/views but definitely more than CLB, which did very well longterm. Drake's audience wants rap, and this has very replayable good rap. CLB didnt

Yes, that's precisely my point. CLB did very well longterm because it didn't have a lot of straight-up rap. It was a mix of all of his styles and very commercially-friendly.

ICEMAN is straight up rap music

Yeah it’s still crazy how big that song was. Remember just walking around my apt complex I was in then like a day later and hearing it blasting in some dude’s apt, think same week whole family was grilling to it on rooftop grill

The boy proved everyone in this thread wrong 😭

CEMAN 480-520k
MAID OF HONOUR 115-135k
HABIBTI 110-130k

pretty much the best case scenario for all three albums. good job on drake's part, i think he should get over the 500k line given that iceman seems to be resonating outside of the stans.

They always lowball Drakes numbers on apple too

Almost 800k on the high end with streaming alone if he combined all 3 albums. Could have been pushing a million with physicals. Crazy

Drake should drop vinyls on wednesday to really f*** it u0

I don't comprende ngl

the only songs with mad streams on CLB are rap songs. all the deep cuts did trash, even songs like Race My Mind which to me is a ridiculously good song is "only" at 174m vs a very average rap song No Friends In the Industry with 286m

even fountains with tems is "only" at 242m

this'll demolish CLB's longterm performance i reckon

So Drake's also proven he could do 1m fw. He just needs like 250k in physicals and 40 songs. That would be very easy to do

The highest-streamed songs on CLB are:

• Fair Trade (melodic rap song feat. Travis)
• Knife Talk (radio-ready rap song feat. 21)
• Girls Want Girls (melodic rap song feat. Lil Baby)
• Way 2 Sexy (radio-ready rap song feat. Future and Young Thug)

All of these are commercially-friendly records that are light on lyricism and featuring rappers that were extremely hot in 2021

ICEMAN is an amazing album, but most of it is very bars-heavy, and none of the songs have a big feature name besides Ran To Atlanta. That's why I have hesitation on thinking how big it'll be commercially longterm

Why would he drop a 40 song album

Thats a big win

Yeah and I think the top 4 songs on this are far superior to those, ft or no ft. Purely from a hit standpoint

and the bottom 10 songs on this are literally twice as good as the bottom 10 on CLB. The bottom 10 being so much better will be absolutely huge for its performance.

It's not a measure of quality, it's a measure of commercial appeal

I think ICEMAN blows CLB out of the water, but I'm solely talking about the commercial-ness of the two albums in how they're constructed

What 4 songs do you think have the biggest hit potential on here?

Honestly STFU Janice, Shabang, 2 Hard 4 The Radio, Whisper My Name.. there’s a lot on here people will be going crazy to all year. I think we’ll all be shocked by how this performs. He already exceeded all expectations.