Drake’s 3 albums do 197M streams total

[ThisGuyTony 33,895]

 

[Vimo 1,537]

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?!

[Lucas 30,297]

Why such a huge gap between the 1st album and the 2 others? 

[Shyane 1,689]

He released 3 new albums???

[JohnPokerface 37]

After several rappers admitted buying streams I take their numbers with a grain of salt, that being said Drake is one of the most popular and most streamed rappers, so it's not that surprising.

[Nagini 3,866]

Happy for him!

[andy232000 13,085]

29 minutes ago, Lucas said:

Why such a huge gap between the 1st album and the 2 others? 

I guess cause the other two were kinda pulled out of his ass and people only expected the first one, so they probably started with that one. If you intent to listen to 43 songs as soon as they drop at midnight you’d be up all night. I guess the other two albums are being listened to as the day goes on 

[nodandsmile 11,692]

Why did he release them at the same time? He could've easily achieved 3 #1 albums lol

[Bebe 17,282]

15 minutes ago, nodandsmile said:

Why did he release them at the same time? He could've easily achieved 3 #1 albums lol

There’s no real reason for him to care about the chart placement when he’s still profiting from the albums either way. A lot of speculation has also been made that releasing three albums may have been a strategic move to fulfill his contract with UMG.

What I do find interesting, though, is how little people are discussing the possibility that this is, at least partly, a response to “mother**** the Big 3, it’s just big me.” Drake’s claim to GOAT status has always rested heavily on commercial dominance: the numbers, the records, the chart placements, the scale. So if that position is challenged publicly, it makes sense that his instinct would be to reassert himself in the one arena where he can still make the strongest case.

He’s not just dropping music; he’s trying to remind people that, commercially, he still sits at the top of the totem pole. And in that specific sense, he isn’t wrong. Drake’s dominance as a hitmaker is difficult to argue against.

That said, I find the whole thing pretty hollow. I’m not personally impressed by Drake’s music in the way I am by artists who have stronger technical skill, deeper cultural grounding, or a more meaningful relationship to Black thought, politics, and hip-hop as an art form. To me, commercial success alone does not make someone the GOAT.

But I also think it’s worth acknowledging that, for a lot of people, Drake’s numbers are a persuasive argument. His strongest claim to the crown has never really been that he is the best rapper in a technical or cultural sense; it’s that he is the most commercially dominant rapper of his era. And if that’s the metric people care about, then he has a very convincing case.

[River 124,910]

the bots worked hard lol

 

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 6,836]

37 minutes ago, Bebe said:

There’s no real reason for him to care about the chart placement when he’s still profiting from the albums either way. A lot of speculation has also been made that releasing three albums may have been a strategic move to fulfill his contract with UMG.

What I do find interesting, though, is how little people are discussing the possibility that this is, at least partly, a response to “mother**** the Big 3, it’s just big me.” Drake’s claim to GOAT status has always rested heavily on commercial dominance: the numbers, the records, the chart placements, the scale. So if that position is challenged publicly, it makes sense that his instinct would be to reassert himself in the one arena where he can still make the strongest case.

He’s not just dropping music; he’s trying to remind people that, commercially, he still sits at the top of the totem pole. And in that specific sense, he isn’t wrong. Drake’s dominance as a hitmaker is difficult to argue against.

That said, I find the whole thing pretty hollow. I’m not personally impressed by Drake’s music in the way I am by artists who have stronger technical skill, deeper cultural grounding, or a more meaningful relationship to Black thought, politics, and hip-hop as an art form. To me, commercial success alone does not make someone the GOAT.

But I also think it’s worth acknowledging that, for a lot of people, Drake’s numbers are a persuasive argument. His strongest claim to the crown has never really been that he is the best rapper in a technical or cultural sense; it’s that he is the most commercially dominant rapper of his era. And if that’s the metric people care about, then he has a very convincing case.

I'm not gonna say the speculation is wrong but there's a lot of record deals that require artists to have a certain period of time between albums. I don't personally think it's for contractual reasons, UMG seems to have that clause as a standard. Because he has 3 albums but that only supports 1 tour, most people won't actually buy 3 albums that came out at once, and they'll have to split their time streaming too. I think it's an attempt to dominate the charts, but considering these numbers are unfiltered I'm interested to see what the filtered numbers will look like. 

[loveandpeace 21]

who even listen to anything drake

[Killa 18,610]

Queen of numbers