Dec 30, 2020·1 reply
WESLEY PRESELYDidn’t DAMN outsell More Life? I said Kendrick never would beat Drake commercially but funny enough he actually did that year. 603K vs. 505K. Thanks for the reminder. Don’t act like Kendrick atleast didn’t challenge him creatively for a period of time.
Drake absolutely looked at Kendrick differently then the rest. People like to exaggerate their relationship and spin it into fan fiction. But their was definitely a period of time where Drake and Kendrick were throwing subs at each other. Drake wouldn’t have been throwing subs if he didn’t care or feel atleast a little intimidated.
I don’t know what’s you’re taking the time to dispute man. I also said Travis and Chance weren’t touching him. Both of them however, (Chance in 2016, Travis in 2018) had massive success at one point selling out arenas and were being talked about as the potential “next” one up. But they didn’t touch him.
More life only had 5 tracking days. It dropped on a saturday night instead of thursday night
Dec 30, 2020He seemed very hungry for a spot pre take care but he was far from on top at that point
Dec 30, 2020·1 replyif you think the soundcloud wave of Uzi/Carti didn't throw him off, you haven't paid attention to his shift in sound since OZ picked up major placements with him.
- Dec 30, 2020TheEPSD
if you think the soundcloud wave of Uzi/Carti didn't throw him off, you haven't paid attention to his shift in sound since OZ picked up major placements with him.
This is a good point I didn't even think about. After that wave he reaaaallly hopped on trap beats, and not in the vein of iyrt
- Dec 30, 2020
thegreatdivineThe only person who I can say Drake could have even remotely seen as a threat is Post Malone and when you consider the fact that Post Malone isn't a rapper and is more of a pop singer, added with the fact that Drake has outdone him in every single year since he debuted, including 2019, which was his biggest year, it really isn't close.
Drake has more hits, pulls more streams and units from his catalog every year and is cool with him, so I doubt he sees him as a threat.
When you really think about it, absolutely no one has ever really challenged Drake on a commercial level since 2009. Even if they've gone on to have a great year culturally or commercially, Drake always outdid them by the end of the year.
Even in 2020 his off year lol
- Dec 30, 2020
It’s sad but I don’t think there will ever be another Drake because of the way the music industry went.
- Dec 30, 2020·1 reply
FreightThe biggest issue with More Life vs DAMN is More Life's lack of physicals and releasing on a Sunday instead of a Friday. Lost two days of sales. Idk if those two things would've made up the 100k gap but it would've been a lot closer
5 days of tracking over 500k sales, thats over 100k sales a day. Would have sold near or over 700k if released on a friday with physicals.
- OPDec 30, 2020·1 replyBig Dog
5 days of tracking over 500k sales, thats over 100k sales a day. Would have sold near or over 700k if released on a friday with physicals.
Nah you can't do that cause the stream count increases logarithmically throughtout the week. Plus only 280k of the sales were from streaming
- Dec 30, 2020Freight
Nah you can't do that cause the stream count increases logarithmically throughtout the week. Plus only 280k of the sales were from streaming
You can definitely assume with drake two days is a minimum of 100k lol
Dec 30, 2020X was the only one with the spark but even then I doubt it was that serious of a concern.
Dec 30, 2020·1 reply
JbreezyondeckYou obviously don’t remember the hype of him back in 2016. I never said he’d be as big as drake, but to act like he wasn’t the one who could’ve been the next big rap superstar if he followed that trajectory would be disingenuous
you have zero taste in hip hop
chance was NEVER even close to being the next big thing
he's soooooo garbage trash
- Dec 30, 2020·1 replyWhipIt
you have zero taste in hip hop
chance was NEVER even close to being the next big thing
he's soooooo garbage trash
You don’t even know me but go off
- Dec 30, 2020Htownwolf
More life only had 5 tracking days. It dropped on a saturday night instead of thursday night
To this f***ing day I won't understand why he did that. Rappers that don't drop an album to get the full 7 days are trying to shoot them selves in the foot.
Dec 30, 2020Lots of reaching in this thread
- Dec 30, 2020
Couple of y’all might even be fouled out with these takes
Dec 30, 2020Drake’s only real competition is Kendrick Lamar but he doesn’t drop as much as he should so in reality, I don’t see any pressure. All the youngings want a drake feat.
- Dec 30, 2020Jbreezyondeck
Chance was bubbling then. Wasn’t directly a threat imo but he was definitely setting himself up to be next in line
Nah b
- Dec 30, 2020Rhysington
tarvis $cott
He in his own lane
- Dec 30, 2020Freight
I guess you could make the case that the "If I had left this s*** to chance" line was because he thought Chance might be coming for him after Acid Rap blew up
Or it was just catchy and a friendly s/o..
- Dec 30, 2020Freight
- Dec 30, 2020
milly bobby brown
- Dec 30, 2020Rhysington
tarvis $cott
this is probably the closest answer. practically a global superstar in terms of marketing and deals along with a highly respectable and massive album in astroworld. it’s all about if he can capitalize and progress from this.
- Dec 30, 2020WESLEY PRESELY
Didn’t DAMN outsell More Life? I said Kendrick never would beat Drake commercially but funny enough he actually did that year. 603K vs. 505K. Thanks for the reminder. Don’t act like Kendrick atleast didn’t challenge him creatively for a period of time.
Drake absolutely looked at Kendrick differently then the rest. People like to exaggerate their relationship and spin it into fan fiction. But their was definitely a period of time where Drake and Kendrick were throwing subs at each other. Drake wouldn’t have been throwing subs if he didn’t care or feel atleast a little intimidated.
I don’t know what’s you’re taking the time to dispute man. I also said Travis and Chance weren’t touching him. Both of them however, (Chance in 2016, Travis in 2018) had massive success at one point selling out arenas and were being talked about as the potential “next” one up. But they didn’t touch him.
DAMN:
•Bundles
•Full tracking weekMore Life:
•No bundles
•Had only 5 days out of the tracking week as it was released at midnight on Sunday after OVO Sound Radio the previous Saturday night. It missed out on the two biggest days in an album's tracking week which are the first and second days.That's the only reason DAMN. debuted with more units than More Life that year and this was right after the monster 2016 Drake had just had and guess what? Drake still ended up outstreaming/outperforming him that year, both Globally and in the US.
IFPI's Top 10 Global Recording Artists of 2017
Most Streamed Artists on Spotify in 2017
Most Consumed Artists in the US in 2017
Dec 30, 2020Of course, he’s competitive. That’s not a bad thing tho.
Dec 30, 2020Lil Baby
