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  • Mar 20, 2024
    mangotflu

    Of course it's still the biggest thing, but to pretend it's still as powerful is crazy lol. Billboard doesn't show it as well as raw streaming numbers do imo

    That Smiley ft doing double the first day numbers of a f***ing Nicki ft is absolute insanity

    Thank you

  • Mar 20, 2024
    roselei3

    It’s not a lie at all, I lived it

    The One
    I Invented S***
    4 My Town (Play Ball)
    Loving You No More
    Put It Down
    Celebration
    Feel Love
    Unusual
    Poppin Bottles
    She Will
    It's Good
    Still Got It
    Round of Applause
    Mr. Wrong
    So Good
    The Zone
    Poetic Justice
    Right Here
    No Guns Allowed
    Live For
    Know Bout Me
    Believe Me
    Grindin
    Bring It Back
    Come Closer
    Bigger Than You

    I guess these are all mega hits that ended up being the biggest songs of the main artists
    Won't Be Late

  • Mar 20, 2024
    mangotflu

    Of course it's still the biggest thing, but to pretend it's still as powerful is crazy lol. Billboard doesn't show it as well as raw streaming numbers do imo

    That Smiley ft doing double the first day numbers of a f***ing Nicki ft is absolute insanity

    It's still the biggest thing so what's the issue? What's with this delusion that EVERY Drake feature is supposed to be a hit or else? What kind of dumb expectation is that? That's not even something he managed to do when he was at his commercial peak but you expect him to still be doing that 15 years into his career? Do you have that expectation for anyone else in music?

  • Mar 20, 2024
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    thegreatdivine

    What a silly and unnecessary lie

    Is it a lie? compare the spotify numbers and his fts do waaay worse than they used to, its not even close

    That Yeat ft has 8m streams after a month lol

  • Mar 20, 2024
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    mangotflu

    Is it a lie? compare the spotify numbers and his fts do waaay worse than they used to, its not even close

    That Yeat ft has 8m streams after a month lol

    And so? Every Drake song historically doesn't end up becoming a hit. That's a fact.

  • Mar 20, 2024
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    thegreatdivine

    And so? Every Drake song historically doesn't end up becoming a hit. That's a fact.

    ye no one's saying that tho, just that the 2018 ish run you had basically everything become a hit. the only one that didn't was Bring it Back and some remixes i think

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    Drake has 3 songs with Popcaan — all of them failed to chart on the Hot 100. His 2 features with Majid Jordan on their 2 albums? Didn't chart on the Hot 100. Who Told You with J Hus from last year? Didn't chart. Y'all here acting like every single song that man hops on is supposed to be the biggest thing on the planet when he has tons of features over the past 15 years that didn't do s*** on the charts.

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    mangotflu

    ye no one's saying that tho, just that the 2018 ish run you had basically everything become a hit. the only one that didn't was Bring it Back and some remixes i think

    Drake in 2018 was at the peak of his commercial powers. He also picked great singles/songs to hop on. That was a special year. Now every year after that is meant to be a repeat of that year or else? How is that a reasonable expectation to have of anyone? Like, are you hearing yourself? So now, we should judge all his future hits by how huge his hits were in the biggest year of his career? No artist in the world can live up to that expectation and I'll say it again, you're demanding this from a nigga that's 15 YEARS into his mainstream career. F*** outta here, man.

    Y'all are just determined to b**** about Drake's commercial potency, which is ridiculous, considering how successful he still is despite how the industry is right now but whatever.

  • Mar 20, 2024

    2015 was Taylor Swift's most dominant year ever in terms of hits from her 1989 album. Till now, she has never matched that year. She went almost 9 years before scoring mega hits again with Anti-Hero and Cruel Summer. This is TAYLOR SWIFT, the biggest artist in the world.

    Imagine trying to suggest that since she didn't match the dominance of her 1989 album with every single album after that, that she was somehow done or still wasn't that person.

    Y'all really have super ridiculous and unrealistic expectations for Drake and only Drake. It's very stupid.

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    Anything new to discuss in here?

  • Mar 20, 2024
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    quadra

    Anything new to discuss in here?

    Nope still people claiming that every drake song has to be an international smash hit or its a flop in their eyes

  • orangetcovid 👌🏿
    Mar 20, 2024
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    morgan wallen sir how are you doing this
    why this nigga sales increasing

  • Mar 20, 2024
    Htownwolf

    Nope still people claiming that every drake song has to be an international smash hit or its a flop in their eyes

  • Mar 20, 2024
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    orangetcovid

    morgan wallen sir how are you doing this
    why this nigga sales increasing

    He's inevitable, I fear.

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    thegreatdivine

    You're reaching. His stimulus is still the biggest thing in music and that hasn't changed till now. The only "random" he's ever taken to the top 10 was BlocBoy JB. Everyone has either been a major artist or someone who was known, so I don't get the decline you're speaking of.

    I think that his impct has declined a little from like 2018 but its not a huge drop like they are making it out to be.

    But who knew singles perform better than album tracks and deluxe songs.

  • Mar 20, 2024
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    mov

    How is Carnival falling faster

    Some of y‘all are just hating to hate

    Huh? How am I hating lmao. I just thought the song would be a multi-week #1

  • orangetcovid 👌🏿
    Mar 20, 2024
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    thegreatdivine

    He's inevitable, I fear.

    hopefully the country hype don't fly pass Beyonce

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    roselei3

    During the 2010s, almost every feature he did either became a big song or one of the lead artist’s biggest songs. That stimulus does not exist to the same effect in the 2020s

    Maybe 2018 and 2019 but thats really it.

  • Mar 20, 2024
    My Turn
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    I think that his impct has declined a little from like 2018 but its not a huge drop like they are making it out to be.

    But who knew singles perform better than album tracks and deluxe songs.

    The only year he ever had that kind of "impact" with singles was 2018. That's it. You can't use a single year (the same year he was at his strongest as a hitmaker) as the benchmark for how all his future hits have to perform. We don't do that with anyone else so why do it with Drake?

  • Mar 20, 2024
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    Elemental

    Huh? How am I hating lmao. I just thought the song would be a multi-week #1

    They were calling the song the biggest rap of the decade after 3 weeks but now, it shouldn't be noted that it's already on its way out of the top 10 after 5 weeks

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    My Turn

    Maybe 2018 and 2019 but thats really it.

    This is just revisionist history. I lived through the decade and witnessed it, but if y’all say so

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    thegreatdivine

    They were calling the song the biggest rap of the decade after 3 weeks but now, it shouldn't be noted that it's already on its way out of the top 10 after 5 weeks

    Still in the Top 5!

  • Mar 20, 2024
    orangetcovid

    hopefully the country hype don't fly pass Beyonce

    I'm interested to see if country listeners will embrace the album.

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    roselei3

    Still in the Top 5!

    And falling, fast!

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    roselei3

    This is just revisionist history. I lived through the decade and witnessed it, but if y’all say so

    This is 100% not true in 2010-2014

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