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Mar 20, 2024·1 replyroselei3Yes and you can argue that Views and Scorpion are both bigger than After Hours because they have the singles to back it up. CLB does not.
CLB didn't need big hit singles to outsell After Hours in the US. It's the bigger album.
- Mar 20, 2024thegreatdivine
He's saying this like the same For All the Dogs they called a flop doesn't have 2 #1 singles and all without well-timed remixes to boost those songs to #1 lmao.
The song was at #6 an entire year after the album released, before the Ariana remix came out.
- Mar 20, 2024·1 replyroselei3
No he could not
Drake has never had an album single go #1 in a year where said album didn't release
Drake easily couldve for example dropped single 4th quarter one year then album mid next year then remix of a song to push single following year...
- Mar 20, 2024·3 repliesthegreatdivine
CLB didn't need big hit singles to outsell After Hours in the US. It's the bigger album.
It outsold it first week. It's not the bigger album. It's a 21 song album in the streaming era from the biggest artist on streaming, of course it's doing numbers. Let Drake drop a 13 song album and I promise you he's struggling to clear 300K first week
- Mar 20, 2024·1 replyroselei3
Yes and you can argue that Views and Scorpion are both bigger than After Hours because they have the singles to back it up. CLB does not.
According to this logic, 25 by Adele isn't a bigger album than After Hours, despite selling over 11M units in the US because it doesnt have as many hit singles as After Hours
- Mar 20, 2024·1 replythegreatdivine
According to this logic, 25 by Adele isn't a bigger album than After Hours, despite selling over 11M units in the US because it doesnt have as many hit singles as After Hours
25 is bigger than After Hours. It has huge singles and most of the numbers it did were pure sales
Mar 20, 2024All four singles from 25 were hits.
- Mar 20, 2024·1 replythegreatdivine
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.
Except Taylor found success in another avenue of music, which is album sales though. Drake hasn't been able to find another avenue yet
No one's "bitching" about Drake's commercial potency lol. you're getting too defensive. We're just making the remark that his features aren't as potent as they were during that run, which they aren't, there's no harm in admitting that at all
- Mar 20, 2024·1 replyMy Turn
Drake easily couldve for example dropped single 4th quarter one year then album mid next year then remix of a song to push single following year...
Anyone could do anything in a hypothetical scenario
- Mar 20, 2024roselei3
It outsold it first week. It's not the bigger album. It's a 21 song album in the streaming era from the biggest artist on streaming, of course it's doing numbers. Let Drake drop a 13 song album and I promise you he's struggling to clear 300K first week
Are you judging what album is bigger by overall sales or other metrics?
- Mar 20, 2024Htownwolf
Nope still people claiming that every drake song has to be an international smash hit or its a flop in their eyes
Who in this thread said that?
seems like you made something up again, perhaps see a mental health professional
- Mar 20, 2024·1 replyroselei3
25 is bigger than After Hours. It has huge singles and most of the numbers it did were pure sales
No, it has 1 huge single.
- Mar 20, 2024·1 replyroselei3
Anyone could do anything in a hypothetical scenario
I mean you were acting like its something impossible for drake to do. when its not.
- Mar 20, 2024thegreatdivine
No, it has 1 huge single.
It has two, and When We Were Young was big too.
CLB has at MOST one, and even that’s a huge stretch
- Mar 20, 2024·1 replyMy Turn
I mean you were acting like its something impossible for drake to do. when its not.
It is
- Mar 20, 2024·3 repliesroselei3
It just blows my mind. If there was one thing I thought we could agree on, it's After Hours being one of the biggest albums of the decade, and definitely bigger than any Drake release this decade
Imma side with the Drake d***riders on this tbh, album sales = biggest album
AH wasn't a huge album, it just had like 3 huge hits, but the rest of the album wasn't streamed. it's a separate thing for sure
- Mar 20, 2024·1 replymangotflu
Except Taylor found success in another avenue of music, which is album sales though. Drake hasn't been able to find another avenue yet
No one's "bitching" about Drake's commercial potency lol. you're getting too defensive. We're just making the remark that his features aren't as potent as they were during that run, which they aren't, there's no harm in admitting that at all
Exactly, and that’s exactly why his album sales have been dwindling down and down every year since Scorpion. If he drops another album with streaming as the only option that s*** might not clear 325K
- Mar 20, 2024roselei3
It is
How is it impossible the scenario i said would be very easy for drake to do.
Mar 20, 2024·1 replyroselei3It outsold it first week. It's not the bigger album. It's a 21 song album in the streaming era from the biggest artist on streaming, of course it's doing numbers. Let Drake drop a 13 song album and I promise you he's struggling to clear 300K first week
No one is forcing anyone to stream CLB in its 132nd week
There's no such thing as "of course it's doing numbers"
- Mar 20, 2024·editedroselei3
It outsold it first week. It's not the bigger album. It's a 21 song album in the streaming era from the biggest artist on streaming, of course it's doing numbers. Let Drake drop a 13 song album and I promise you he's struggling to clear 300K first week
Numbers shouldn't matter according to you but they matter when they suit your argument. There must be something wrong with you lol. CLB outsold After Hours in more than just it's first week. It's moved just as many units as After Hours and did so despite dropping 18 months later.
The Weeknd isn't doing Drake's numbers even with a 30 song album. Drake's surprise DANCE album debuted with more US streams than After Hours did and it was also 14 tracks lmao.
- Mar 20, 2024·1 reply
crazy you still have so many people in these sales threads with different views on what matters lol
- Mar 20, 2024mangotflu
Imma side with the Drake d***riders on this tbh, album sales = biggest album
AH wasn't a huge album, it just had like 3 huge hits, but the rest of the album wasn't streamed. it's a separate thing for sure
Historically, the whole reason for even releasing singles was to generate interest for the album. That's why back in the day, labels wouldn't greenlit an album till an artist had a hit ready to go because that meant there'd maybe some real interest for when the album eventually dropped.
Also, selling a ton of album units with 0 hits > having hits on an album that doesn't sell s***.
- Mar 20, 2024·4 repliesmangotflu
Imma side with the Drake d***riders on this tbh, album sales = biggest album
AH wasn't a huge album, it just had like 3 huge hits, but the rest of the album wasn't streamed. it's a separate thing for sure
After Hours has 10.7 billion streams as an album on Spotify. The two biggest songs make up about 6 billion of that.
Which means the other 12 songs make up about 4.7 billion streams.
4.7 billion divided by 12 is an average of 333M streams per song.
Why are we lying today
- Mar 20, 2024·2 repliesmangotflu
Imma side with the Drake d***riders on this tbh, album sales = biggest album
AH wasn't a huge album, it just had like 3 huge hits, but the rest of the album wasn't streamed. it's a separate thing for sure
It was just the second biggest album of 2020 and the fifth biggest of 2021...
