They’re gonna say it’s not songwriting. It’s monoculture. Or people are tied up in politics. Or some bullshit outside of the execution of music that doesn’t acknowledge the actual music

Meanwhile Anxiety at 63 million radio and 9.6 million streams 😭

4 songs in week 11

You're shocked the biggest hit of the year so far has sold the most units so far?

They finally got stats to brag about and don't know how to act.

im shocked by the lack of big hits, this time last year we had espresso, a bar song, NLU, i had some help, million dollar baby, too sweet all impacting the charts at the same time putting up 350+ points a week

maybe 2024 was an outlier year but this year has been dreadful in comparison

About to be 2 in Week 12

Die Trying has radio hit written all over it. Dunno why they don’t push it

Every year is different. Some years are strong with smash hits, some others are weaker and have hits from the previous year spill over to the next year. It is what it is.

Because pop radio will reject it like they've rejected every Drake single since 2009.

LETS GO BUNNIES

we back up

It'd cause he refused to do radio interviews with pop radio like 12 years ago lol. They were forced to play hotline bling

I feel like this isn’t true

I’m not a number nerd tho don’t jump down my throat

We gon act like half of scorpion wasn’t on the radio now?

She talking bout pop radio but even still I would assume he had some stuff on there in the last 15 years idk

Id be very surprised if controlla and one dance weren’t on there once

Wrong.

most of his biggest hits as a lead artist charted on pop radio

best i ever had peaked at #10 on pop radio

find your love peaked at #8 on pop radio

take care peaked at #8 on pop radio

hold on we’re going home peaked at #4 on pop radio and #19 on adult pop radio

hotline bling peaked at #2 on pop radio

one dance peaked at #1 on pop radio and #20 on adult pop radio

passionfruit peaked at #15 on pop radio and #39 on adult pop radio

gods plan peaked at #4 on pop radio

nice for what peaked at #11 on pop radio

in my feelings peaked at for #6 on pop radio

toosie slide peaked at #10 on pop radio

#1 should be interesting.

Drake/PND and Weeknd physicals ship this week.

Wonder how much vinyl Drake moved, there's a few diff variants that have been available for a while now.

Weeknd re-selling his album, but actually the complete version this time.

Sleep Token (whoever they are) album will also be competing for #1

The narrative that he gets ignored by pop radio is a new one but it’s just more of the same cope they’ve been overdosing on for the past year

Drake has a total of 42 songs that charted on Pop Airplay over his entire career. That is more overall than basically all of the most commercially successful rappers ever, including:

• Eminem
• Lil Wayne
• Kanye West
• Kendrick Lamar
• Future
• JAY-Z
• J. Cole
• Travis Scott

He has more than any rapper not named Nicki Minaj, whom only has 5 more than him.

He gets more love at Pop radio than 99.9% of rappers all-time.

Is this a second wave of physicals I thought $$$ shipped first week

How many this decade though? And also the amount of radio is more important than just the chart position. Nokia for example is barely getting any pop radio and its overall radio is like 32 million. Anxiety already has double that but like 30% the streams.