Only took 1 month Drake stans and their hubris

Dudes gassing up 40 variants from a pop girl in here

Drake isn’t dropping 20 song albums to inflate his numbers, he’s dropping 20 song albums because he wants to appeal to more fans

if you took the 3 least played songs off iceman, it’s not gonna impact how many streams the album got first week. everyone who decided to play Drake for 1 hour will still have played Drake for 1 hour

as opposed to pocket watching?

big dog rodrigo

“If you took off the 3 least played songs off the album, it wouldn’t affect how many streams the album got first week”

Yeah if you remove 46M streams from 462M streams the total somehow still comes out to 462M!

No one is sitting down when a new album comes out saying “I’m gonna listen to Drake for one hour today!”

They’re playing the album at least once in full, and then repeating the songs they like the most after that. More songs = more streams off the initial first listen and more potential songs to choose from for favorites

If you don’t wanna take my word for it, then go look at the highest 25 streamed first weeks ever and count how many are at least 18-20+ song albums:

ktt2.com/biggest-streaming-weeks-on-the-billboard-200-76952

The stats tell the story. More songs = higher possibility of more streams first week

No?

no, those 46M streams would just be distributed among the other songs on the album

tracklist play counts usually decrease as the tracklist goes on, unless there are standout hits. with 3 less songs, the later tracks would just get more plays. anyone who says “i have 35 minutes to listen to songs from ICEMAN right now” would play ICEMAN for 35 minutes no matter how many songs are on the tracklist

you took the dumbest lesson from this

the highest streaming weeks are from albums by Taylor Swift, Drake, Juice WRLD, Post Malone, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar, etc.

it has nothing to do with tracklist length, it has everything to do with those being incredibly popular artists

That’s not how that works whatsoever, and there’s literally zero evidence to back that up

The promo is insane tho

they were playing Iceman at Panera today and not Olivia Rodrigo

Four albums in the Top 25 are under 18 songs:

Showgirl - 12 songs
Her Loss - 16 songs
GNX - 12 songs
Astroworld - 17 songs

• Taylor Swift is Taylor Swift

• For Drake, he’s dropped five projects under 18 songs in the streaming era. 1 out of 5 of them have debuted with 300M+ streams

• Kendrick was coming off the hottest year for a rapper this decade, GNX was highly anticipated

• Travis is the biggest outlier here, but even still it was only one track less than 18

big artists release long albums to cover every corner of their fanbase, it has nothing to do with tracklist length gaming the system for streams lmfao

artists who are good at making music release music often because they can consistently make good songs. those artists become popular because they’re good at what they do.

Yes I’m sure these multi-millionaire, profit-driven, capitalist artists don’t see any value or benefit by releasing longer albums in the streaming era

Loved all the 30+ song albums that were topping the charts from 2005 to 2015

I don’t know the actual numbers but I’m very certain the 2020s has had more #1 albums with 30+ songs than any other decade in history

Go by some rap CDs from 2005, they basically all were 22 or more tracks

Which albums are you thinking of? Lil Uzi vert, Playboi Carti? Who else even did this

Honestly it’s probably similar to other decades, it’s a relatively rare thing but not unheard of.

previous audio formats (vinyl, CD) were constrained by physical space on the discs

so yea obviously there are more long albums now that it’s not an issue

nothing to do with it being better for sales though

Taylor Swift
Carti
Morgan Wallen (3 times)

Lmao I knew you would go there. Music has been mostly digital since the late 2000s at the very latest

you definitely need to re-check the timeline

digital started becoming popular in the late 00s, but it was never prioritized over physicals until streaming

Kanye not doing physicals for Yeezus in 2013 was unheard of, and it didn’t even make a dent because nobody else followed suit for years. even Kanye went back to doing physicals for TLOP, his next album.