idk

Y’all downplaying Nicki lol. Trust me I’m a drake Stan. I feel like they were as big as each other for the first few years of their YM Career. Nicki did exceed him a bit early on and she definitely peaked before him. When she peaked he was still on a rise and eventually passed her I’d say around NWTS era. Drake def had more haters than Nicki too. I remember every single girl wanted to be a Barbie and started rocking bangs lol. And everybody hated drake. I’ve always saw them as 2 sides of the same coin. Regardless they both need their flowers.

But how could she be bigger when both of Drake's first two albums outsold her's by A LOT. And he also was outcharting her?

I gotta applaud you on bringing up a valid point. He may have outsold her but who was more international first? Who was actually touring the world cuz they had fans everywhere? Has drake even performed in Brazil yet? Philippines or Japan? Like I a said Nicki peaked first. She wasn’t bigger than him for that long but she was that’s my point. That’s wat the thread is about. Even if it was 1 year or 2 or 6 months.

When? Just give a time frame because you're being vague. Touring in Brazil is hardly an indication of popularity as someone who been a fan of both since 09 Nicki was never a more successful rapper than Drake, not being sexist its just true

is this the real ochocinco from kanyelive????

She has an argument up until Take Care. They were neck and neck up until then. From Take Care onwards, Drake was pretty hard to catch up with.

2010 - tie (*they were neck and neck, both had multiple solo singles and features crack top 10. nicki honestly might get the edge because of monster but ehhh)

2011 - drake (*im on one & take care/pink friday momentum was slowing down by this point)

2012 - drake (*the most debatable year imo. nicki had bigger solo joints but drake jus went on a tear feature wise with no lie, amen, pop that, diced pineapples, lord knows. i had to give it to em)

2013 - drake (*nwts)

2014 - nicki (*anaconda)

2015-present - drake

she was bigger in 2012

Maybe when Super Bass blew up but that was until Take Care dropped

I'm kind of understanding what the debate is here.

I think it all depends on how you view her second album. That's when she went "pop" all her big singles were pop. Probably got a lot of international fans.

But that to me is where she lost her rap audience; at a time where it was better to be a rapstar than a popstar.

Yes, 2010. After that, Drake never looked back

Barbz live in a different reality. Pay them no mind

I think this is probably the correct take here. I can't see any year where drake released an album/mixtape/playlist that he just wouldn't take that year based on the merits of what came out.

If you went the thru thread u would see the time frame. Like I said for the third time. She was bigger for a brief period of time. Y’all really just ignoring that fact that there has been times where artists have been big AF even as big as drake for a small period of time. And just to clarify I’m talking pre 2015. Drake is the bigges artist of the past 10 years but that don’t mean he was the best EVERY SINGLE YEAR. but yeah don’t cerb reply I’m not going to. Enjoy ya day

I can see her being bigger at one point tbh but hard to imagine it was anytime during or after IYRTITL

idk... drake has a fat ass

Stop it. Take care did 600k first week

MAYBE 2009/2010 but tbh prob a reach cause drake already had best i ever had

also drakes 2010 outsold nickis first week

i initially thought this but revisited. dont think its right

In 2010
Thank Me Later sold 447K first week and moved 1M units in a month and 5 days

Pink Friday sold 375K first week and moved 1M units in 3.5 weeks

and TML had 3 top 20 hits, one being a top 5. Pink Friday had 4 top 20 hits, one being a top 3 - the 8x Plat iconic Super Bass.

and then features like Monster.

So I think Nicki got 2010 tbh

pink friday outsold thank me later 🤷‍♂️

2010 only year i give the queen of rap

after 6 years...
Thank Me Later - 1.8M
Pink Friday - 3M

*RIAA release date for Pink Friday is incorrect, it was released Nov 22, 2010

drake was biggest rapper 2012 on

2014(cole) and 2017(kendrick) are debatable