Beyonce's fans are 17 years in and she'll still go #1 on Billboard 200 from actual pure sales. Bey's Lemonade sold 485k in pure sales first week. Drake's last studio album Scorpion sold 160k in pure sales. Pure sales might actually be more important metric as it shows that more people are willing to go out and buy Bey's music ieven if they could've gone to Tidal for a free-trial and listen to the album that way. It was also the best selling album of 2016 selling over 2.5 million and has sold over 2 million pure sales in the US while Drake's Scorpion has yet to hit 1 million. Streaming is the new big thing but pure sales shows that people are a bit more interested if they will buy it and not just repeatedly listen for free, or a reduced price that covers all.

We all know OP just ried to start a stan wars too

I think drake is better and bigger in us but thread is aboit worldwide and loads more people than u expect know 50

A literal #1 this year but according to you “she hasn’t been relevant in years”

Beyonce is the second biggest musician after MJ worldwide. Lock thread

Beyonce is the second biggest musician after MJ worldwide. Lock thread

Drake performed at Rock In Rio, a festival that literally the entire country goes crazy over in Brazil. He literally had "MIA" with Bad Bunny, which smashed in every Latin American country.

One Dance, Hotline Bling, Work, God's Plan, In My Feelings were all huge smashes in Europe.

In My Feelings was also so viral online it was legitimately huge in every single continent. They were banning people doing the challenge in Middle Eastern countries.

Drake is known very well worldwide, and probably more than 50 Cent lol.

Girls love Beyoncé

Obviously Beyoncé

Drake

beyonce butt is bigger i guess

Bad Bunny is bigger than both.

How are pure sales a better metric? You buy 1 copy... OKAY thats it nobody knows if you are listening to it. With streaming we can ACTUALLY SEE THE ARTIST PEOPLE ARE LISTENING TO YEAR AROUND. Lemonade was not the bestselling album of 2016 Views was. Lemonade was probably the best selling PURE SALES ALBUM. Views outsold beyonce's album by about 2x since it is 6x platinum now.

Listen bruh if you hate streaming go ahead. But stop coming in these threads with your nonsense based opinion that "pure sales mean more" streaming shows us an artists actual consumption by listens.

100% more people in the World know about Drake than 50cent rn

i'm just saying it must show how much fans are willing to buy vs listen for free. i don't hate streaming i stream music myself. i'm just saying that the fact that people are willing to spend money on one vs listen to the other for a price that includes all or for free shows something about the artist's fans.

plus this is about worldwide fanbases. Drake has a international fanbase, but not to the extent of Beyonce's. she seems to have a much larger international fanbase than Drake which is what the question was about. other fonts brought up sales and stats and tours, i just continued the already relevant conversation at hand

um... there's several artist i would put before Beyonce or Drake for that matter. we really do need to lock the thread if y'all think like this lmao

Drop those names then

Whitney
Mariah
Prince
Stevie Wonder
Usher
Janet
Tina Turner
Diana Ross
Eminem, tbh

The ultimate second is probably Elvis but I would never give him that position. I think it's really Whitney tbh. And this is all solo artists. If we're including bands you have to include

The Supremes
Jackson 5
The Beatles
U2
probably a few more if you really think about it

Edit: lmao how did i forget Madonna?

Drake only big like that in America and Canada

I'd also add Europe to the list. He seems to have a very large fanbase there too

I'm from Europe and nah

oh then nvm lol. i know a lot of American artists do very well there. that's weird. he really is more local than i thought. i see it as if you have a big American base, but not Europe, you can't be that big in other continents

Dont get me wrong, everybody knows who Drake is in Europe but dont nobody worship him like ppl worship Beyonce

His following is very weak actually and ppl only know him for his hit singles whereas Beyonce is icon status

that must be true. I saw Formation World Tour videos from Wembley Stadium and Stadio de France and saw people jumping and screaming and a few people crying at her concerts. I saw Drake's Vacation Assassination Tour vids and fans were screaming, but nowhere near the level of Bey's fans. And I'm talking close up reactions, not just the fact that one was in arenas and the other was in stadiums

Beyonce obviously