Drake's bloated 21-track album aimed at gaming the streaming system to move 250K first week

[derro13]

"Artists Are Gaming The System With Stupidly Long Albums - Long albums like Drake's 'Scorpion' and Migos' 'Culture II' have become a trend adopted by artists to game streaming services."

 

[Fani Willis fan]

Y'all not gonna like these positive Drake tweets, just scroll past. He still on pace to break Hov record

 

[Mastamimd]

Again $0 spent on promo. Those streamers fukk with Drake from day 1.

This is the radio hot 97 Vice President of Programming and the Apple Music’s Global Editorial Head of Hip-Hop and R&B feels about Drake.

I've seen this album on every platform being promoted since it was announced

Facebook, IG which I'm HARDLY on, and Twitter

You got a number one. Br happy. But get the fukk out of here with that bullshyt

 

[derro13]

Black balled, streams being manipulated etc.

250k is a win all things considered.

Nobody manipulated his streams, and he didn't get black balled, he got heavily promoted.

 

[GeeEffKay]

Bloated the fukk out of the album with 21 tracks and still can’t do 300k

Bigger than MJ and the Beatles

 

[Kenzo Ten]

FLOP.

250k was ok for a normal album, this right here is the equivalent of a double album back in the day counting 2x

 

[Him]

Nobody manipulated his streams, and he didn't get black balled, he got heavily promoted.

A true kbot will only see it this way. Do the research it’s obvious Spotify and Apple manipulation of his streams played parts. Also him self promoting the album counts as heavily promoted? Oh okay.

The label didn’t play any part in his promo.

 

[Pseudo]

So why did Chris Brown’s 50 track album only do 68K first week?

Because he's Chris Brown?!?!?

I would hope the biggest rapper in the world would at least do better than a faltering R&B artist on the last legs of his career

 

[VegetasHairline]

Blackballed by the industry, suppressed by DSPs, no single, no video out, $0 spent(two IG posts) on promo 250k is a win to me.


Drake the only artist that can pull 200k plus on 3 different Genres with no gimmicks.

You made the album thread on August 3rd of last year.

 

[TL15]

I guess the byyytches aren’t getting the party lit to it

 

[Sk3ptical]

Considering PND lackluster performance, these are GOAT numbers.

Blaming PND while drake is mostly all over the album is dirty work.

 

[colicolicoli]

This is where I originally had it projected but honestly thought it would be less after reading the album thread and seeing the Spotify stats.

 

[drifter]

I said I expect somewhere in a range of 250k-350k and he did that. Is doing that with 21 tracks and no hit a "win"? No, of course not. But I'm not gonna clown this. Yet. I wanna see what the next few weeks look like lol.

We already know what it's gonna be, nobody's listening to the shyt now. New Drake album with no single in the top 10 is the blinking warning indicator all y'all are looking for lol

Truth is this project was never the one people need to camp out for projections or delete Spotify accounts, that's the solo and it always was. There's too many outs they can use for a lower number (Party, cutting room floor tracks from the sweatshops etc). You can't explain his solo coming lower, though they'll try, just like they tried calling More Life a "playlist" instead of a album

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

Looking at the charts, he barely has 3 songs on the top 50 of spotify, he has no songs on the top 2 of Apple,... his songs aren't doing great, they're doing meh, but since there's 21 tracks doing "meh" he does 250k

Spotify all time totals :

Drake- 109 billion streams - 509 song
Kendrick- 43 billion streams - 230 songs


Do the math of who streams more per song on average

 

[Him]

Because he's Chris Brown?!?!?

As you can see this is how kbots move goalposts. “Oh it’s Chris brown”

*sigh*