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

[Not Crodie]

That's obvious because of what I just said

What yall are doing is acting like it's gonna launch you into the stratosphere

But it does lol, when you're a big artist, it gives you a nice boost sales wise.

 

[THE 101]

Drizzy putting out a 100 song tracklist next time.

 

[Maximus Rex]

But it does lol, when you're a big artist, it gives you a nice boost sales wise.

Tell that to those artists who are putting out 20+ track albums and flopping

 

[Overpss]

To be fair, Kendrick is the only artist to ever crack the code with few songs, I wouldn't expect anyone else to replicate that kind of success.

 

[Maximus Rex]

Honestly Nevermind had 14 tracks sold 200k first week

I would not say it sold that much because of the track numbers but because it was more dancehall, house inspired

Another narrative I see pushing is "No promo", we are in the internet/social media age, you don't need to promote if you are that big of an artist.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

"The updated Billboard 200 will utilize accepted industry benchmarks for digital and streaming data, equating 10 digital track sales from an album to one equivalent album sale, and 1,500 song streams from an album to one equivalent album sale"

"10 song sales or 1,500 song streams from an album were treated as equivalent to one purchase of the album"

Billboard then confirmed if your album contain more songs, your fans will give you more streams, reaching that 1500 number quicker.

Multiple people in the industry been taking Drake as the perfect example of an artist usually boosting his own numbers with that tactic.

Twist it like you want, it won't change the fact more songs = better sales.

Do yall have some kind of think tank where you come up with talking points to spam over and over again until it becomes a narrative ?

Streams aren’t dependent on individual songs to where length makes a difference. Listening to 10 songs from an album once is the same exact thing as listening to one song 10 times for purposes of how the sales are calculated. There’s only 24 hours in a day, so unless you wanna argue Drake’s evil superpowers extend to manipulation of space and time to give only his fans more time to stream his songs, harping on this album length thing is stupid as fukk

In reality, the most popular songs of any album are doing the heavy lifting for album equivalent streams of albums of any length. Having some song that no one likes or listens to on an album does nothing for your streams

 

[Him]

You are a bot, it's just you and about 5 other posters dikkriding to this degree and yall sharing accounts

Wanna bet your account on that 2012 old head poster?

 

[Overpss]

Do yall have some kind of think tank where you come up with talking points to spam over and over again until it becomes a narrative ?

Streams aren’t dependent on individual songs to where length makes a difference. Listening to 10 songs from an album once is the same exact thing as listening to one song 10 times for purposes of how the sales are calculated. There’s only 24 hours in a day, so unless you wanna argue Drake’s evil superpowers extend to manipulation of space and time to give only his fans more time to stream his songs, harping on this album length thing is stupid as fukk

In reality, the most popular songs of any album are doing the heavy lifting for album equivalent streams of albums of any length. Having some song that no one likes or listens to on an album does nothing for your streams

So you're saying Billboard confirming that having more songs equate to having more albums and Drake does it on purpose is all lies? you're saying the people that hold the charts are lying? and have been lying for years?

just say it like it is, you don't know what you're talking about

 

[Long Live The Kane]

So you're saying Billboard confirming that having more songs equate to having more albums and Drake does it on purpose is all lies? you're saying the people that hold the charts are lying? and have been lying for years?

just say it like it is, you don't know what you're talking about

I’m saying you fukking bots are intellectually dishonest and either don’t know how streaming works or are deliberately misrepresenting it because you have some weird obsession with Drake or being paid to spam the internet with bullshyt…and should be bushed if we had any kind of serious moderation on this board

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

So you're saying Billboard confirming that having more songs equate to having more albums and Drake does it on purpose is all lies? you're saying the people that hold the charts are lying? and have been lying for years?

just say it like it is, you don't know what you're talking about

This only works in a 1:1 ratio.. but according to you, fans listen to these albums over and over first week.

So:

If you have 1.5 hours to spare

You can listen to GNX 2 times

You can hear For all the dogs one time

GNX songs would have about 2 streams per song

FATD would have 1 stream per song

But the sales would be equivalent

But FATD has 23 shots to have a huge streaming hit as opposed to 12, so that’s the only “advantage” ..and that’s why artists do it

 

[Overpss]

Drake bots are really the worst
Soon they'll tell you that selling vinyls for 1 usd ain't have any impact on sales

 

[Nuuko]

Even billboard debunked the 1:1 ratio bullshyt, that doesn't make any sense in streaming
It also has an enormous impact on the fact songs different audiences play different songs from the same album, so having more tracks is once again a massive advantage lol

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

Even billboard debunked the 1:1 ratio bullshyt, that doesn't make any sense in streaming

Why do you think the songs generally chart in the same order of the track list? nikkas intros are always the top listened to songs for like the first few hours


Because people are playing it straight through…
and the overall individual streams tail off after a while whether you have 7 songs or 26 songs ..people check out after a while due to time or fatigue

But the songs that stand out mess up the order and become what carry the album…and that’s the point of having more songs

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

All this longer albums = more streams talk can be deaded easily.

Scary Hours 2 first week sales was 970k with just 3 songs.

The reality is you can spin these shorter projects far more times before you spin a longer project once.