Is it fair to say Summer Sixteen flopped as a single?

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Again, they are new to the game. What you are doing is looking at a few years as these people are doing it up, but that is a splash in the bucket for the music game. Plus, they aren't selling like crazy. Asap Rocky did not sell well for his last album. I know he his in debt from all the money spent on him. Odd Future isn't even on the radar, they are more like an underground group. Don't let social media fool you.

Odd Future got hot in 09, Rocky in 11, they are far from new acts. If you wanna go back even more, Ross got hot in 09, Wale 11, Cole 11, etc etc Granted none are at the level of Drake but the rule exponentially applies, Drake's popularity will be sustained by all the dikkriding and hype mongering that goes on through social media. Rocky sold 100k first week, and Odd Future is extremely influential and well-known regardless of whether they're an "underground" group (which they are not mind you, underground rappers are ones 80% of rap fans have never heard of)

When Jay came back in 06 it took him 3 years to get back to his old level of popularity, but now he can drop and go plat in 2 weeks. Kanye sat on his album for 3 years, and now its dominating every headline in the cycle, that would not have happened a decade ago. Social media and the expansion of both old and new information has changed everything
 

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What does change his sound even mean? Who changes their sound?

Who went so hard at Meek? Everything is fair game for jokes and memes on the Internet. All people did was take the popular lines from B2B and make memes thats no different than anything that goes through social media

It wasn't a defense mechanism because of an "exposal"
This is my last post, hopefully, because you just don't get it. I'm not arguing over some shyt I seen happen tons of times, in different eras of rap.

I watched it happen to Run-DMC, Rakim, Krs-One, Nas, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, lil wayne and much more. What's sad is every one of these rappers, and their fans, just think they are special, and nothing will happen to them. it's the same with street nikkas thinking they are special and won't get caught like the older dudes, even though they are doing the same thing:mjlol:
 

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We're out here talking about ONE SONG. I can't believe people are trying to say Drake is declining now because other music has come out and bumped him off the Billboard Top 10. Do you guys hear yourselves?? Now he's featured on a number 1 record with Rihanna. What are you guys talking about?

And I'm in no way even a Drake fan like that... but really... what are you analysts sitting here talking about? This wasn't even a single off his album. There's no video. He dropped something on Beats Radio and let it hit Billboard. The guy made a track and through it in the wind and millions of people still caught it. I don't see what decline you're seeing. People ain't even know the track was gonna drop until the day before it did. No promo, no real hype, just a shot at the clouds.
 

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Odd Future got hot in 09, Rocky in 11, they are far from new acts. If you wanna go back even more, Ross got hot in 09, Wale 11, Cole 11, etc etc Granted none are at the level of Drake but the rule exponentially applies, Drake's popularity will be sustained by all the dikkriding and hype mongering that goes on through social media. Rocky sold 100k first week, and Odd Future is extremely influential regardless of whether they're an "underground" group (which they are not mind you, underground rappers are ones 80% of rap fans have never heard of)
1-When I say new, I'm saying they haven't set any major steps in the game. In the music industry, Odd future is done. If you don't pop in 2-3 years, they stop dealing with you.

2-I see you are young, and have yet to see how people will turn on you like a snake biting your ass.

3-Rocky sold over 100,000 FIRST WEEK, yet it dropped significantly after that. You don't know why do you? If I tell you you still won't believe me, but it ain't no coincidence. First week is a pop music thing, most albums sell over time, not the first week. The album should be higher then the last, not less. To me that sounds like he lost fans.

4-Influential means nothing if no one knows you are the one influencing everyone. I seen tons of underground rappers start shyt, but no one knows but me, and other music heads.
 

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that song was a flop

it was kind of a bad move to use a song like that as a preview for the upcoming flop album

drake eats off that corny singin nikka shyt

he got his little 15 minutes of fame as a credible rapper off twitter beef

shoulda just gone with his usual safe generic formula from this point on
 

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We're out here talking about ONE SONG. I can't believe people are trying to say Drake is declining now because other music has come out and bumped him off the Billboard Top 10. Do you guys hear yourselves?? Now he's featured on a number 1 record with Rihanna. What are you guys talking about?

And I'm in no way even a Drake fan like that... but really... what are you analysts sitting here talking about? This wasn't even a single off his album. There's no video. He dropped something on Beats Radio and let it hit Billboard. The guy made a track and through it in the wind and millions of people still caught it. I don't see what decline you're seeing. People ain't even know the track was gonna drop until the day before it did. No promo, no real hype, just a shot at the clouds.

its not just this song

nobody cared him on future collabo

had to ride rihanna wave just to get another hit
 
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When I hear the song Im usually listening because of the beat now, not so much the lyrics. That beat :wow:
 

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Drake is on the #1 song in the country, a song that was written and produced by his boys and ya'll talking about him falling off. :dame::skip:


And the song clearly had an impact if you're making featured threads about it. :francis:


Seriously, get off the the man's dikk. Damn. I'm a fan and even I'm not this obsessed. :francis:




Besides this song is meant for the summer anyway. :ehh:
 

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Not a lyrical masterpiece or a club banger so it's not really hitting off the Internet.

For Drake standards it's a miss. The same way people say everything Ye's done after Graduation is a miss while most rappers wish they had the critical or commercial success he's had since.
 

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Drake debuts at No. 6 on the Hot 100 with "Summer Sixteen" (released Jan. 30). The track, fittingly his 16th Hot 100 top 10, starts at No. 2 on Digital Songs with 215,000 downloads sold, marking his best sales week as a lead artist. Sales mark a hefty 89 percent of the Hot 100 chart points for the song, released as an Apple Music exclusive. The single could be part of Drake's album Views From the 6, due in April.

Zayn's 'Pillowtalk' Debuts at No. 1 on Hot 100 | Billboard



Sorry haters, I see you putting in work here :mjlol:
 

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Drake debuts at No. 6 on the Hot 100 with "Summer Sixteen" (released Jan. 30). The track, fittingly his 16th Hot 100 top 10, starts at No. 2 on Digital Songs with 215,000 downloads sold, marking his best sales week as a lead artist. Sales mark a hefty 89 percent of the Hot 100 chart points for the song, released as an Apple Music exclusive. The single could be part of Drake's album Views From the 6, due in April.

Zayn's 'Pillowtalk' Debuts at No. 1 on Hot 100 | Billboard



Sorry haters, I see you putting in work here :mjlol:


It's embarrassing at this point. :francis:
 
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