Pitchfork Really Hates Drake

[hex]

Also criticizing the "earned equivalent" sale model (one hit song on the album gets millions of plays and it's applied to the entire album's sales) is retarded because in the 80s and 90s people were buying pop albums for the one hit song on MTV. It's the exact same thing

This is 100% nonsense for a couple reasons.

1. In the 80's and 90's the hit songs and videos on MTV were singles, which you could buy separately. And unlike now, that didn't go towards the album sales.

2. Drake is one of the biggest pop stars in the world. Nobody was buying the blockbuster pop albums for a couple songs back in the day, cut the bullshyt out. "Thriller" didn't go 30x plat because a bunch of people copped "Beat It". The album has 9 songs and 7 were multi-plat singles. If the MJ comparison is too high a bar, virtually any pop star from the 80's and 90's is exactly the same. Those albums did ridiculous numbers because 90% of the record was hits.

Fred.

 

[No1]

VIEWS is way too long but it's also true that several major publications have to write Drake-criticizing articles because they don't want to write pro-Drake stuff because Drake won't do interviews with them, but they still want to talk about Drake in some way to get page clicks and views - see what I did there

Also criticizing the "earned equivalent" sale model (one hit song on the album gets millions of plays and it's applied to the entire album's sales) is retarded because in the 80s and 90s people were buying pop albums for the one hit song on MTV. It's the exact same thing

I agree with the second half of this to a degree. But those singles sales didn't simultaneously count as singles sales and album sales. I think it just stands out because now we have transparency. We can preview shyt and know if something is trash outside of one song. As for Drake-hating articles, I disagree. Most reviewers have been nice to Drake historically regardless. There was a point where only the TBC would criticize him.

 

[Vinny Lupton]

This is 100% nonsense for a couple reasons.

1. In the 80's and 90's the hit songs and videos on MTV were singles, which you could buy separately. And unlike now, that didn't go towards the album sales.

2. Drake is one of the biggest pop stars in the world. Nobody was buying the blockbuster pop albums for a couple songs back in the day, cut the bullshyt out. "Thriller" didn't go 30x plat because a bunch of people copped "Beat It". The album has 9 songs and 7 were multi-plat singles. If the MJ comparison is too high a bar, virtually any pop star from the 80's and 90's is exactly the same. Those albums did ridiculous numbers because 90% of the record was hits.

Fred.

Not every album made the CD singles available

You named Thriller and nothing else. I could name 15 platinum albums with no effort that had one hit single only

Fred

 

[hex]

Not every album made the CD singles available

You named Thriller and nothing else. I could name 15 platinum albums with no effort that had one hit single only

Fred

The songs getting heavy radio play and on MTV were the singles. Are you drunk?

Go ahead and name them, this should be funny. Everyone from Prince to Madonna had 50%-90% of their album out as singles that were multi-plat. Virtually every pop star from the 80's and 90's. I got dozens of examples on deck, please debate the point.

"Views" is the equivalent of people copping The Baha Men album for "Who Let The Dogs Out".

Fred.

 

[Harry B]

Pitchfork loves Drake look at all his projects.
Views was weak. People call me a Drake Stan on here yet I didn't fukk with neither Views (like most music nerds). It has nothing to do with hate.

 

[CrimsonTider]

The songs getting heavy radio play and on MTV were the singles. Are you drunk?

Go ahead and name them, this should be funny. Everyone from Prince to Madonna had 50%-90% of their album out as singles that were multi-plat. Virtually every pop star from the 80's and 90's. I got dozens of examples on deck, please debate the point.

"Views" is the equivalent of people copping The Baha Men album for "Who Let The Dogs Out".

Fred.

Don't you ever get tires of doing this

 

[Illified infinitely]

I don't care about the article. I question the legitimacy of the streams. How do you know a significant number of strrams are not bots produced by Apple? After the ghostwriter gate. I wouldn't put it past drake to lie about his success. Like he lies about his Integrity.

Plus hotline bling counting towards sales too. It's like he barely went Plat first week and it's really all smoke and mirrors. Seems to only have legs because of blogs and constant radio play and propaganda.

I wouldn't be surprised if he really went gold first week Including streams and completely lying that this album is doing as well as they want you to think. Why? I guess drakes ego.