Stereogum exposes Drake's Views fake numbers

[David_TheMan]

I doubt it

Why ain't it manipulate for other artist?

It's just no logic behind it, if their was any truth to this all nikkas who hate Drake and going at him woulda been exposed this like Meek, Joe Budden, Tory Lanez, Flex, Jay Z or etc one of them nikkas woulda been said something if his numbers was fake.

Well the article does mention manipulating of numbers for other artists, like Beyonce

 

[Hum Alistair]

^ bruh please... it took 6 years for someone to finally expose Drake's ghostwriters.

 

[ucanthandlethetruth]

I told yall nikkas from the gate records will be whitewashed and rewritten

 

[JordanwiththeWiz]

Well the article does mention manipulating of numbers for other artists, like Beyonce

Then why she ain't number 1 on the charts if you going to cheat then might as well go all out that's why it dont make sense

 

[Nuuko]

Then why she ain't number 1 on the charts if you going to cheat then might as well go all out that's why it dont make sense

because you don't want people to know you manipulated these numbers...

 

[Czerka]

Today, in this country, there are really only two on-demand streaming services of any significance: Spotify and Apple Music. YouTube is bigger than both of them, but when we’re comparing VIEWS to fukking Purple Rain and Thriller, we’re using Nielsen’s data and playing by Nielsen’s rules, and Nielsen (inexplicably) doesn’t count YouTube streams toward its stream-equivalent sales totals, so YouTube is a non-factor here. Then there are little fish — Tidal, Google Play, Rhapsody-aka-Napster, Deezer — but for our purposes, they’re all negligible. They have almost zero market share and questionable engagement numbers. They don’t move the needle.

damn hov lost

 

[10bandz]

Same people who say who cares are the same people who brag about the guys numbers every week

 

[tehparadox]

i just found it strange everyone had something to say about 100+ million streams for tlop on a 3 million subscriber userbase.

but a billi on 15 isn't even questioned? over spotify who has the userbase to make those numbers easily?

something's in the water.

 

[10bandz]

damn hov lost

How? Apple already had a big built in fanbase when they started Apple music. Hov was essentially starting from scratch with Tidal. He already has a good number of exclusives on his roster

 

[Czerka]

How? Apple already had a big built in fanbase when they started Apple music. Hov was essentially starting from scratch with Tidal. He already has a good number of exclusives on his roster

he needs to get that next taylor swift album on exclusive. that will take it to a new level

 

[SunZoo]

I doubt it

Why ain't it manipulate for other artist?

It's just no logic behind it, if their was any truth to this all nikkas who hate Drake and going at him woulda been exposed this like Meek, Joe Budden, Tory Lanez, Flex, Jay Z or etc one of them nikkas woulda been said something if his numbers was fake.

A big part of Budden's rant on his podcast had to do with the streaming services pulling the okey doke on nikkas (with Drake being a catalyst) with these inflated numbers. That was the main convo before the "beef" took off.

Rape N U Records

 

[Mac Casper]

If I can use a proxy browser to make it look like I'm posting from Belgium what makes you think Mr. Tent Camp/Apple endorsement guy can't get a server room together to generate thousands of proxy plays from various IP addresses. It would be a very simple program

Then you have your publicist plant some articles like this

• “Views Is This Year’s Purple Rain” [Slate]
• “Drake Is Now Officially As Popular As Michael Jackson Was During Thriller” [Vulture]
• “Drake’s Views Is Already One Of The Biggest Hip-Hop Albums Of All Time” [Forbes]

 

[David_TheMan]

If I can use a proxy browser to make it look like I'm posting from Belgium what makes you think Mr. Tent Camp/Apple endorsement guy can't get a server room together to generate thousands of proxy plays from various IP addresses. It would be a very simple program

Then you have your publicist plant some articles like this

• “Views Is This Year’s Purple Rain” [Slate]
• “Drake Is Now Officially As Popular As Michael Jackson Was During Thriller” [Vulture]
• “Drake’s Views Is Already One Of The Biggest Hip-Hop Albums Of All Time” [Forbes]

Hell since no one can verify you don't even need to waste time with proxys and running a script.
Just lie with the numbers, they can't be verified, at worst if someone asks for documentation make that shyt up to fit your story and give it too them.
Thats how big a joke streaming is

 

[TRY GOD]

of course sirbytchass in here trying to get attention, he will go on to have the most post in this topic, all of which are him either saying this is a non-issue, we are haters, or no one cares

 

[David_TheMan]

Then why she ain't number 1 on the charts if you going to cheat then might as well go all out that's why it dont make sense

If you read the article you would realize most of the media just ignored the claim out right and continued to claim Beiber had the record that Drake broke.
When you have a userbase of 3 million, throwing 100 mil streams in a weak is so ridiculous no one takes you serious and to save the game for everyone else, peole just ignore it.