Drake’s upcoming Hot 100 Feat

For next week’s Hot 100 Drake is projected to occupy the Top 5, 11 of
the top 12, and 17 of the top 25. Certainly the greatest chart
achievement in the history of the Billboard pop charts!!

Funny thing though, next week’s Drakemania just isn’t in the same
ballpark as Beatlemania during April 1964 - at least in my humble
opioid. But the Hot 100 tells a different story.

It'll be interesting to see how much longer any of them
remain in the chart for the weeks following.

thecdguy wrote: It really is like comparing apples to oranges.

The Beatles owned Apple. As far as I know Drake doesn't own Oranges (a little music humor...)

You can't compare The Beatles "owning" the Top 5 of the Hot 100 and Drake possibly putting 5 singles in the Top 5 of the Hot 100. The Beatles didn't have digital downloads, youtube etc to bolster their numbers.

Now if you want to talk about the Bee Gees "owning" writing credits in the top 5 one week fine.

Mariah Carey has more weeks at #1 then Elvis. The only reason she beat the record if I recall was the release of her 1994 Xmas song when the chart rules changed. Does that make Elvis and his accomplishments less? Hell just because Glee owns the # of songs charting over Elvis is that an accomplishment? I personally don't think so.

If Drake can secure the Top 5 its an accomplishment for that week and like Aaron said a snapshot of that week. If it does happen it would only be the second time ever. So yes different eras but the Beatles accomplishment will always stand out as being unique to the time.


Edited by PopArchivist

It's meaningless when doing a comparison between charts that are 5 years apart.

I don't know if the chart methodology changed between 1964 and 1969, but if it didn't, I'd say it's a fair comparison. In a case like that,
they'd be on an even playing field. When you compare charts that are more than half a century apart after several changes in how the chart is
compiled, I could see the argument about it being meaningless. It's true that a #1 song can be outsold by any lower peaking song, but sales
alone don't tell the full story of how popular a song is, just like airplay, streaming, etc doesn't. That's why personally I'm glad that they
had/have separate charts for sales and airplay. You get to see how a song performs in both aspects and then you can see its overall performance
on the main chart ("Hot 100").

Drake did it…

9 out of the top 10 songs on the Hot 100!

Congrats, but this just feels so… wrong.