Drake’s Scorpion Album
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Topic: Drake’s Scorpion Album
Posted By: PopArchivist
Subject: Drake’s Scorpion Album
Date Posted: 09 July 2018 at 6:34pm
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For those who do not know, Drake released Scorpion, a 25 track release and some records were broken:
All 25 tracks charted (and 2 additional), with 7 landing in the top 10, breaking the Beatles 5 in the top 10 at once. No. 1, "Nice for What" (No. 6; eighth week at No. 1) No. 2, "Nonstop" (debut this week) No. 4, "God's Plan" (No. 9; previously spent 11 weeks at No. 1) No. 6, "In My Feelings" (debut this week) No. 7, "I'm Upset" (No. 26; previously reached No. 15) No. 8, "Emotionless" (debut this week) No. 9, "Don't Matter to Me," featuring Michael Jackson (debut this week) Michael Jackson racks up another top 10 hit on a song Paul Anka wrote in 1983 (the same sessions as This Is It and Love Never Felt So Good, the latter of which Justin Timberlake took to #9 in a reworked version). Drake also has the most simultaneous top 20 Hot 100 hits (12) and the most simultaneous top 40 Hot 100 hits (21). Any thoughts on this record breaking week? Here is the link. https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/846445 4/drake-hot-100-record-nice-for-what-scorpion |
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Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 10 July 2018 at 2:52am
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Well, at least he didn't break The Beatles record for
having the entire Top 5 in the same week! Can you imagine if streaming had been around starting in 1964? The Beatles would've done even better on the charts. |
Posted By: JL328
Date Posted: 10 July 2018 at 7:48am
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There was another recent thread on this same topic when the post
Malone album dropped and there were a lot of good thoughts shared there. Unfortunately, I don't know how to link threads. Anyway, hopefully this is rock bottom for the album bomb phenomenon. If not, then I wonder whether the Hot 100 is going to continue to have any viability as a measurement of anything. It used to be a guide to let record stores and djs know what to market/play. Now it's just trivia for the sake of trivia, fully manipulated for the sole purpose of breaking trivial records. Also, from a pure math standpoint, I don't get what is going on here. Apparently, Scorpion is the first album to get 1 billion streams in a week. In the US. This means that every person in America listened to it 3 times, including your newborn daughter and your 98 year old grandmother. Until somebody can explain how an album can be streamed 1 billion times in a week, without computerization or other manipulation, I can't believe these numbers are legitimate. |
Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 10 July 2018 at 12:32pm
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The reports are "1 billion streams globally," so that includes streams overseas, too. Still, that's a LOT of streams considering there are only 7.6 billion people on Earth. It would mean that 5% of the world population would've streamed the album three times over the past week. It's plausible.
The Hot 100 is still doing what it's always done: measuring the popularity of songs for a given week. The methodology and eligibility has changed with the times, but it's still providing the same basic information since its inception. ------------- Aaron Kannowski http://www.uptownsound.com" rel="nofollow - Uptown Sound http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop |
Posted By: jebsib
Date Posted: 10 July 2018 at 12:36pm
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Not including features (of which he has dozens upon dozens), I believe Drake
now surpasses the Beatles at #2 in terms of Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles Artists of all time. Just behind Elvis at #1. |
Posted By: JL328
Date Posted: 10 July 2018 at 4:25pm
the 1 billion number was global. Sorry about that. But according to Billboard, the US number was 746 million, which is still more than twice the US population. |
aaronk wrote:Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 10 July 2018 at 7:26pm
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I still think Billboard needs to go back to requiring
that a song be released as a single in order to chart. This album bomb stuff is ridiculous. But then, I've been more or less ignoring the Hot 100 for years and just buying all the Top 20s from the Digital Song Sales chart (where Drake had a more reasonable three top tens last week), so what do I care? |