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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
Edited by PopArchivist on 09 July 2018 at 6:53pm
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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.
Edited by Paul Haney on 10 July 2018 at 4:03am
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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.
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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.
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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.
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aaronk wrote:
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. |
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You're right--- looks like
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.
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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?
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