Drake appeared to throw shade at Taylor Swift while celebrating the continued chart success of his and 21 Savage’s joint album Her Loss.
On Monday (November 14), Drizzy and 21’s collaborative LP placed an impressive eight songs in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, occupying every spot from No. 2 to No. 9 on the singles chart. The meme-friendly “Rich Flex” leads the way at No. 2, followed by early fan-favorites like “Major Distribution,” “On BS” and “Spin Bout U.”
Only Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero,” from her record-breaking Midnights album, bested the Her Loss duo after retaining the No. 1 spot for a third consecutive week — and it seems Drake wasn’t too keen to give the pop juggernaut any extra shine.
After the latest edition of the Hot 100 was unveiled, the OVO hitmaker celebrated his and 21 Savage’s top 10 dominance by posting an image of the chart on his Instagram Stories along with the caption: “@21savage congrats my brother.”
Curiously, Drake covered up Taylor Swift’s name in the No. 1 spot with a series of cryptic emojis, including a face massage, popcorn, an eight ball, a thought balloon, a yogi in the Lotus position and a nervous laugh.
21 Savage shared Drake’s celebratory post on his own Instagram Stories, albeit without any additional commentary (or indeed Taylor Swift shade).
While there has been no reports of any bad blood between Drake and Taylor Swift, rumors of the music megastars collaborating have circulated for years. In October, The Sun reported that the pair secretly joined forces in 2017 to record a diss song aimed at their mutual enemy, Kanye West, and his then-wife Kim Kardashian.
An unnamed source close claimed the track was recorded for Swift’s 2017 album Reputation, but it was omitted due to it being too “direct” about the since-divorced couple. However, Swift apparently wants to release it as part of an upcoming re-recorded version of Reputation.
Although Drake was denied yet another No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 by Taylor Swift, Her Loss continues to write the 6 God into the history books. According to Chart Data, Drizzy has become the first artist to simultaneously occupy eight of the top 10 spots on the Hot 100 on two occasions. He previously achieved the feat with last year’s Certified Lover Boy, which spawned hits like “Way 2 Sexy,” “Girls Want Girls” and “Knife Talk.”
Additionally, Drake has extended his record as the artist with the most top 10 songs in Hot 100 history with 67, while Her Loss has the third-most top 10 hits ever, surpassing albums like Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 and Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA.
Outside of the top 10, all 16 songs from Her Loss debuted in the top 40 on the Hot 100. “Rich Flex” earned the biggest debut sales week for any song in the U.S. this year with 445,000 units sold in its first week.
Her Loss has also made a big splash on the Billboard 200, debuting at No. 1 on the albums chart with 404,000 equivalent album units in its first week — the largest opening tally in Hip Hop this year. Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers previously held that title with 295,000 first-week units.
Drake is now third on the list of artists with most No. 1 albums with 12, just two behind JAY-Z (14) and seven behind The Beatles (19).
Taylor clearly bought thousands of copies of the 100 Remixes that came out. It wasn’t organic at all. Drake had the true no.1 song due to fans. She also has this grudge against kanye and targeted drake because of a concert drake did with kanye even though the incident was over 10 years ago
Imagine being this salty about losing to a
white female pop artist hahahahahahaha two big rap artists couldn’t even outsell her. Drake was normally putting up bigger sales himself but as we can see his sales are declining. Awww poor Drake. “It wasn’t organic.” Hahaha
A lot of sales came from a few of taylor swift’s associates. Drake never bought millions of copies
Stop making shit up. This is what you always resort to when you know you’ve lost the argument. It’s okay to admit it. I won’t hold it against you.
I’m speaking truth. No lies
Your on glue. I grew up on lakeshore in the 6ix. Drake used to get robbed in any hood he went to. Your obsession is strangely feminine. A white girl beat this clown the same way Your papi used to beat your dumb Ass. Dude holds 0 street cred and is a manufactured product.
Sincerely someone who watched the clown try to fit in with the boys from the block.
Ah yes. Hard gangsta Drake. The only person he feels safe taking shots at is a white female pop singer.
You know damn well twylor did not earn that no.1 spot organically
Ya Darryl you didn’t know? It wasn’t organic. Duhhh. Probably dumbest thing I’ve ever read. You can troll better than that. OVO seems to be as salty as Drake himself. Drake knows he’s never catching up with Eminem’s overall sales so he resorts to this haha woooooo!
Drake already outsold eminem a long time ago
Eminem is still well over 50 million sales ahead of Drake. Eminem is still the highest selling rap artist of all time. Literally just looked it up. Simple Google search. Sorry bruh
close bu t its actually more than 50mil. eminem is currently at 227 and drake at 152. I aint even like ems newer shit but nobody is touching that record. funny thing is em could care less about sales. meanwhile we got drake over here whining about taylor swift.
That kamikaze shit was clearly about eminem whining about how no one liked his crap revival album. Drake’s streams far demolishes eminem’s and more than made up the difference in cd sales.
Drake’s streams far more than made up the difference on cd sales
And young people make fun of Eminem for beefing with pop stars ? Now your golden boy does the same shit.
People made fun of eminem for collaborating with pop stars. Drake only works with hiphop or R&B artists
drake has worked with plenty of pop stars. doesn’t even write his own rhymes and is basically a pop artist himself. i would consider him a manufactured “entertainer”
Those artists he worked with were r&b. He never worked with pink or sia (pop stars eminem worked with)
Drake has done 3 songs with Rhianna alone. Quick simple Google search. Wrong again.
Rihanna is an r&b artist
He worked with Jessie Reyes and MIA doesn’t get more pop than that lmao
Is she going to scratch him with long fingernails
Wheelchair Jimmy is such a goof
He seems to only fight women. Do Pusha T fraud!
He’s just jealous his mom is a Tay-Tay fan and she likes her more than him.