Drake’s “Summer Sixteen” debuts at #6 on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart, the publication announced today (February 8).
“Summer Sixteen” also debuts at #1 on the R&B/Hip Hop singles sales chart and #2 on the Digital Songs chart. The song sold 215,000 downloads, Drake’s best sales week for a single as a lead artist.
Drake released the “Summer Sixteen” exclusively through Apple Music and premiered it on his OVO Sound radio show. “Summer Sixteen” is laced with barbs towards Meek Mill and Tory Lanez. Drake also calls out President Barack Obama for choosing Kendrick Lamar over him.
“Summer Sixteen” is reportedly the first single from Drake’s forthcoming Views From the 6 album.
The Toronto rapper also holds the #7 spot on the Hot 100 chart for his feature on Rihanna’s “Work.”
Drake’s “Hotline Bling” peaked at #2 on the Hot 100 chart and was close to reaching the top spot in his birthday month and namesake for his personal brand, October.
“No accolades really matter to me other than the fact that I have never had a billboard number one,” he said at the time. “If I get my first number one during the month of October it will be the biggest moment of my career to date (in my mind) and if you are looking for me on that particular evening I will be passed out in the water slide that connects to our pool.”
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Can’t wait for Views from the 6ix!!
Drake is doing his thing! Salute to the boy.
Please disregard hater Jay Electronica. Let him stay disgruntled while these hustlers come up! Salute to Drake for embracing whom you are.
Jay Elec. is a peasant.
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Drake is running the hiphop game as usual. One thing that pisses me off though is zayn malik, after backstabbing the one direction fans, when he was posed to debut at the bubbling under 100 chart, started buying copies and bribing radio stations to play his crap just to get his flop to no.1
Drake isn’t running anything in hip-hop. Also, why bring up One Direction? Nobody cares about those talentless gayboys.
How many times do i have to state this. When you argue about who the best rapper is you can’t bring your personal opinions because opinions aren’t facts. You have to bring numbers and longevity to back up your claims. Drake has all this backing him up he is miles ahead of all the new school rappers numbers, popularity and longevity. Drake runs this rap game and it hurts for you hipsters to admit that. Thats why you have to talk shit and try to justify your hipster nerd opinions because deep down you know drake is the king of rap.
Your entire comment is nothing but opinions and misinformation. Get a job or go back to school.
fact #1 drake doesn’t write his own material-ghostwriters, fact #2 drake steals verses and beats from others-rappin 4 tay’s playaz club and drams beat for hotline bling, diddy’s beat for 0-100, fact #3 drake is the most hated poosy ass nigga in the industry, get’s bitch slapped into the hospital by diddy, booed out of basketball games and booed at cochella, fact #4 drake is not true hip hop, he is a bitch made pop singer who has a lame element of rap in his pop songs written by others [quinten miller, among others] fact #5 drake will never be accepted by the hip hop community as long as he continues to run and hide from challenges from true lyrical mc’s as he has from royce da 5’9, Kendrick lamar, pusha t, dmx, Ludacris. FUCK YOU FUCK DRAKE FUCK OVO #DRAKEISFAKEDRAKEISWACK
Hate it or Love it BUT DRAKE is becoming the new generation Jay-Z….. If u follow and study hip-hop like I do then u will now what I’m talking abt if not, of course you will hate on my comment… So let it begin…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!! good joke. There is no one like Jay Z. Aubrey doesn’t even have a classic album.
The young folks that grew up & said they looked up to Jay-z and years from now the 8-13 year olds from today will grow up and say they looked up to Drake…if not Cole & Kendrick….. TIME WILL TELL!!
Except Jay-Z doesn’t sing R&B songs.
Another level of fake fuckery, biggest bitch in the game
Yep! He’s a winner like HOV (his beef with Nas). He let’s other rappers feature on his songs and lets them have better verses so they can shine. HOV has turned his crew of ROC stalemates into huge pop successes like Beans, Freeway, Bleek etc. Most of his money comes from touring with biggest pop act in the world(Beyoncé) and somehow getting equal money and billing. He’s exactly like HOV. Meek fans are equal to Nas stans.
Not one true statement in your entire comment.
He’s right, remember what Drake said.. “I didn’t cry when Pac died but I’ll probably will when Hov does”….because Drake was so young to have PAC influence him but when Jay came around he was at that right age
Drakes in his own lane. There’s no one like him despite copycats. Drake winning with classics.
No, he’s not in his own lane. There is a lot of people like Drake that came before him. He ain’t winning at all and has no classics.
He’s taken it to a whole another level.
No, he hasn’t.
BIGGEST SALES WEEK EVER FOR DRAKE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!! Drake growing every day at a time when wack artists like Mr Wannabe West is about to flop with his new album F.L.O.P.
You are so wrong about everything.
How am i wrong?
Cause us gays are taking over, bitch! Get used to it!
It reminds me 50 vs ross…. the public went with ross and forgot about 50 … its not about who is the realest or write his songs its about who the public wants
chess not checkers brah, wheres war pain at LMFAO!! meek lost AGAIN
Man that was just a quick response to Meek Mill disses and its doing numbers already,tha phrase”u gett’n’ bodied by a singing nigga” couldnt be more accurate to all u haters ,i see u niggas talking gay shit nw which is sad coz this nigga be smashing fly females u will never ever get to fuc the whole of ur entire lives niggas, #DrakeIsReal#DrakeIsdope
Get off his dick bruh
Tell Obama dAt ma singles ah jst lyk the whips dat he in they bulletproof
Drake’s speeches & tweets should all be turned into songs, he is that good! Bars everywhere!!
Not a drake fan but he’s already surpassed jay-z. Jay done sabotaged his own career like Wayne did. Can’t even remember Jay’s last good album and don’t say blueprint 3 only thing good about that is the name
Song’s wack anyway.
why’s ‘Gay’ the only thing on youth’s mind these days
All you d-riders suck ass for promoting this lame. Meek had a better track, but this one is bigged up. And stop comparing this clown to Jay, there will be no other Hov, oh yeah it must true because Aubrey said it. GTFOH lame. Drake is one of the best entertainers, but not one of the best rappers, true statement, and you clowns just enjoy hype shit! Kendrick is killing this here rap game, even got lyrical crazies talking about sonning him, we’ll see. But, until than, Kendrick is running the game, fuck the fame.
Peace
Im waiting for a rapper to take the political route and talk about actual struggles this country faces. Kendrick is one of the mainstream guys tht attempts to do tht. But i feel these rappers in the position tht thy are in are too afraid to speak real sht.. Dnt get a ngga wrong wen im driving yea ill have some ttwp songs but when THC is involved and a ngga chillin at the casa i want to hear mainstream rappers to speak up bcz ppl needs their minds thnkn not blinded. One mainstream rapper who attempted to do tht was lupe with food and liquor and his early joints. But thes new mainstream rappers dnt talk abt sht really. They dnt even do it for the love of hiphop. Hiphop is suppse to ulift and not degrade the listeners tht are buying ths bullsht. Drake is well aware of not going to the conscious side of rsp which i thought he wudve done by signing to dr dre bk then but he chose wayne/soft route cant blame him tho hes sticking to what is making him ghe most cash. ????