Drake is on the road to being #1 on next week’s Sales Plus Streaming (SPS) chart for the sixth week in a row, longer than any male solo artist in the last 10 years, beating out Eminem, Josh Groban and Michael Bublé.
Drizzy’s SPS total for VIEWS is now at 1.93 million, Hits Daily Double reports.
Eminem’s 2010 Grammy-winning album Recovery, which sold 754k units in its first week, stayed at #1 for five consecutive weeks prior to VIEWS snatching that spot this week. He was the first artist to sell one million records in pure digital sales.
Drake’s consistent record breaking has been epochal since he released his fourth studio album, VIEWS in April. The project sold a whopping 1.2 million units worldwide within six days of its release while the songs on the project have reportedly been streamed over one billion times in the U.S. alone.
VIEWS knocked out Beyonce’s LEMONADE for the most streamed album of the year despite mixed reviews of the album. Its staggered rollout has undoubtedly played a role in the momentum VIEWS has unapologetically shown. Previously being an exclusive for Apple Music subscribers only, the expiration of that exclusivity made the project available to TIDAL and Spotify, thus increasing it’s accessibility to more users.
With no plans on stopping anytime soon, Drizzy delivered three new tracks during an episode of his OVO Radio show Saturday (June 4). “Back On Road,” featuring the now free Gucci Mane, a remix of “One Dance” featuring Justin Bieber and “4PM in Calabasas” which samples Puff Daddy and Mase’s “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down.”
In 2015, Drake was Spotify’s most streamed artist of the year. The 29-year-old’s “Work” and “Too Good” collaborator, Rihanna, was crowned as the most streamed female artist.
Another record broken! Drake keeps winning,fans are happy,haters keep denying & dying,there is no peace for the wicked.
I’m convinced all of these comments are coming from Eminem’s camp who also infiltrate Eminem’s YouTube channel comment sections with fake accounts, deleting truthful comments about how wack Em is and only saying nice corny things like ”I like Eminem because he, unlike Wayne, does not rap about money, pussy, but raps about life” and forget to mension the demonic, satanic, misogynistic, violent, drug-related topics he always raps about. They are now dissing Drake’s masterpiece because it surpassed the very corny ”Recovery”.
If you really knew Rap you would know that it is not all about what you say but how you say it…..Weezy was dropping mad lines even when his topic did not appeal…Views is nothing close to being a masterpiece. I wonder if you really listened to the whole Recovery album or you just heard singles on the radio.
When recovery came out, you had to sell an actual physical album or a mp3 album to count. Drake got the record because of STREAMS! I actually like Drake but I’m sure Em will get the record back when his album drops and no I’m not apart of Em’s camp.
When recovery came out, you had to sell an actual physical album or a mp3 album to count. Drake got the record because of STREAMS! I actually like Drake but I’m sure Em will get the record back when his album drops and no I’m not apart of Em’s camp.
Drizzy season approachin’ fuck whatever y’all been hearin
I what expletives get frustrated bout is that this is considered “hip hop” and it couldn’t be more wrong, if they put this guy in he right and Lane which is pop then people wouldn’t be so pissed. Putting him in hip hop takes the piss
I think we, sincerely, can all agree that Eminem has been wack ever since he came back with relapse. It does not mean that if his album sold a lot and broke records that means he’s nice, it means he’s white.
Relapse>2011 and up
Stupidest thing I’ve heard today. Nobody plays the white card bullshit anymore. The only people complaining about Em are young ass people who dont know shit about hip-hop. FYI, those two commas in your first sentence are unnecessary.
We all can agree Drake is King and nobody is stopping him anytime soon !!! He is far ahead of come and KDOT period! Got dam he knocked Shady out the box ! Keep killin it and yeah guess Views still not a classic to some only number 1 six weeks in a row . 6 God running this game.
You’re a idiot! When recovery came out they didnt count streams as album sales like they do now. Just wait until Ems next album comes out. Nobody fucking with em on total record sales. Second closest is Pac and he’s been dead 20 yrs!
#OVOffYourself
The thing yall don’t realize if yall listen to his latest track 4pm in Calabasas he says will doesn’t rap like pac and pac doesn’t sing like will the advise that his dad gave him and how he didn’t follow that advice. there is a message behind that verse saying that yes he is a vocal artist but he didn’t want to go one route or the other of R&B or straight rap. He wanted to do both because he knew he could do both. That to me is why I believe drake is so great and bigger then just Hip-Hop he is a Legendary ARTIST with extreme versatility and what its done is single handedly bring more people in to listen to hip-hop that normally wouldn’t in the first place.
No, Just no at every lie you spewed in your comment.
Bro, let’s give Anderson Paak another year or so…….he actually can rap and sing, not to mention a seasoned musician as well. Smh…..mf’s are so DUMB.
but he’s not a good vocalist. he’s not a good singer at all. he can spit other peoples bars really well but as far as singing he’s not good at it.
I don’t no why drake is garbage ..people buying that fake ass dude music. I guess people like that corny fake ass shit..because this dude is straight up trash. must be da bitches and gay ass dudes buying his shit .
Worst song on Recovery >>> entire Views album. And I’m not even a big fan of Recovery.
recovery was trash and im a big EM fan. but views was a major let down. so boring
Let’s not hate on Drake people. I’m suggesting Lil Wayne must be super proud of what his artist has accomplished, this is huge. I have to say if iwas an artist I would want a mentor like Wayne, he made Drake, Tyga and Nicky minaj the artists they are today.i mean drizzy is arguably the best at what he’s doing right now. Young Money keeps winning although they’ve got enourmous amount of haters. I guess the more hate you have the more you flourish in your dreams. Young Money/OVO.
HA!! Good jokes.
Nobody and i mean NOBODY who is a true hiphop head listens to Drake or likes him… even people who listen to true classic music don’t give a shit about Drake, it’s just a bunch of corny teenagers buying his shit, it will end… just give it some time.
sorry, you’re wrong. “True hiphop heads” come in many forms, including those who in fact listen to
Drake , including other rappers, even Kendrick. And your obvious dislike of him doesn’t discount his success or the impact he’s had on the culture. His demographic is way broader than just ‘corny teenagers’, so you’re wrong there, too.
sorry, you’re wrong. “True hiphop heads” come in many forms, including those who in fact listen to
Drake , including other rappers, even Kendrick. And your obvious dislike of him doesn’t discount his success or the impact he’s had on the culture. His demographic is way broader than just ‘corny teenagers’, so you’re wrong there, too.
sorry, you’re wrong. “True hiphop heads” come in many forms, including those who in fact listen to
Drake , including other rappers, even Kendrick. And your obvious dislike of him doesn’t discount his success or the impact he’s had on the culture. His demographic is way broader than just ‘corny teenagers’, so you’re wrong there, too.
I want to see this pussy go at Lloyd banks
The rapper that will come after Drake and be number one will be Drake-inspired or just another version of him. He will be talking, rapping, dressing, and singing in the same way Drake does which is a style that HE CREATED! So Drake will not ”end” after that, he will be alive through generations of copycats or rather inspired rappers that learned from TBE (The Best Ever) which he clearly is. And Eminem will only be alive through the comments of racist teenage white boys who can’t accept the fact that he’s awful now..just listen to phenomenal for me, please. That whole 90s hip-hop shit is not coming back, things change–nobody cares about that anymore and I cannot, and I say this again, I cannot be the only one that thinks kendrick Lamar sucks. That voice is not doing him justice. So the ”true hip-hop heads”, who will ”die out eventually”, should go suck it while listening to Afrika Bambaataa who molests children because Drake totally re-invented hip-hop and turned it to a whole different and better direction than the one it was headed prior to his entry into the game.
You disrespectful lil bitch……you praise this borderline bi-curious half-breed in the same breath that you bash an alleged pedophile. One is leading a new generation of metrosexual, discouraged, insecure softies into the forefront as the new man, while the other is a so-called legend, a pioneer………who may have used his position as such to carry out his immoral, filthy, animalistic dealings……..and then you hated on one of, if not thee only emcee to bring back real lyrics and substance, as well as shed light on the state of the black experience, both on a negative/positive scale, from the outside looking in AND vice versa. What has Drake done? Sat on the floor with the lame ass Raptors? FOH…
i agree that 90’s hip hop is not coming back. the genre has to evolve and keep moving forward. drake is the biggest of his time but “the best ever”??? he’s not even the best of this generation. he’s just the most popular. he’s not a good singer and Views sucks with the wack slow songs and the quasi Caribbean joints. he’s better when he’s rapping. and it didnt sell because its a good project. it sold because STAN’s like you were gonna gobble up whatever he put out regardless of quality.
i agree that 90’s hip hop is not coming back. the genre has to evolve and keep moving forward. drake is the biggest of his time but “the best ever”??? he’s not even the best of this generation. he’s just the most popular. he’s not a good singer and Views sucks with the wack slow songs and the quasi Caribbean joints. he’s better when he’s rapping. and it didnt sell because its a good project. it sold because STAN’s like you were gonna gobble up whatever he put out regardless of quality.
You can’t even put Drake in the same category as Eminem.
Eminem lives and breaths the Five elements of Hip Hop,
Created his own lane and is without a doubt top five of all time.
Stan, applies to any obsessed fan!
Even dick riding Drake fans.
LL Cool J paved the way for Dake, like he did for EM. Eminem had to prove himself and pay more dues then dude.
J Cole is hands down more talented then Drake and so is Kendrick Lemar.
Drake is the real overrated, poppy, fake ass that people tried to take Eminem for.
Eminem is legendary status..drake is a faze, liked by a generation with no taste for real music.
Pac, cube, LL, Rakim, KRS One, Crooked, naughty by nature, onyx, DMX, Nas and Jay, that’s talent!
So called Real Hiphop is Dead . Joe Budden Lloyd Banks ect … Freestyle B.S.Music . The Streets don’t listen to that TRASH . Turn that music up in any Projects in Cali or the South and you might not make it Out . Street Music Rules . #RealHiphopIsGarbage
I think the real losers are the ones who will kill people over what they listen to.
See, it’s stupid, uneducated mf’s like you that shouldn’t be allowed to use the internet…….ALL HIP HOP IS FROM THE STREETS, CAUSE IT WAS MADE IN THE STREETS!!! It’s “follow the leader” type muthafuckas like you that don’t know how to think outside the box (or for yourself, for that matter), leading others that look up to you (hopefully not) to think that it’s okay to NOT think outside the hood. You probably the only mf from your own hood STILL THERE, in the “bando”, slanging and pinching off a fronted sack, listening to Drake and calling it “street music”!!!!!! No respect for the culture, for the ones that paved the way whatsoever. And I bet you that the projects in Cali have been listening to the likes of Rass Kass, Kurupt, Hieroglyphics, Del Tha Funky Homosaipien, etc. LONG before there was a Kendrick Lamar, as well as the South, with pioneers like OutKast, Goodie Mob, Geto Boys, etc. befroe there was a Gucci or Future……..lame.
See, it’s stupid, uneducated mf’s like you that shouldn’t be allowed to use the internet…….ALL HIP HOP IS FROM THE STREETS, CAUSE IT WAS MADE IN THE STREETS!!! It’s “follow the leader” type muthafuckas like you that don’t know how to think outside the box (or for yourself, for that matter), leading others that look up to you (hopefully not) to think that it’s okay to NOT think outside the hood. You probably the only mf from your own hood STILL THERE, in the “bando”, slanging and pinching off a fronted sack, listening to Drake and calling it “street music”!!!!!! No respect for the culture, for the ones that paved the way whatsoever. And I bet you that the projects in Cali have been listening to the likes of Rass Kass, Kurupt, Hieroglyphics, Del Tha Funky Homosaipien, etc. LONG before there was a Kendrick Lamar, as well as the South, with pioneers like OutKast, Goodie Mob, Geto Boys, etc. befroe there was a Gucci or Future……..lame.
See, it’s stupid, uneducated mf’s like you that shouldn’t be allowed to use the internet…….ALL HIP HOP IS FROM THE STREETS, CAUSE IT WAS MADE IN THE STREETS!!! It’s “follow the leader” type muthafuckas like you that don’t know how to think outside the box (or for yourself, for that matter), leading others that look up to you (hopefully not) to think that it’s okay to NOT think outside the hood. You probably the only mf from your own hood STILL THERE, in the “bando”, slanging and pinching off a fronted sack, listening to Drake and calling it “street music”!!!!!! No respect for the culture, for the ones that paved the way whatsoever. And I bet you that the projects in Cali have been listening to the likes of Rass Kass, Kurupt, Hieroglyphics, Del Tha Funky Homosaipien, etc. LONG before there was a Kendrick Lamar, as well as the South, with pioneers like OutKast, Goodie Mob, Geto Boys, etc. befroe there was a Gucci or Future……..lame.
I’ve been saying that for years . It’s going to be hard to get people to get on the so called real hiphop train . When everyone know its dead . Freestyle bs artist on tracks died in the 90’s . You can’t fool this generation with Joe Budden type music .
If Drake was dropping records between 95 and 2000, he would have multiple diamond albums. He just keeps on breaking records despite the odds and all the hate. Drizzy is top 5 dead or alive.
Y’all tend to overlook the fact that if Drake was around during that time, hip-hop was not going to give him a chance.. he would’ve been a flop. Drake needed artist like like Ja-Rule and Akon to prepare us for his sound. Imagine listening to Drake if Kanye’s 808s & Heartbreak never saw the light of day, we would’ve been brushing him off..
It would not have been possible for him to have made it.
heyyyy looks like one person here knows what there talking about
heyyyy looks like one person here knows what there talking about
I know I’m supposed to be mad but I can’t even hate…
Crazy. That album is straight garbage. Man this generation is F’d up.
Proven fact garbage sells
Hey people I just started rapping and I uploaded my first song. Please take a few minutes and listen to it. https://soundcloud.com/user-328717727/no-apologiesunpolished-version
That’s ok. He needs the extra sales to pay all the writers he used. Lmao
comments on here are hilarious acting as if this album is a frisbee. Even the article is mythologizing that it got mixed reviews when it is actually a 68 on Metacritic which means positive last I checked. if any other artist had dropped “Controlla”, “Redemption”, “Grammys”, “Hype”, “Views”, “Weston Road Flows” and “One Dance” all on one album, they would be calling it genius. All these songs are gonna get radio and club play. Sure, its an average album FOR Drake but it would be a career defining album for any other artist. The negativity is just a reaction to his unpentrenable domination. Watch over the years as Views is more appreciated and some of the slightly-unimpressed critics have to retract their initial opinions. While Im not blown away with Views, Im still trying to find a really terrible song on the album.
Last time I heard, a 68 on Metacritic is still pretty bad, especially for someone who normally is at the high 70s and low 80s. If any artists made those songs you mentioned, they’d still be wack. Not all of these songs are gonna get radio/airplay, that’s not how it works. And no, Views is just plain trash. It’s a trash album for Drake and it would be a trash album for anyone. It’s a lazy boring record that had no effort put into it and people are buying/streaming it en masse not because of quality, but because of brand name recognition. You think Views will be more appreciated over the years? HA!! Only in your wet dreams. This record will be forgotten through time. And only extreme Drake stans (like yourself) think that there’s no terrible songs when at least HALF of Views is terrible, Pop Style, One Dance, Hotline Bling, Controlla, Feel No Ways, Child’s Play, Hype, Grammys, With You, 9, Still Here, Fire & Desire, etc.
@ Nope. I distinctly recall Take Care being called boring initially to only 3 years later be called his only classic. Notice a pattern here? Its funny how you hate the album but know the names to every song. Wonder if you can do the same for your other favorite albums this year? My guess is you will not only know the names of every song but the lyrics to each by the end of the summer. Of course, it will still be terrible album to you – just one you cant get outta your head.
@ Nope. I distinctly recall Take Care being called boring initially to only 3 years later be called his only classic. Notice a pattern here? Its funny how you hate the album but know the names to every song. Wonder if you can do the same for your other favorite albums this year? My guess is you will not only know the names of every song but the lyrics to each by the end of the summer. Of course, it will still be terrible album to you – just one you cant get outta your head.
“I distinctly recall Take Care being called boring initially to only 3 years later be called his only classic. Notice a pattern here? ” No, only Drake stans think Take Care is a classic. There is no pattern to be noticed, Views is just a weak album. “Its funny how you hate the album but know the names to every song. Wonder if you can do the same for your other favorite albums this year?” It’s called Google and Wikipedia, anyone with access to the internet can figure it out. And I know every song from my favorite albums, what made you ask that stupid question? “My guess is you will not only know the names of every song but the lyrics to each by the end of the summer. Of course, it will still be terrible album to you – just one you cant get outta your head.” Nope. The only lyrics I vaguely remember are the trash ones, which are nearly everywhere through the album. I’ve already forgotten how each song goes by now. And none of them are stuck in my head. Unlike you, I don’t force myself to listen to every song repeatedly. And yes, Views is a terrible album. If you think it’s a masterpiece, then you’re a delusional fanboy.
And let me make something clear: I don’t hate Drake at all. I think he can be a good rapper if he tried. But ever since he got big, his music has gotten lazier and more boring and Views is a perfect representation of his artistic stagnation. It’s the same subject matter and the same music styles outside of a few Caribbean tracks, he isn’t growing as an artist. He’s reached Taylor Swift levels of overexposure where he can sell a record based off of name alone, regardless of quality, and it’s because of this, he feels like he doesn’t need to try. 4PM In Casablancas alone was better than the entirety of Views because it sounded like he gave a crap. Pardon me for not blindly praising everything he does and wanting him to do better than this lazy shit he’s doing.
Cause it actually is a frisbee, shit is wack let it go
I’m gonna agree with you that VIEWS doesn’t have a terrible song. Each song on the album is decent. Obviously people have their own opinions for the albums, but in my opinion, VIEWS is his worst album. I am able to listen to the whole album without skipping a song, but some songs like Fire & Desire give me mixed thoughts. And the negativity isn’t his “impenetrable dominance”. The album doesn’t live up to what Take Care and NWTS lived up to. I consider those albums as classics, to me at least. And hopefully, from the “mixed” reviews that were given, Drake will see his mistakes and improve.
All this talks of X amount of streams is boring as hell, artists have entire teams of people that sit & stream their songs over & over to boost so called “sales”.
Kendrick Lamar camp does that to match Drake’s greatness, but they can’t, that boy from Toronto is natural. It’s getting lonely at the top, Drake has been sitting there forever. Kenny tried to hop on BlackLivesMatter bandwagon to buy sympathy from Hip hop fans but only hipsters are buying that garbage. Nobody wanna hear that Jazz and Politics garbage. Kenny wishes he wa Drake, J Cole wishes he was Drake but there could only be one Drake. Kenny will never never never be as big as Drake is. Drake is HipHop, without him you are only left with Jazz and politician wannabes. Drake is life, Drake is handsome, Drake Is pretty, Kenny is one ugly midget
Remove Drake’s dick from your mouth and realize that nothing you say is true and that your idol isn’t that great.
Drake haters must hav a miserable life. Drake continues to run the rap game. Drake makes all your favourite rappers irrelevent. Drake needs to label his music as something other than rap and hiphop so u hipsters can face fact that hiphop album are a joke without drake.
Don’t you ever get tired of spewing the same lies over and over while sucking on Aubrey’s cock?
You know who truly have miserable lives? Extreme Drake fanboys like yourself.
You know who truly have miserable lives? Extreme Drake fanboys like yourself.
Ran* not runs, it died when views took 7 months to drop then disappointed.
Still doesn’t dethrone the first MMLP, fastest selling rap and music album ever. 1.2 million first week.
Love music always sales, but who gives a fuck? I only give a fuck about real hip hop with bars written by the rapper and being real
This site is called hip hop dx so I don’t know why they are still talking about this pop r&B singer?
the equivalent to comedy dramas or soup operas
Drakes album is fuking wack the only reason it has that many sales is because of STREAMS!, Drake doesn’t even come close to Em’s success He doesn’t even have a classic record, Eminem came from the underground conquered it and conquered the mainstream and still does, no one wants it with em in a battle, Eminem’s impact on the rap game was much more than drake will ever do. oh and Views still hasn’t topped the MMLP
views was the result of next level over-hype, there where 5 nice songs on there i couldn’t even listen to it start to finish. Look back in 15 years and recovery is still worlds ahead of views
views was the result of next level over-hype, there where 5 nice songs on there i couldn’t even listen to it start to finish. Look back in 15 years and recovery is still worlds ahead of views
Eminem’s camp works hard to make him look better by repeatedly posting comments praising him and insulting Drake and other artists which ordinary commenters believe those comments to be deriving from ordinary people and the idea that Em is best is repeatedly shoved in their subconscious that they eventually believe it. No sane person is oblivious to the fact that Eminem is now wack and is tarnishing his own reputation by releasing corny, off-beat music. He has been since he came back, you can blame it on the drugs but that was the official story I believe there’s more, no one just drastically changes like that just because of drugs. We see you–you manipulative, comment section infiltrating Eminem staff.
The same exact thing can be said about the pro-Drake comments on here.
You are very mental. Views had no rapping at all! Comparing him to the best rapper alive, Marshall Mathers, Slim Shady, Eminem WOULD BE INSANE. Do not embarrass yourself. You don’t even listen to the meaning on Marshalls songs because all you care about is a beat and a good hook. THATS IT. So it’s best that you don’t run your mouth again.
What you drake fans don’t realize is that if the slim shady lp came out in today’s age, it would beat drakes views. Drake is not what eMinem was in 1999-2004 and chance will probably take over for drake soon anyways