Drake’s “Nice For What” Returns To No. 1 As “Scorpion” Breaks Michael Jackson & The Beatles Records

    The decision whether or not Drake should have sliced songs from the lengthy Scorpion seems like a rather moot conversation now the album is bursting through numerous ceilings.

    In the wake of Drizzy’s massive, 2018-leading first-week sales debut of 732,171 equivalent units moved (159,771 in pure album sales and a record-breaking streaming count of 745,923,606), seven songs from the double album have breached the Billboard 100 Charts — a new record for the most simultaneous Top 10 debuts.

    Which include “Nice For What” and “Nonstop” occupying the first and second slots, respectively. With its latest return to the No. 1 spot, “Nice For What” is now the only song to ever hit No. 1 four different occasions in the chart’s history.

    “Gods Plan,” “In My Feelings,” “I’m Upset,” “Emotionless” and “Don’t Matter To Me” have also been added to the Hot 100 Top 10s, upping Drake’s career count to 31 total. In a twist of irony, the latter song enabled Drizzy to pass Michael Jackson for most Billboard 100 placements among male solo artists.

    The Beatles also had their 54-year-old record for most simultaneous Hot 100 Top 10’s shattered in the process.

    As “the first album to be streamed over 1 billion times in a week,” Scorpion also cements Drake’s eighth consecutive No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 Chart.

    Relive the “Nice For What” video down below and check out HipHopDX’s review of the album here. Scorpion can be streamed in full right here as well.

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    86 thoughts on “Drake’s “Nice For What” Returns To No. 1 As “Scorpion” Breaks Michael Jackson & The Beatles Records

    1. A lot of Drake Stans writing for this site “Musical legends and all you haters have been forced to fall back”. WTF? No professionalism. Why did you fall back on 50 cent news? Did you got sued? Losers

    2. Trent Clark needs to pull up his panties and let Drake pull out already because that tagline is HILARIOUS

    3. “Pusha T ended Drake’s career”…RIIIIGHT. Pusha and his fans looking real dumb right now.

    4. RIght. Like MJ and the Beatles had click farms and fake streams. All a bunch of bullshit. HHDX is definitely on Frake’s payroll. Hahahaha.

      1. When the Beatles were being counted for album sales, someone was complaining about the BS different ways to count albums sales back then too….long before the streams calculations starting being made, Drake was already on target for all this.

      1. they said the same about MJ and The Beatles back then. Wait 50 years and 40 years later and see if Drake goes down as a legend. It’s pretty obvious, he will.

        1. Uh what has Drake done exactly. Dude can’t battle rap, can’t do a proper cypher and has other folks write his garbage rhymes. I guess if the way you rank legends is watered down as hell then yes Drake has been a legend since his first album came out.

    5. When Drake’s 7+ year billboard streak ended and that reporter asked him what he was gonna do now, he really wasn’t lying when he said “Start a new one”

    6. “I’m so proud of who I’ve become
      You might think I’ve taken some lumps
      Only if we talkin’ ’bout sums”

      1. I think it’s a sad reflection of our society that we consume what is easy and safe so often and on such a scale that we deny ourselves any originality. Mindlessly replaying the same tracks all year, then looking back and wondering why no good music came out last year.

        It did. You just might have missed it because Drake’s impression of various styles and sub-genres gets hyped infinitely more than an original artist who actually has that sound.

        He’s like the Apple of rap. He’s the best because people who are too lazy or too stupid to challenge themselves and listen to anyone they haven’t already heard of says so.

    7. Silence to all these haterz! You are witnessing pure greatness ! Once a decade type artist. So far ahead of competition which is only Miss Adele. Records broken. And Fuck Kanye that bipolar snitch snake. Backstabbing so called friend no longer.

      1. Lol

        Drake don’t give no fucks about you, only wants respect from the one place he’ll never get it…the streets

      1. It does when you’re trying to make everyone forget about you in blackface or how you released a statement when another rapper sent shots for your whole family and your producer. But most important is Drake made sure he still don’t have a classic album by ruining his own shit with filler again.

    8. What saddens me is the truth. If Drake looked like Black Thought, didn’t sing for the laaaaadies and wasn’t Canadian (Americans hate being Americans), he wouldn’t be able to do what he’s doing!

    9. So Drake is one of the biggest pop stars, that was never in doubt or questioned. It’s his credentials in the rap game that’s been destroyed by Pusha T. STILL can’t return fire on him, so he goes after the Kardashians lol.

      1. Pusha T did not destroy Drake’s “rap game”. I wasn’t impressed with neither diss track. Pusha T’s rap game has been irrelevant for years. To be successful in Hip Hip or the music business in general, you have to be creative with your art. Drake has done that and he’s proving it with his latest project. Pusha T could’ve done the same thing, instead he held on to a beef (rather a personal issue) with Birdman, Lil Wayne and Drake for over 10 years. That’s not developing your art. What he did was used Drake to get people talking about him and listening to him again. But it failed. To say Drake’s “rap credentials” have been destroyed is an asinine comment to make. So all the streams aren’t by any Hip Hop fans?

        1. Streams aren’t really sales! It’s like a product getting a sell because the commercial came on. It’s asinine! He’s a great artist that makes pop music in the form of rap. Like Nelly or Post Malone. He never was considered a rapper by those that define it.

    10. white pop stans love Drake, but black folks n hip-hop heads not bumping Drake like that. He’s just a big pop artist..they always sell

    11. I think is more of the sign of the times with how streaming numbers count than actual sales. People had to actually invest in a Michael or beatle record and be a fan where as everybody even the people who were not going to buy Drake’s album will listen because in the end 8.99 a month for a streaming platform wont hurt there pockets. Plus stores streaming his music etc. that’s just way the charts are now big Tristan will have damn near there whole album on the charts while lesser known psych and new artist wont

    12. You can’t compare streams to physical album sales. The logic behind trying to justify it is plain stupid.

      1. Exactly. There was no such thing as stream during mike or the beatles time. Trying to blow up something great when it is just rather mediocre.

    13. Congrats to him but album is just ok not even close to a classic ,surely not his best work or close.

      1. And corporate assistance from the likes of Spotify, which gave more promotion to this album than it has to anyone ever. But that kind of support from the biggest streaming platform probably isn’t the reason why he’s breaking streaming records. Right?

    14. Trent is a dickeater. Lol. Its nit his fault that the way they count album sales has expanded. But he could put some respect on the beatles and michael jacksons name. There was no easily manipulated album “equivalent” back then! You went to the store and bought the album or you didnt. It didnt count if you borrowed your friend’s copy and listened 20x… then passed it to your brother who listened. Today that would be considered multiple streams… and eventually multiple sales. Salute drake. He cant help the era he is in. But keep some respect on the king of pops name.

    15. Pay Attention. For all the sales accolades that Drake’s album is getting, it equates to 159,771 pure album unit sales. Michael Jackson could come back, make an entire album with just his farts and outsell Drake. MJ’s Off the Wall sold 109k units AFTER his death. Thats damn near what Drake is touching off his new album now!
      The fact that he has 7 singles in the Billboard top 10 with only roughly 159,000 first week album sales says more about the current music landscape than anything. Look at the Grammy’s. Its the same 5 rappers that are nominated year after year, regardless of what was released that year.
      I am not hating on Drake but giving out some perspective about these record breaking achievements going on.

        1. Don’t recall Obama dialling Drake’s digits in 08.

          Jigga twice the rapper that Drake wishes he could be.

      1. Yeah, probably. But to Pusha, that was the most important fight of his life. To Drake it was like losing a game of ping pong.

    16. HHDX should do a video debate on where Drake stands in all time rap lists. Is he even in top 30? Should we change the rating criteria cause times have changed? Could be an interesting debate. Analyze all his albums, mixtapes, features, records he’s broken etc Also do one for Nicki Minaj

      1. That can be arranged, no problem. As for some of your questions: Best MC and Best Hip Hop artist are two completely separate categories. So while the “Best MC” portion could spring up some interesting (and testy) debates, anyone who tries to fight his top 10/5 placement on the Hip Hop artist list is just a jaded rap fan. (Don’t be a jaded rap fan. Don’t pay too much for cable…) As for changing the rating criteria, from where we sit, the criteria NEVER changes. Technology, consumption methods, attention spans change but what makes for a quality album is a constant. If you look at the DX Drake rating vs. JAY-Z/Beyonce and then look at how they’re performing, it’s not different than the days of a Nelly/Ja Rule vs. Nas/Pharoahe Monch with a JAY-Z is firmly planted with his feet on both sides of the spectrum. None of these are new conversations. The more rabid fans support the music they like and the more connoisseur types are selective (and in this era do more complaining than ever).

    17. the information has being doublé confirmed………..it still trash ………i repeat ………it still trash

    18. people relating to music like this is just stupid, im talking about dickless hipsters, suckers living inside the closet, transgender weirdos, the new generation of pathetic snowfalkes and lyricaly def bastards

      1. more like people who dont take things so seriously. people who have friends. people who aren’t bitter. people who go out and have fun.

        1. If you like Drake’s music you are a coward and a sissy. It’s that simple. If you think a guy crying over some stripper who didn’t call him back is a big deal yet don’t mind his being a deadbeat dad then what hope do you have?

    19. This guy writing the article is an idiot. He think Michael Jackson needs to fall back to this sissy. Michael Jackson’s influence was infinitely greater than this Aubrey hermaphrodite. And as far as record sales go, streaming in no way compares to an actual album sale bc buying an album actually required you to commit $15 of your hard earned money as opposed to listening to a few songs for a week or so and then forgetting the album existed

      1. Totally agree with you,MJ is way more talented in everything he did! Like Spielberg said, there will never be another Michael Jackson.The song that helped Drake was the one with MJ & w/out permission from his family or his estate!Thief!

    20. The author of this article has zero journalistic integrity and could only write for a piece of garbage site like this. He probably makes $30k a year and walks around thinking he’s a 21st century Walter Cronkite.

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