Drake Has More Streams Than All Of The Hip-Hop Artists Combined

[MIKE SPLEAN]

Streams are just a way for these streaming services to look relavent to the music industry.

You guys are not looking at the bigger picture THESE ARTIST ARE POOR!

It's because of these streaming services. Nobody is buying albums anymore.

These people are making pennies from this shyt. nikkas are relying on touring merchandising and sponsorships.

That's why tidal is the ugly duck because it's legit trying to help artist make sometype of profit on the digital front eventho it's still not that much.

Drake is nothing but a puppet for Apple in reality.

Forbes isn't the most accurate but it can give you a general sense of how bad it is.


Forbes 100 2016

1. Taylor Swift -170 million
2. One Direction - 110 million
3. James Patterson - 95 million
4. Dr. Phil McGraw - 88 million
4. Cristiano Ronaldo - 88 million
6. Kevin Hart - 87.5 million
7. Howard Stern - 85 million
8. Lionel Messi - 81.5 million
9. Adele - 80.5 million
10. Rush Limbaugh - 79 million
11. LeBron James - 77 million
12. Madonna - 76.5 million
13. Ellen DeGeneres - 75 million
13. Rihanna - 75 million
15. Garth Brooks - 70 million
16. Roger Federer - 68 million
17. AC/DC - 67.5 million
18. Rolling Stones - 66.5 million
19. Dwayne Johnson - 64.5 million
20. David Copperfield - 64 million
21. Calvin Harris - 63 million
22. Diddy - 62 million
23. Jackie Chan - 61 million
24. Bruce Springsteen - 60.5 million
25. Paul McCartney - 56.5 million
26. Justin Bieber - 56 million
26. Kenny Chesney - 56 million
26. Novak Djokovic - 56 million
26. Kevin Durant - 56 million
30. Matt Damon - 55 million
30. Ryan Seacrest - 55 million
30. U2 - 55 million
30. The Weeknd - 55 million
34. Beyoncé Knowles - 54 million
34. Gordon Ramsey - 54 million
36. Jay Z - 53.5 million
37. Luke Bryan - 53 million
37. Tom Cruise - 53 million
37. Phil Mickelson - 53 million
37. Cam Newton - 53 million
37. Jordan Spieth - 53 million
42. Kim Kardashian West - 51 million
43. Kobe Bryant - 50 million
44. Muse - 49 million
45. Foo Fighters - 48.5 million
46. Johnny Depp - 48 million
47. Toby Keith - 47.5 million
48. Judy Scheindlin - 47 million
49. Lewis Hamilton - 46 million
49. Jennifer Lawrence - 46 million
1. Tiger Woods - 45.5 million
52. Eli Manning - 45 million
53. Joe Flacco - 44.5 million
54. Bigbang - 44 million
54. Tom Brady - 44 million
54. Floyd Mayweather Jr. - 44 million
57. Jerry Seinfeld - 43.5 million
58. Ben Affleck - 43 million
58. Sofia Vergara - 43 million
60. Rory McIlroy - 42.5 million
61. Elton John - 42 million
61. Russel Wilson - 42 million
63. Dr. Dre - 41 million
63. Katy Perry - 41 million
63. Sebastian Vettel - 41 million
66. Jimmy Buffett - 40.5 million
67. Mumford & Sons - 40 million
68. Jennifer Lopez - 39.5 million
69. Drake - 38.5 million
70. Philip Rivers - 38 million
70. Tiësto - 38 million
72. Zlatan Ibrahimović - 37.5 million
72. Rafael Nadal - 37.5 million
72. Neymar - 37.5 million
75. Jason Aldean - 36.5 million
75. Fernando Alonso - 36.5 million
77. Gareth Bale - 36 million
78. Marcell Dareus - 35 million
78. Vin Diesel - 35 million
80. Peyton Manning - 34 million
80. Derrick Rose - 34 million
82. A.J. Green - 33.5 million
82. Maroon 5 - 33.5 million
82. Kei Nishikori - 33.5 million
82. Ed Sheeran - 33.5 million
86. Dave Matthews Band - 33 million
86. Robert Downey Jr. - 33 million
86. James Harden - 33 million
86. Shah Rukh Khan - 33 million
86. Melissa McCartney - 33 million
91. Usain Bolt - 32.5 million
92. Clayton Kershaw - 32 million
92. Dwyane Wade - 32 million
94. Akshay Kumar - 31.5 million
94. Penn & Teller - 31.5 million
94. Brad Pitt - 31.5 million
97. Carmelo Anthony - 31 million
97. Drew Brees - 31 million
99. Gisele Bündchen - 30.5 million
99. Britney Spears - 30.5 million

 

[Detroit_blue]

Everything but rapping matters to yall. Im good on hip hop yall nikkas keep praising the least talented . As an artist it hurt and as a fan its sad. Phonte got new shyt youll ignore it and he out sings and outraps him. Its wacc. If he was darkskin hed be gone already . Yall like females. Nobody should be poccet watching, where is the talent. nikka cant sing dance write but Black people praise um? Im good, ill embrace being an og even more. Yall got it

 

[Playaz Eyez]

drake is this era's Eminem in his prime without being white, without dr dre, without talking about killing his mom and doing dumb shyt for attention

Lol yea, he only does it by being half white/Jewish, hi-jacking multiple people's buzz/waves, and getting pissed on, getting bottles thrown at, and being smacked up by dancing producers

Just to be real, people can fall asleep during streaming and have the same song being played over and over again, so I'd like to see actual receipts for these streaming numbers (not just Drake's BTW)

 

[CrimsonTider]

How is it played more than any album in recent times? We just recently began counting streaming numbers. He's the first pop star to have streams counted like this in this new era. The first big one. Beyonce still only streams on TIDAL. Besides that, his album has three huge hits. It's like saying we thought Nelly was super dope because we bumped Hot In Here. A couple hot songs can carry you. Stop playing dumb. Why focus on these "hip hop heads" when even mainstream publications think it's mediocre? And Take Care was well received. Drake is officially at the point where his fan base is starting to skew heavily female.

An album that's been #1 for 9 straight weeks can't have a general consensus of mediocre...

He has always had a large female fanbase he's probably black females GOAT at this
point, barnone

I don't remember people other than snobs hating on Nelly during that era

 

[Nobodyknows]

Goes to show that most of his fans are internet nerds and fakkits

 

[CrimsonTider]

Everything but rapping matters to yall. Im good on hip hop yall nikkas keep praising the least talented . As an artist it hurt and as a fan its sad. Phonte got new shyt youll ignore it and he out sings and outraps him. Its wacc. If he was darkskin hed be gone already . Yall like females. Nobody should be poccet watching, where is the talent. nikka cant sing dance write but Black people praise um? Im good, ill embrace being an og even more. Yall got it

Are we suppose to think Phonte is dope because you do?

 

[Detroit_blue]

Cuz he does. But u not even hip. Yall dissing his idols. And phonte got grammies. Im not caping for mc metaphysical

 

[WickedGames]

Thats obviously a move to try & get some of his fanbase/Sales
Or you really think those guys feature/co-Sign. Drake because they think hes the greatest rapper of his Generation or some bs
They look for a bigger crowd/that extra Mainstream Push

Keep telling yourself this but this truth is Drake puts out A LOT of music that resonates with people. It's that simple . Like I said you go outside, you know what it is

0-100, Started From The Bottom, I'm on one etc etc . Drake has some of the biggest rap anthems the last few years

 

[Detroit_blue]

Seriously u dissin phonte tho?

 

[RAW_SPK]

Everything but rapping matters to yall. Im good on hip hop yall nikkas keep praising the least talented . As an artist it hurt and as a fan its sad. Phonte got new shyt youll ignore it and he out sings and outraps him. Its wacc. If he was darkskin hed be gone already . Yall like females. Nobody should be poccet watching, where is the talent. nikka cant sing dance write but Black people praise um? Im good, ill embrace being an og even more. Yall got it

Are we suppose to think Phonte is dope because you do?

No but since the guy you constantly cape for owes alot of his style and early looks TO Phonte/Little Brother/Slum Village (SPECIFICALLY Phonte) you would think that the ovo brigade would be less dismissive but i get it....whatever makes Drake look good in the light I suppose

 

[Detroit_blue]

thats what irks me. How u hate the nikkas he got inspired by, sound like ? These last couple weeks yall dissed his favorite rapper. Now the nikka who inspired his singing

 

[Newzz]

If I recall right Chingy had 3 big singles on his first album, google gives me #2, #2 and #3 on HOT100. The album after that went platinum too, with no big singles of the strength of the previous album, so no that was a bad example.

He had:





...on his 2nd album which went as high as #20 on the HOT 100 list though.


I agree with the rest of your post

 

[BK The Great]

So first of all let's throw questioning his music out of the window because we've established legends and people in the culture respect his music.

Now for the ghost writing. His demand in hip hop hasn't dried up at all despite obviously maybe not being seen as a top tier MC (Kendrick level). One example of props he's got recently is Jada n Styles on drink champs podcast. Styles said Drake is one of his favourites this generation and Jada (I think) said he agrees but the ghost writing slightly affects his standing.. Which is fair

But let's not act like Drake is only listened to by people who don't fukk with hip hop and white girls. That's a lie.

whether he's respected by other artists or isn't, i look at Drake funny after all that's been thrown at him. i'm not gonna let sales, or other artist's opinions sway my decision on what's authentic or not.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

Sigh there needs to be a Drake subforum where all you weirdo's can go to gush over his music and pop relevancy.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Teenagers and preteens love his music. It shows.