Spotify recieves backlash for their extreme overpromotion of Drake and his latest album.

[Crude Abolitionist]

His sales arent organic

Blackfacedrake stans about to be in shambles

 

[MikeyC]

Ayo, wtf?

A Jewish advocate for abortion is the face of Spotify's gospel playlist?

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

0l

Nah, I can't agree.

If Nas was on the Best Of British, Classical, Independent Women play list....some shyt just don't make sense, period.

Fred.

breh I'm an unapologetic NAS Fan/stan..

A real fan ain't gonna have a problem with a marketing campaign for his favorite artist as long as they are making it available for him or her to consume

I don't usually buy retail rap albums....

But other than devin da dude NAS albums are my only purchases

Hell if i was told the only way for me to obtain the Nasir LP is to spend a whole weekend in Wyoming camping out in the wilderness with weirdo Kanye....

I might have to book that flight

Just joking breh

But real talk u taking this DRAKE HATE way too far ..it's like ur obsessed

 

[King Jove]

and c00ns and cacs try to get on jay-z for goosing up streaming numbers

these record companies and streaming services aint playing fair.

why not play dirty just like them?

 

[scuba]

So...

1) its a private commercial platform, they can and will do whatever they want
2) Drake is the most popular artist of the streaming era
3) Scorpion is the 'biggest' album of the year in music period.
4) Money and favors and 'relationship points' exchange hands daily in relation to these streaming services

HOWEVER this is bad business.

Nothing to do with whatever I think of Drake as an artist or pop artists in general, or Payola in general. This is just bad business for Spotify. Look Google, Bing have this same exact challenge with Google and Microsoft products in their search results. Amazon has the same challenge with Kindle adds when people search for Tablets or FireSticks and Chromecasts on there platform... Long story short is there is a line that businesses have to walk between serving their core competency and supporting/promoting secondary revenue streams...

In hood tearms this is putting your side piece ahead of your wifey.

Go to bing.com type in 'best search engine' your gonna see a big huge sign that says GOOGLE as the first hit... you know that makes microsoft salty... but they got to live in reality if they want folks to view bing as a reliable search engine...

Dont put your side piece ahead of your wifey.

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

So...

1) its a private commercial platform, they can and will do whatever they want

FAKE NEWS.

SPOTIFY IS PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANY NOW

 

[hex]

0l


breh I'm an unapologetic NAS Fan/stan..

A real fan ain't gonna have a problem with a marketing campaign for his favorite artist as long as they are making it available for him or her to consume

I don't usually buy retail rap albums....

But other than devin da dude NAS albums are my only purchases

Hell if i was told the only way for me to obtain the Nasir LP is to spend a whole weekend in Wyoming camping out in the wilderness with weirdo Kanye....

I might have to book that flight

Just joking breh

But real talk u taking this DRAKE HATE way too far ..it's like ur obsessed

Has nothing to do with Drake specifically. Nobody can give me a straight answer as to why a rapper would appear on a playlist with none of his actual music. It defeats the whole purpose of why playlists exist. I been calling this streaming era fugazi regardless of whether or not I like the artist....be it Drake, Cole, Kendrick, whoever.

My favorite current gen rapper is Freddie Gibbs....I would not be ok with Gibbs shyt appearing on a Gospel or Ambient Chill or whatever the fukk play list that features zero of his songs.

I mean....there's a backlash to this so obviously people feel the same way. Unless you think they all hate Drake too.

Fred.

 

[Terrance Curtis Beasley]

 

[hustlemania]

0l


breh I'm an unapologetic NAS Fan/stan..

A real fan ain't gonna have a problem with a marketing campaign for his favorite artist as long as they are making it available for him or her to consume

I don't usually buy retail rap albums....

But other than devin da dude NAS albums are my only purchases

Hell if i was told the only way for me to obtain the Nasir LP is to spend a whole weekend in Wyoming camping out in the wilderness with weirdo Kanye....

I might have to book that flight

Just joking breh

But real talk u taking this DRAKE HATE way too far ..it's like ur obsessed

@hex is the homie, so im not speaking on him when i say this..

but, this site has a really weird obsession with Drake.. had to stay off this b!tch last few days, because damn near every thread is Drake related.. sh!t is beyond obsessive..

on some real sh!t.. i never seen anyone outside this site care so much about every little thing dude does.. never even met a female who cares about dude, as much as these dudes on here do..

cats about to dead ass spend the holidays, posting about Drake all types of day & night..

 

[The Mad Titan]

Breh how are you a grown man and stanning is more important than basic critical thinking skills?

First you claimed this was from algorithms....but 50% of the playlists Drake is the cover of, have no Drake music. If you took two seconds to research that instead of immediately going into

mode you would've known that.

Now you're talking about they used Drake's pic to promote and "help" these other playlists, despite the fact those fans clearly don't give a fukk about Drake, which is why there's a backlash to begin with. Classical and Gospel fans do not need Drake's face as incentive to listen to their favorite artist....the fukk are you on right now?

This is Exhibit A why nobody likes Drake stans.

Fred.

Bruh you all over the place, algorithms and there data are the reason why drake is all over everything. No company is paying to promote drake especially not to the point where he has to completely take over all streaming covers and ads. Drake is a established artist that literally doesn't even do press and album runs. It would be a colossal waste of money to push him like this.

How many times have you clicked on something that actually had nothing to do with what was listed or if it did it had just a small amount?

Lets think for a minute

This album wasn't listed on spotify for like what the 1st 24 hours?

Being a long time spotifiy member I know how that goes with artist that aren't as popular as drake. You get a ton of "playlist" when you search and a bunch of advertised playlist from the art.

Why?

because people are searching and looking for the artist, song and or album.


So a BUNCH of random playlist put the artist or song as the headliner and that's all you see.


This literally happens with all almost all popular artist especially those that dont release there music RIGHT away on spotifiy.



Classical and Gospel fans dont need drakes face on it but those companies or people or whoever that want hits do, therefore they use drake face and usually make a single song the 1st one on a playlist if they have any at all.


This is typical advertisement, yall bugging if you think drakes camp and people out there buying up playlist and retail space to promote an album that literally doesn't need any promotion




But you know I'm a irrational drake stan

 

[boskey]

The only question is....




How the Russians did it

 

[scuba]

Bruh you all over the place, algorithms and there data are the reason why drake is all over everything. No company is paying to promote drake especially not to the point where he has to completely take over all streaming covers and ads. Drake is a established artist that literally doesn't even do press and album runs. It would be a colossal waste of money to push him like this.

How many times have you clicked on something that actually had nothing to do with what was listed or if it did it had just a small amount?

Lets think for a minute

This album wasn't listed on spotify for like what the 1st 24 hours?

Being a long time spotifiy member I know how that goes with artist that aren't as popular as drake. You get a ton of "playlist" when you search and a bunch of advertised playlist from the art.

Why?

because people are searching and looking for the artist, song and or album.


So a BUNCH of random playlist put the artist or song as the headliner and that's all you see.


This literally happens with all almost all popular artist especially those that dont release there music RIGHT away on spotifiy.



Classical and Gospel fans dont need drakes face on it but those companies or people or whoever that want hits do, therefore they use drake face and usually make a single song the 1st one on a playlist if they have any at all.


This is typical advertisement, yall bugging if you think drakes camp and people out there buying up playlist and retail space to promote an album that literally doesn't need any promotion




But you know I'm a irrational drake stan

Wait... you actually believe that no company is paying to promote Drake? If that is so he needs to get the hell off his label, because they arent doing there job. His label are supposed to be promoting the hell out of his album. His label should be calling up Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon Music, etc to get him a push. Spotify is supposed to look at the request and do what is reasonable for THEM to meet the request while at the same time maintaining there own BEST INTERESTS.

This level however is not maintaining there own best interests, it is not in spotify's interest for a significant number of their subscribers to open their app and think 'hmmm' there must be a flaw in their algorithms or they pushed a release yesterday that wasnt QA'ed right.

 

[hex]

Bruh you all over the place, algorithms and there data are the reason why drake is all over everything. No company is paying to promote drake especially not to the point where he has to completely take over all streaming covers and ads. Drake is a established artist that literally doesn't even do press and album runs. It would be a colossal waste of money to push him like this.

How many times have you clicked on something that actually had nothing to do with what was listed or if it did it had just a small amount?

Lets think for a minute

This album wasn't listed on spotify for like what the 1st 24 hours?

Being a long time spotifiy member I know how that goes with artist that aren't as popular as drake. You get a ton of "playlist" when you search and a bunch of advertised playlist from the art.

Why?

because people are searching and looking for the artist, song and or album.


So a BUNCH of random playlist put the artist or song as the headliner and that's all you see.


This literally happens with all almost all popular artist especially those that dont release there music RIGHT away on spotifiy.



Classical and Gospel fans dont need drakes face on it but those companies or people or whoever that want hits do, therefore they use drake face and usually make a single song the 1st one on a playlist if they have any at all.


This is typical advertisement, yall bugging if you think drakes camp and people out there buying up playlist and retail space to promote an album that literally doesn't need any promotion




But you know I'm a irrational drake stan

Have no idea what you're talking about and ramble, brehs.

Algorithms are based on musical preferences, listening history, similarities, etc.

How Does Spotify Know You So Well? – Member Feature Stories – Medium

An algorithm is not going to put Drake's face on every playlist, some of which where none of his music appears. That's not how the software works.

His music doesn't appear at all on 50% of the playlists featuring his name and face. So your whole "companies pay to put 1 song on the playlist to promote it" theory doesn't apply here.

Never mind that....Universal (Drake's parent label) is in bed with Spotify and owns a stake in the company.

Universal Music Says Artists Would Benefit From a Spotify Equity Sale

So

at you acting like Drake or OVO personally gotta come outta pocket for this to happen.

Fred.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

@hex is the homie, so im not speaking on him when i say this..

but, this site has a really weird obsession with Drake.. had to stay off this b!tch last few days, because damn near every thread is Drake related.. sh!t is beyond obsessive..

on some real sh!t.. i never seen anyone outside this site care so much about every little thing dude does.. never even met a female who cares about dude, as much as these dudes on here do..

cats about to dead ass spend the holidays, posting about Drake all types of day & night..

nah i ain't got nothing against @hex...i always respected him as one of the best posters on this site barnone....and not only that @hex is one of the main reasons i am here on the Coli.....

he invited me to come over here after i gave up posting on messageboards and blogs following the fall of SOHH.com

so he good with me...one of the posters i can "debate" with on here without it turning negative nahmean



but back to the subject at hand..



im not following this tired azz narrative of .."HEY IF WE RID THE WORLD OF THE VILLIAN KNOWN AS DRAKE AUBREY" hip hop and humanity will be great again

just like you said..it's become "beyond obsessive" ..damn thier weirdo shyt

this daily campaign to irradicate Drake Aubrey Graham...i get it...

but look i feel and know as a Triple OG that shyt ain't never gonna happen...and besides WHAT BENIFIT IS IT??

i recall as a little kid the first official rap records...by cats like the sugarhill gang in late 1979...

im telling yall right now .....we always had "antichrists" of rap....first Hammer was viewed as one along with Vanilla Ice ....hell even LL COOL J was chastised for sacricing his talent to rap for the LADIES.....can't forget NELLY and SOULJAH BOY....

SO THIS AIN'T NOTHING NEW....and personally i don't find DRAKE as repulsive as the above mentioned cats with the exception of Hammer and LL Cool J whom i felt were both talented and contributed to hip hop in a progressive manner....

yes DRAKE does have some flaws..lord knows he got some serious ones...that one song .."For Free" is absolutely the worst song i have heard over the past two years..it repulses me...HE ACTUALLY GOES INTO FULL SIMP MODE and tells these byatches that thier puzzy is sooo good that he should be CHARGED A FEE for it...

but hey that's his marketing scheme...drake has been succesful at telling these hoes what they WANT TO HEAR....

but he also has alot of GOOD SONGS that i myself as an OG appreciates...

I was riding back from Florida yesterday and was entertained hearing the radio play one of his old tracks "NO LIE" with 2 chainz and the "Language"....

these songs were club bangers and rightfully so!!!


the boy's catalog is impressive...

everything and everybody has it's pros and cons.....and you best believe his "team" (label, management, pr firm) is gonna do it's best to exploit that...

that's the nature of the business.....i don't see what's so hard to understand about this so called "overpromotion" of him as a BRAND

and my question to all of you...


WAS IT OVERPROMOTION WHEN CLEAR CHANNEL had ALL THIER 40 PLUS URBAN STATIONS ACROSS THE NATION simotaneasly broadcast a streaming preview of JAY-Z's 4:44 album within the same week it was available as an App on all Sprint related phones?








i rest my case..........

 

[Child_Of_God]