Gotcha, that's just how the music industry works! However, Drake is also one of the rare artist who actually sell millions of records (not counting streams). The way everyone streams music, you have to account for it somehow. Nobody buy albums anymore.
Who else is selling 2 million (actually copies?) You just flew over that like it's nothing though lol.
Some of y'all really don't get it.
People don't buy albums period anymore, calculating streaming #'s isn't an exact science but it is a way better judge of the music landscape than going by strictly sales.
It's just how the majority of people consume music and it's being dominated by Drake. Y'all act like if this wasn't the 90's Drake would be going diamond.
We seen the #'s Ja/DMX/Bad Boy/Cash Money/Hov/No Limit moved back then and Drake is more popular than all of them were.
It's stupid to get mad at streaming #'s, it's going to be new equivalent of "it's only hot on the Internet" when the Internet is basically everything.
How are u mad that the industry decided to change their data reflecting the way music in 2016 is consumed
It has nothing to do with inflating artists numbers. Most albums are being consumed through streaming.
I agree except for the hip hop part. If dude was strictly hip hop the #s would be nothing like that. His biggest songs right now have zero rapping. He and that weird ***** Kanye get put in the artist category, that's the new wave. Even the tiller dude, all these new dudes sing/rap/talk and make music catering to women. That's the new recipe for success in 2016.All 3 of those Internet acts you brought up have killed it on tour, you know where real people have to show up.
You proved my point, Lil B had to give his album away yet he still plays festivals and sells out shows, the game has changed.
No I think those guys I mentioned would still be as popular in today's age but they still wouldn't touch Drake because of the scope of his music making.
None of those guys had the songwriting ability he had or made as many hits while being as marketable as Drake is.
Drake sold out 4 MSG shows and 2 Barclays Center shows in the same tour, he's as big as the #'s say he is.
Like I said, I don't know what world y'all living but Drake is easily the most dominant artist in the history of hip hop thus far and can be argued as the biggest artist in all of music today.
really?
That's nuts. Yeah that **** is definitely a little fishy. Not that I give a **** about this sales conversation everyone is so wrapped up in but that's bizarre that a relative unknown came out the gate with a "platinum" album. That's gotta be the fastest rise from "just poppin on soundcloud" to platinum ever.
it's very...positive towards women and unfortunately in RNB right now there's not many cats who make music like that. Rnb damn near sound like rap(see Chris brown) as a black rnb singer if you appreciate women in your music you pretty much have no where to go but up
It's like this:
The updated Billboard 200 will utilize accepted industry benchmarks for digital and streaming data, equating 10 digital track sales from an album to one equivalent album sale, and 1,500 song streams from an album to one equivalent album sale. All of the major on-demand audio subscription services are considered, including Spotify, Beats Music, Google Play and Xbox Music.
