Drake = The Beatles?

Drake breaks Beatles historic record - CNN

 

I think Drake will sign with Golden State

 

Love The Drake.

 

It’s my understanding that it’s a methodology that factors in streaming plays - in order words, the subset of people playing the songs over and over.

 

150 streams of a track is equivalent to a download. 1,500 plays to an album sale.

 

Reading Billboard, it said the album had 160,000 traditional album sales but gets credit for 732,000 because of 740 million streams. But that’s nonsense. No way would the album have sold that many, say, 25 years ago, nor had radio play equivalent. It’s an easy number to rig - and 25 songs in an album helps do that - and it behooves the streaming services to pump Drake and compel him to keep his music
on their service.

 

I do not understand Drake at all. I think that makes me a bad Canadian, but every song sounds like some whiny guy slurring and mumbling meaningless shit over reductive beats. It's the audio equivalent of someone shitting into a paper bag and calling it art.

I can get behind Crew Love but that's about it. And that's basically a Weeknd song.

 

Weird ... I said almost the same thing to my boss 30 minutes ago. Just don't understand the appeal of Drake at all.

 

I can sort of understand that he's talented. It's just not music that I would seek out. I thought when he did Saturday Night Live, he showed considerable range.

 

I don't understand the appeal of most current rappers. The narcissism is off the charts. But that's the times. We're so fascinated with our own truths and identities that we'll swim around in our own navel lint to prove it.