Billboard Hot 100: 03/21/2020

[lights]

Drake breaks the record with a not very good feature on an already forgotten and disposable song. Fitting.

[thegreatdivine]

Mar 16, 2020 14:04:51 GMT -5 lights said:

Drake breaks the record with a not very good feature on an already forgotten and disposable song. Fitting.

Fitting how? My fave just broke a very significant record. Don't summon my wrath.

[Naos]

Mar 16, 2020 14:04:51 GMT -5 lights said:

Drake breaks the record with a not very good feature on an already forgotten and disposable song. Fitting.

Does that not describe a lot of his Hot 100 entries?

[lights]

Mar 16, 2020 14:06:00 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Mar 16, 2020 14:04:51 GMT -5 lights said:

Drake breaks the record with a not very good feature on an already forgotten and disposable song. Fitting.

Fitting how? My fave just broke a very significant record. Don't summon my wrath.

Lol you're so easily triggered by every post about Drake.

Fitting how? It ain't rocket science. Most of his entries are from irrelevant feature spam, or album tracks on his last 3 not very good projects. Congrats to him I guess but not his most meaningful record by a long shot.

[lights]

Mar 16, 2020 14:06:00 GMT -5 Naos said:

Mar 16, 2020 14:04:51 GMT -5 lights said:

Drake breaks the record with a not very good feature on an already forgotten and disposable song. Fitting.

Does that not describe a lot of his Hot 100 entries?

That was rather my point.

[thegreatdivine]

Mar 16, 2020 14:08:43 GMT -5 lights said:

Mar 16, 2020 14:06:00 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Fitting how? My fave just broke a very significant record. Don't summon my wrath.

Lol you're so easily triggered by every post about Drake.

Fitting how? It ain't rocket science. Most of his entries are from irrelevant feature spam, or album tracks on his last 3 not very good projects. Congrats to him I guess but not his most meaningful record by a long shot.

Artists have been debuting album tracks on the Hot 100 since 2015. Deal with it.

Sorry if your favorite artists don't do as many features as Drake and other rappers. Deal with it.

What's funny about your post is that he hasn't even officially started his next album era. Here's to another decade of numerous spam/irrelevant Hot 100 entries.

[HolidayGuy]

As always, records like this should be taken with a grain of salt, given changes in chart climates, methodologies, rules, and. given the digital/streaming era, prevalence of features, etc.for modern acts. I mean, it's a heckuva number, and certainly notable, and far more notable than the Glee totals, as he's been loads more successful, but not comparable to feats achieved by top hitmakers of the past.

[iHype.]

Mar 16, 2020 14:14:29 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

As always, records like this should be taken with a grain of salt, given changes in chart climates, methodologies, rules, and. given the digital/streaming era, prevalence of features, etc.for modern acts. I mean, it's a heckuva number, and certainly notable, and far more notable than the Glee totals, as he's been loads more successful, but not comparable to feats achieved by top hitmakers of the past.

What's the point of this post when he broke a record that a 2010s act previously held. Seems a bit salty. 

He already surpassed older hitmakers chart entries years ago so they really don't have anything to do with the record he surpassed this week. Everyone is also aware of how it easier to chart with more songs by now in 2020, this is common information. 

[kingvavis]

Quality>Quantity

[Enigma.]

So is Stupid Love still top 40?

[korbel16]

After seeing blinding lights already rise to the top5... there’s like no way he’s not going to be number 1 the week of his album bomb...

[kierz7]

• “Drake broke the record > a LEGEND! Nobody is touching my fave”.

• “70% of Drake’s entries and Hot 100 ‘records’ are from features/collaborations. LMFAO. It doesn’t count at all.”.

Now we’ve established the points that will inevitably made from both sides...

How about we move on?

Sweet.

OT: Slay Ms. Dula Peep! 🥳

[Gary]

Mar 16, 2020 14:14:29 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

As always, records like this should be taken with a grain of salt, given changes in chart climates, methodologies, rules, and. given the digital/streaming era, prevalence of features, etc.for modern acts. I mean, it's a heckuva number, and certainly notable, and far more notable than the Glee totals, as he's been loads more successful, but not comparable to feats achieved by top hitmakers of the past.

This comparison is OK

Drake eras and Glee eras overlapped by quite a bit.  Similar chart rules.  Only difference is streaming - but where there is streaming now there was high digital downloads then so it evens out.


No one is comparing Drake to Madonna or Drake to the Beatles, I think they all get it.

[thegreatdivine]

HolidayGuy I agree with you, except this is only one of the numerous feats Drake has accomplished on the Hot 100, in just 10 years.

At some point, we've gotta learn to just give acts their credit for breaking/setting records and leave it at that while remembering that records are meant to be broken. That's like referencing acts who scored a diamond single by moving 10 million digital singles everytime an act goes diamond in the streaming era or bringing up pure sales everytime an artist dominates on streaming.

Artists are born when they're born and they work with the music industry they find themselves in. Success is success, regardless of what era it occurs in.

As easy as it is to dismiss records or achievements in the streaming era, it's important to note that not everybody dominates in the streaming era, the same way not everyone dominated in the digital era and the physical sales era. If it was so easy for everyone to debut 3/4 songs in the top 10 and amass 400+ million streams in a week with an album release, everyone would be doing it. For the mere fact that not everyone can, makes it something worth acknowledging (and acknowledging without an asterisk or a but).

[lazer]

I hope the next thing Drake releases doesn’t sound like Life Is Good. That song shrunk on me heavily, it’s such a monotonous and droning song that it just sounds like white noise. I have no idea why that song lasted so long in the top 2 besides name recognition.

[Enigma.]

I'd say Lil Uzi Vert will easily pass Drake's Hot 100 entry record if he keeps releasing deluxe after deluxe for years to come

Or watch Youngboy Never Broke Again do it with his 67th mixtape in 2025.

[iHype.]

Mar 16, 2020 14:32:21 GMT -5 lazer said:

I hope the next thing Drake releases doesn’t sound like Life Is Good. That song shrunk on me heavily, it’s such a monotonous and droning song that it just sounds like white noise. I have no idea why that song lasted so long in the top 2 besides name recognition.

The public ignored the legendary "Summer Games" and now we have all these 80s sounding songs in the upper positions of the chart 

[tanooki]

why are you guys so condescending over rappers dropping a lot of projects lmao this isnt a new thing

[Naos]

Mar 16, 2020 14:35:57 GMT -5 tanooki said:

why are you guys so condescending over rappers dropping a lot of projects lmao this isnt a new thing

I guess because the rappers tend to have disposable subject matter with little new or interesting.

[kierz7]

Mar 16, 2020 14:33:58 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

I'd say Lil Uzi Vert will easily pass Drake's Hot 100 entry record if he keeps releasing deluxe after deluxe for years to come

Or watch Youngboy Never Broke Again do it with his 67th mixtape in 2025.

💀

I’m sure Da Baby will have surpassed the record by 2023.

Perhaps Lil’ Baby will also when he releases album/mixtape #20 in 2022.

A ‘formidable’ record indeed.

[Enigma.]

Mar 16, 2020 14:35:57 GMT -5 tanooki said:

why are you guys so condescending over rappers dropping a lot of projects lmao this isnt a new thing

Well if Uzi releases 32 songs every year and they all chart, it does not take very long for him to reach 100 entries.

[thegreatdivine]

Mar 16, 2020 14:38:02 GMT -5 Naos said:

Mar 16, 2020 14:35:57 GMT -5 tanooki said:

why are you guys so condescending over rappers dropping a lot of projects lmao this isnt a new thing

I guess because the rappers tend to have disposable subject matter with little new or interesting.

In comparison to the dynamic, groundbreaking subject matter in songs by pop stars?

[Naos]

Mar 16, 2020 14:56:28 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Mar 16, 2020 14:38:02 GMT -5 Naos said:

I guess because the rappers tend to have disposable subject matter with little new or interesting.

In comparison to the dynamic, groundbreaking subject matter in songs by pop stars?

They generally try new things, and they don't release as frequently. Most rappers who release on a very frequent basis (like on a 6 month basis), the topics consist of: Kill people, flexing, stealing your girl. Kill people, flexing, stealing your girl, rinse, repeat. There's now and then they try something different, but that's usually how it goes, especially with the more popular ones. The production is always dark pianos and trap beats a lot of the time as well, to the extent songs feel interchangeable. 

[korbel16]

The way album bombs didn’t exist pre streaming era.. what a boring time to be alive

[Verisimilitude]

Yes they did, but they usually only happened with Taylor Swift eras.

[korbel16]

Mar 16, 2020 15:07:04 GMT -5 Verisimilitude said:

Yes they did, but they usually only happened with Taylor Swift eras.

well specifically hip hop/r&b

[thegreatdivine]

Mar 16, 2020 15:01:43 GMT -5 Naos said:

Mar 16, 2020 14:56:28 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

In comparison to the dynamic, groundbreaking subject matter in songs by pop stars?

They generally try new things, and they don't release as frequently. Most rappers who release on a very frequent basis (like on a 6 month basis), the topics consist of: Kill people, flexing, stealing your girl. Kill people, flexing, stealing your girl, rinse, repeat. There's now and then they try something different, but that's usually how it goes, especially with the more popular ones. The production is always dark pianos and trap beats a lot of the time as well, to the extent songs feel interchangeable. 

Rap music has been a thing since the 70's and mainstream rap has mostly been about the same things since then so complaining about the content of rap music in 2020 is odd. The only reason why people have issues with rap music or it's content now is because of how dominant rappers have become on the charts. When mindless, repetitive bubblegum pop hits were dominating the charts, no one cared that they were being fed the same formulaic songs.

[Enigma.]

Mar 16, 2020 15:10:58 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Mar 16, 2020 15:01:43 GMT -5 Naos said:

They generally try new things, and they don't release as frequently. Most rappers who release on a very frequent basis (like on a 6 month basis), the topics consist of: Kill people, flexing, stealing your girl. Kill people, flexing, stealing your girl, rinse, repeat. There's now and then they try something different, but that's usually how it goes, especially with the more popular ones. The production is always dark pianos and trap beats a lot of the time as well, to the extent songs feel interchangeable. 

Rap music has been a thing since the 70's and mainstream rap has mostly been about the same things since then so complaining about the content of rap music in 2020 is odd. The only reason why people have issues with rap music or it's content now is because of how dominant rappers have become on the charts. When mindless, repetitive bubblegum pop hits were dominating the charts, no one cared that they were being fed the same formulaic songs.

That's not the point, the point is that streaming era strongly favours hip hop and rap because their popularity is the biggest among people who have the most time to CONSUME the streaming services. It is NOT a correct representation of what's popular in ALL demographics (although some acts like Drake are popular in almost all demographics). That's why it WILL look odd when acts like Lil Baby might have 150 Hot 100 "hits" in five years when Madonna has 63 in total when her career spans 40 years.

[strongerq]

Mar 16, 2020 15:10:58 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Rap music has been a thing since the 70's and mainstream rap has mostly been about the same things since then so complaining about the content of rap music in 2020 is odd. The only reason why people have issues with rap music or it's content now is because of how dominant rappers have become on the charts. When mindless, repetitive bubblegum pop hits were dominating the charts, no one cared that they were being fed the same formulaic songs.

BINGO

Not a single soul complained about 50 Cent releasing 4 mixtapes in 2002, or Lil Wayne releasing 14 mixtapes from 2002 - 2005. Unknown artists like these back then didn't get any radio airplay and thus had no chance to chart at all.

Today someone like NBA Youngboy can release a mixtape/album every 5 months and couple of the songs chart because of streaming.

[chanman]

^^^I disagree ...the content of rap music is odd and I complain because real Rap and R&B is from 80's and 90's....not today. It has nothing to do with dominance but quality.