Article: Drake breaks Beatles record with 7 of the Top 10 songs on Billboard Hot 100 chart*

...Okay, it's a piece on CNN's web site by one Jennifer Lynn Stoever, headline: " Drake vs. the Beatles? Time to retire rap vs rock cliche ", someone else can put a woikin' link up, I'm an ideer dude!

 

Are you saying that you don't know how to cut and paste a URL?

 

Drake sucks, though

 

So I’ve been listening to a fair bit of Game Theory lately - damn, these guys were good. Much better than Drake. I think all Drake fans should be made to listen to Game Theory instead. Or perhaps Voivod, to keep it Canadian.

 

Any thread that dares to mention another artist in the same sentence as the Beatles results in a mass toys thrown out of the pram by a bunch of elderly men who really should know better. These threads always end up mean.
Just check them out, there plenty of them...

 

If I recall correctly, Jeatleboe used to change his avatar often (Pyle did not).

But, appropriately enough, when JB got the ban hammer it froze his account with that creepy ass Ringo mask.

 

As good as Jeatlebo’s is Pyle’s is the best.

 

I agree. I'm not a Drake fan but I congratulate him on this achievement.

 

He wouldnt have cut it in 2017. its all due to Billboard and RIAA being forced to count the streams as sales. He has physically only sold 160,000 copies. Not even gold.

 

That's one week of sales in the US only.

His last record Views (2016) sold 1.6 million in the US. Second only to Adele's 25 in traditional album sales that year.

How many units did A Hard Day's Night shift in '64?

 

Agree wholeheartedly my friend!

You laugh but the old guard still manages to make the magic. The new single is phenomenal and very much looking to that new album!

 

Why does this thread keep getting bumped up? Just let it die....

 

Another record Drake-r!

Pitchforks and torches at the ready, people:


Drake beats the Beatles' 1964 record for most US Top 10 hits in a year

 

A couple of those top 10s were features, which the Beatles didn't have.

 

I gotta admit, that Drake viral hit Kiki in my feeelings song is pretty catchy. Very tough to resist that song. Having said that, I just find a lot of Drake to be forgettable. Maybe I am old school, but the last real rap cut I really enjoyed was, a few years ago, that Kid Cudi song Pursuit of Happiness(Drake coincidentally was in that video though not part of the song itself). I just don't find Drake to be in the same league as Snoop. Then again, I don't care for Jay Z at all either and he is heralded among the best when I find many rappers to be more interesting than JayZ.

I think the deadpan triplet flow rap has gotten old. It was refreshing when it first came on scene, but now it's become too formulaic.

Also, the concept of records in music has to be changed now with the advent of streaming. Is Streaming counted the same as a radio play? If it is not, it should.

 

It's a really interesting formula, but yeah streaming is counted in a weighted fashion. People slam the way the charts work now, but I'm not sure it could be done any better.

 

Interesting that the millions upon millions of listens the Beatles got on AM radio are never going to be part of the equation.

 

THIS THREAD AGAIN

 

Neither are modern radio plays...

 

I'll take Zager & Evans' "In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)" to that. Though that song had over the years made "worst records" lists and has been called everything from banal to asinine, the lyrics are much preferable to what this Bieber latched on to. (And Bieber ain't even Ian & Sylvia.)

 

The radio listens do count towards the Hot 100 rankings though, both in the past and present.

 

How many records did he sell? I probably live under a rock, i had to google him to learn who he is.

 

Drake’s Reign Over Pop Music Has Lasted Longer Than the Beatles’

Interesting to see that Drake's popularity has yet to peak. As the article notes, it would be the equivalent of the Beatles having had their biggest hig in 1972... Like his music or not, there's no denying his massive success.

D.D.

 

Why do you keep posting on this thread if you want it to die?

 

Taking into account the different eras in which The Beatles and Drake flourished, there is absolutely no comparison between how music is sold--and consumed. Hell, you can buy albums and "singles" today without even leaving your house. Social media has been a game changer.

I'm not familiar with Drake's music so I'll let others argue it's merits vs. The Beatles, except to note two things--during the era of The Beatles, even people who didn't like them--in fact, even people who thought they were a Communist plot--knew the names of all the members and some of their songs.
And these songs weren't used for television commercials or sporting events--so it's not like non-fans were exposed to their music throw those avenues.
Also, every type of artist from every conceivable genre in pop music--but also jazz and "light" classical--covered Beatles songs.