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Big Al
Drake is a mixed-race, Canadian hip-hop artist or part-Jewish background.
I'm not a fan of his, but his career is legendary in terms of navigating this current streaming era.Quote
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Big Al
Drake is a mixed-race, Canadian hip-hop artist or part-Jewish background.
He is also quite simply the most-streamed artist in the history of music. As of mid-2018, Drake songs had TEN BILLION plays ... on Apple Music alone. in one year - 2018 - Drake tunes were streamed 8.5 billion times on Spotify alone.
By most measures, he is the most heard artist of his time.
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Big Al
Drake is a mixed-race, Canadian hip-hop artist or part-Jewish background.
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buttons67
artists sales can never be compared in different eras.
steaming music and buying physical vinyl are 2 different things.
an example is 1 stream counts as 1 sale , and 2 streams count as 2 sales
but if you bought a record in the 70,s once and it counted as 1 sale you can listen to it 300 times and its not going to count as 300 sales.
i cant believe someone like drake can set these records, just dont buy that crap, if he was around in the 70,s he would be a nobody.
i never dig surveys as they are biased towards the younger generation due to the demographics of there being more younger folk than older, so its not a fair comparison.
and another thing, these figures never take into consideration inflation, so more recent sales always count more than older ones.its not a level playing field.
i wonder who the biggest selling artists of all time with inflation taken into account, all record sales, merchandising, concert gate figures in total, and royalties for songwriting, the whole lot, who would be the biggest,
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Rockman
Drake ….
He's the guy who started a Stones food site a few years back ….
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peoplewitheyes
A bit strange to detail his ethnicity in that manner.