"The ROC’s not crumbling, till the leprechaun magically run out of pranks, your son on a federal jail line mumbling something about having too much in his drink. You know how dumb that is?"
- Jay-Z during his freestyle at Roots Picnic
.@Drake has now earned 15 career No. 1 albums on the #Billboard200 thanks to 'ICEMAN,' passing Jay-Z and tying Taylor Swift for the most among soloists in chart history.
The only act with more No. 1 albums is the Beatles, with 19.
Drake just dropped three albums at once: “ICEMAN,” “Habibti,” and “Maid of Honour.”
This move had fulfilled his commitment to Universal, and right now every major label in America and around the world is calling his phone trying to land the most valuable free agent in music history.
He will sign a billion dollar record deal.
Where that happens, nobody knows yet, but it will probably be the first billion dollar deal in music history.
He has frozen the world.
Every executive, every streamer, every label, every competitor is watching this play out in real time.
This is leverage. This is ownership. This is negotiating power at a level the music business has never seen before.