Five artists appear on the #Hot100 for the first time this week, thanks to their guest appearances on @Drake songs:
Molly Santana: "Ran to Atlanta" (No. 2)
Qendresa: "Slap the City" (No. 39)
Stunna Sandy: "Outside Tweaking" (No. 65)
Iconic Savvy: "True Bestie" (No. 67)
Popcaan: "Amazing Shape" (No. 76)
Drake's "Make Them Cry" officially breaks the all-time record for biggest streaming day for a hip-hop song in global Spotify history (13.2 million).
It surpasses Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us".
Drake reportedly paid $120,000 for that glove. The person who inspired it paid nothing, because it was a disposable cotton glove from a green box on an editing bench.
In 1980, Michael Jackson visited a production studio called Robert Abel & Associates. He was touring the facility with the design director John Kehe when they walked past a film editor named Rick Ross. Ross was wearing a single white cotton glove on his left hand while scanning film frames for yellow grease pencil marks. Standard practice for editors at the time. Jackson, who had shown zero enthusiasm for anything else on the tour, froze. He asked Ross question after question about the glove. Then: "Could you spare one?"
Jackson took that disposable glove and wore it during the Jacksons' Triumph Tour in 1981. Then he called costume designer Bill Whitten and asked him to build something nobody had ever seen. Whitten hand-sewed 600 to 800 Swarovski crystals onto a single white cotton glove. Each one took approximately 40 hours of crystal-setting work. Jackson specifically wanted one glove, not two. Two felt ordinary. One felt cool.
That single glove debuted on national television during the Motown 25 special in 1983. The same performance where he unveiled the moonwalk. 47 million people watched a disposable editor's glove, rebuilt with Austrian crystals, become the most recognized accessory in music history in under four minutes.
The auction market priced it accordingly. The Motown 25 glove sold for $420,000 in 2009. A Victory Tour glove sold for $350,000 the same year. After Jackson died, a separate Victory Tour glove brought $190,000 at Planet Hollywood. The woman who bought it told reporters she was prepared to go higher. "I wasn't walking out of here without that glove."
Drake bought one of Jackson's Victory Tour gloves for the Iceman album cover, which dropped today with 43 new tracks across three simultaneous albums. The cover is Drake's hand in that glove making an "okay" gesture against a black background. He tied Jackson for 13 number one hits on the Hot 100 as a male solo artist in 2023 and rapped "I'm one away from Michael" on the very song that clinched it.
A film editor's $0.10 disposable cotton glove. 40 hours of hand-sewn Swarovski crystals. $420,000 at auction. And now the album cover for the artist who matched the record it was built to celebrate.
Rick Ross the film editor has no idea what he started.
@glitchtoriches Inventory control. They’ve already made their money from these & then some. these are just boxes in a warehouse collecting dust & it’s all profit. Drives traffic to their site & they make some money off it to help w fulfillment. 9/10 someone will add a regular priced item too.
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