Drake makes RIAA history ahead of his birthday as the first artist to surpass 350M certified units 🏆
▫️ ‘VIEWS’ is officially Diamond
▫️ “In My Feelings” & “Marvins Room” are now Diamond
▫️ His record for the most Diamond singles rises to 18 (solo and featured)
He remains the most certified artist in RIAA history and becomes the first to surpass 350M certified units.
@JDI321@ez_emmie Correct, but you're shadowboxing.
As I said multiple times, you don't have to like everything that's popular and numbers aren't absolute
My take was that something being so widely loved for so long implies quality and that comparing him to one of hits or mcdonalds is stupid
@JDI321@ez_emmie As for the botting thing, spotify often conducts bot removal waves and Drake is never caught in them. The filter rate for iceman was also extremely good, there are zero implications of him botting.
@JDI321@ez_emmie Again, no. As I said you can think whatever about any song. What I dislike is pseudo elitists pretending that their opinions are facts, acting like disagreeing with their opinion is the asinine take when they are in the minority, that's why i said "authoritatively"
@JDI321@ez_emmie I'm not saying that record sales should twist your opinion. I said that since it's subjective, it's unreasonable to authoritatively declare something as bad when the only measurable metric disagrees
Sure, but Drake verifiably doesn't bot and his numbers were high under all rules
@JDI321@ez_emmie Ofc you gauge quality for yourself, we're discussing the matter of people trying to force their subjective opinion on others, treating said opinion as fact while elitistly talking down on those disagreeing
Sales don't effect me, but I love seeing my favorite artist succeed
@JDI321@ez_emmie And to be clear, I'm not claiming that a big artist is automatically better than a small artist, just that they're good. it's not comparative. The beef here is with ppl discrediting him, claiming his music is bad and treating opinion as fact. Anyone is free to not like any music.
@JDI321@ez_emmie Of course not, it absolutely is just opinions, which is why consistent high popularity implies high quality. Tens of millions wouldn't keep listening to music they don't have high opinions of. Like i said, not bulletproof but I don't see how else you could ever gauge quality.
@JDI321@ez_emmie Comparing one off hit songs to the guy who’s consistently been on top of the game for 15 years is comically dishonest.
Numbers aren’t bulletproof but they’re the only objective way of measuring quality, anything else is just an opinion.
@JDI321@ez_emmie This tired analogy is dumb and it doesn’t work. McDonalds is the most popular restaurant because it’s really cheap relative to the value you get. Listening to Drake vs listening to anyone else costs the same amount of money, people choose Drake purely because they prefer him