Drake‘s “Way 2 Sexy” spent a third week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart, picking up more than 28 million on-demand streams. Impressively, Drake still has four songs in the Top Ten three weeks after the release of his new album, the juggernaut Certified Lover …
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A week after Kanye West set a new high-water mark for the biggest album debut of 2021 on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart with Donda, Drake obliterated that record with Certified Lover Boy. West launched with 313,000 album-equivalent units. Drake earned close to double that total, more than …
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Polo G‘s “Rapstar” spent a second straight week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart, maintaining a healthy lead over the second most popular track, Lil Nas X‘s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name).” “Rapstar” amassed 34.3 million streams in the latest track week, while “Montero …
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Polo G‘s scored his first Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart with “Rapstar,” ending a two week reign for label-mate Lil Nas X. Polo G’s single, produced by Einer Bankz and Synco, earned more than 44 million streams in addition to over 5,000 downloads. Lil Nas …
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Drake and J. Cole are getting up there. At 33 and 35, respectively, the two titans have more in common now than they did during the decade they were critically and commercially pitted against one another. Both are relatively new fathers and closer to their forties than their early twenties. …
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UPDATE:Drake updated the music video for his new song “War” to remove an extra who is currently facing charges for throwing a chair off the 45th floor of a Toronto building onto a highway, The Toronto Sun reports. The extra, Marcella Zoia, pleaded guilty to one count of mischief endangering …
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Publishing has historically been full of horror stories about artists or songwriters signing away their copyrights for eternity. But Kobalt, an independent outlet, promotes a different model: more flexible deals in which writers retain ownership of the songs they have written, keep more income from their songs than they might …
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UPDATE:Stream Drake‘s newCare Packagecompilation below. The 17-song album features J. Cole, Rick Ross and James Fauntleroy. *** Drake announced on Instagram that he’ll be releasing a new compilation, Care Package, to all digital platforms on Friday, August 2nd. The 17-song album will include previous non-LP tracks going back to 2011, …
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Drake‘s Scorpion remained at Number One for a second straight week as the rapper’s latest LP added another 335,000 copies to its now-platinum total. Despite a 54 percent sales dive from its streaming record-shattering and Hot 100-dominating opening week, Drake had no problems recapturing the top spot as Scorpion posted …
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It’s unclear how, exactly, Drake pulled it off. On “Don’t Matter To Me,” a late song on the rapper’s latest album Scorpion, he recruits Michael Jackson for a duet. The late King of Pop is listed as a feature, and true to that billing, his voice handles chorus duties over …
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