SHFT wrote:Roco14 wrote:SHFT wrote:I was curious so I checked their spotify's.
Drake - 12th in the world for montly listeners.
Taylor Swift - 14th
Beiber - 10th
Ariana - 7th
So all in a similar ballpark... Differnce beteween drizzy and grande is like 7m listeners a month.
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Another thing to remember... Spotify is mostly a North American platform. People in China, Brazil, Europe, and the rest of Asia aren't using spotify to listen to their music as much as we areWuTang_OG wrote:
Drake is not just a hip hop artist. His music is very versatile and appeals to all genders and age groups. Drake right now is arguably the biggest music star on the global scale and no you can't argue britney spears has more appeal to him right now.. this isn't 1998.
I'm not saying he's just a hip hop artist, but his music doesn't appeal to the rest of the world like you might think it does. And I'm not saying Madonna is a bigger music star in 2019; I'm saying that if you went and did a survey of 1000 people in each country outside of USA/Canada, you'd find that more people recognize the name Madonna or Beyonce over Drake. Travel a little bit and you'll see for yourself.
https://www.ifpi.org/news/Drake-named-Global-Recording-Artist-of-2018Released in June 2018, Drake’s 25-track double album broke multiple global records in its first week of release. Scorpion was the first album to reach one billion streams across all platforms worldwide. According to Apple Music, the album reached number one in 92 countries. Prior to the release of Scorpion, album track God’s Plan, released in January, broke first-day streaming records on Spotify and Apple with over 14 million streamsPrevious recipients of this prestigious award are One Direction (2013), Taylor Swift (2014), Adele (2015), Drake (2016) and Ed Sheeran (2017).
https://www.businessinsider.com/most-popular-music-artists-nielsen-drake-post-malone-migos-2018-7Drake and Post Malone are in a league of their own in popular music this year, according to Nielsen's mid-year report on the music industry.
The two rappers, whose versatile music has allowed them to top charts across multiple genres, took the top two spots on Nielsen's ranking of 2018's most popular artists by total album-equivalent consumption, a metric which includes all music sales, streaming figures, and digital downloads.Drake's Billboard No. 1 single "God's Plan" led all songs in on-demand streaming and total consumption.
I think youre downplaying Drake a bit lol (a **** ton) and just an FYI, Spotify is the 4th biggest music streaming service on the planet based on the number of users. Behind Youtube (easily the biggest and one I imagine Drake does very well in), NetEase (China) and SoundCloud (who it very close to).
Even in 4th place, it has 200 million users with over half coming from North America & West Europe. Doesn't really tell the whole story. Let me pull up some stats..
These are global monthly search volumes in Google.
Ariana~9M/month
Bieber-6M/month
Swift~4M/Month
Drake~2.7M/month
Like somebody already mentioned, all these people have more than double the Instagram following of Drake. The global numbers don't lie - but if you ever take a trip down to Asia, Latin America, East Europe, etc. you'll see that for the most part, nobody really cares about Drake. Many don't even know about him (as crazy as that might sound).
Back in the day, Britney Spears and Madonna were wayyy more global than Drake is today, but obviously they're past their primes at this point...