Episode notes
Rapper Jay Z is trying to bait hip hop GOAT Drake into a rap battle to help with his record sells. The delusional aging rapper is now almost sixty years old, married with children, and he's trying to have a rap battle with the biggest artist in the world, who is twenty years younger than him, because he cannot accept that the rap game has past him bye -- and his fanbase are middle age grandparents who thinks that he's detached and possibly having a midlife crisis..
Jay-Z's digital-only album 4:44 went platinum in just five days, achieving over one million sales, which is rare for digital-only releases. This success was largely due to a partnership with Sprint, which provided the album to its customers for free, while still counting those downloads as sales…
Jay-Z's digital-only album goes platinum in under a week :https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40515704
Meanwhile......Drake is the first artist to chart 100 songs on Billboard’s Radio Songs chart… Drake's "2 hard 4 the radio" is his 100th song to chart on Billboard's Radio Songs Chart making him the first artist to achieve this monumental milestone…
Drake is the most successful artist when it comes to most Billboard charts. He is so talented, polarizing, and so popular that he has accrued more placements on many of the busiest and most competitive tallies than even the top superstars can only dream of....
The Canadian talent continues to promote his “HIM TRILOGY” newly released albums – ICE MAN , HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR – and as he does, he reaches an incredible milestone on the toughest airplay ranking to scale...
"2 Hard 4 the Radio," the third and latest single from Iceman, becomes a very important hit within the hip-hop musician's discography. As the track – somewhat ironically – debuts on the Radio Songs tally in last place, at No. 50, it becomes Drake's hundredth tune to land on the list…
Billboard compiles the Radio Songs rundown using airplay data, and it details the tracks that reach the largest total audiences across the nation each week…
Drake is the first artist to accrue 100 hits on the Radio Songs chart. He has owned the record for the greatest number of appearances for some time, and he furthers his lead this frame… Billboard reports that only two other artists have racked up 80 or more smashes. Chris Brown and Lil Wayne are tied for the second-most hits with 82 apiece…