Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS 2023 WINNERS"

Episode Date: January 8, 2024

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticDid your favorite artist dominate the galactic airwaves this year? Buckle up, space voyagers, as Analytic Dreamz takes you on a deep dive into the 2023 Billboard Music Awards, revealing the chart-topping champions who rocked the universe.Morgan Wallen emerges as the ultimate supernova, blasting away the competition with a staggering 11 awards! But fear not, female space warriors, for Taylor Swift reigns supreme as the galaxy's most decorated diva, claiming 10 trophies to her name.This year's ceremony was a cosmic explosion of talent, with gravitational pulls toward every genre imaginable. We'll dissect the winners and nominees across all categories, from R&B black holes to Country constellations, uncovering the rising stars and seasoned nebulae who illuminated the Billboard charts.So tune in, space cadets, and prepare for liftoff! In this segment, we'll:Unmask the chart-topping heroes and heroines of the 2023 Billboard Music Awards.Analyze the gravitational trends that shaped the galactic music landscape.Predict the meteoric rise of future supernovae waiting to explode onto the scene.Don't miss your chance to witness the ultimate celebration of intergalactic musical dominance!Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Continuing the trend of recapping the industry leaders for not only gaming, but hip hop as well. We're going to also touch on the industry leaders when it comes to music in general, but because I specifically cover hip hop, we have to address the elephant in the room. Hip hop's performance in 2023 was beyond abysmal. It was one of those things where when Little Uzi Verts pink tape is the first tape to secure a number one album

when it comes to the grand scheme of things and how many hip-hop artists drop frequently, you know that it's a rare decline for the genre. And it's not even only performance on the charts. New genres are on the rise, which means that our overall wrap-up for 2023 is interesting because we only had three hip-hop albums released in 2023 among the top 25 consumed. And this is the fewest in six years, according to luminant data.

So it's not, oh, I made it up. like what's your source i made it up ain't one of those lumineate data came out with the wrap up results and you know i call myself analytic dreams so you know we got to analyze these type of numbers because this is ridiculous i don't know if it's because our top hip-hop performers go on hiatus for half a decade plus i don't know if the rise of latin music k-pop afrobeats is eating up certain market space, but this is ridiculous. I think our goats in hip hop needs to step up.

This reminds me, and I'm going to keep making this analogy, because I don't think people understand the amount of dominance that hip hop has had over the past five to six years on the charts. Like, remember, only three hip hop albums in 2023 were among the top 25 most consumed. the fewest in six years. So the reason why I want to say that again is because I compare it to when Team USA

was dominating every other country in basketball and then you start to have the likes of a Canada starting to compete with us, you start to have other countries actually keep up with us on a regular basis to the point where it's like, if we don't send our best of the best, we may get outplayed.

and embarrassed. So now, with the decline of hip-hop albums and hip-hop songs when it comes to performing, this is a new trend because over the past half decade, we've been consistently dominating the charts. And what I mean dominating, I mean, we've been occupying more space to where people probably just thought all the world listened to. was hip-hop. So overall, of course, was still competing as we had 70 albums in the top 200. But as far as the top, which in hip-hop, we only, we don't settle for nothing less but the top. 2023 was one of the worst years performance-wise because people say it, but nobody puts numbers towards what they are speaking on. So for me, I want people to get a glimpse into whatever I'm saying

about hip hop because I'm not just going with the trend of talking about oh hip hop is falling off because quality wise I'm not saying hip hop is falling off I just think we have a lot more chefs that's putting out offering than before and it's on you to pick what chef is making the right food for you so hip hop has 70 albums in the top 200 so even that decrease we show you you how dominant we were in the past decade. And the reasons were some of the things I just listed out with Afrobees, Latin music, K-pop, and just the globalization of music via the internet because now people have access to more offerings from different chefs. I'm comparing artists to chefs if you didn't put that together. And then the lack of a number one album is very glaring and have to highlight it because when I get into these numbers and these industry leaders, I want y'all to know that, of course, I specifically cover hip hop,

so I had to address the elephant in the room as somebody is probably wondering what in the world is going on with hip hop and if it's just a fad that everybody's saying hip hop didn't have a good year. It's not a fad statistically one of our worst years ever, like I just said. and I think there's a reason for it, which I just laid out. So now, I'm not going to be the dead horse, of course. All you need to know is the hip-hop's market share has decreased slightly, not majorly, but slightly. So anyways, oh, another stat to throw at you is hip-hop's market share was about 26%

of the U.S. market for this year. So, yeah. With that being said, also we're going to get into the industry leader. and with that with industry leaders I try to go to certified numbers so who else to refer to as a source the billboard themselves one of the biggest the biggest when it comes to actually solidifying numbers and giving it to us in a way that we could digest so top artists of twenty twenty three I don't know if I wanted to start with that necessarily but hey here we are Taylor Swift was the top artist of twenty twenty three shocker

surprised i think not taylor swift i am comparing to artists that have already passed away because her 2023 performance numbers wise literally boosted the u.s economy i bring up this stat all the time but currently i don't have to pull it up hold on let me make sure because this stat is egregious like this is this is amazing i spell government right make sure i spell that right Make sure I spell that right. Okay. So basically the government came out because of Taylor Swift performing so well. And basically, other than her, of course, being the top artist of 2023,

she boosted the U.S. economy. And I was trying to find an actual number. If you look up Taylor Swift, Beyonce, I talked about it and how much they boosted the U.S. economy. and I was trying to see if I could find that stat. If I can't, then it's not a big deal because I've said it before. For people who listen to the pie, you probably know what I'm referring to. But obviously, it seems like I can't find it right now. I'm going to give it one more try because most of these categories, Taylor Swift is leading.

So I want you to know why. And I don't want you just think they're just trying to cape for a white woman. This ain't no favoritism at this point. Taylor Swift really ran 2023 and it was really no doubt wasn't up in the air. Wasn't battling with nobody. Morgan Wallen. Nah, triple, quadruple his numbers. Taylor Swift was really one of one when it came to impacting the U.S. economy.

So let me see. Okay, here we go. So the tour for Taylor Swift passed a $1 billion mark in just nine months after kicking off in the USA. Think about that. a billion with a B in just nine months. Generating that amount of revenue is like when LeBron was in Cleveland and everybody acted like they all of a sudden wanted to visit Cleveland knowing good, just knowing that they would not visit Cleveland if it wasn't for LeBron.

Obviously, Taylor Swift was performing in multiple areas, but still. Still, just letting you know the amount of impact that she had. So filling stadiums, earning billions, boosting the U.S. economy. Literally, she could have ran for president, and she probably would have had a lot of people vote for it. Like, I'm not even, like I'm being dead serious when I say Taylor Swift could run for president, and I wouldn't be surprised if she actually gave actual politicians and run for the money. So with that being said, Taylor Swift was the top artist of 2023. Of course, you have Drake, Luke Combs, Morgan Wallen, Siza.

You already know my personal favorite. Do I even have to say it? Like, come on now. Top female artist, winner, of course, Taylor Swift, along with a Beyonce, Miley Cyrus, Olivia Rodrigo, and Siza. And then the top Billboard 200 artists, which basically is, well, I'm not going to insult your intelligence. You know what I'm talking about.

And also, I have the actual website up. So, Analytic Dreams video on Spotify to see the video version along with the audio. But basically, Taylor Swift won that as well as the top Billboard 200 artists, along with Drake, Luke Holmes, Morgan Waller, and Sissor. You're going to start to see a pattern here. A lot of these artists, which is running the charts. Top Hot 100 songwriter. Taylor Swift was number one, of course. I don't know if the rest is in order.

They just talk about the winner. Then you have Ashley Goreley, which is a guy, I believe. Actually, let me not assume. But looks, yeah, let me just chill. Ashley Gorely, Jack Antonoff, Siza, and then Zach Bryan. Hold up, one second. I got to take my... I had a jacket on because I was getting cold, and now I'm just, like, burning hot.

I don't know why y'all need to know that. But, hey, that information is in your membrane now. So, hey, you got to deal with it. so anyways um let's keep going top radio songs artists taylor swift of course was the leader along with myly cyrus morgan wallin sizz in the weekend that's why i'm really going over this list because if it was just straight artists from other genres then i probably want to have covered it this extensively um but of course with rnb and hip-hop artists uh sprinkled throughout these lists i thought it would be nice for people to know as i did say that this episode

is the year and wrap up for hip hop and gaming. So we're also going to get it. So we're going to get the industry leaders. And we're going to get my personal favorites for 2023. Right now, obviously we're getting to the industry leaders. So that was the top radio songs artists, top song sales artists, of course, Taylor Swift. And this one threw me for a loop because I haven't heard of Jason Aldine and I haven't heard of Oliver Anthony. Actually, yes, I have.

I covered Oliver. Okay, I remember him. I think he was the guy. who seemed like he was just in the middle of nowhere making music i don't know how he got a hold of recording equipment and internet but somehow he did and he blew up after that so you have taylor swiff jason aldeen molly cyrus morgan walling and oliver anthony music and then we kept going to top billboard global 200 and then at this point you probably already try to see how many there's a lot of different categories yeah let's keep going with that because it's not too many left

because i don't want to just keep beating a dead horse because y'all understand who's the top artist but these are these names are changing other than taylor swift so taylor swift led the pack by far like laughed them not even close don't even look back type beat when they she just smoked them in twenty twenty three probably one of the more dominant performances from an artist i've seen in a year ever like the amount of impact artists could have in a year i think i've seen the biggest with Taylor Swift. Like, this is crazy. Dropping two albums, both of them selling $1 million plus first week when my favorite artist,

who's Drake, who's also huge, pause, putting out his biggest album accumulated 600 or 700 plus first week sales. Well, thousand, of course. 600 to 700,000 first week sales. I forget the actual number. I would have to actually, let me just look at it right now. Because I know Drake views. So Drake.

Views sold. Oh my goodness. 852,000 first week. So to put that in comparison, I think the highest first week sales in U.S. history is Eminem, of course. Eminem again, of course. Eminem again, of course, in the top three. You know, I would say white privilege,

but y'all could probably already figure that out. Number four, 50 cent with the mass secure. And then number five, the Carter three with a little Wayne. And then Drake. with, they say one million each, but I think there was rounding gull for Drake. So really the card of three is number five with Little Wayne. But now, let's compare Taylor Swift,

because you know it's going to get to that point where, oh, you ain't going to compare Drake and Taylor Swift, because you knew if he was on top, you would have compared them. And I got to keep it fair. I got to cover it like I see it. So Taylor Swift put out literally two albums in one year. I mean, shout out to the artists who take 20 years to put out, bodies of work

but Taylor Swift put out let's see 1989 and also these are re-releases so this is even crazy how this is selling like this because if you don't know re-releases

and even in the gaming space remasters always well usually don't hit as hard as the original for somehow some reason somehow some way Taylor Swift managed to captivate this same type of feel that she captivated at whenever she released this originally original album so anyways let me see if i can find it i don't think they do first week sales for other artists oh yes they do okay

so taylor swift sold 1.5 million yes 1.5 1.5 million first week with 1989 so that's one right and then you have if i can find another one then you have i think it was speak now is that the album yeah okay so that was that was the second one that she dropped uh this year and and that came out that came out in october 27th 2023 which literally made drake push his album back so if you got to call it like it is um you can't say i never do that you know i mean because drake pushing his album back for an artist i never thought i see today so what else let me see if i can find this and then speak now so the first album she put out this year debuted it with okay so it wasn't a million it was 700,000 first week which basically

I think they was expected this uh okay what she actually so she sold it says 1.04 I'm trying to Make sure I can fact check this. I'm seeing 700,000. I'm seeing 1.04. I don't know if to talk about vinyl. I don't know what it is. Oh, okay. So yeah, with everything as far as streaming and vinals,

it was 1.04. Of course, that's insane. 1.4 to follow that up with 1.5, as far as first week sales, just different level of impact. Literally imminent. I read off the top performance. hip-hop albums of all time and you see taylor swift did that twice in one year like got to put it in

perspective because i think a lot of people they understand taylor swift's status in a game but analytically i don't think they know just how much dominance has been displayed by mrs swift you know by the swifties as if uh i'm getting their name correct because also got to credit her fan base because they showed up and showed out as one of the best fan bases ever in music history so anyways enough of Taylor Swift just had to put in perspective so y'all don't think we just crowned in Taylor Swift for no reason so the top billboard global 200 artists was Taylor Swift bad bunny Morgan Wallin Siza and the weekend I knew bad bunny was gonna hop on this list at some point then we had top billboard global exclusive

or no exclusive I can't read excluding US artists so we had Taylor Swift again goodness bad bunny ed shirn new jeans in the weekend if you didn't know the weekend is not from america he's from canada and that also adds to my other point that canada has been producing some pretty quality high quality uh artists if i might add because if you really think about it the weekend drake toy lanes there's probably other canada artists that i'm missing out on they have a very strong case kind of like my go back to my team USA point and It's like Jokic, Joel, and who else? And Janus.

You know how those are overseas artists? Not artists. Overseas basketball players. Basically, they, as far as the top of the top, are in that discussion. And they're from somewhere else. And people sometimes try to think they're from here. Like, Joel, obviously, they're saying, like, he is rumors that he's going to play from Team USA because technically I guess he's lived enough.

I don't know, some type of loophole, right? Because USA doesn't really have the greatest of big man if we're not talking about Anthony Davis or bam. But there's not basketball. Let's get back into hip-hop so I don't lose people. The weekend is not from U.S. He's from Canada. And just to throw it out there because I think people forgot just for no reason other

than throw shade, 21 Savage is also not from America. He's from the UK. But hey, I don't know why I felt like throwing that in there. I just felt like that was one of the craziest moment. in life when we figured that out and can't let y'all ever forget that so anyways top male artist of course we finally got the man himself that dropped the end bomb right i was wondering why in the world was this man not getting any grammy nominations for 2023 after putting up the performance that he did on the charts well ladies and gentlemen this man has been accused of being racist yes

i know looking at him you would never tell that this man was racist you would never tell that this man will walk into a bar and be like, I didn't think I see you people. You know what I'm saying? With that mustache, with that haircut, who would I ever think that that man will look at black people and have some racist sentiments crossing in his brain? So anyways, Morgan Wallin was the leader for top male artists.

Then we had Drake, Luke Combs, The Weekend, and Zach Bryan. Luke Combs is an interesting one because I've listened to it. Luke Combe, I'm pretty sure he's a country artist. And I think that's the first time I ever listened to country music and I was like, oh, I get it. Like this is fire. It's like sad songs, mostly, but for country, they get away with it because you know how people clown juice world and Rod Wave, how they're super sad making music all the time, or super sad through their music all the time. Luke Combs basically sings sad songs, but everybody just gravitates towards it because I guess that's just how country is. So hip hop

you know with this braggadocious lyrics you know, not really supposed to get sad too often but her country is the exact opposite. Showing your feelings really results in the revenue stream. So anyways it was nice seeing Luke Combs up there. Top hot 100 artists

have Morgan Wallen leading again with Drake Luke Combs and now we have Cizza and Taylor Swift. So top streaming artists. Now this is this one was interesting because i thought this will go to go to drake i'm not going to lie i thought drake is the type of artist because if you don't know drake really doesn't get any of his uh

numbers from physical copies is all streams i'm not going to say yeah i think it's all streams i don't think he sells disc he doesn't sell vinyals i know for a fact he doesn't sell vinos any physical copies so i don't even know if you can actually buy a disc with for all the dogs title on it like maybe if you downloaded it and burnt the CD yourself. I shout out to my people who was out there burning CDs back in date. But as far as streaming, I thought Drake would be number one. But of course, they have Morgan Wallin at leading the pack with a Drake, Cizza, Taylor Swift, and then Zach Bryan. The reason why Taylor Swift, I don't think this is in order.

But anyways, the reason why Taylor Swift is not leading this category, because you would think, obviously, the dominance that displayed in 2023 she will also lead top streaming is because her fans went out and purchased her music i know right talk about actually respecting and valuing music the swifties went out and purchase physical copies with a price tag that is outlandish that you could substitute that for any type of meal at a fast food place they went and purchased taylor swift speak easy in 18 uh in 1989 so with that being and said the swifties really showed up when it came to physical copies and best believe me if the artist had the option for 500,000 fans to buy the album or a million fans to stream the choosing 500,000 fans to buy the albums 10 times out of 10 if y'all knew how little a stream was worth compared

to buying actual music it is it is very bewildering that artists promote streaming so much when you can have your artist buy an album and it count more towards the charts if i and especially because some artists be faking well all artists fake their numbers it's like 70 80% fake and the rest is like actual fan base um just keep that in mind for all the entertainment industry so with that being said morgan wall oh no what was i saying um totally forgot what was saying Taylor Swift. Yeah, I definitely forgot my point. I'm getting old.

But anyways, the top stream of artists, as you can see, Morgan Walden led the pack and the discussion between whether or an artist with actual album purchases versus streaming is an interesting one, because I don't think people realize just how many streams you need to add up to, like, one album sale. So, yeah, it's a lot. It's like a thousand, two thousand to even. equivalent to one album purchase so anyways let's keep going top duo slash group we have uh oh i think

i cover these people so uh fuerza regida yeah that's how you say it because i think i actually looked up how to say their name so fereza regita won this um category along with some of these names, I'm going to definitely mess up. Es Leban Armando. Armando. I think it's Armado. I don't know. Esleban Armado, 50, 50, which looks like a K-pop group over Ontario. I'll cover him extensively. And Metallica. Oh, look at Metallica.

Isn't they like a, they like ancient? Ain't that? My fault. I ain't mean to be that disrespectful, but goodness. I see Metallica, I think back into the Civil War days. I'm like, dang, y'all been around for a minute, right? Anyways, I'm probably incorrect with that, because I don't really cover or know too much about Metallica,

but I just think that you're super old for some reason. So, anyways, top new artists. See, Ice Spice up there. I don't know why that jumped out at me, you know, as far as being the first person on this list, because obviously she wasn't the leader of this, or the winner of this category, but she jumped out to me nonetheless.

So we had Zach Brian as the leader of the top new artist, Bailey Zimmerman, and Ice Spice Jelly Row. What in the... Bro, y'all really out here streaming a man named Jelly Row? Now, no hate, right? Let me let y'all see this. Because I don't even think y'all can see. Okay, now y'all can see his name.

What in the world are y'all doing, spending y'all free time listening to a man called Jelly Row? I'm being dead serious. I don't care what type of music this man makes and as a hip hop cover I know I sound like a complete total hypocrite talking about another artist's name. But let me tell you something.

Jelly Roll is up there for one of the worst artist names I've ever seen in life. How are you going to get any type of brand sponsorship with the mix of two different candy companies? Like at that point, you're not even trying in life. Like you're just trying to get your bag and dip. Who in the world is given a big sponsor? or promotional bag to a man called jelly roll.

Like, honestly, I don't know why they tricking me. That's just crazy. People don't be thinking about their names no more. Nobody puts thought into the name. Nobody puts significant mental capacity to coming up with the artist's name that's going last forever. I mean, I guess it could change it like Lotto did, but you all didn't know that whole situation. My fans of other genres or my supporters of other genres,

I mean Yeah, I totally blink I don't know why I'm blinking on points right now Anyways, jelly roll is just ridiculous That needs to change And shame on y'all for streaming him Obviously not I'm not being serious

You know tongue in cheek For else Before the jelly roll people get offended And unite But like jelly roll unite That's like the Captain America Avengers assemble right Like do y'all be like

Jelly Roll out Before you listen to his music Anyways, let me keep going. My fault. And then, oh, can't be disrespectful. And then ending off the list for top new artists is Peso Pluma, who, me specifically, had a lot of interest and authentic coverage of Peso, literally because he's my favorite Latin music, my favorite Latin musician currently. So, bro, who's out here streaming Jelly Row? I'm still stuck on that.

I'm sorry, I got to move on because I can't look at this no more. Jelly Roll is ridiculous. That's, that just got to go. Like, if you listen to Jelly Row, y'all got to click my link to your bio and let me know in one of my social media is like, why are you listening to him and how can I intervene? Right. So anyways, top hot 100 producers. We have Joey Moyi, did that say you say?

Jack Antonov, Metro Booman, Taylor Swift, and Zach Bryan. Now, you know what they say. if Metro don't trust you i'm a shoot you and not me specifically because i'm a law about any citizen but somebody will shoot you if metro don't trust you so i don't know why he needs somebody to shoot for him heard he's pretty sensitive but you know that's just coming from uh unique sources let's just leave it at that so anyways um when it comes to metro booming i thought he'd be the leader i'm gonna be completely honest honest i don't know what joey moi produced that's just my ignorance but as far as Metro producing the Spider-Man soundtrack

and also producing well I guess Heroes and Villains technically was a 2022 release in December I believe so that probably didn't count okay so that kind of makes sense but if they would have counted up I don't like when artists put out albums in December because it's like they want awards from a year that they didn't release in you know it's like you released and technically

and technicality right if we're in like a competitive lane technically you excluded from winning because you released the album and last year i don't care if it was in december you shouldn't have released in december you should have chose a earlier date in the year you chose to release it in December it's going to stay in that year but anyways you know other people are a little different so i think that's why he's not leading the pack i think if it would combine heroes and villains along with the spider man across the spider verse soundtrack it probably would have been leading a pack but nonetheless he's still on the list and along with a Zach brian taylor swift jack antonoff and of course the leader of the top hot 100 producer joey moore i know

being a producer probably is very lucrative so all of these people are well fed and two of these artists well two of these people are actually artists along with being a producer so that's just another level of revenue stream. So that's basically it. And then we have artists by genre. Of course, I'm not going to go through all that. I just really wanted to get into the top artists just to give you all an implication, an overview of how the industry is looking right now.

And as you can see, hip hop is nowhere to be found. I mean, we see K-pop. We see Latin musicians, like I was saying at the beginning of the segment. We really get outplayed by these different genres when we used to just dominate them completely. And so now it's not looking like that. I mean, how you, I don't even know. I mean, I guess top rap touring artists. I mean, a genre specifically for us, we won.

I mean, I guess. And of course, it's Drake. I mean, if we're talking about hip-hop, Drake's the only one putting up consistent numbers. It's kind of like LeBron at this point. It's like nobody wants to help this man. Nobody wants to help Drake carry the genre. Like, it's just him and him alone.

Well, Nikki did a thing. If I had it, okay, so let me shout out some of the artists that did that thing, right? Siza, Future. hit pop artist of 23 and as far as chart impact and then Drake was also in there um little dirk j cole all my life did that come out this year i don't know why i'm blanking on that i think that i think that song did come out this year yeah 2023 came out may 12th 2023 so little dirt j cole with all my life definitely impacted the charts i'm just i'm just giving you

some of the heavy haters from hip hop and then we had little uzi vert just want to rock of course we had scissor just taking over dominating the charts when it comes to uh carrying the rnb mantra people say rmb is dead and i just think that's because they don't want to give women any credit all these women out here like ciza um capella gray um r a linnix So many other ones. I'm blanking on it right now. Summer Walker. I mean, it's just so many different women running the R&B space.

So for people to say R&B is dead or R&B not performing, tell me why R&B out here outperforming hip-hop. So anyways, you know, of course, to wrap this up, I'm not going to like go through every single list. I mean, as you can see right here, top rap artist. All of these is just going to be Drake. If it's not rap, I mean, if it's rap is Drake, if it's R&B, it's CISA.

That's just how you need to, that's just how we're going to leave it because that's, that's literally how it is. Or the weekend, but the weekend technically didn't put out a body of work. I mean, I know he put out a soundtrack for the idol, but I'm not counting as a project because if I did, boy, if I did, that I'll be up there for me because the weekend just don't miss. I've come to realize, why is Kanye West on top gospel album? I'm so sorry. I just saw that category. I'm like, bro, the slap in the face. Christians. Anyways, let's keep going.

So, um, yeah, that threw me off. I'm just going to leave that up there for y'all amusement. So basically, with the weekend, being the top R&B artist, and, oh, no, oh, okay, I remember all saying. So the weekend,

putting out the idol soundtrack made me realize that I think the weekend, sonically, has put out some of the best music I've ever heard in life. I mean, not to be dramatic. But sonically, this man is just on a different level. And over time, because it's been quite some time that the weekend's been consistently putting out music, I've just realized sonically, he's putting out, he's put out some of the best music I've ever heard in life.

I mean, listening to Hurricane, listening to, what was that song off of the idol? It's like all the girls or whatever, listening to the song with the weekend. one of the girls listen to that's the one I was talking about one of the girls and they listening to the song with the weekend not the weekend with a little baby

yes he is not in this album because it's a playlist that's what I'm saying that's why it's hard to find it um how do I even pull that up how do you pull up an album that's a that's a soundtrack okay I found it no I didn't find it well in the world bro this makes it so hard

let me just go to this is the weekend Okay, yeah. So, um, the song with Little Baby, I still can't find it. Man, they make it really hard to find this Idol soundtrack. False Idols with Little Baby. That song, along with Hurricane, really the weekend Little Baby, if they came out with a collaborative album, it could be one of the best collaborative albums of all time, I think. I think sonically, those two really mesh. Um, trying to think what else. And then, let me see. That's basically it. I'm trying to look and see what actually was. Yeah, that's what it is. The Idol soundtrack. Okay. So then you had popular. You got one of the girls.

You have filled the void. You have false idols, double fantasy. Like, I don't think y'all really understand. If the weekend put this out as his own album, I'm not saying that he couldn't get these features on his own. But the HBO budget must have been crazy because I've never seen this many high-level features on the weekend album. Not saying he couldn't get them.

I'm just saying he never did. previously before this album like this album he was pulling out the heavy hitters like play with cardy don't come out for nobody he came out for the weekend uh he literally had a k-pop artist on here janee i believe uh little baby was on here future i mean this man was pulling out all the stops for this soundtrack for a for a tv show that wasn't even that good i watch i even watched the entire thing i didn't even finish it it was that bad i'm sorry and i'm a huge weekend fan so that should let you know what type of static we have right now so not static but what type of show we have as that show was not it um jealous god doll like it's just that soundtrack if it was an actual album from the weekend would probably be one of

his greatest albums of all time because that man was really uh putting up some top tier vocal performances on that album well technically soundtrack so anyways it's not an album so it's not gonna be be on my list spoiler alert but just had to you know um talk about that because this is the wrap up and i did want to touch on that pause as that really did what um impact me in the way that it made me realize that the weekend actually makes some of the best music i've ever heard so anyways uh songs let me see songs top selling song was anti hero oh yeah that's probably all you need no taylor swift morgan wallin last night junk cook lotto seven for a top global song no top global k-pop song sorry top song overall is obviously Taylor Swift anti-hero I could keep going on and on about the industry obviously you see the website if you don't analytic dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio but the just the numbers that comes from Billboard is just very

influential in the market share like it shows you exactly what these artists are doing and how they're performing against his peers like artists can come out say, oh, I'm number one. Can't nobody mess with me until them billboard results come out, and their name ain't nowhere to be found on these lists. I mean, where is me? Let me chill. Let's just say as an avid Drake fan, some artists that this Drake just need to realize that sometimes it doesn't pay to be a hater, you know? Well, really, all the times it don't pay to be a hater, you know, so top rap album, her loss. Damn, her, her loss came out last year, didn't it? Am I tripping? her loss came out was it this year

let me see her loss yeah her loss came out last year so anyways i don't know why it's looking like that anyways yeah it's starting to get into music from last year so that's probably telling me to wrap it up so anyways um overall of course the genre has been um no the consumption of genres has been

expanding expounding no expanding and me expounding on that is basically telling you that internet has led to people trying out new genres and they've found out that

they have a certain taste for music that they never thought they would. So that's why I think we're seeing the rise of a K-pop of Afrobeats of Latin music. Those are those areas

specifically, I think it's why we're seeing this type of decline. And to add on to that are legends in the game taking 20 plus years to drop music. I'm looking directly at you, Kendrick Lamar. So anyways, with that being said, hip hop overall sales and influence is still strong. So I don't want y'all to think like nobody listen. But compared to the market share, like I said, we had like 23%. Let me see if I can find this again to wrap this up. yeah overall rmb and hip-hop so both the genres combined accounted for 26% of the u.s market in

23 and once again luminate data according to them only three hip-hop albums released in 23 were among the top 25 most consumed the fewest in six years so it'll be interesting to see where we go from here, but as far as y'all, click my link to my bio, let me know on one of my social media is, what do you think about hip hop's decline in overall charts, and what do you think hip hop needs to do to reclaim its throne and start to dominate again in the billboard and chart landscape?