Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "DRAKE & PARTYNEXTDOOR SOME SEXY SONGS 4 U DEBUTS AT NO. 1 ON BILLBOARD 200"

Episode Date: February 26, 2025

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticJoin Analytic Dreamz on Notorious Mass Effect for a deep dive into Drake’s $$$4U success in this segment. Explore its #1 Billboard 200 debut with 249,000 units, including 28,000 pure sales and a record-breaking 56.6 million Spotify streams on Day 1. Analytic Dreamz breaks down the commercial performance, from Apple Music’s R&B/soul streaming milestone to a 44% Day 2 drop. This segment covers Drake’s 14th chart-topper, industry controversies like his UMG lawsuit, and comparisons to Kendrick Lamar’s GNX. Get insights on Joe Budden’s reaction and the suppression debate, highlighting Drake’s strategic win."Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Now, sometimes in life, you doubt the people who you put on top and they prove you wrong. As when it comes to my projections for Drake and Party Next Door's album, some sexy songs for you, obviously, I was wrong, as I thought this would end up being his worst selling project of all time. For the simple fact that the lawsuit for UMG is still going on till this day, Drake is still suing UMG over defamation for Kendrick Lamar's song. not like us. But all the smoke and mirrors that Spotify and UMG were playing and did not stop some sexy songs for you from coming number one.

As officially, it sold 248,000 first week units. And it ended up being the number one most play album in the world. I predicted that Sabrina Carpenter's Deluxe Edition was going to come number one and let's just say it wasn't even close sabrina carpenter's deluxe edition came in at 159 000 first week and of course kensi glomar's gnx that was 137 000 um and that album's been out for a while but basically genx was the third most play album in the world so when it comes to umg artist drake still showed that he is unequivocally the top dog in the music industry no pun intended So with 248,000 units sold as far as having the most popular album in the world, humongous accomplishment.

And it just goes to show how even if you are blackballed in the music industry, as far as UMG and Spotify doing all the tricks in the world to try to keep you from that number one slot, having Sabrina Carpenter drop her a deluxe edition, having Kendrick Lamar and his GNX album just being reinvigorated. rated due to the Super Bowl performance, which is not more on UMG. That's really more Kendrick than anything. Because if you don't know, Kendrick currently has about 15, no, 14 tracks on the charts right now. No, he has 13. All right. So he has 13 tracks on the top one on the Billboard Hop 100 right now. And when it comes to Drake, I don't see any tracks currently on the charts.

But when it comes to projections dated for March 1st. Give me a hug. It's set to be his most popular track Off of the album by far. It's set to be, well, it's not by far, but it's set to be

the seventh most played track in the world. And then you have Nokia, which, of course, you know what I'm at to start giving my credit from me pointing out What is going to be to smash hit on these albums Because as soon as I heard Nokia off of that album,

I basically said to myself, Hey, this is a hit. I was like, hey, self, who's calling your phone? Like, that track was phenomenal. And then the beat switch to the whole baby girl Some song let me see you twirl something like that that was fire and then the way that Drake came back on all you need to know is that that track is beyond phenomenal So that being said

Give me a no key is set to be the 10th most play track in the world being the second most popular off of Drake's album Then you have Cien Tower being projected to be the 18th most play track You have died trying set to be the 19th most play track and then of four course you have something about you which is said to be the 28th most popular track uh mothballs somebody loved me small town fame spider man Superman crying and chanelle reigning in houston pimmie's dilemma brian still obviously you could tell drake is going to have a lot of charts a lot of tracks charting on a billboard hot 100 which just showcases once more that this man is the goat.

But then you know what I'm saying? I was like, 10, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on? Every time I doubt Drake, as far as sales wise and projections, he ends up proving me wrong. But then, you know what I'm saying?

I was like, Tim, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on? I'm out here thinking that because he turned into hip hop, Karen, aka blue-collar snitch, that UMG was going to make this one of the worst first week sales of his career. But I guess I was missed, I guess I just misspoke. But then, you know what I'm saying?

I was like, 10, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going to what? Now all jokes aside, of course, getting into my second, third, fourth, and 50th million impression of this particular album, my top five songs haven't really changed too much. When it comes to party next door in Drake's album, it's phenomenal. Every listen, I just gained more of her appreciation for the way they put melodies together. And I do believe this is more of a soft, more of a soft album because it's primarily R&B. And with that being said, I think is targeting more of the women in the industry.

As when it comes to my top five songs off of this album, I try to keep that mind as I was going through Drake's discography with one of my friends. And basically, we noticed that Drake has never really given us a full R&B project. So this is technically our first one from Drake. So with that being said, I do believe Mothballs is, one of my standouts off of the album i love party next door's chorus and the way he comes in i feel like they added the own thing on the entire album but of course for mothball's i feel like they was playing off each other phenomenally uh phenomenally so mothball's uh give me a hug of course is a

standout to me no kea is a standout dot trying is a standout to me and somebody loves me as part of those are my top five off of the album currently but as far as uh verse and verses that were a standout track number 20 off of this album when he's gone when Drake gets started with his verse I'm not going to lie to you that may be one of the greatest verses we've heard from Drake in a long time from an R&B standpoint so that's definitely up there specifically for that of course when it comes to like actual quality and lyricism I think give me a hug is is the one of with the most i don't think it's like a

lyricism type of track from like start to finish but i think for the most part that's where all the double triple entendres are going to be found because he's really keeping it simple as far as what he's trying to say but as far as rapping i would say give me a hug is the best rap track on here and then of course as far as my top five the reason why i have it the way i do is because no kea and dot trying is drake i think trying to get into his experimental bag and i think it worked out like Of course, a lot of people are not filling the Mitra Padre, which I definitely understand.

But when it comes to Nokia, when it comes to Dot Trine, I just think the experimental factor help with the long album. Because if you have 21 tracks and you're not switching it up at all, they can get pretty monotonous as far as the sound. So Nokia, Dot Trine, I think are very pivotal tracks off of this album. And when it comes to somebody loves me, I like the way that party. and Drake was getting more into the R&B back to the point where I think from start to finish it's probably one of the better R&B tracks off of here, which is why it's in my top five. And of course, you have give me a hug. I've already talked about that being a better rap track.

And then Moth Balls, that was the most overlooked track for me on first listen. Listen to moth balls. You know, I was like, oh, it's cool. Let me keep going, right? Listening back to moth balls time and time again, pause, basically they were going to, going crazy to the point where they was playing off of each other. And the way that party next door came in with his chorus, when he's saying like when you're doing that thing,

the way he kept repeating that, I'm not saying it's like revolutionary, right? I'm just saying I haven't really heard that too often, of course, where you like repeat one line and the R&B space. Maybe SoundCloud, like when L'Opump was yelling Gucci game. But as far as party next door, just repeating, you're doing that thing, you're doing that thing, you're doing that thing and as far as it being in uh i don't know if that's more of the bridge or the

chorus i think it's more of the chorus but basically i like the way he came on because i felt like he was really playing along with the beat and of course we have to get into kensik lamar as this man made a resurgence on the charts to the point where not like us is still set to be the most popular track in the world do y'all not know not like us has been on their charts for about 40 weeks so this man kensering not only has 13 tracks on a billboard hot 100 but he's set to have yet another outing at number one was not like us. Now of course, I guess I'm fine with that. You know, at the end of the day,

I did say UMG and Spotify's playing smoking mirrors behind the scenes, but Drake still has the number one album. We'll let Kendrick have the number one song. You know what I'm saying? We'll let that slide because interestingly enough, I don't want to get in trouble with this. When I first projected and assumed that this would be Drake's worst selling album

of all time, I'm just going to say maybe there was a little message sitting my way. Let's just put it like that because I don't like to, you know, reveal my sources, but I think it's very pivotal to have certain sources in the music industry to be able to give actual information to the consumer as far as them not being blindsided about what's to come, right? So whenever I'm talking about Drake and him being blackballed by UMG and Spotify, I ain't just make that up. They hate that man. The super mad that this man sued them, and not only sued them, sued them over a defamation loss

sued them over defamation for a rap battle he engaged in. So they're pretty upset. They think he's throwing a hissy fit and that they're going to show him why they are the big dogs in the music industry. But just so happened. Even though, you know, if you see any Spotify Apple music charts out there, they're very different. I wonder why. It's almost like, no, let me chill. So basically, I did get hit up about my projections and let's just say it was definitely right.

in me being wrong. I was definitely wrong. I thought he was going to have the worst sell, some of the worst sales in his entire career, but he ended up putting up monumental cells to the point where the only thing is, you can look at this man and just say he is absolutely the goat of hip hop. But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like,

damn, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on? Like the mascot, just the overall leader of the hip hop genre. Okay, I'm my fault. I ain't going to go too crazy. So anyways, when it comes to Let's see if I can find this right quick. Oh yeah, I want you all to hit this right quick. Every time I look at these first week sales,

even though UMG and Spotify try to blackball him, analytic dreams over here saying it may be his worst first week sales ever, only for him to get his 14th consecutive number one album. All right, y'all get the point, right? So when it comes to the reception of the first week sales, I think it's very interesting because, of course, GNXO 319,000. first week for all the dogs sold 363,000 first week so it's definitely a significant drop from that

but like i said this man is being the hip-hop caring a blue collar snitch umg tried to showcase that you should probably not sue the label that puts you on top when it comes to consumption with the masses so he ended up going against him and this is a objectively speaking this is a w i think looking at this it's a very telling that drake is a dominant force in the music game and it made me think of when conier went number one with his vultures one release and he was basically blackball way more to drake because he was actually gone crazy right so with conier's crazy cancelable rants he basically was dropped by all his uh brand deals things in that nature even adidas dropped him so when it initially came out and basically they said that

Vultures 1 sold 148,000 units first week. I want you to compare that to Drake's. How much did Drake sell? I want you to compare that to Drake's 248,000. These are what these two specific artists look like when their main label is against them. And if you look at them outside of it, like for all the dogs when they was, you know, I think they was on the same team when all the dogs came out. But some people say even span back way.

farther than before for all the dogs came out to the point where that's why red button is on for all the dogs before any of the Metro Kendrick stuff happened

so they'd been at odds but anyways with that being said there's something I was looking for the Draykin so why didn't even bring that up there was

oh yeah because for all the dogs so like 300 some thousand first week so comparing it to that you do know that it's a big drop-off, but at the same time, Drake is still the goat of the hip-hop industry, because not only is he upending or just overcoming the obstacles

that Spotify, UMG is putting his way, but he's also showcasing that even when he is blackballed from certain DSPs like Spotify, he would still show up and show out. So that being said, click my link to my bio, let me know in one of my social medias. What do you think about Drake and party next door selling $248,000, and first week sales for some sexy songs for you and what is your biggest takeaway from this

whole battle between drake and umg