Drake Beats Beatles For Billboard Top 10 Hottest Hits in One Year

He has safely dominated 2018. Scorpion was a hit and had many good songs. He well deserved to break the record

Have a year Drake!

Is it just me or is Drake a talentless hack?

I can't say I've ever heard a song of his I like. I wouldn't say he's talentless, but it's definitely a style of music that's not for me. I'm really not into that whole soft hip hop, rapping in a synthesized voice thing. 

For the life of me, I can't understand why he's so popular. Can't sing, looks like a penguin when dancing, and his lyrics are childish.

Guess for me it's called getting old.

It's funny how they compare a band with talented song writers to a guy with a drum machine surrounded by women shaking their butts in the air.

You have to in some sense. His music was popular and that is what Billboard represents. Also many people thought the same away about the Beatles and Michael Jackson at the time vs rappers today

Popular music does not mean it's quality music. The Beatles could actually play instruments as opposed to sitting around pressing buttons on a drum machine and then filming women twerking to it.

It is pretty hard to make a decent quality soundtrack to rap over now a days. With programs and DJ stuff it could cost over 1K. Even tech guitars is the same effect and time to learn

THat's a joke, right? One of my many guitars is worth over $3K and I have several, not to mention the drums, bass and other instruments I own and play. I could learn how to program a drum machine in a couple of days easily and make similar tracks to any rap song. If you actually believe learning how to play an instrument is even remotely similar, then you really have no clue.

I am not saying learning to play an instrument is harder than making a beat, but to make a beat that is catchy and flows, think of rhymes, then rap to that beat takes some skill too.

A band like Beatles doesn't need a beat as vocals can usually go over the beat, but with rapping, beat and flow matter to how it goes with as it is normal talking

No, it doesn't take very much skill at all to do that.

Yes, Rap is all about drum machines and sh!t talk. It's for folks who have no taste in music whatsoever.

Researchers have found that people with psychopathic traits prefer listening to rap music.
While the findings are yet to be published, the researchers even go far as to suggest that rap songs could be used to help predict the disorder in the future. 

I don't believe in bull shit like that. I have friends that went to Harvard who listen to Drake and even XXXTentacion

Plus we aren't comparing quality nor did I say it was a quality debate. Drake is clearly more popular right now than Beatles in their prime and that is what the billboards represent

Putting raw talent aside, which the Beatles had far and above Drake.

The Beatles success was built on selling records, which needed to be produced and distributed in a time when record production was not yet a huge industry. Nowadays, there is the internet, streaming, Mp3 players and all sorts of easy access to any kind of music. The Beatles made their success without all of this technology at their fingertips. Drake wouldn't come close to the success of the Beatles if he had to sell records.

People can buy albums online too. Like I said, Billboard measures the Trending songs, not the sales, or anything like that. It represents the songs that are hot right now. It is proving that Drake is having a better year than the Beatles right now

What?

Trending is subjective, sales are objective.

Who or what is Drake?

Ok - now I know.. 

Kids should be listening to real music and singing like...

Drake is the Stephen King of Rap music, pumping out loads of crap to the masses.

It's as if its 'tame rap' - produced by a covert government department to counter the influence of real rap....

I found it.... anodyne.

Beatles record sales - 500-600 million

Drake record sales - 96 million

Nuff said.

Both Beatles and Drake were kings of something I call the soothing subgenre of the genre they're naturally good at.

Beatles were naturally good at sing-song pop so try decided to specialise (or were told by their Illuminati managers) to make mind-dulling severely soothing music and Drake is much the same. I don't hate Illuminati nor do I think I'll do more to stop them than support them in my life, it is just a truth we can't escape. They adore dulling the brain in addictive ways and I admit that Drake is so good at it. From his "hey there hater" songs Energy and Started From the Bottom, he's been making soothing songs for any mood one is in that are unbelievably addictive die to rhythm, melody and delivery pattern not toention slick flow. He doesn't need lyricism or good puns because that's not how niche and he love awhat his jiche is; the mentally dull norm. I don't hate it, I just don't love it. I admit I dig some of his songs. Back2back is one his best ghost-written pieces of all time.

Dont put down digital percussion and sampling. Guitars and tamborines and shit are all fine and good but the creative explosion that was the sequencer and the ability to sample and pick apart and re-integrate anything and everything really cant be described merely as "pressing buttons". Yer also underscoring the fuck out of the chronological continuity between the recording methods of Rubber Soul and Revolver and the introduction of the synthesizer and, later, the sequencer. Ironically, the Beatles' experimental ethos of their later works would fit right in to the employment of an MPC. Im not a huge Drake fan. Havent been in the last few years but I would never feign complete ignorance of both his (and his producer's) talent or deserved spot in legitimate music history.

Get yer head out of yer arse lmao. If it's so easy then... do it. Go buy a fucking MPC, write some lyrics, and put out a top tier rap album. And I dont know what tf the rap battles on an obscure forum site have to do with what I'm talking about but whatevs.