Drake Breaks Madonna’s Record For Most Hot 100 Top 10s EVER

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Just shows how dire the charts are these days

Damn, it's still amazing that her record stood this long.

That just goes to show how insanely prolific and popular she was at one point.

You have to take into consideration that she was churning out one album after the next for years, way more than most people.

Drake got a lot of those Top 10s as a featured artist on someone else's song. Madonna got all of her's as the lead artist. Big difference!

I bet if you polled everyone in the western world, far more people would be able to list the names of Madonna songs than Drake songs.

Madonna looks like she’s wearing a boobs for queens breast plate in OP picture.

R4, nice try. Mariah Carey and Madonna have about the same number of albums, but Madonna's career is almost 10 years longer.

Drake has released 6 albums in 10 years. Madonna's first 6 were released over about 15 years. Taylor Swift has released 8 albums in 15 years. Rihanna released 8 in about 11 years.

There is a drake in my pond. He does sound hotter than Madonna as far as waterfowl goes.

I have no idea who Drake is.

[quote]Damn, it's still amazing that her record stood this long.

I’m more amazed at how someone who hasn’t been out that long was able to break her record so fast.

She’s probably going crazy since the record was broken by someone who is disgusted with her kisses.

Can anyone name one Drake song?

[quote]Can anyone name one Drake song?

No, but I’m over 35. I’m sure plenty of people under 35 would be able to, just like I’m sure there are probably plenty of people under 35 who can’t name a Madonna song.

Shake my head @ shitty so-called charts nowadays. Singers today release 10X as many singles as older singers did in the past

Charts are worthless these days. Radio stations have been dying for years. Few people buy CDs. Are chart positions now ONLY calculated by download sales? How boring.

All props to Madonna for her tremendous success and she was a very exciting pop star for many years but lots of those hit songs are garbage. Who’s That Girl, La Isla Bonita, etc. Woof.

And I can't name a single one of them (though I can name ALL of Madonna's). God, music sucks these days.

Do streaming top 10s really count? Madonna did it when the sales were real.

[quote] nice try. Mariah Carey and Madonna have about the same number of albums, but Madonna's career is almost 10 years longer.

Darling, you’re forgetting soundtracks, EPs, greatest hits, etc that came with new songs. That comes to a grand total of 22 releases, which doesn’t included featurings and soundtrack songs like “I’ll Remember” and “This Used to Be My Playground”.

Mariah has a total of

[quote] nice try. Mariah Carey and Madonna have about the same number of albums, but Madonna's career is almost 10 years longer.

Darling, you’re forgetting soundtracks, EPs, greatest hits, etc that came with new songs. That comes to a grand total of 22 releases, which doesn’t included featurings and soundtrack songs like “I’ll Remember” and “This Used to Be My Playground”.

[quote]Do streaming top 10s really count? Madonna did it when the sales were real.

THIS ^^^

I’d say even Drake fans would be able to name more Madonna hit singles than Drake hit singles.

R6 I wouldn’t be so sure, Madonna is all but forgotten by anyone under 35.

Madonna isn't even among the most streamed artists of all time. That's really how you determine who is the most popular.

Most streamed artists of all time on Spotify (by lead artist credit):

#1 Drake

#2 Ed Sheeran

#3 Eminem

#4 Ariana Grande

#5 Post Malone

#6 Justin Bieber

#7 The Weeknd

#8 Rihanna

#9 Coldplay

But, but Madonna is a much bigger touring artist than Drake!

And she has several number one hits in Pakistan, Czechoslovakia, and Norway! Global is where it matters!!!!!

It's embarrassing to get beaten by a Canadian.

Drake would kill for the longevity Madonna has had, R25, and you know it.

r24, that only ranks spotify popularity not overall popularity

I didn't even know he had that many singles, period. Does he release 20 singles a year?

When Madonna set her record, it was far more impressive because it was at a time when you didn't release 20 singles a year. Now, albums don't really matter and it's all about singles. Didn't Nicki Minaj set a record for most singles on the Hot 100 or something? That shows you how dumb the comparison is.

[quote]But, but Madonna is a much bigger touring artist than Drake!

Not these days. Her last tour couldn’t even fill up 2,000 venues!

Get over it. Madonna had a good run, but her popularity is long over.

Agreed with above posters - they're mixing up a lot of artists on the same single now. Drake was a 'featured artist'.

Outside of Madonna's duet with Justin Timberlake, I can't think of anything else that wasn't 100% her as a solo artist.

They need to put asterisks in these categories. It's not the same thing.

To add to R4, Lady Gaga has released 8 albums in 12 years, counting her Oscar-winning A Star Is Born soundtrack. I believe that makes her the most prolific of all, no?

What's a drake?

I think he's the guy that feels up male basketball players, R34.

SO mediocrity trumps naked ambition.

Are we surprised? It is 2020, after all. The decade of nits.

[quote] Not these days. Her last tour couldn’t even fill up 2,000 venues! Get over it. Madonna had a good run, but her popularity is long over.

Madonna was a big touring act into her mid 50s. Will anyone still be listening to Drake when he's 40?

R24, all that Spotify list teamed ranks is who's currently popular with the demographic that listens (if they actually listen) only to streamed music. According to you, Drake is the most popular musical artist in history ever and the Beatles are chopped liver.

R38, some people' on here seem to forget before streaming, there were digital singles, physical singles, physical albums, physical music videos, etc. A WHOLE WORLD EXISTED BEFORE STREAMING. It was/is much more impressive to sell 10 million physical albums than to get 100 million streams.

[quote] Lady Gaga has released 8 albums in 12 years,

Probably because they kept failing until A Star is Born.

I don't like when these chart stat stories lead to these comparisons of two COMPLETELY different artists. Madonna and Drake's mom could've gone to high school together. They are from two vastly different eras of music so there is no use in comparing them. I will say they both take themselves too seriously at times and think they are deities, that's about all they have in common!

I just saw the old woman trending on Twitter, I guess she begged to be added as a feature to a Dua Lipa song. She’s trying ANYTHING to make the kids notice her, including the 20 year old boyfriend. There was a point in time the dried up old vadge would never have never been so thirsty.

Eldergay bait thread

It you don’t know Drake songs, you’re just underscoring just how woefully out of touch you are. Might as well be sequestered in a cave, in 1998.

I know Drake songs, they just all suck and won't be remembered in 15 or 20 years.

It's easy to cheat on the steaming sites like Spotify too. Some stans play their artists music on a loop (whether they are listening or not) to get their numbers up.

Madonna has had an amazingly successful career and for a long time. She didn't play it safe either. Always changing things up and taking chances.

In a way, isn't streaming also a false equivalence to actually buying a song/album? If you stream a song once or twice, it's not like you actually bought the song. It's more comparable to demoing a song/album at a record store. Wouldn't a better indicator of popularity be, I don't know, how many repeat listeners a song/album has?

R19/R20, your ability to count is as bad as your ability to post. If you count Mariah's EPs, soundtracks, greatest hits, etc., their output is still about the same.

Drake's songs are shit only schizo autistics would love.

135 singles is a LOT. Madonna has had only 87.

However, note that he was a 'featured artist' on 77 of those. And he has made only 5 albums.

In the past, you didn't release singles without an album (for the most part), but that's all changed now. He is prolific - you have to give that to him.

Even if every song sounds exactly the same Xanax rap.

I think Drake is overrated and that his music sucks, however, I also know that times change and nobody stays on top forever. People get replaced.

r39, it cuts both ways. Yes, current artists benefit from the way we count single sales but older artists benefitted from a market that was more geared towards album sales

R52, I don't think that's a fair comparison. Music markets today are far larger than they were when album sales peaked. So it's much easier for major artists like Ariana and Drake--artists who are promoted to death--to get a single stream even in far off places in the world.

THIS IS WHY MILLENNIALS SUCK AND POP MUSIC WENT STRAIGHT DOWN THE SHITTER

R54, it's not just "millennials" who are buying his music. I'd wager many of them are younger than millennials, although DLers don't seem to know what millennials are. It's not like the 80s and 90s didn't have their share of shitty artists, either

R55, the difference is that the most popular artists of today are Drake, Ed Sheeran, Ariana, etc. while the most popular artists of the 80s were Madonna, Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, U2, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, etc. I don't like all of those artists but they are all better and more intersting than Drake.

I love Drake. His music isn’t deep, but it’s great head-boppin, fun, bravado. That’s what listeners love. It has the swag, the attitude, the flow that is popular.

Drake also had 30 top 100 hits at once. It's hardly the same thing.

R56, Phil Collins sucked. And those were hardly the only popular artists of the 80s

R59, I never said those were the only popular artists--I said they were THE most popular artists, which is a big difference. And I also said I don't even like all the artists listed but they were more creative/intersting than Drake.

Phil Collins is not more interesting than Drake.

I've always been indifferent toward Madonna's antics but it's hard to ignore how pathetic she is. The very picture of a desperate has-been.

R61, Perhaps your judgment reflects your ethnic and age bias, because many would agree.

Pop music? Pish! I'm a movie star!

This is better than anything Madonna has released in the past 20 years.

Yep, I don’t identify with Madonna. I vibe with Drake.

Oh, please. Billboard's charts are diluted pieces of shit now. The only reason Drake, Harry Styles, Shawn Mendes, and all of them keep making these "records" is because their dumb stans just let it play on Spotify or whatever, and all the songs from the album enter the top 10. They didn't work like Madonna had to (which is probably why she went off the deep end).

Madonna is the real deal. Drake and them are just trends.

r67 I wouldn't go so far as to say Drake is a trend. He has dominated rap for ten years now, he is at the top of the music industry food chain for the time being.

Mind you, Drake's entrance to entertainment was also not as a music artist. He was an awkward looking, soft, light skinned actor, the exact opposite of everything rappers were. He used his performance skills to effortlessly take over the rap game in a very short time. That in and of itself was a great feat.

And what you all also forget that Madonna and all those 80s greats capitalized off the golden age of the music industry, when selling albums actually made money. These young guys make a tiny fraction off their actual music, they start with no budget. You have to get your own name out there to the masses and generate buzz to get put on like Shawn Mendes and Drake.

r68, true. Drake isn't my favorite but it's silly to call him a flash in the pan.

[quote] This is better than anything Madonna has released in the past 20 years.

LOL.

Started from the bottom now he here!

Congrats Drake! Love you!

I love Drake!