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Posted by: TMD_24Quavo 16th April 2018, 06:54 PM

Next album by Drake has been comfirmed for June and it's called Scorpion. It's expected to include "Nice For What" and prehaps "God's Plan".

King is coming again!

https://instagram.com/p/BhpENZcnJMK/

Posted by: mdh 16th April 2018, 07:08 PM

How do we know it's the 28th of June?

Posted by: TMD_24Quavo 16th April 2018, 07:12 PM

I should correct myself because I misread it as June 28th when it says June 2018.

Posted by: Hadji 16th April 2018, 07:22 PM

I hope it includes "God's Plan" and "Diplomatic Immunity"

Posted by: Tombo Tingz 16th April 2018, 07:25 PM

Nice, further chart domination is coming

Posted by: danG 16th April 2018, 07:32 PM

Excited. Drake just keeps bringing it so I'm expecting great things here.

Posted by: Hadji 16th April 2018, 07:44 PM

He’ll only have three of the songs in the top 40

Posted by: danG 16th April 2018, 07:59 PM

Not looking forward to God's Plan dropping 25-OUT and then coming back at 30 two weeks later though

Posted by: Dircadirca 17th April 2018, 04:06 AM

I'm pretty sure Drake is gunning for Glee's Hot 100 record so it won't happen, but I'd really like to see him just do a standard 45 minute project rather than the 90 minute nonsense he's done the last 2 years.

Posted by: danG 17th April 2018, 09:12 AM

I fully expect the album will have about 30 tracks just so Drake can beat his own record for most tracks simultaneously in the Hot 100, and of course get closer to the Glee Cast record. I'm sure the entire album will chart in the Hot 100 no matter how long it is though, only a true king. *_

Posted by: Bré 17th April 2018, 10:16 AM

I wonder if it's not entirely out of the question that he could end up matching The Beatles' achievement of holding the entire top 5 on the Hot 100 when the album comes out? Probably won't happen but if anyone could do it it's Drake right now.

Posted by: Dexton 17th April 2018, 10:43 AM

Is it confirmed to be called an album? Not a mixtape or a project or anything else that could easily be 40 tracks long. More Life dragged on a bit for me, I love Drake but there is such a thing as too much Drake and a lot of the songs on there were overshadowed by the bigger stuff (eg. Passionfruit). Views was a solid album so something similar to that would be nice, and judging by Nice For What i think he’s gonna hit us with some bangers *.*

I have a feeling the Scary Hours tracks will be omitted, and instead will just serve as an extra EP. Like Summer Sixteen or Hotline Bling

Posted by: danG 17th April 2018, 10:54 AM

God's Plan is too big to be omitted. Diplomatic Immunity will almost certainly not make the album though.

Posted by: Dircadirca 17th April 2018, 11:34 AM

Yeah, I feel it'll be like how he chucked out 4 singles at once in late 2015 (and another in early 2016), but of them only Hotline Bling was tacked onto the end of Views because it had the best numbers going for it.

Posted by: Bartier Cqmerqn 19th April 2018, 11:28 AM

Drake is reportedly dating Latyesha Grace from Big Brother UK 2016!!

Posted by: danG 19th April 2018, 01:50 PM

what a step down from J-Lo well, she's not bad looking though.

Posted by: Bartier Cqmerqn 19th April 2018, 02:48 PM

There are now reports that he dated RAYE a few weeks ago

Posted by: Hadji 18th June 2018, 10:49 PM

His album is meant to be out in 11 days and still no tracklist

Posted by: Bjork 19th June 2018, 04:54 AM

So his album is out same say as Florence’s
Now ihate him even more :/

Posted by: danG 19th June 2018, 08:50 AM

Well it seems this will probably happen, but to Nice For What instead. God's Plan will also drop out of course but that's already well outside the top 40.

Drake vs Florence could very well be an interesting chart battle, I imagine Florence would win just by the obvious pure sales advantage, but Drake's massive streaming will put him around 30k equivalent chart sales, depends how many downloads he sells on top of that.

Posted by: Bjork 19th June 2018, 11:03 AM

just checked and Drake's Views did 78K in week 1, More life did 62K
Florence's latest did 68K

so should be close, but think streams are even more poular now and specially Drakes, so think he has the advantage :/

Posted by: Dexton 19th June 2018, 11:23 AM

HBHBHB also came after a decently popular single as well didn’t it? This era so far has fallen a bit flat in comparison tbh so they could open with even less

Posted by: Cqmerqn 19th June 2018, 09:06 PM

Can see Drake doing 60k. Imagine Florence will do 50k.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 19th June 2018, 09:17 PM

Gorillaz' The Now Now is also out on the same day, what did Humanz open with?

Posted by: Jordan Lee 20th June 2018, 01:56 AM

Florence will sell More but Drake will be streamed more. If Post Malone had 30k or more streaming sales for his album then Drakes will be much higher probably around whatever Ed sold with Divide on his debut week (streaming sales only here).

More Life wasn’t a UK number one album however was it? I’m sure Divide beat it to #1 yet it still had big sales first week.

Hopefully Florence gets it debut week then Drake by big streams default the week after.

Posted by: TMD_24Quavo 26th June 2018, 06:41 PM

Looking forward to this on the 29th!

Posted by: gavindeejay 26th June 2018, 08:47 PM

Looks like Gorillaz will be Number 3 then!

Posted by: danG 26th June 2018, 08:58 PM

Still no tracklist yet then? Seemingly very little hype surrounding this release but of course Drake's name will sell it no matter how little pre-release hype it has. Would still like to know how many tracks there are and who the guests will be.

Posted by: John-James 26th June 2018, 09:00 PM

It's a double disc so probably +30 tracks. Times like this make me glad we have a cap.

Posted by: danG 26th June 2018, 09:48 PM

Like I said earlier this is what I expect too. I just hope he delivers just for the hilarity of him getting an entire double album in the Billboard singles chart and breaking his own record.

Posted by: Jordan Lee 28th June 2018, 01:37 PM

Is this coming out tonight?

Posted by: Hadji 28th June 2018, 02:39 PM

It’s funny how it’s meant to come out at midnight and still no tracklist has been announced unless it’s gonna have a surprise tracklist

Posted by: Jordan Lee 28th June 2018, 02:47 PM

I'm trying to remember if More Life was the same but I can't think! Excited for the release either way

Posted by: UltraReputation 28th June 2018, 05:08 PM

Double album with 25 tracks (title names posted on his insta), no news of features yet.

Posted by: Tedward 28th June 2018, 05:18 PM

Will be absolute scenes if the entire Top 5 (or even Top 10!) is taken over by Drake in the US. It's very possible indeed.

Posted by: Hadji 28th June 2018, 05:24 PM

Tracklist http://www.brandnew.hiphop/drakes-scorpion-album-tracklist-revealed/ and shame “Diplomatic Immunity” isn’t on there but at least it’s got “God’s Plan”

Posted by: jjake 28th June 2018, 05:29 PM

talk absolutely bloated arrogance of a tracklist

i imagine it’ll play more like a collection of tracks

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 28th June 2018, 06:16 PM

Well thank goodness for the 3 track rule.

Posted by: Bjork 28th June 2018, 06:52 PM

“In My Feelings"?
a cover of the Lana classic??

Posted by: Dircadirca 28th June 2018, 07:01 PM

Well if every track does end up charting on Billboard, he'll slim down Glee's margin from 42 to 20.

It's wild, and a tad ridiculous that Drake will have released roughly 6 hours of music since 2015, not including features!

Posted by: John-James 28th June 2018, 07:21 PM

My first thought

Posted by: Hadji 28th June 2018, 07:37 PM

That’s making me wonder if “Finesse” is a cover of the Bruno Mars song?

Posted by: danG 28th June 2018, 08:33 PM

I wonder now if there will actually be any features. Usually a track list reveal would reveal the guests but seemingly there aren't any.

Hyped for this regardless tho.

Posted by: UltraReputation 28th June 2018, 08:36 PM

Most of the big artists seem to keep features unknown until the album is actually released! (E.g. I'm pretty sure the Cardi B tracklist had no features on when it was announced)

Posted by: Tedward 28th June 2018, 10:00 PM

Drake would genuinely break Spotify if he did a collab with Post Malone

Posted by: Bré 28th June 2018, 10:04 PM

Apparently Mob Ties features Travis Scott, so there might be other features that are just not revealed yet.

Posted by: Tombo 28th June 2018, 11:10 PM

I can’t see this on Spotify, I’m guessing it is released on American time or something

Posted by: Jade 29th June 2018, 12:59 AM

Well... I didn't see a Michael Jackson feature coming! *_*

(Source: Apple Music on Twitter, perhaps there's more features to be announced with the lack of Travis Scott there but that's what I can find so far)

Posted by: Dexton 29th June 2018, 02:44 AM

Interesting that it’s A side & B side, maybe signalling two different styles? Nice For What is more 90s sounding than Gods Plan or I’m Upset (which are more 2018 in trend). Jay Z on A and MJ on B fit this theme too

Posted by: Bjork 29th June 2018, 05:20 AM

i think A side is rap, B side is rbnb

Posted by: Bré 29th June 2018, 07:13 AM

The Travis Scott thing turned out to be wrong it seems but there are a few more uncredited features.

Guessing this MJ song is probably gonna be the next hit from the album. Intrigue ~

Posted by: Jordan Lee 29th June 2018, 09:00 AM

Really wanna buy this but wonder if it’s gonna be download only like More Life or if they’ll be a CD version of the album.

Posted by: BridgeCow 29th June 2018, 09:05 AM

I’ve skimmed through a bit but wow I’m shook, the second half of the album is actually quite good

Posted by: Rooney 29th June 2018, 09:10 AM

Summer Games is my early favourite

Posted by: Hadji 29th June 2018, 10:04 AM

I think this is download exclusive like More Life was

Posted by: Bjork 29th June 2018, 12:05 PM

this is very monotone and he sounds asleep and bored most of the time
and sampling emotions, really? can someone go lower? yes, by using a MJ demo :/

Posted by: Dexton 29th June 2018, 01:07 PM

Drake is far far far from the first to posthumously include MJ on a song, plus it’s actually a good song albeit not the best on the album.

Can’t Take A Joke and Rachet Happy Birthday are the worst ones on each side tbh. I definitely prefer the b side although sometimes I think Drake wishes he was British

Posted by: Hadji 29th June 2018, 01:41 PM

The CD version will be released on 20th July according to amazon

Posted by: danG 29th June 2018, 02:30 PM

Hmm, it's quite decent overall but far too long and samey, quite a bit of filler. More Life was a tough one to beat though (even with the filler that one had) and I can't see him ever doing it now.

Will have to take another listen to the ones I liked to really pick out my faves but the Michael Jackson one is the real standout here amongst the ones we haven't heard before, I expect that will be the new single though as it's song #1 on Hot Hits UK and New Music Friday.

Just me who thinks the A Side is generally better then? Some of the B Side ones were really boring.

Posted by: Dircadirca 29th June 2018, 02:38 PM

Felt that way as well. The production was generally really solid even if the bars didn't grab me. By the time I got to the 2nd half I started losing interest. I think take out I'm Upset, slot in Summer Games & Nice For What and just keep the A-Side as a pretty solid collection by Drake's standards.

Posted by: PeaceMob 29th June 2018, 02:51 PM

Love this album from Drake, prefer the A side to the B side. Finding the B side a little too samey.

Posted by: Tedward 29th June 2018, 02:55 PM

Gonna give this and Florence a listen later after chart show. The MJ song is gonna be great, I know it already

Posted by: Midge 29th June 2018, 07:11 PM

Listened to Side B ... mostly went over my head to be honest but alright as background noise. The MJ collab is excellent though, love it! Also already loved "Nice For What".

Posted by: danG 30th June 2018, 11:30 AM

Absolutely smashing it on Spotify! Including the entire top 23 on US Spotify *.* Also the entire top 12 on UK and Global.

UK
01. Nonstop [852k]
02. Survival
03. Don't Matter To Me (feat. Michael Jackson)
04. Emotionless
05. Elevate
06. Nice For What
07. 8 Out Of 10
08. God's Plan
09. I'm Upset
10. Mob Ties
11. Can't Take A Joke
12. Talk Up (feat. JAY-Z)
16. Sandra's Rose
17. In My Feelings
19. Summer Games
20. Is There More
21. Peak
24. Jaded
26. Blue Tint
27. Finesse
28. After Dark (feat. Static Major & Ty Dolla $ign)
29. That's How You Feel
34. Ratchet Happy Birthday
37. March 14
42. Final Fantasy

US
01. Nonstop [5.749m]
02. Survival
03. Emotionless
04. Elevate
05. 8 Out Of 10
06. I'm Upset
07. Mob Ties
08. Talk Up (feat. JAY-Z)
09. Can't Take A Joke
10. Don't Matter To Me (feat. Michael Jackson)
11. God's Plan
12. Sandra's Rose
13. Nice For What
14. Is There More
15. In My Feelings
16. Summer Games
17. Peak
18. Jaded
19. Finesse
20. Blue Tint
21. That's How You Feel
22. Ratchet Happy Birthday
23. After Dark (feat. Static Major & Ty Dolla $ign)
26. March 14
27. Final Fantasy

Posted by: danG 30th June 2018, 11:56 AM

Also did anyone else notice this poem Drake put on the iTunes version as part of the editor's notes section?

I HATE WHEN DRAKE RAPS
DRAKE SINGS TOO MUCH
DRAKE IS A POP ARTIST
DRAKE DOESN'T EVEN WRITE HIS OWN SONGS
DRAKE TOOK AN L
DRAKE DIDN'T START FROM THE BOTTOM
DRAKE IS FINISHED
I LIKE DRAKE'S OLDER STUFF
DRAKE MAKES MUSIC FOR GIRLS
DRAKE THINKS HE'S JAMAICAN
DRAKE IS AN ACTOR
DRAKE CHANGED
ANYBODY ELSE > DRAKE …

YEAH YEAH WE KNOW

*_____*

Posted by: Neil 30th June 2018, 12:49 PM

Can you elaborate on this please?

Posted by: danG 30th June 2018, 12:54 PM

The mariah carey song 'emotions' is sampled on 'emotionless'

Posted by: Hadji 30th June 2018, 08:00 PM

CD version now has a release date of 13th July

Posted by: Mack. 30th June 2018, 09:59 PM

Don't Matter To Me a stroke of genius from him with the late Michael Jackson.

Posted by: Neil 1st July 2018, 01:23 AM

Yeah I know; it was the part about 'going lower' I don't get.

Posted by: Jordan Lee 3rd July 2018, 06:43 PM

Enjoying this more and more. Prefer side B to side A but like what I’m hearing. Listening more before I can tell what my favorites are but it sounds great in this weather!

Posted by: danG 9th July 2018, 08:58 PM

It's Drake US chart history time! Thanks to chart data on twitter...

Drake breaks the record for most debuts in the US top ten in one week (four, beating the J. Cole record of three)

He also has the most songs held in the top ten at one time (seven, beating The Beatles' record of five).

He is the first artist to debut multiple songs in the top 10 simultaneously twice in one year.

He surpasses Taylor Swift as the artist with the most top 10 debuts (16 of them)

Nice For What is the first song in history to have four separate runs at #1.

Drake also holds 27 songs in the chart including all 25 tracks from the album.

Only Madonna (38) and The Beatles (34) hold more top 10 hits than Drake (31), now tied with Rihanna (31). Michael Jackson gets his 30th as feature on DMTM.

He now has 186 US chart hits, getting very close to the Glee record (207).

The last album to hold seven top 10 hits was 'Rhythm Nation 1814' by Janet Jackson. It is the first to hold that many top 10 hits in this century.

Here are all his chart entries then...

01. Nice For What (#6 last week, 8th week at #1)
02. Nonstop
04. God's Plan (#9 last week, spent 11 weeks at #1)
06. In My Feelings
07. I'm Upset (#26 last week, new peak)
08. Emotionless
09. Don't Matter To Me
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13. Mob Ties
14. Elevate
17. Survival
18. Can't Take a Joke
20. Talk Up
21. 8 Out Of 10
26. Yes Indeed (Lil Baby ft Drake) (#9 last week, peaked at #6)
27. Sandra's Rose
28. Summer Games
30. Blue Tint
32. Jaded
36. Is There More
37. That's How You Feel
38. Peak
41. After Dark
42. Finesse
44. Look Alive (BlocBoy JB ft Drake) (#27 last week, peaked at #5)
51. Ratchet Happy Birthday
56. Final Fantasy
57. March 14

Only a true king. *.*

Posted by: Dobbo 9th July 2018, 09:17 PM

Until the next big hip hop release seriously these records are gonna get broken every single year from now on.

Posted by: danG 9th July 2018, 09:19 PM

I don't think so (not for a while anyway). There really is no one bigger than Drake, and Billboard may well change their chart rules to prevent things like this happening in the future anyway.

The only person who could beat all these records is... you guessed it, Drake!

Posted by: Dobbo 9th July 2018, 09:21 PM

Fair point!

Posted by: ¡ʎpp∀ 9th July 2018, 09:44 PM

I just feel all these records of his are so inflated.

I don't hate on him nor do I care for him (and one might say what am I doing here lol) but seriously you just can't make comparisons of those records with let's say ''The last album to hold seven top 10 hits was 'Rhythm Nation 1814' by Janet Jackson''.

How well his album will be remembered let's say in 30 years time?!

Posted by: Rooney 9th July 2018, 09:53 PM

It's different though, they don't make albums like they used to.. certainly doubt we'll ever have many classic albums anymore because that in itself as an art is kind of in the past.

Drake is just a massively influential artist, especially in the US.

Posted by: danG 9th July 2018, 09:54 PM

The album itself may not be remembered all too well but Drake as an artist certainly will be.

Posted by: Dexton 10th July 2018, 01:46 AM

Maybe not the album but the singles will definitely be remembered (for the most part anyway). Gods Plan is undoubtably the biggest song of the year worldwid

Posted by: Bjork 10th July 2018, 06:39 AM

sure but no one will remember nonstop in 3 weeks already
this is not a record, it's just billboard having stupid rules
the uk system is far from perfect with the 3-track rule but much better than the billboard rules, or lack of, since anything counts for both charts,
even single downloads on itunes count for the album charts

i'm not even following billboard charts anymore due to their stupid made up rules, especially since the tour bundles counting for the album charts

Posted by: Dircadirca 10th July 2018, 08:15 AM

I mean, have chart records based on initial hype weeks ever been particularly meritorious? Oasis sold 400,000 copies of Be Here Now in one day in the UK just because they were Oasis, even though no one ever wants to listen to the album because it blows. *NSYNC sold 2.4 million copies of "No Strings Attached" on opening week in the US because they were *NSYNC. Ed Sheeran had his entire album in the top 20 singles chart because he was Ed Sheeran. Drake is pulling these records because he's Drake, that's all there is to it.

That all being said, I'd be interested in how the people who are naturally consuming Drake's material feel about it in the long run. I see Kanye fans talking in reverence about songs like "Runaway" and "Ultralight Beam" far more than some of his bigger hits, but to someone outside of the scope, those songs are just redundant fodder that charted as high as they did on his name alone, and left no lasting impression. In terms of "Scorpion", I'd like to see the same for "Mob Ties" or "Summer Games", two different sides of the Drake coin that accomplish their goals very well.

Posted by: Queef of Skreech 10th July 2018, 11:56 AM

THIS

He is a corporate product with no talent and his albums are the same. One good thing about him: he is a perfect case study for mass brainwashing.

Posted by: lewistgreen 15th July 2018, 12:20 PM

Drake did a Fire in the Booth last night!

Posted by: Dexton 15th July 2018, 12:22 PM

Who is that host and why is he constantly yelling and making annoying sound effects

Posted by: EndoftheHedge 15th July 2018, 12:29 PM

He's Charlie Sloth, who somehow has a show on Radio 1 on weekday evenings. I have no idea why he does those sounds but I guess he's just excited.

Posted by: mdh 15th July 2018, 07:41 PM

Charlie Sloth - he's the 'main' radio presenter for Radio 1Xtra.

Posted by: danG 16th July 2018, 07:19 PM

'In My Feelings' up to #1 on US Billboard and #1 in the UK midweek chart. Going to be massssssssssive.

Posted by: coi 16th July 2018, 07:21 PM

In My Feelings is actually one of the worst songs on the album imo, but this always happens with his big hits (e.g. One Dance)

Posted by: danG 23rd July 2018, 07:45 PM

"In My Feelings" breaks the all-time US single week streaming record (116.2 million).

Another week, another record broken. KING.

Posted by: Botchia 💡 23rd July 2018, 08:22 PM

yes KING *.* Keep those haters pressed *.*

Posted by: Dexton 30th July 2018, 03:19 AM

I wonder if Dont Matter To Me could’ve been a #1 if it was released a week before the album, it probably wouldve spent a second week with bonus album streams too.

Posted by: coi 30th July 2018, 10:14 AM

That's a good shout, I think it easily could have done. It deserves to be a number one and I think it's too late now.

Posted by: Tedward 3rd August 2018, 01:36 AM

Easily has another few weeks at #1. Would say either this or One Kiss is song of the summer!

Posted by: Mack. 15th August 2018, 08:34 PM

Video also for 'Nonstop' was released as well:

Posted by: Mack. 17th August 2018, 02:36 PM

4 weeks at #1 for 'In My Feelings', yet another hit for Drake for him.

Posted by: lewistscream 4th October 2018, 06:09 PM

Apparently the Michael Jackson collab has been announced as the next single.

Posted by: HannibalLetcher 12th October 2018, 10:39 AM

Yes, seems pretty much confirmed that Don't Matter To Me will be the next single.

Posted by: Jordan Lee 28th April 2019, 10:02 PM

This is straight up BOPS

he’s the king of his genre for me.

Forgot how good this actually was until I listened again earlier on.