Holding down the fourth spot on the latest Billboard Hot 100 is Drake with the song ‘Nokia,’ the second single from the album Some Sexy Songs 4 U, a collaboration with fellow Canadian rapper PartyNextDoor.
This is the best performing of four singles released from the album so far, having peaked at #2. It’s been two years since Drake had a #1 hit, after having at least one almost every year before that. Being on the losing end of the feud with Kendrick Lamar didn’t do him any favors.
Getting back to the year-end edition of ‘What the Kids are Listening To,’ I’ve reached #12 and #13, two country songs I’ve already featured on the blog: Morgan Wallen’s ‘You Proof‘ and Zach Bryan’s ‘Something in the Orange,’ respectively.
At #14 is ‘Ricj Flex,’ the lead-off track from Drake and 21 Savage’s 2022 album Her Loss. This song became a viral hit and spent three weeks at #2, blocked from the top spot by Taylor Swift’s ‘Anti-Hero.’
In the #3 spot on this week’s Hot 100 is a name that (spoiler alert) will show up another couple of times between this week and next. Rapper Travis Scott recently dropped his fourth studio album, Utopia, and fans sent all 19 of its tracks up this chart.
The winner among them, so far, is third single ‘Meltdown,’ a collaboration with Drake. This is the sixth collaboration between the two men, though the #1 hit ‘Sicko Mode’ doesn’t officially list Drake as a feature for Billboard’s purposes.
Guest blogger Daniel continues his countdown of the year’s top albums…
Best Albums of 2022 – #4
Her Loss – Drake & 21 Savage
To put it in the simplest, most rudimentary terms of my generation: this album slaps.
More than any of the other album on this list, my personal feelings on this record are most certainly influenced by the social components associated with it. This is par for the course with Drake who indisputably is one of the biggest hitmakers of our generation. If you’ve gone to any club, bar, or restaurant in the past 10 years odds are you’ve heard a Drake song. He enters the rare territory shared by Taylor Swift where love him or hate him you know him at least casually and have some opinion on his music.
Glass Animals owns the #7 spot of the Billboard Hot 100 with ‘Heat Waves,’ a song that hasn’t left the chart for 78 weeks, nearly six months longer than any other track. Propelled by TikTok, this song made it to #1 after 59 weeks on the chart — a record — and keeps hanging around.
At #8, we have our second appearance of Drake, this time in collaboration with London-born rapper 21 Savage. ‘Jimmy Cooks’ has been on the chart for six weeks, after debuting at #1.
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