Take Spotify, for example, an app designed for streaming music which launched 9 years ago today has a minimum of 50 million paying subscribers. Has Drake, with his ‘playlist’, uncovered the next step of modernising the industry? We started off with the number one being the cause of albums being bought rather than downloaded. Is this the beginning of a new era within the music industry? More Life has been described as a playlist containing original music, rather than an album release by the rapper himself and with More Life containing 22 tracks instead of the usual 12 tracks or less. He’s gone from featuring on one of Nicki Minaj’s singles, to banging out album after album which features the likes of Rihanna, 2 Chainz, Lil Wayne. Since the release of his debut mixtape, he’s worked on projects yearly that have grown from a mixtape into an album which has set a record for the most streamed album within 24 hours: More Life.ĭrake’s entry onto the music scene has become revolutionary. But as I entered my terrible teens I strayed into the rock/indie/alternative genres of music before embracing rap as well.Ĭanadian rapper, Drake rolled onto the music scene with his self-released mixtape in 2006 and has continued to grow into a global star with his 2017 tour dates selling out. 90s RnB is something I’ll forever be thankful for. Growing up, I never really strayed from the pop charts and the music my sister played in her room (which was mainly Destiny’s Child and Spice Girls). Eventually, no doubt, someone would lose their cool and yell at me. For the following few weeks (realistically, more like months) I’d play said album repeatedly.
On my Christmas and birthday list, I’d ask for new CD.
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