{"id":482676,"date":"2019-02-25T09:23:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T16:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=797335"},"modified":"2019-02-25T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T16:23:59","slug":"10-years-later-drake-still-has-a-hit-in-so-far-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/10-years-later-drake-still-has-a-hit-in-so-far-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Years Later, Drake Still Has a Hit in \u2018So Far Gone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cA lot of y\u2019all are still sounding like last year\/The game need change, and I\u2019m the motherfuckin\u2019 cashier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drake<\/a> rapped these lines with casual bravado on \u201cSuccessful,\u201d one of the first hits from his free mixtape So Far Gone\u00a0<\/em>in 2009. The tape did not chart, due to\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u2018s accounting rules at the time. But it spawned three different hit singles \u2014 including \u201cSuccessful,\u201d which eventually went platinum \u2014 and started Drake on his path to superstardom.<\/p>\n

In a twist, \u201clast year\u201d \u2014 or, say, ten years ago \u2014 doesn\u2019t sound so bad, no matter what Drake chose to sneer about on his breakout: So Far Gone<\/em> recently hit streaming services in full for the first time, and enjoyed the third biggest streaming tally of the week, good for a Number Five debut on the albums chart, according to Billboard<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not only is So Far Gone<\/em> a decade old, several of the mixtape\u2019s major hits \u2014 \u201cBest I Ever Had,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m Goin In\u201d \u2014 were already available on streaming services. Still, streamers returned to the mixtape in droves, apparently curious to revisit the deep cuts, and So Far Gone\u00a0<\/em>amassed 47.4 million on-demand audio streams.<\/p>\n

Listeners were especially interested in the first five tracks on So Far Gone<\/em>, according to data from BuzzAngle, an analytics company that tracks music consumption. The most listened-to song on the mixtape last week was, appropriately enough, \u201cSuccessful,\u201d which also features verses from Trey Songz and Lil Wayne. \u201cNovember 18th\u201d and \u201cLust for Life\u201d were close behind, followed by \u201cHoustatlantavegas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only two new albums were more desirable to streamers than the music that Drake released in 2009: Ariana Grande\u2019s juggernaut Thank U, Next<\/em>, which is sure to be one of the biggest albums of 2019, and A Boogie wit da Hoodie\u2019s\u00a0Hoodie SZN<\/em>, which has proved to be remarkably resilient, casually amassing over 50 million streams week after week after week since its release in December.<\/p>\n

So Far Gone\u00a0<\/em>is due out on CD on March 8.<\/p>\n