Drake Tigges Reflects on the Success of His Chartbuster “Wide Open”
Streaming platforms like Spotify have set a higher bar for success in the music industry. Listener numbers and viral popularity are replacing world tours and physical albums. If you can create a track that pulls in Spotify listeners and gets them hooked on your sound, then you can take the music world by storm. Rap artist Drake Tigges has experienced this phenomenon first-hand with the release of his chart-busting track ‘Wide Open’ and the incredible response that it’s received on Spotify and beyond.
Drake Tigges shares that he released ‘Wide open’ hoping that the mellow but catchy track would find an audience but that he never predicted the massive response that it would receive. With his passion for his craft driving him and a long history of bringing a unique flavor to the rap genre, Drake created a track that gained new listeners every day after its release. “It was colossal and humbling” he shares reflecting on the success of the track, “When I build a beat or write a lyric I hope to see it succeed within a song but the response that I’ve received to ‘Wide open’ has exceeded those hopes.”
Given the competitive world that the rap genre exists within, building a following and keeping them interested in your sound can be a challenge. Drake Tigges shares that though he is always aware of this challenge he never allows it to hamper him creatively or stop him from infusing every one of his tracks with his pure passion for music. Opening up further on this insight he explains, “The second you start creating music out of fear of not being the best, you lose the essential spark that every track needs to find a true audience.”
With 2021 having brought him a chart-busting single and a host of new fans and followers, Drake Tigges is ready to take on everything that 2022 and beyond has to offer.
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