Friday marked the 284th day since Drake released a new single as the lead artist—"HYFR"—in April 2012. At just past 8 p.m., a post streaming "Started From The Bottom" went up on the OVO blog.
Even with all of last year's guest verses—"No Lie," "Pop That," "Poetic Justice," to name a few—there's still been a notable absence in solo work from Drizzy. Now that he's returned, we thought it'd be worth highlighting the exact atmosphere of the evening.
With stats from temperature to the box office, here's a by the numbers look at the night Drake's single dropped.
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Days since Take Care dropped: 444
Temperature in Toronto at the exact hour "Started From the Bottom" dropped: 19° F
Number of famous rappers who deleted their Twitter the same night: 1
Number of pop stars who rode a horse through Burbank, CA the same day: 1
Number of retweets Drake has gotten from his original tweet to the song, so far: 17,080
Number of years Ed Koch had lived at his time of death on Friday: 88
U.S. box office gross on Friday: $22,022,000
Points the Toronto Raptors scored in their win over the L.A. Clippers the same night: 98
Number of people who watched CBS’ Blue Bloods after the single dropped: 11,400,000
Number of new friends Drake plans on making in 2013: 0
