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This article is about the river. For the cricket team, see Amo Sharks. For the town, see Amu Dar'ya (town).
Amu Darya
Oxus, Jayhoun, də Āmu Sind, Vaksu, Amu River
Looking at the Amu Darya from Turkmenistan
Name origin: Named for the city of Āmul (now Turkmenabat)
Countries
Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Region
Central Asia
Tributaries
- left Panj River
- right Vakhsh River, Surkhan Darya, Sherabad River, Zeravshan River
Primary source
Pamir River/Panj River
- location Lake Zorkul, Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan
- elevation 4,130 m (13,550 ft)
- coordinates 37°27′04″N 73°34′21″E / 37.45111°N 73.57250°E / 37.45111; 73.57250
Secondary source
Kyzyl-Suu/Vakhsh River
- location Alay Valley, Pamir Mountains, Kyrgyzstan
- elevation 4,525 m (14,846 ft)
- coordinates 39°13′27″N 72°55′26″E / 39.22417°N 72.92389°E / 39.22417; 72.92389
Source confluence
Kerki
- elevation 326 m (1,070 ft)
- coordinates 37°06′35″N 68°18′44″E / 37.10972°N 68.31222°E / 37.10972; 68.31222
Mouth
Aral Sea
- location Amudarya Delta, Uzbekistan
- elevation 28 m (92 ft)
- coordinates 44°06′30″N 59°40′52″E / 44.10833°N 59.68111°E / 44.10833; 59.68111Coordinates: 44°06′30″N 59°40′52″E / 44.10833°N 59.68111°E / 44.10833; 59.68111
Length
2,620 km (1,628 mi)
Basin
534,739 km2 (206,464 sq mi)
Discharge
- average 2,525 m3/s (89,170 cu ft/s) [1]
- max 5,900 m3/s (208,357 cu ft/s)
- min 420 m3/s (14,832 cu ft/s)
Map of the Amu Darya watershed
The Amu Darya, also called the Amu or Amo River, and historically known by its Latin name Oxus, is a major river in Central Asia. It is formed by the junction of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers, in the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve on the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, and flows from there north-westwards into the southern remnants of the Aral Sea. In ancient times, the river was regarded as the boundary between Greater Iran and Turan.[2]
Contents
1 Names
1.1 As the river Gozan
2 Description
3 Watershed
4 History
4.1 Siberian Tiger Introduction Project
5 Literature
6 See also
7 Notes
8 References
9 External links
Names[edit]
Amu Darya delta from space
Persian: آمودریا, translit. Âmudaryâ; Turkmen: Amyderýa/Амыдеря; Uzbek: Amudaryo/Амударё/ەمۇدەريا; Tajik: Амударё, Amudaryo; Pashto: د آمو سيند, də Āmú Sínd; Turkish: Ceyhun, Amu Derya; Ancient Greek: Ὦξος, translit. Ôxos). In classical antiquity, the river was known as the Ōxus in Latin and Ὦξος (Ôxos) in Greek — a clear derivative of Vakhsh, the name of the largest tributary of the river.[citation needed] In Vedic Sanskrit, the river is also referred to as Vakṣu (वक्षु). The Brahmanda Purana refers to the river as Chaksu. The Avestan texts too refer to the River as Yakhsha/Vakhsha (and Yakhsha Arta ("upper Yakhsha") referring to the Jaxartes/Syr Darya twin river to Amu Darya). In Middle Persian sources of the Sassanid period the river is known as Wehrōd[2] (lit. "good river").
The name Amu is said to have come from the medieval city of Āmul, (later, Chahar Joy/Charjunow, and now known as Türkmenabat), in modern Turkmenistan, with Darya being the Persian word for "river". Medieval Arabic and Islamic sources call the river Jayhoun (Arabic: جَـيْـحُـوْن, translit. Jayḥūn; also Jaihun, Jayhoon, or Dzhaykhun) which is derived from Gihon, the biblical name for one of the four rivers of the Garden of Eden.[3][4]
As the river Gozan[edit]
Western travelers in the 19th century mentioned that one of the names by which the river was known in Afghanistan was Gozan, and that this name was used by Greek, Mongol, Chinese, Persian, Jewish, and Afghan historians. However, this name is no longer used.
"Hara (Bokhara) and to the river of Gozan (that is to say, the Amu, (called by Europeans the Oxus)) ..."[5]
"the Gozan River is the River Balkh, i.e. the Oxus or the Amu Darya ..."[6]
"... and were brought into Halah (modern day Balkh), and Habor (which is Pesh Habor or Peshawar), and Hara (which is Herat), and to the river Gozan (which is the Ammoo, also called Jehoon) ..."[7]
Description[edit]
Map of area around the Aral Sea. Aral Sea boundaries are c. 2008. The Amu Darya drainage basin is in orange, and the Syr Darya basin in yellow.
The river's total length is 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) and its drainage basin totals 534,739 square kilometres (206,464 sq mi) in area, providing a mean discharge of around 97.4 cubic kilometres (23.4 cu mi)[1] of water per year. The river is navigable for over 1,450 kilometres (900 mi). All of the water comes from the high mountains in the south where annual precipitation can be over 1,000 mm (39 in). Even before large-scale irrigation began, high summer evaporation meant that not all of this discharge reached the Aral Sea – though there is some evidence the large Pamir glaciers provided enough melt water for the Aral to overflow during the 13th and 14th centuries.
Since the end of the 19th century there have been four different claimants as the true source of the Oxus:
The Pamir River, which emerges from Lake Zorkul (once also known as Lake Victoria) in the Pamir Mountains (ancient Mount Imeon), and flows west to Qila-e Panja, where it joins the Wakhan River to form the Panj River.
The Sarhad or Little Pamir River flowing down the Little Pamir in the High Wakhan
Lake Chamaktin, which discharges to the east into the Aksu River, which in turn becomes the Murghab and then Bartang rivers, and which eventually joins the Panj Oxus branch 350 kilometres downstream at Roshan Vomar in Tajikistan.
An ice cave at the end of the Wakhjir valley, in the Wakhan Corridor, in the Pamir Mountains, near the border with Pakistan.
Afghanistan-Tajikistan bridge over the Darya
A glacier turns into the Wakhan River and joins the Pamir River about 50 kilometres (31 mi) downstream.[8] Bill Colegrave's expedition to Wakhan in 2007 found that both claimants 2 and 3 had the same source, the Chelab stream, which bifurcates on the watershed of the Little Pamir, half flowing into Lake Chamaktin and half into the parent stream of the Little Pamir/Sarhad River. Therefore, the Chelab stream may be properly considered the true source or parent stream of the Oxus.[9] The Panj River forms the border of Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It flows west to Ishkashim where it turns north and then north-west through the Pamirs passing the Tajikistan–Afghanistan Friendship Bridge. It subsequently forms the border of Afghanistan and Uzbekistan for about 200 kilometres (120 mi), passing Termez and the Afghanistan–Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge. It delineates the border of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan for another 100 kilometres (62 mi) before it flows into Turkmenistan at Atamurat. It flows across Turkmenistan south to north, passing Türkmenabat, and forms the border of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan from Halkabat. It is then split by the Tuyamuyun Hydro Complex into many waterways that used to form the river delta joining the Aral Sea, passing Urgench, Daşoguz, and other cities, but it does not reach what is left of the sea any more and is lost in the desert. Use of water from the Amu Darya for irrigation has been a major contributing factor to the shrinking of the Aral Sea since the late 1950s. Historical records state that in different periods, the river flowed into the Aral Sea (from the south), into the Caspian Sea (from the east), or both, similar to the Syr Darya (Jaxartes, in Ancient Greek).
Watershed[edit]
Pontoon Bridge on the Amu River near Urgench, in 2014 it was replaced by the stationary bridge.
The 534,769 square kilometres (206,475 sq mi) of the Amu Darya drainage basin include most of Tajikistan, the southwest corner of Kyrgyzstan, the northeast corner of Afghanistan, a narrow portion of eastern Turkmenistan and the western half of Uzbekistan. Part of the Amu Darya basin divide in Tajikistan forms that country's border with China (in the east) and Pakistan (to the south). About 61% of the drainage lies within Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, while 39% is in Afghanistan.[10]
The abundant water flowing in the Amu Darya comes almost entirely from glaciers in the Pamir Mountains and Tian Shan,[11] which, standing above the surrounding arid plain, collect atmospheric moisture which otherwise would probably escape somewhere else. Without its mountain water sources, the Amu Darya would not contain any water—would not exist—because it rarely rains in the lowlands through which most of the river flows. Of the total drainage area only about 200,000 square kilometres (77,000 sq mi) actively contribute water to the river.[12] This is because many of the river's major tributaries (especially the Zeravshan River) have been diverted, and much of the river's drainage is arid. Throughout most of the steppe, the annual rainfall is about 300 millimetres (12 in).[10][13]
History[edit]
Ancient Bactria
Bāqī Chaghānyānī pays homage to Babur beside the Amu Darya river, 1504 CE
The ancient Greeks called the Amu Darya the Oxus. In ancient times, the river was regarded[by whom?] as the boundary between Greater Iran and Ṫūrān (Persian: تُوران.[2] The river's drainage lies in the area between the former empires of Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great, although they occurred at very different times. When the Mongols came to the area, they used the water of the Amu Darya to flood Konye-Urgench.[14] One southern route of the Silk Road ran along part of the Amu Darya northwestward from Termez before going westwards to the Caspian Sea.
It is believed[by whom?] that the Amu Darya's course across the Kara-Kum Desert has gone through several major shifts in the past few thousand years. Much of the time – most recently from the 13th century to the late 16th century – the Amu Darya emptied into both the Aral and the Caspian Seas, reaching the latter via a large distributary called the Uzboy River. The Uzboy splits off from the main channel just south of the river's delta. Sometimes the flow through the two branches was more or less equal, but often most of the Amu Darya's flow split to the west and flowed into the Caspian.
People began to settle along the lower Amu Darya and the Uzboy in the 5th century, establishing a thriving chain of agricultural lands, towns, and cities. In about 985 CE, the massive Gurganj Dam at the bifurcation of the forks started to divert water to the Aral. Genghis Khan's troops destroyed the dam in 1221, and the Amu Darya shifted to distributing its flow more or less equally between the main stem and the Uzboy.[15] But in the 18th century, the river again turned north, flowing into the Aral Sea, a path it has taken since. Less and less water flowed down the Uzboy. When Russian explorer Bekovich-Cherkasski surveyed the region in 1720, the Amu Darya did not flow into the Caspian Sea anymore.[16]
Russian troops crossing Amu Darya, c. 1873
An Englishman, William Moorcroft, visited the Oxus around 1824 during the Great Game period.[17] Another Englishman, a naval officer called John Wood, came with an expedition to find the source of the river in 1839. He found modern-day Lake Zorkul, called it Lake Victoria, and proclaimed he had found the source.[18] Then, the French explorer and geographer Thibaut Viné collected a lot of information about this area during five expeditions between 1856 and 1862.
French geographer Thibaut Viné
The question of finding a route between the Oxus valley and India has been of concern historically. A direct route crosses extremely high mountain passes in the Hindu Kush and isolated areas like Kafiristan. Some in Britain feared that the Empire of Russia, which at the time wielded great influence over the Oxus area, would overcome these obstacles and find a suitable route through which to invade British India – but this never came to pass.[19] The area was taken over by Russia during the Russian conquest of Turkestan.
The Soviet Union became the ruling power in the early 1920s and expelled Mohammed Alim Khan. It later put down the Basmachi movement and killed Ibrahim Bek. A large refugee population of Central Asians, including Turkmen, Tajiks and Uzbeks, fled to northern Afghanistan.[20] In the 1960s and 1970s the Soviets started using the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya to irrigate extensive cotton fields in the Central Asian plain. Before this time, water from the rivers was already being used for agriculture, but not on this massive scale. The Qaraqum Canal, Karshi Canal, and Bukhara Canal were among the larger of the irrigation diversions built. However, the Main Turkmen Canal, which would have diverted water along the dry Uzboy River bed into central Turkmenistan, was never built. The 1970s, in the course of the Soviet–Afghan War, Soviet forces used the valley to invade Afghanistan through Termez.[21] The Soviet Union fell in the 1990s and Central Asia split up into the many smaller countries that lie within or partially within the Amu Darya basin.[22]
During the Soviet era, a resource-sharing system was instated in which Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan shared water originating from the Amu and Syr Daryas with Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan in summer. In return, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan received Kazakh, Turkmen, and Uzbek coal, gas, and electricity in winter. After the fall of the Soviet Union this system disintegrated and the Central Asian nations have failed to reinstate it. Inadequate infrastructure, poor water-management, and outdated irrigation methods all exacerbate the issue.[23]
Siberian Tiger Introduction Project[edit]
Main article: Siberian Tiger Introduction Project
The Caspian tiger used to occur along the river's banks.[24] After its extirpation, the Darya's delta was suggested as a potential site for the introduction of its closest surviving relative, the Siberian tiger. A feasibility study was initiated to investigate if the area is suitable and if such an initiative would receive support from relevant decision makers. A viable tiger population of about 100 animals would require at least 5,000 km2 (1,900 sq mi) of large tracts of contiguous habitat with rich prey populations. Such habitat is not available at this stage and cannot be provided in the short term. The proposed region is therefore unsuitable for the reintroduction, at least at this stage.[25]
Literature[edit]
But the majestic River floated on,
Out of the mist and hum of that low land,
Into the frosty starlight, and there moved,
Rejoicing, through the hushed Chorasmian waste,
Under the solitary moon: — he flowed
Right for the polar star, past Orgunjè,
Brimming, and bright, and large: then sands begin
To hem his watery march, and dam his streams,
And split his currents; that for many a league
The shorn and parcelled Oxus strains along
Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles —
Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had
In his high mountain-cradle in Pamere,
A foiled circuitous wanderer: — till at last
The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide
His luminous home of waters opens, bright
And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars
Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.
~ Matthew Arnold, Sohrab and Rustum
The Oxus river, and Arnold's poem, fire the imaginations of the children who adventure with ponies over the moors of the West Country in the 1930s children's book The Far-Distant Oxus. There were two sequels, Escape to Persia and Oxus in Summer.
Robert Byron's 1937 travelogue, The Road to Oxiana, describes its author's journey from the Levant through Persia to Afghanistan, with the Oxus as his stated goal.
George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman at the Charge, (1973), places Flashman on the Amu Darya and the Arral Sea during the (fictitious) Russian advance on India during The Great Game period.
Panorama of Amu Darya River from 2016-04-06
See also[edit]
List of rivers of Afghanistan
Mount Imeon
Sherabad River
Surkhan Darya
Transoxiana
Zeravshan River
Notes[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b Daene C. McKinney (18 November 2003). "Cooperative management of transboundary water resources in Central Asia" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-10-03.
^ Jump up to: a b c B. Spuler, Āmū Daryā, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online ed., 2009
Jump up ^ William C. Brice. 1981. Historical Atlas of Islam (Hardcover). Leiden with support and patronage from Encyclopaedia of Islam. ISBN 90-04-06116-9.
Jump up ^ Amu Darya. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
Jump up ^ George Passman Tate, The Kingdom of Afghanistan: a historical sketch, p. 11
Jump up ^ Moshe Gil; David Strassler, Jews in Islamic countries in the Middle Ages, p. 428
Jump up ^ Michael Shterenshis, Tamerlane and the Jews, p. xxiv
Jump up ^ Mock, J.; O'Neil, K. (2004), Expedition Report
Jump up ^ Colegrave, Bill (2011). Halfway House to Heaven. London: Bene Factum Publishing. p. 176. ISBN 978-1-903071-28-1.
^ Jump up to: a b Rakhmatullaev, Shavkat; Huneau, Frédéric; Jusipbek, Kazbekov; Le Coustumer, Philippe; Jumanov, Jamoljon; El Oifi, Bouchra; Motelica-Heino, Mikael; Hrkal, Zbynek. "Groundwater resources use and management in the Amu Darya River Basin (Central Asia)" (PDF). Environmental Earth Sciences. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
Jump up ^ "Basin Water Organization "Amudarya"". Interstate Commission for Water Coordination of Central Asia. Retrieved 2010-02-11.
Jump up ^ Agaltseva, N.A.; Borovikova, L.N.; Konovalov, V.G. (1997). "Automated system of runoff forecasting for the Amudarya River basin" (PDF). Destructive Water: Water-Caused Natural Disasters, their Abatement and Control. International Association of Hydrological Sciences. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
Jump up ^ "Amudarya River Basin Morphology". Central Asia Water Information. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
Jump up ^ Sykes, Percy (1921). A History of Persia. London: Macmillan and Company. p. 64.
Jump up ^ Volk, Sylvia (2000-11-11). "The Course of the Oxus River". University of Calgary. Archived from the original on 2009-12-23. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
Jump up ^ Kozubov, Robert (November 2007). "Uzboy". Turkmenistan Analytic Magazine. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
Jump up ^ Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, 1994, page 100
Jump up ^ Keay, J. (1983) When Men and Mountains Meet ISBN 0-7126-0196-1 Chapter 9
Jump up ^ See for example Can Russia invade India? by Henry Bathurst Hanna, 1895, (Google eBook), or The Káfirs of the Hindu-Kush, Sir George Scott Robertson, Illustrated by Arthur David McCormick, Lawrence & Bullen, Limited, 1896, (Google eBook)
Jump up ^ Taliban and Talibanism in Historical Perspective, M Nazif Shahrani, chapter 4 of The Taliban And The Crisis of Afghanistan, 2008 Harvard Univ Press, edited by Robert D Crews and Amin Tarzi
Jump up ^ Termez – See the Soviet–Afghan War article
Jump up ^ Pavlovskaya, L. P. "Fishery in the Lower Amu Darya Under the Impact of Irrigated Agriculture". Karakalpak Branch. Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
Jump up ^ International Crisis Group. "Water Pressures in Central Asia", CrisisGroup.org. 11 September 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
Jump up ^ Heptner, V. G.; Sludskii, A. A. (1992) [1972]. Mlekopitajuščie Sovetskogo Soiuza. Moskva: Vysšaia Škola [Mammals of the Soviet Union, Volume II, Part 2]. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation. pp. 83–202. ISBN 90-04-08876-8.
Jump up ^ Jungius, H., Chikin, Y., Tsaruk, O., Pereladova, O. (2009). Pre-Feasibility Study on the Possible Restoration of the Caspian Tiger in the Amu Darya Delta Archived 2016-10-22 at the Wayback Machine.. WWF Russia
This distinction between Turan and Iran appears in Shahnameh.
References[edit]
Curzon, George Nathaniel. 1896. The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus. Royal Geographical Society, London. Reprint: Elibron Classics Series, Adamant Media Corporation. 2005. ISBN 1-4021-5983-8 (pbk; ISBN 1-4021-3090-2 (hbk).
Gordon, T. E. 1876. The Roof of the World: Being the Narrative of a Journey over the high plateau of Tibet to the Russian Frontier and the Oxus sources on Pamir. Edinburgh. Edmonston and Douglas. Reprint by Ch'eng Wen Publishing Company. Taipei. 1971.
Toynbee, Arnold J. 1961. Between Oxus and Jumna. London. Oxford University Press.
Wood, John, 1872. A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus. With an essay on the Geography of the Valley of the Oxus by Colonel Henry Yule. London: John Murray.
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Nice for What
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Drake song
"Nice for What"
Single by Drake
from the album Scorpion
Released
April 6, 2018 (2018-04-06)
Format
Digital download
Genre
Hip hop
bounce
Length
3:30
Label
Young Money
Cash Money
Songwriter(s)
Aubrey Graham
Shane Lindstrom
Alan Bergman
Marilyn Bergman
Dennis Coles
Robert Diggs
Gary E. Grice
Marvin Hamlisch
Lamont Hawkins
Lauryn Hill
Jason Hunter
Russell Jones
Clifford Smith
Corey Woods
Son Chaeyoung
Phillip Price
Producer(s)
Murda Beatz
Son Chaeyoung (co.)
Noah "40" Shebib (add.)
Corey Litwin (add.)
Drake singles chronology
"Walk It Talk It"
(2018) "Nice for What"
(2018) "Yes Indeed"
(2018)
Scorpion track listing
"Jaded"
(3) "Nice For What"
(4) "Finesse"
(5)
Music video
"Nice for What" on YouTube
"Nice for What" is a song recorded by Canadian rapper Drake from his fifth studio album Scorpion (2018). It was released by Young Money Entertainment and Cash Money Records as the second single from the album on April 6, 2018, along with its music video. The song was produced by Murda Beatz with co-production handled by Blaqnmild, and features additional vocals by Big Freedia and 5th Ward Weebie. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, replacing Drake's own "God's Plan" and becoming his fifth US number one.[1] It also topped the UK Singles Chart and ARIA Charts, becoming his second number-one song of 2018 in the two countries after "God's Plan".[2]
Contents
[hide]
1 Background
2 Composition
3 Music video
4 Critical reception
5 Commercial performance
6 Personnel
7 Charts
8 Certifications
9 Release history
10 References
Background[edit]
On March 14, 2018, Lauryn Hill's son Joshua Omaru Marley posted a snippet of the song on Snapchat.[3] Drake later confirmed an upcoming Murda Beatz-produced single during an Instagram Live session.[4] On April 5, Drake made a surprise appearance during a Majid Jordan concert in Toronto.[5][6][7] "The reason I'm here tonight is because I'm back in the city finishing my album," he told the audience. "I've got a new single dropping tomorrow night, too, just in case you got some free time."[8][9][10][11]
Composition[edit]
Musically, "Nice for What" is an upbeat[12] hip hop and bounce song that contains elements of early 2000s R&B,[13][14][15][16] with a length of three minutes thirty seconds.[17] It samples Lauryn Hill's song "Ex-Factor" (1998), "Drag Rap" by the Showboys (1986), "Get Your Roll On" by Big Tymers (2000), and also features clips from performances by Big Freedia.[18][19][20] Lyrically, the hook of Drake's song samples Lauryn Hill singing about "cutting loose in the midst of a relationship".[21]
Music video[edit]
Directed by Karena Evans, the accompanying music video focuses on women carrying out various activities, including swimming, dancing, modeling and riding horses.[22] It features guest appearances from, in order of appearance,[23] Olivia Wilde, Misty Copeland, Issa Rae, Rashida Jones, Jourdan Dunn, Tracee Ellis Ross, Tiffany Haddish, Yara Shahidi, Zoe Saldana, Elizabeth and Victoria Lejonhjärta, Letitia Wright, Bria Vinaite, Emma Roberts, Syd, Michelle Rodriguez and Drake himself.[24][25][26][27] Evans called it an honour to work on the video, writing on Instagram that it was "a privilege and a blessing to have told this story with every single one of you revolutionary women, both in front and behind the camera".[28]
Critical reception[edit]
"Nice for What" received positive reviews from music critics, with many praising its promotion of female empowerment.[29][30] Hugh McIntyre of Forbes regarded the "perfectly-pitched" song as "another perfect delivery from the biggest artist in hip-hop", writing that the "vocal sample helps the track stand out from much of the rest of his discography".[22] Kevin Lozano of Pitchfork awarded the song "Best New Track", praising Drake for "smoothly handling the impeccable production from Murda Beatz", and lauding the song as "a fantastic piece of hip-hop machinery" and "one of Drake's most complete releases in some time".[13]
Chris DeVille of Stereogum deemed the song "a big, brash, almost obnoxiously loud New Orleans bounce-inspired production", describing it as "extremely poppy and sounds like a bid for continued commercial dominance".[31]
Commercial performance[edit]
In the United States, Drake became the first artist to have a new number-one debut replace his former number-one debut ("God's Plan") at the top of the Hot 100. It debuted with 88,000 downloads sold and 60.4 million streams. "Nice for What" became the 30th song in Billboard history to enter at number one. It also became Drake's fifth US number-one song overall and third as a lead artist.[1] The song also became the first song to debut on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop chart in the top 10. [32] "Nice for What" topped the Hot 100 for four consecutive weeks before it was dethroned on May 14, 2018 by Childish Gambino's "This Is America".[33][34][35] It then returned for a fifth non-consecutive week at the number one spot on the issue date June 2, 2018.[36] On the issue dated July 14, 2018, "Nice for What" became the first song to reach number one in four nonconsecutive runs.[37]
Personnel[edit]
Credits adapted from Tidal and Qobuz.[17][38]
Murda Beatz – production
Blaqnmild – co-production
Noah "40" Shebib – additional production
Corey Litwin – additional production
5thward Weebie – additional vocals
Big Freedia – additional vocals
Karena Evans – video director
Charts[edit]
Chart (2018)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[39]
1
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[40]
6
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[41]
20
Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia)[42]
6
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[43]
1
Czech Republic (Singles Digitál Top 100)[44]
23
Denmark (Tracklisten)[45]
3
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[46]
13
France (SNEP)[47]
28
Germany (Official German Charts)[48]
9
Greece (IFPI)[49]
3
Hungary (Single Top 40)[50]
29
Hungary (Stream Top 40)[51]
11
Ireland (IRMA)[52]
2
Italy (FIMI)[53]
53
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[54]
6
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[55]
1
Norway (VG-lista)[56]
5
Portugal (AFP)[57]
7
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[58]
10
Slovakia (Singles Digitál Top 100)[59]
13
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[60]
62
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[61]
4
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[62]
7
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[2]
1
UK R&B (Official Charts Company)[63]
1
US Billboard Hot 100[64]
1
US Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[65]
30
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[66]
1
US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[67]
11
US Rhythmic (Billboard)[68]
1
Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[69]
Platinum 70,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[70]
4× Platinum 320,000^
Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[71]
Gold 45,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[72]
Platinum 30,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[73]
Platinum 600,000
United States (RIAA)[74]
3× Platinum 3,000,000
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
sales+streaming figures based on certification alone
Release history[edit]
Region
Date
Format
Label
Ref.
Various
April 6, 2018 Digital download
Young Money
Cash Money
[17]
United States
April 10, 2018 Rhythmic contemporary radio
Young Money
Cash Money
Republic
[75]
References[edit]
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So Far Gone
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"Best I Ever Had"
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We Are Young Money
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Thank Me Later
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Take Care
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Nothing Was the Same
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"Started from the Bottom"
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"The Language"
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If You're Reading This It's Too Late
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What a Time to Be Alive
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Views
"Controlla"
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More Life
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"Sacrifices"
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"KMT"
"Glow"
"Since Way Back"
"Fake Love"
"Ice Melts"
Scary Hours / Scorpion
"God's Plan / Diplomatic Immunity"
"Nonstop"
"Emotionless"
"I'm Upset"
"Nice for What"
"In My Feelings"
"Don't Matter to Me"
Other singles
"Forever"
"0 to 100 / The Catch Up"
"Charged Up"
"Back to Back"
"Right Hand"
"Summer Sixteen"
"Sneakin' "
"Two Birds, One Stone"
"No Frauds"
"Signs"
"Yes Indeed"
As featured artist
"100"
"4 My Town (Play Ball)"
"Amen"
"Aston Martin Music"
"Back on Road"
"Believe Me"
"Big Amount"
"Blessings"
"Both"
"Cabaret"
"Champion"
"Come and See Me"
"Come Closer"
"Deuces (Remix)"
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"Fall for Your Type"
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"Fuckin' Problems"
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"Loving You No More"
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"No Shopping"
"Odio"
"Only"
"Poetic Justice"
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"R.I.C.O."
"Recognize"
"Right Above It"
"Right Here"
"Round of Applause"
"Say Something"
"She Will"
"Stay Schemin'"
"Still Got It"
"The One"
"The Zone"
"Throw It in the Bag (Remix)"
"To the Max"
"Trophies"
"Truffle Butter"
"Tuesday"
"Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready) (Remix)"
"Unusual"
"Used to This"
"Walk It Talk It"
"Wavin' Flag (Haiti Mix)"
"We in This Bitch 1.5"
"What's My Name?"
"What Up"
"Where Ya At"
"Who Do You Love?"
"Why You Always Hatin?"
"Work"
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