Drake’s ‘Scorpion’ becomes first album to hit one billion streams in one week

Drake isn’t done smashing records with his new album. The Canadian rapper just hit over one billion streams for his latest album Scorpion. The figure takes into account all music listeners from around the world using different streaming platforms. Again, Drake has beaten out Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleys for the title, the latter’s album was played 700 million times in the same timeframe.

Source: Forbes

Drake shatters first day release records on Spotify and Apple Music

On the first day of release of Drake’s Scorpion album over the weekend, it has broken a number of streaming records already. According to SpotifyCharts.com, the album’s individual track totaled 132,450,203 streams on the first day, which was 50,000,000 more than the previous record set by Post Malone’s recent album Beerbongs & Bentleys. Spotify has confirmed that the record has been broken by a large measure but isn’t confirming the numbers officially, saying SpotifyChart’s numbers may not be fully accurate. If the album numbers continue to at this rate, it could easily reach a billion streams within the first week. Post Malone also currently holds the record with 236,500,546 streams in the U.S. and 411,816,710 globally in its first week. Drake was also the one who previously held that first-week record for 22-track mixtape More Life, which set the record at 385 million streams.

For Apple Music, he’s also broken the single-day record as well with over 170 million streams, which the Canadian superstar previously held for 2017 release, More Life. That mixtape was streamed 89.9 million times on the first day.

Source: Variety

Drake teases upcoming album ‘Scorpion’

The wait for Drake’s upcoming album isn’t that long. Drizzy is dropping Scorpion on Friday, June 29. And the Canadian rapper just shared a new teaser on his Instagram to promote the album. According to Shazam, the clip features Moderat’s “The Mark (Interlude).” If you live in Toronto, you’ve probably seen this Toronto native tease the album on different billboards with cryptic phrases like “IS THERE MORE,” “A SIDE B SIDE” and “DON’T HIT ME WHEN YOU HEAR THIS.” Drake has already released three songs off the record: “I’m Upset,” “Nice for What,” and “Duppy Freestyle.”

Source: Pitchfork

Drake breaks Twitch’s record for most-viewed, non-tournament stream while playing ‘Fortnite’

Canadian rapper Drake broke records in an unlikely place. He dropped into pro-gamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins’s stream of the popular sandbox shooter Fortnite: Battle Royale with NFL rookie turned gamer JuJu Smith-Schuster (FaZeJuJu_19) and rapper Travis Scott (cactus_jackk92). In case you were curious, Drake’s username is TheBoyDuddus. At the peak of the stream, it hit over 635,000 concurrent viewers, which completely overtook Dr. DisRespect’s previous non-tournament stream record of 388,888. The streaming service’s all-time Twitch record goes to Eleague Major: Boston with over 1.1 concurrent viewers.

Source: Polygon