Drake: His new album achieves dizzy streaming heights
The plan of the Canadian rapper Drake (31) has risen to perfection: With his new album "Scorpion" he has broken all streaming records and chased his streaming royalties to unprecedented heights through the 25 songs on the record. On the first day after the release, the users of the streaming platforms Spotify and Apple Music listened to the album a whopping 300 million copies worldwide.
On Apple Music, the individual songs were summed up within 24 hours 170 million times streamed, as a spokesman for the industry publication "Variety" confirmed. He has surpassed his own record, the Drakes 2017 published mix tape "More Life" with 89.9 million streams on the first day held.
On Spotify, users listened to his songs around 132.5 million times. This is evident from the daily charts of the platform. This Drake has outbid the previous record by about 50 million streams. This rapper Post Malone (22) had set up with 78.7 million streams for his album "Beerbongs & Bentleys" in April.
