Drake shatters streaming records

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Drake shatters streaming records

His music videos have broken the internet, and there is no doubt that Drake is a wildly popular musical phenomenon but not even he could have predicted the outrageously positive response from critics and fans... Drake’s latest project More Life was streamed 89.9 million times in its first 24 hours on Apple Music, breaking the single-day album streams record for every music service. More Life also helped set records on Beats 1, as Saturday’s episode of OVO Sound Radio was the biggest Beats 1 show to date. Outpacing Spotify by nearly 30 million streams is no easy feat — especially with about 80 million fewer users — but it looks like Drake’s ties to Apple Music and his radio show on Beats 1 helped push listeners to the service in droves. “Free Smoke” the first song off the playlist took the top spot on Apple Music. “Portland” and “Passionfruit” round out the top three tracks.

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