Drake’s surprise album release has set a new Spotify record for the most streams from an album in its first week on the platform, according to Billboard. Spotify confirmed the news yesterday (February 17) and announced that songs from If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late were collectively streamed more than 17 million times in a three-day span.
According to Billboard, Drake’s last album, Nothing Was the Same, set a previous record for first-week album streams with nearly 16 million in its debut week.
In addition to the overall first-week streams record, a total of 6.8 million streams of If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late on Saturday alone also set a new landmark for most streams in a single day for an album in the U.S.
Meanwhile, early estimates put Drake’s first week sales performance at around 500,000.
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Drake continues to prove time aND time again that he runs the rap game. HOW can any of you groupie nerd haters deny that drake is the face of rap. How can u deny that in 2015 drake is the king of hip hop. How can u deny these facts when numbers back it up. Are you haters mad that your favourite rappers are either to old and washed up or will never have even half the success that drake has. Learn to accept facts you hipster nerds. Stop living in the past this is 2015 thus is drakes. If you hate drake then you pretty much hate hip hop.
Damn man, I appreciate Drake too man but chillll son. LMAO
Drake groupie, you’re still wrong.
OK OK MR. DRAKE RUNS RAP THIS SPOTIFY RECORD AIN’T NOTHING SPECIAL J.COLE DID THE SAME THING WITH FOREST HILLS DRIVE COUPLE MONTHS BACK SO DRAKE SO HAPPENED TO BREAK IT AND SO WHAT IF DRAKE ALWAYS SELLS THE MOST OUT OF ALL THE NEW SCHOOL ARTIST I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST DRAKE AND WHAT HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED EVEN THOUGH I’M NOT A FAN AND DON’T SUPPORT HIM HOWEVER U NEED TO UNDERSTAND DRAKE RUNS RAP THAT DRAKE HAS A FANBASE THAT DWARFS J.COLE’S SO OF COURSE HE CAN SELL WAY MORE BUT LET’S BE HONEST MAN J.COLE SET THE BAR WITH THIS SURPISE ALBUM STRATEGY WHEN HE DROPPED FOREST HILLS DRIVE IN DECEMBER J.COLE DIDN’T HAVE FEATURED ARTISTS WITH HIS PROJECT DRAKE NEEDED A FEW FEATURED ARTISTS ON HIS PROJECT CAUSE HE IS NOT AS GOOD GOING SOLO ALL ON HIS OWN WHILE J.COLE DID IT ALL SOLO AND NOW LOOK IT WILL GO PLATINUM IN TWO MORE MONTHS NO DOUBT YEAH YEAH YEAH DRAKE SOLD MORE WITH HIS SURPISE ALBUM IN THE FIRST WEEK BUT LIKE I SAID HE HAS A MUCH LARGER FAN BASE TO SUPPORT HIM THAN J.COLE’S SO NO SURPRISE THERE AND YES DRAKE IS THE KING OF RAP BUT U DIDN’T CHECK THE BIRTH DATE HE AIN’T THE GOD COLE THE GOD LORD OF HIP HOP IT’S STILL A COLE WORLD DRAKE RUNS RAP SO U NEED TO ACCEPT THAT THIS RAP WORLD TODAY IS BIG ENOUGH FOR TO LIGHT SKINNED RAP ICONS AND NEITHER HE SHOWN SIGNS OF FALLING OFF BUT J.COLE IS THAT MUCH BETTER THAN DRAKE HE TAKES HIP HOP PLACES DRAKE HASN’T FACE IT HIP HOP NEEDS J.COLE JUST AS MUCH AS IT NEEDS DRAKE
J Cole fans so fucking salty lol
drake continues to set records. haters continue to hate. #6God #IYRTITL
Wrong, bitch.
right, bitch.
Nope. Wrong.
yep. right.
No. Wrong.
i’m right! you’re wrong! get the fuck over it!
No, you’re wrong and I’m right.
Glad i grew up in the 90’s. No good music anymore, the cookie cutters are here.
I used to say this, but I thought about it. People were telling us when we were listening to our shit when they grew up on soul music or like me, older brother who grew up on Kool Moe Dee and Kurtis Blow. Drake is true to himself,a nd dude has talent, and he’s his been consistent telling his story, boring as I might find it by now, so to each his own. That gangsta shit ain’t coming back, and 10 years from now somebody will be saying they want shit like this instead of what they’ll be making then, so go figure.
Last name ever, first name greatest. The people have spoken, once again.
Records are meant to be broken and sson, someone else will break this one.
MJ record ain’t going nowhere. 30 years fam.
GOT DAM DRAKE DOIN SHIT OUTSIDE THE BOX AND RUNNING THE GAME AGAIN , TIME AFTER TIME, ALBUM AFTER ALBUM!!!!! THE ONLY OTHER ARTIST IN THE RAP GAME WHO CAN DO THIS IS THE BEST, SHADY MR. MATHERS HIMSELF !!! I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IMPRESSED W/DRAKE THE WAY HE JUST LETS IT FLOW AND TALKS TO YOU IN HIS MUSIC , BUT DROPPING THIS MIXTAPE/ALBUM OUT OF NOWHERE AND BREAKING RECORDS AND GETTING GOLD FIRST WEEK I MEAN WHO THE REAL 6GOD BOI….. KEEP KILLIN DRAKE AND ALL YOUR FANS WILL SUPPORT YOU UNLIKE THESE UNORIGINAL RAPPERS IN THIS GAME !!!! #OVO#YOUNGMONEY #VIEWSFROMTHE6
Hi, lying Stanley.
“SoundScan will equate 1,500 song streams as the equivalent of an album sale; this measurement will be known as a “stream equivalent album.” 17,300,000/1,500 = 11,533.333 album sold based off the first week streams so far…
Congrats to him even selling 500,000 in a week when the fan base can stream it 17 million times in three days. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves for acting like you’re some dedicated supporter because those numbers don’t add up
WHEN YOU CATER TO BITCHES AND SOFT NIGGAS YOU WILL ALWAYS SELL. THIS NIGGA WILL NEVER FLOP. HE IS THE KING OF THE SOFT NIGGAS.
I’m no Drake fan, but you sound real soft right now. You got hurt feelings or something?
535,000