Drake’s song “God’s Plan” didn’t stop with breaking a Spotify record; it also set a new mark for Apple Music. According to Beats 1 Radio’s Zane Lowe, Drizzy’s single broke the global record for first-day streams on Apple’s streaming service.
“Breaking Records again @Drake – God’s Plan has streamed over 14M times, breaking the worldwide Apple Music first day streaming record,” Zane Lowe tweeted on Wednesday (January 24).
The news comes on the heels of Drake breaking Spotify’s U.S. record for most first-day streams with “God’s Plans” racking up over four million streamings on the service.
Read more about that accomplishment below.
(The original version of this article was published on January 24, 2018 at 8:33 a.m. PST and can found below.)
Just a few days after its official January 19 release, Drake’s latest single “God’s Plan” is already breaking Spotify records in the United States.
The track, which appears on his Scary Hours project, has set a new domestic record for the most amount of streams in a single day, after it achieved 4,326,679 streams on Monday (January 22), according to chart data.
Drake took to Instagram on Tuesday night (January 23) to react to the news. In his post, the Toronto artist simultaneously congratulated LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who earlier that night surpassed Kobe Bryant to become the youngest NBA player to reach 30,000 regular-season points.
Drake captioned the photo, “Congrats King. Samesies.”
The 6 God later revealed he was heading back to the studio, inspired by LeBron’s latest achievement.
“It seems like every time we look up, you’re setting another milestone or breaking another record and I always tell you [that] you’re one of the most inspirational people in my life. I’m honored to call you a brother.” Drake said in a video released via LeBron’s media company, Uninterrupted. “Every time you do something like this, I always try and get in the studio and make the song that would go with the moment, so I’m excited to go to work tonight.”
Of course, Drake is no stranger to breaking records. In August of last year, Drake’s unprecedented, eight-year run on the Billboard Top 100 came to an end. Nevertheless, Drizzy still holds the record for the solo artist with the most career entries on the Hot 100.
Your favorite rapper could never do this! Unless he’s Drake of course!!
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It’s Drizzy SZN!!
Where the haters at now? The 6ix God continues to break records every day. And congrats to LeBron on 30k points. What a time to be alive. Real ting, ya kno? #DrakeIsLoveDrakeIsLife #ScaryHours
Haters are still here ovoqueer, it’s 13 yr old girls and butt pirates like yourself renting this Fake ghostwritten bullshit. Real things don’t you know.
#DRAKEISFAKEDRAKEISWACK
70% of Fake Drake’s fans wear high heels..the other 30% are queer that wear sandals.
Not impressed i come from the era when people actually bought copies of a album and thst is how you get your plaque these motherfuckersis givjng plaques just for listening to peoples albums.
Your logic seems flawed. When people bought albums back in the day, what did they do afterwards? They listened to it. Same thing is happening today, except people aren’t rushing to Sam Goody or Best Buy or wherever you bought albums at anymore. And now, with the streams, we can see how many people are actually listening to a product. For all we know, you could’ve just bought an album back in the day and never listened to it. But wait, now it is about sales? You were probably one of those same people who screamed sales don’t matter Drake was selling actual copies of his music. But now, since he’s excelling and getting plaques in a new way, it’s all about sales again. Always gotta hate somehow..
Why are u people listening to this clown
Because they don’t want to be labeled antisemitic
Spotify and drake are a joke. Who cares if he is breaking records on spotify, its just a scam. How many records were sold, zero. Just listening to a song ain’t shit. I MIGHT listen to a bull shit drake song but that counts for nothing.
Actually, it counts towards his sales. And he’s getting paid for that. Just saying…
Correction, Birdman gets payed for that. Anyone that would sign YMCMB is a dummy.
in 2018, physical record sales means nothing. deal with it. now go back to your neolithic cave.
Of course u listen to Drake. U haters are the biggest fans.
The most resilient out though – both tracks go hard – guy gets more hate than any other artist and continues to produce – Who else actually makes other grown men upset with his success and music? that’s a W all day
Except for he doesn’t make shit. He doesn’t write his raps or produce his beats…
I found that Drake has been credited for writing for Kanye and other artists. If you can put your emotions aside and listen to Drake’s catalogue (not just skim thruuu it) you would feel goofy for writing this – whos your source anyways? Don’t tell me it’s a rapper who had a hissy fit cause drake wouldn’t promote the track they did together? Don’t tell me it’s an artist who is sitting in jail right now for some easily avoidable nonsense?
With no classic album. Vanilla ice and mc hammer sold alot too
“Opinions over statistics of course”
I’d say he’s got two classics. “Take Care” and “Nothing Was the Same” Fight me
I thought Drake was finished? haha
Yeah, but did he make the baseball hall of fame like I did today??
Gods plan was to make drake the god of rap. Drake runs the rap game and it makes all you old heads so mad. Drake is the reason rap exists. All these old 90s rappers you old heads listen to need a drake feature to be relevant.
You mean Yahweh of rap? He’s jevvish.
Still can’t understand why he gets so many streams. Some of his bars so corny I get straight nauseous listening to it like I do when Nas try to rap about genitals.
Diplomatic immunity got bars for days. Its excellent lyrically. The problem is when ur favorite rapper says one weird line, u ignore it. With Drake, u don’t here anything but that weird line. He is easily superior to 90% of rappers
“God’s Plan” = “Yahweh’s Plan” = “Yinon Plan” is an Israeli strategic plan to ensure Israeli regional superiority. It insists and stipulates that Israel must reconfigure its geo-political environment through the balkanization of the surrounding Arab states into smaller and weaker states. When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing war on Syria, not to mention the process of regime change in Egypt, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East. The latter consists in weakening and eventually fracturing neighboring Arab states as part of an Israeli expansionist project. “Greater Israel” consists in an area extending from the Nile Valley to the Euphrates.
All of Drakes numbers are done they click farms in Indonesia. This has been proven. There are wherehouses full of kids (sweatshops) with tablets in front of them. His record label pays them to set up fake emails and start a Spotify free trial account with said email address. They then download the song. This counts as a download. Stop falling for this fake closet homosexual’s bullshit. The Apple Music shotbis the same deal. I doubt Real listeners account for 20% of his shit. He is not, or never will be a Kendrick or Jay-Z. Eat a dick Canada.
God’s plan is hot drake back at it
Got about 20 seconds into the song and I didn’t really need to hear the rest. Drake needs to remember he’s a pussy and just keep singing songs to girls.
When’s the last time Fake Drake got a standing ovation at the grammy’s for crying and whining about how hated he is and how there’s alot of bad things people wishing on me..GTFOH #DRAKEISFAKEDRAKEISWACK