Drake Shatters Four Spotify 24 Hour Streaming Records With ‘Scorpion’
by Karen
Drake‘s latest effort Scorpion is already breaking records one day after release. The double album, which features 25 tracks from the Toronto rapper, has reportedly shattered the opening day streaming record previously held by Post Malone‘s beerbongs & bentleys.
Drizzy isn’t playing. #ScorpionSZN going strong @Drake 📈🦂 pic.twitter.com/tS0tMFT2cS
— Spotify (@Spotify) June 29, 2018
Spotify tweeted out yesterday (June 29) that Scorpion was being streamed a throttling 10 million times every hour leading to the record-breaking four US and global peaks.
Drake’s ‘Scorpion’ has broken the global Spotify record for biggest opening day (~132m album streams on 6/29).
— chart data (@chartdata) June 30, 2018
According to Music Business Worldwide, who has tabulated stats based on SpotifyCharts.com, Scorpion earned approximately 132 million worldwide streams globally in its first day, which puts it miles ahead of Malone’s 78 million. It clocked in at 80.5 million streams domestically, breaking a US record.
Drake’s “Nonstop” has broken the global Spotify record for biggest opening day (9.3m streams on 6/29).
— chart data (@chartdata) June 30, 2018
In the same report, Drake has also broken the record for most first-day singles streams worldwide as “Nonstop” earns approximately 9.2 million streams globally, putting it above Taylor Swift. Scorpion currently occupies the top 23 spots on the Spotify U.S. song charts.
“Guess we’ll just go and do an exclusive deal with Apple again, then.” “No, wait! There must be something we can offer you.” “Okay. How about… everything.” pic.twitter.com/ikl2vu9Xsd
— MBW (@musicbizworld) June 29, 2018
To some, the records may not surprise, Spotify (after receiving the album almost a half hour after Apple Music) changed every playlist cover on the platform to a photo of Drake, even playlists that didn’t feature the 6God. What do you think of the new king of stream?