Canadian rapper, Drake, has historically become the first artist ever to surpass 50 billion combined streams on Spotify.
The rapper is one of the streaming service’s most popular artists, with his 2018 song ‘God’s Plan’ racking up 1.67 billion streams alone.
In the report of The Chart Data website, which keeps regular tabs on chart movements and streaming figures, Drake has surpassed 50 billion combined streams (including featured credits) on Spotify.
The site, which tweeted the update on Sunday (January 17), notes that Drake is “the first artist in history to hit this milestone”.
However, this lustrous claim on Drake’s success has been corroborated by the independent music data website ChartMasters, calculating that Drake has clocked up 35.72 billion streams of his own songs and 14.30 billion streams of “featured streams” (such as tracks he has guested on), taking his combined total to just over 50 billions streams on Spotify.
Meanwhile, Drake’s next album, ‘Certified Lover Boy’, is set to be released this year. It had been thought that the record could emerge this month, but so far no announcement has been made.
It could be recall that back in November 2020, the rapper acknowledged his expectation on people throwing “hate on” ‘Certified Lover Boy’ like they did with his ‘Views’ album in 2016.
