Drake’s Scorpion is the First Album to Cross a Billion Streams

Jul. 9, 2018

Canadian rapper Drake’s golden run continues with his new album Scorpion, which has set a new benchmark in the music industry. After setting a new record for the most number of streams in a day, Scorpion has become the world’s first album to be streamed over a billion times just seven days.

According to a report fromBillboard, Scorpion clocked in 745.92 million on-demand streams on all platforms in the United States in just a week since its release, while the cumulative global streaming figures stand at over a billion.

Drake’s new album also broke multiple other records – Scorpion is his eighth consecutive music album to peak at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, which puts him on par with the likes of The Beatles, Eminem, and Kanye West for the longest streak of No. 1 albums.

Scorpion, which earlier broke theone-day streaming recordon Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon, has gone past the previous record-holder, Post Malone’sBeerbongs & Bentleys,which clocked around 700 million streams globally in a week. Impressively, Scorpion’s US-only streaming figures surpassedBeerbongs & Bentleys’7-day streaming count in just three days.