DRAKE FIRST TO HIT SPOTIFY MILESTONE
Canadian rapper hits new record on the streaming platform
Average number of streams for each of his tracks reaches mind-boggling number
News comes after much-publicised beef with fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar
While Drake has been in the news a lot recently, its mostly for who he has been beefing with this week (or even day, occasionally) but now he is in the headlines for the right reasons – achieving a new record.
First to milestone
The Canadian has just become the first music artist to reach 100 billion streams on Spotify – this includes performances as a lead artists and featured artist. He pips fellow global superstar Taylor Swift to this mind-boggling milestone.
Drake has more than 78 million monthly listeners on Spotify, and only two months ago hit the 97 billion streams mark on the platform.
His most popular track on Spotify is ‘One Dance’, which has been streamed more than 3.1 billion times, followed by ‘God’s Plan’ (2.5 billion streams). On average, each track of his has been streamed 234 million times, according to Chart Data.
Swift is the second most streamed artist on Spotify with more than 84 billion streams, followed by Bad Bunny and The Weeknd.
Beefs and diss tracks
It shows that Drake is still immensely popular, despite recent spats with other artists, most notably Kendrick Lamar. The pair have recently released multiple diss tracks aimed at each other, and Lamar hit the headlines earlier this week for playing his Drake diss track five times at one gig.
Many people took to X (formerly Twitter) to mention the fact – and note that Kendrick Lamar has nowhere near those sorts of numbers on Spotify (although he is the 18th most played artist on Spotify, according to Kworb. One said: “The biggest hip hop artist ever, no other hip hop artist can recreate this anytime soon.”
