Drake’s ‘Scorpion’ Is the First Album to Hit 1 Billion Streams in a Week

BY: Denver Sean

Published 6 years ago

Another day, another streaming record broken by Drake.

His new album Scorpion has become the first album to surpass 1 billion streams worldwide across all streaming platforms in one week.

via Billboard:

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In all, Scorpion’s tracks accumulated more than 1 billion streams globally in the most recent tracking week (June 29-July 5), the set’s first week available, making it the first album to reach the milestone. Previously, Post Malone‘s beerbongs & bentleys held the global record with just under 700 million streams (April 27-May 3), according to industry insiders.

Additionally, Scorpion scored over 750 million streams U.S.-only in its first seven days, according to sources, likewise smashing the domestic record set by Post Malone’s beerbongs (431.3 million, according to Nielsen Music). As previously reported, Scorpion broke beerbongs’ record in just its first three days by tallying 435 million U.S. streams from June 29 through July 1. Beerbongs achieved that total over its first seven days, April 27-May 3.

Scorpion’s streaming numbers alone should easily send it to a No. 1 launch on the Billboard 200 albums chart dated July 14 with over 700,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in its first week, according to industry forecasters, marking the biggest week for an album in 2018 so far.

Drake took to Instagram to celebrate the milestone. “New era. New platinum,” he said in a caption. “Thank you a billion times over (a billion plus).”

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New era. New platinum. Thank you a billion times over (a billion plus). ?

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Congrats to Drake!

 

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