Drake's Scorpion is the First Album to Cross a Billion Streams in a Week

Canadian rapper Drake'due south gilded run continues with his new anthology Scorpion, which has set a new benchmark in the music industry. After setting a new record for the well-nigh number of streams in a day, Scorpion has become the world'southward kickoff anthology to be streamed over a billion times just 7 days.

According to a report from Billboard, 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 up at over a billion.

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

Drake's new album also bankrupt multiple other records – Scorpion is his eighth sequent 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 the one-solar day streaming record on Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon, has gone past the previous record-holder, Postal service Malone'sBeerbongs & Bentleys, which clocked around 700 million streams globally in a week. Impressively, Scorpion's Usa-merely streaming figures surpassedBeerbongs & Bentleys' vii-twenty-four hours streaming count in but three days.

With those numbers, Scorpion is all gear up to debut every bit the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart that will be released on July fourteen. Scorpion accumulated 732,000 equivalent album units in the week that ended on July 5, which is the highest effigy for whatsoever album released then far in 2018, and is also the biggest number for an R&B/hip-hop anthology since Drake'south own Views, which was released in April 2016.