Drake‘s Scorpion posted an insane 559 million streams on its first week 2 years ago. Naturally, the leader of urban music comes on top. Rap fans give more credit to the album format as a whole. When we go deeper on numbers, we notice these records are often stronger thanks to high streams from the entire tracklist. This is not really the case, if we look at average US share of these streams it’s slightly under 50%. It would be easy to jump on the conclusion that this genre is bigger in streaming. The list is obviously US-dominated, with 50 albums coming from the Hip Hop / R&B branch. NB: Remixes not on the album or songs from prior studio efforts are not included in the totals. This led 300 million, 400 million, and 500 million first week streams barriers to be broken. reached that incredible milestone, while at the same time the former’s Purpose went through the roof, topping 200 million.īy then, the platform had 88 million monthly active users, a number that has now increased to over 300 million. Up to that point, no album had ever amassed 100 million streams on Spotify in its first week. That month, two major teen pop stars, Justin Bieber and One Direction, clashed when they dropped their new efforts at the same time. The first indication that long playing discs may do well in a streaming world came in November 2015. You don’t need to go to the album, it comes to you. On top of that, Spotify links to you these pages for new releases by artists you follow. With streams, all you need to do is go to the album page and play it in full. When you downloaded a single, you still had no right to take a look at the rest of the album. In truth, it’s surely way more loyal to this artform than downloads ever where. Since Spotify became a thing, you likely heard a lot of times how streaming was killing the album format. Do you think your favorite artist is among them?

In fact, so far as many as 72 releases have broken the 100 million mark during their first week. As you can expect, the likes Drake and Ariana Grande recorded several of the top album debuts on Spotify, but many more are performing incredibly well.

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