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Drake's record company, Republic Records, said
the 31-year-old musician, who was the biggest seller in 2016,
was the first artist to reach one billion plus streams globally
across all platforms in one week of release. The previous record
of almost 700 million streams was set in May by Post Malone's "beerbongs
& Bentleys."
According to data on Monday from Nielsen Music, the 25-track
double album "Scorpion" sold some 731,000 units in the United
States for the week, making the soul-baring record the biggest
seller of 2018 by far.
The Billboard 200 album chart tallies units from album sales,
song sales (10 songs equal one album) and streaming activity
(1,500 streams equal one album).
"Scorpion" also gave Drake seven songs in the top 10 Billboard
Hot 100 singles charts, Billboard said on Monday, led by "Nice
for What." That beat a record of five simultaneous songs by The
Beatles in 1964 when the British band was at the height of its
fame.
"Scorpion" made headlines on its June 29 release because Drake
confirmed long-standing rumors that he had fathered a son, but
he did not name the mother.
Streaming services in 2017 became the recording industry's
biggest single revenue source, overtaking sales of physical
albums and digital downloads. Rap officially surpassed rock in
2017 as the biggest music genre in the United States.
"Scorpion" is a joint release on Warner Bros. and Universal
Music-owned labels OVO Sound, Young Money Entertainment, Cash
Money Records and Republic Records.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Richard Chang)
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