The other record for the week is for our favourite Canadian R&B singer, The Weeknd.Īlso topping the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks straight, the musician just passed the 500 million plays of the album Starboy on Spotify, making it one of the fastest growing albums on the streaming service, and the first artist to pass 40 million listeners. Adeles new album came out this month (Image: COLUMBIA) The Spotify spokesperson said Spotify listeners could still shuffle any album, but the service would default to playing tracks in order. It stayed for 10 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100.Īfter collecting four Ameican Music Awards, he also won several Billboard Music Awards, as well as MTV Europe Music Awards.įor this coming new year? The rapper is already nominated for eight Grammys, and Views is already certified quadruple platinum in the U.S. "One Dance" is truly the biggest track the rapper has had so far. The Weeknd last released the album After Hours in March 2020. Let's not forget he had also reached all top three year-end charts on Apple Music with his last album, Views. Malone last released the album Hollywoods Bleeding in September 2019. In other music news, JAY-Z has deactivated his Instagram after being on the platform for a day. Spotify announced Friday that Drake set a new record, reaching one billion plays of "One Dance." This follows news that the Toronto rapper is the most-streamed artist of 2016 and has the most-streamed album ( Views). Stream The Weeknd and Post Malone’s One Right Now on Spotify and Apple Music. The post has been updated to reflect this.Drake and The Weeknd sure have been having a good year.
Update April 3rd, 2:15PM ET: Drake’s album More Life on Apple Music outpaced Spotify’s streams of the same album by 28.6 million, not 33 million. While Apple Music isn’t the dominant service when it comes to subscribers, it’s quickly becoming the leader when it comes to engagement - at least when it comes to the world’s biggest genre - and that can’t be overlooked.
And this isn’t an anomaly either: this is the third time Apple Music has outperformed Spotify on a major release in the past 13 months.įirst-day streams of Drake’s More Life on Apple Music outpaced Spotify by a staggering 28.6 million, and the streaming service dominated first-week streams of Post Malone’s chart-topping single “Rockstar” in the US.Īpple Music has seemingly cracked the streaming formula when it comes to hip-hop and R&B, despite a sizable disadvantage in users compared to Spotify. To be clear: Spotify has over 120 million more users, had two exclusive music videos from the EP, and it was where The Weeknd pointed his fans to stream the album on social media. The Weeknd teased new music early Monday morning in a snippet posted on social media called The Dawn Is Coming and talked generally about it in a new GQ article, calling it the album I. The company’s algorithm analyzes over 1 million new songs per week on platforms including Spotify, YouTube and TikTok, with. That in itself isn’t a record, but Apple Music’s numbers did beat out the single’s performance on Spotify, which pulled in nearly 3.5 million streams in the same period - the largest debut of 2018 on the service - according to Republic Records. The band will release its new album on the label in 2022.
The Weeknd’s latest project, My Dear Melancholy, pulled in over 26 million streams in its first 24 hours on Apple Music, with the lead song “Call Out My Name” pulling in 6 million of those streams, the company tells The Verge. Update April 4th: 7:40PM ET: Spotify now claims it’s initial data was wrong and it had more streams than Apple Music.