Drake might have suffered a really public L in his high-profile battle with Kendrick Lamar final yr, however it doesn’t seem to have harm his recognition.
In line with Chart Knowledge, the 6 God has simply develop into the first-ever artist to amass 120 billion streams on Spotify throughout all credit (together with each his solo output and collaborations with different artists).
It means Drake has prolonged his lead because the most-streamed artist on the world’s hottest music streaming platform.
To place that mammoth determine into context, the second most-streamed artist on Spotify is Taylor Swift who has simply over 110 billion (and counting) spins to her title, per Kworb — a staggering 10 billion behind Drake.
Dangerous Bunny, who’s third on that listing, is the one different artist with over 100 billion streams, whereas The Weeknd, Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran all path with 84.5 billion, 64.2 billion and 59.6 billion, respectively.
Taking a more in-depth take a look at Drake’s catalog, “One Dance” is his most-streamed tune on Spotify with over 3.7 billion performs. The Views hit additionally holds the excellence of being his first solo primary on the Billboard Scorching 100 again in 2016.
“God’s Plan” follows with 2.8 billion streams, whereas “Passionfruit” (1.9 billion), “Work” (1.5 billion) and “Hotline Bling” (1.5 billion) spherical out his high 5 tracks.
It’s unclear whether or not Drake or Spotify plan to rejoice the achievement, however when the Toronto titan reached 100 billion streams again in 2022, he was honored together with his very personal FC Barcelona jersey.
The Spanish soccer giants, who’re sponsored by Spotify, wore particular OVO owl jerseys throughout their El Clásico conflict with fierce rivals Actual Madrid that October (fittingly sufficient).
The so-called “Drake curse” appeared to strike once more, nonetheless, as Barça suffered a 3-1 defeat in that recreation. Prime scorer Robert Lewandowski and co. ended up profitable the La Liga title that season, although, so perhaps the loss was all a part of God’s plan.
