Each handful of months, music business media shops comparable to Chart Information and Billboard inform followers of the newest streaming stats and data, and this month, new information means that Drake might not solely have extra slaps than The Beatles, but additionally extra slaps than the entire music launched pre-1980 mixed.

On a critical word, HipHopDX experiences that Drake put up earth-shattering streaming figures in 2021, they usually had been reportedly so excessive that he managed to out-stream all music launched earlier than 1980 throughout streaming platforms. Luminate was the primary to report these streaming metrics, after which Billboard reviewed them and confirmed that Drake had the truth is generated extra on-demand streams than pre-1980 data, in addition to extra insightful findings.

Drake attends Drake's Till Death Do Us Part rap battle on October 30, 2021 in Long Beach, California.
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Billboard‘s remaining report revealed that solely 0.6 % of music launched from 1950 to 1979 was accessed by way of on-demand streaming, whereas Drake’s 8.6 billion on-demand streams alone accounted for 0.8 % of complete streams in 2021. In fact, a big variety of Drizzy’s streams resulted from his Grammy-nominated and chart-topping sixth studio album Licensed Lover Boy. Upon its launch, the album was panned by critics and followers alike, however based on Chart Information, it has nonetheless managed to fare properly commercially, with 2,464,000 album-equivalent models thus far.

Twelve years faraway from his debut studio album, Drake continues to have a chokehold on the streaming enterprise, so tell us what you concentrate on his accomplishment within the remark part beneath. And as at all times, hold it locked to HNHH for extra Hip-Hop and music-related statistics.

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