Canadian rapper, Aubrey Drake Graham, popularly called Drake has hit over 50 billion streams on Spotify, becoming the first of his kind to hit the feat.
A breakdown of the data by ChartMasters includes 35,704,203,269 streams for songs in which Drake is credited as the lead artist.
.@Drake has now surpassed 50 billion streams on Spotify across all credits. He is the first artist in history to hit this milestone.
— chart data (@chartdata) January 17, 2021
It also covers for songs in which Drake is credited as a featured artist, where he’s amassed a whopping 14,297,795,559 total streams. An accumulation of both categories will give you a total of 50,001,998,828 billion streams.
With his latest work, ‘Certified Lover Boy’ Merch Collab With Nike, soon to hit the streams, Complex anticipates that that number will sky-rocket by the end of the year.
Drake via his IG story pic.twitter.com/olaTZqwCHh
— Drake Direct (@DrakeDirect_) January 18, 2021
Drake has also received congratulations from his friend and colleague, Future, who tweeted thus:
50 billion streams SHEESH congrats to THE BOY ?
— FUTURE/FREEBANDZ (@1future) January 18, 2021
