Canadian rapper, Drake has made history by becoming the first artist ever to hit 50 billion total streams on Spotify.
Chart Data tweeted: “@Drake has now surpassed 50 billion streams on Spotify across all credits. He is the first artist in history to hit this milestone.”
Drake also took to his Instagram page to share the news with his fans.
A breakdown from Chart Masters shows that Drake has accumulated 35,704,203,269 streams as a lead artist, while his streams as a featured artist amount to 14,297,795,559. The total sum puts him at 50,001,998,828, nearly 2 million over the 50 billion mark.
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This milestone is not a surprise to fans who have been paying close attention to Spotify data, with numbers released at the close of 2020 which ranked Drake as second on a list of most-streamed artists globally.
When it came to UK listeners, the 34-year-old Canadian rapper topped the list of most-streamed artists, beating the likes of Juice WRLD, Eminem, and Ed Sheeran.
At the end of 2019, Spotify found the rapper to be the most-streamed male artist of the decade, as well as the most-streamed artist overall.