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Drake New Album ‘Views’ Breaks All Streaming Records In Mere Three Weeks Of Release

By Megha Kedia | Update Date: May 26, 2016 06:00 AM EDT

Drake's new album titled "Views" has already broken streaming records in just three weeks of its release. The album has reportedly hit more than half-a-billion streams in the US beating the previous record of Beyoncé's album "Lemonade" which got 115.2 million streams.

The new Drake album "Views" was streamed 245 million times in its first week when it was only available on Apple Music. The number fell down to 141 million streams during the second week and then increased to 185 million streams last week when it was released on other streaming platforms including Spotify, according to NME.

 In total, the album has been streamed 572 million times in the U.S. alone. It is to be noted that the figure doesn't include streaming numbers from outside of the US.

Owing to the staggering success of the new album, the 29-year-old rapper has overtaken Justin Bieber to become the most-streamed artist on Spotify.

Drake's "Views" continued to hold the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart for consecutive three weeks. The album earned another 239,000 equivalent album units in the week ending May 19 in the U.S., of that sum, 83,000 were in traditional album sales, according to Nielsen Music.

The rapper scored his first US number one when single "One Dance" reached the top spot last week, though Justin Timberlake's new single "Can't Stop This Feeling" has now replaced it.

Drake's new album "Views" has 20 music tracks including "Keep the Family Close," "9," "U With Me?", "Feel No Ways," "Hype," "Weston Road Flows," "Redemption," "With You," "Faithful," "Still Here," "Controlla," "One Dance," "Grammys," "Childs Play," "Pop Style," "Too Good," "Summers Over Interlude," "Fire & Desire," "Views" and "Hotline Bling" (Bonus), reported Billboard.

The rapper has reportedly teamed up with Future for a massive North America tour that he's calling the "Summer Sixteen Tour." The tour kicks off on July 20 in Austin, Texas, and will run through Sept. 17 in Vancouver. The tour will run through over 30 cities and will see Roy Woods, DVSN and other special guests joining Drake at each show, according to IBTimes.

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