{"id":35244,"date":"2024-06-19T10:42:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T10:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=35244"},"modified":"2024-06-19T10:42:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T10:42:50","slug":"drake-sets-new-global-streaming-record-on-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/06\/19\/drake-sets-new-global-streaming-record-on-spotify\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Sets New Global Streaming Record on Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Oratokhai Jesusemen O.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Canadian rapper Drake has made history by becoming the first artist to reach 100 billion streams on Spotify. This remarkable achievement was reported by music data and chart tracking platform Chart Data.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chart Data, Drake&#8217;s cumulative streams, including his work as a lead artist and featured artist, have surpassed the 100 billion mark, solidifying his status as one of the biggest artists in the world. Over the past decade, Drake has dominated the music scene, blending his rap skills with pop sensibilities and exploring various genres, making him one of the digital era&#8217;s most successful artists.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this milestone, Drake recently joined fellow Canadian superstar Justin Bieber as one of only two artists with 15 songs surpassing a billion streams each on Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>Drake has also been in the headlines recently due to a highly publicized beef with Grammy-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar, resulting in several diss tracks from both artists. Despite this, Drake continues to collaborate and release new music, such as his recent feature on Sexy Redd&#8217;s single &#8220;U My Everything,&#8221; where he rapped over the &#8220;BBL Drizzy&#8221; diss song produced by Metro Boomin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oratokhai Jesusemen O. Canadian rapper Drake has made history by becoming the first artist to reach 100 billion streams on Spotify. This remarkable achievement was reported by music data and chart tracking platform Chart Data. According to Chart Data, Drake&#8217;s cumulative streams, including his work as a lead artist and featured artist, have surpassed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":35246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35247,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35244\/revisions\/35247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}